April 3, 2017 International athletics body IAAF hacked, warns that athletes' data may be compromised The International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has been hacked by the shadowy 'Fancy Bears' group, officials said Monday, warning that athletes' data may be compromised.
March 23, 2017 Apple denied the massive iCloud hack (but you should still change your password) A hacker group claiming to have access to hundreds of millions of iCloud accounts threatened to remotely wipe iPhones associated to these accounts unless Apple pays a ransom amounting to up to $100,000 in cryptocurrency or iTunes gift cards.
March 23, 2017 Wikileaks' 'Dark Matter' release reveals CIA efforts to infect the Mac Wikileaks released another bundle of documents dubbed "Dark Matter." This time, the organization turned an eye to Apple's Mac, with a number of exploits that are both insidious and persistent.
March 23, 2017 ABC News says 3 of its Twitter accounts were hacked ABC News said three of its Twitter accounts were hacked Thursday morning, sending out profanity-filled tweets to its millions of followers.
March 23, 2017 Tractor Hack: Farmers are harnessing hacked software for John Deere repairs Farming was simple once. It was hard, backbreaking work, but it followed a basic formula: You plant it, you grow it, you harvest it.
March 17, 2017 Russian hackers targeted just one Yahoo employee in order to breach 500M accounts More details about the activities that led to one of the biggest data breaches in history are coming to light now that the Department of Justice has indicted four suspects for the 2014 Yahoo hack that affected more than 500 million accounts.
March 16, 2017 McDonald's Twitter account hacked, blasts Trump A hacker used McDonald's Twitter account to attack President Donald Trump in an extremely derogatory tweet early Thursday.
March 15, 2017 Hackers to be charged in Yahoo security breach U.S. officials are planning to unveil charges Wednesday related to the theft of personal data that affected hundreds of millions of Yahoo users and disrupted the company’s sale to Verizon, according to people familiar with the matter.
March 15, 2017 Hackers hijack Twitter accounts with Swastikas, 'Nazi Holland' messages A slew of high-profile Twitter accounts, including Amnesty International, BBC News North America and the European Parliament were hijacked by hackers early Wednesday. The tweets in Turkish, which included Swastikas, appear to be a reference to the growing diplomatic tensions between Turkey, Holland and Germany.
March 13, 2017 The scent of cybersecurity: Kaspersky Lab launches perfume Can hackers smell fear? Cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab is raising awareness of the digital threats facing users ... by launching a perfume.
