The Latest Breaking News on Cybersecurity

U.S. officials say the Department of Energy is among a small number of federal agencies compromised in a Russian cyber-extortion gang’s global hack of a file-transfer program popular with corporations and governments

A contractor at a U.S. national lab and a radioactive waste storage site managed by the Department of Energy were among the victims of wide-ranging cyberattacks that saw several federal agencies hacked, according to a person familiar with the matter.

The data provided by Elders Helpline 1090, and Elderline 14567 has revealed that elder abuse has increased by 251% post-lockdown. While there were 193, and 229 complaints of abuse in 2020-21, and 2021-22 respectively, in 2022-23, the number of reported cases shot up to 575 in the city. While verbal abuse…

Forgotten BIOS passwords can be reset or disabled using a simple screwdriver trick on some laptops.

The U.S. cybersecurity firm Mandiant says suspected state-backed Chinese hackers exploited a vulnerability in a popular email security appliance to break into the networks of hundreds of public and private sector organizations globally, nearly a third of them government agencies including foreign ministries

A new Golang-based malware called Skuld is currently targeting Windows users and gamers worldwide to extract sensitive data from their PCs.

Netflix correctly predicted an increase in revenue from its clamp down on password sharing as subscriptions increased.

Robert Simonds and William ‘Beau’ Wrigley consider acquiring assets of NSO, blacklisted Israeli company behind Pegasus spyware

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