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At the Air Force Association Air & Space conference in National Harbor, Maryland (near Washington), Major General Burke Wilson revealed a new US Air Force project, an innovative airborne hacking platform. Military networks around the world, regardless of country, are usually air-gapped systems, meaning they don’t have an Internet connection, mainly to protect sensitive data […]
Anonymous Philippines, an affiliate of the online hacktivist group Anonymous, hacked and defaced the official website of the country’s National Telecommunications Commission (NTC) Sunday afternoon. The act of hacktivism was a result of slow Internet speed and bandwidths in relation to price the NTC charges in the Philippines. Anonymous left a deface page along with a message on […]
Webmasters should regularly check the list of verified owners for their websites in the Google Search Console. Hackers who compromise websites are also increasingly verifying themselves as the owners of those properties in Google’s Search Console. Under certain circumstances this could allow them to remain undetected longer than they otherwise would be, researchers warn. The […]
Between 2010 and 2014, the US Department of Energy (DoE) was attacked by unknown parties 159 times, as USA Today is reporting based on edited documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The documents (embedded below) show information submitted by federal officials and third-party contractors, and do not reveal any in-depth details about the […]
Miscreants infiltrated network in 2013 … discovered last month. Health insurance company Excellus said hackers broke into its servers and may have made off with the personal details of 10.5 million people. The insurance firm said the information belongs to customers who lived in or sought treatment in the upstate New York area. The breach […]
A group of hackers that goes under the name of DD4BC, first spotted in September 2014, has recently intensified its activity, launching over 141 DDOS attacks in the past year. The group, identified and analyzed by Akamai’s Prolexic Security Engineering and Response Team (PLXsert), has been very busy in the past few months, launching numerous […]
Despite its ubiquity, Internet of Things security still isn’t ready for prime time. The security of Internet-connected baby monitors got a failing grade from researchers who found critical vulnerabilities in all nine of the models they reviewed. The weaknesses make it possible for hackers half a world away to perform a host of nefarious actions. […]
The U.S. government has not yet notified any of the 21.5 million federal employees and contractors whose security clearance data was hacked more than three months ago, officials acknowledged on Tuesday. The agency whose data was hacked, the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), said the Defense Department will begin “later this month” to notify employees […]