Hackers
Hack on a Texas water system may be the first of its kind by Russian hacking group
Cybersecurity experts say a Russian hacking group targeted a Texas water system in January, a rare but worrying attack on US infrastructure.
Hackers from China and Russia are finding cracks in Microsoft's security
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an emergency directive this week urging federal agencies to protect exposed accounts.
Pro-Navalny hackers accessed a database on Russian convicts, and lowered the price of prison shop food while they were there: report
Hackers reportedly breached Russia's prison system network, supporting late Alexey Navalny and claiming access to significant data.
The hack of 15,000 Roku accounts is a great reminder: Stop using the same password!
Using a unique password for all your online accounts, and having a password manager to keep track of them, will help you protect yourself.
Microsoft's senior executives targeted in Russian hackers' password spray attack
The Russian hackers, called Midnight Blizzard, infiltrated a small percentage of corporate email accounts, Microsoft said.
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Facial recognition tech is probably coming to a lot more vending machines
Chris Russell of the Oxford Internet Institute says facial recognition technology is cheap, easy to install and is going to become increasingly common.
23andMe took 5 months to realize hackers had stolen data from customer accounts
23andMe only found out that customer data had been stolen after it was advertised for sale on Reddit and the dark web.
Microsoft says Russian hackers attacked it to find information about themselves
Microsoft announced Friday that it detected an attack on its systems by Midnight Blizzard, the same Russian hackers behind the 2020 SolarWinds attack.
Ukraine's 'Blackjack' hackers breached 500 Russian military sites and caused chaos, says military intelligence
"Blackjack," a Ukrainian hacking group linked to the country's Security Service, mined data on top Russian military sites, military intelligence said.
JPMorgan says attempts by hackers are on the rise and it's spending $15 billion partly to defend against cybercrime
The Wall Street giant has seen cyberattack attempts increase this year as hackers get "smarter" and "savvier."
Could a 'Leave the World Behind' style cyberattack cause chaos in real life?
In Netflix's new movie, "Leave the World Behind," a cyberattack shuts down communications across the US. Experts say it's unlikely in real life.
Hackers behind recent ChatGPT outage say they'll target the AI bot until it stops 'dehumanizing' Palestinians
The hacker group Anonymous Sudan has claimed responsibility for some of the recent ChatGPT outages and says itl'll target any American company.
Password authenticator Okta says hackers stole names and email addresses of all its customer support users
The password authenticator said affected users may be subject to phishing or social engineering attacks and advised using multi-factor authentication.
Joe Biden has a decision to make about Julian Assange
Insider interviewed Gabriel Shipton, Julian Assange's half brother, who was accompanying a delegation of Australian lawmakers to Washington.
Microsoft AI researchers accidentally leaked company passwords and 30,000 internal Teams messages
Microsoft announced Monday that a URL mistakenly gave access to a cloud storage account, which contained company passwords and 30,000 Teams messages.
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FTC Chairwoman Lina Khan reportedly had to write her credit card number on a piece of paper to check in at the MGM Grand when its computers were down in the cyberattack
The Federal Trade Commission chair reportedly had to write her credit card information on a piece of paper when checking in.
MGM Resorts is still suffering from a massive outage after a notorious group of young hackers apparently tricked workers into handing over access to the company's network
Scattered Spider, the hacking group, had also reportedly targeted Caesars by tricking humans to gain access to corporate computer networks.
Notorious North Korean hackers stole $41 million in crypto from an online casino. The FBI says the group has stolen more than $200 million this year alone.
The FBI said it would "continue to expose and combat" North Korea's reliance on online hacking to "generate revenue for the regime."
Hackers figured out 3 separate ways to break into US Air Force satellites, and won up to $50K for doing it
The US military gathered hackers to test the defenses of a real orbiting satellite at its "Hack-A-Sat" event. A team of Italians took the grand prize.
Hackers could now steal passwords over Zoom by listening to keystrokes using AI — and they'll be right 93% of the time, study says
These "acoustic side-channel attacks" present a greater threat to keyboards than ever before, said the researchers in their paper.