Last Thursday the Inj3ct0r Team hacking group claimed on Twitter, “Inj3ct0r Team hacked http://vBulletin.com and http://Macrumors.com.” By Friday vBulletin admitted the breach, and on Monday it was reported that a zero-day vulnerability used against bo…

CryptoLocker, the ransomware menace that has been snowballing in profile of late, is stepping up its game even further. The UK’s National Crime Agency (NCA) is warning that its National Cyber Crime Unit are aware of a mass email spamming event that is …

US public companies are more forthcoming with details regarding their cybersecurity risk profiles – and more transparency regarding cyber-risk and cyber-attacks is expected to drive greater adoption of cyber-insurance as a means of demonstrating better…

Back in August the FBI announced that it had neutralized Anonymous “because of the dismantlement of the largest players.” This seemed to be confirmed with the October arrest of Brit Lauri Love for hacking thousands of networks including those of federa…

Over the past few weeks, Dragos Ruiu has provided details of a mystery infection that first attacked his computers some three years ago. He can’t find it, he can’t get rid of it, it survives reboots and clean installs, and seems to spread via wireless …

Masterminds behind a large-scale cyber-heist at Fidelity Investments in California have been arrested.

Google has patched 12 security vulnerabilities in the latest version of its browser, Chrome 31, paying out almost $11,000 in bug bounties in the process.

WikiLeaks published Wednesday the full draft text of the intellectual property rights chapter for the secretly negotiated Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). TPP is a trade agreement primarily involving Pacific Rim countries (although currently excluding …

A breach of a data center in Ireland has compromised the information of 1.5 million people.

MacRumors was targeted and hacked in a manner similar to the Ubuntu Forums hack in July, announced its founder and editor Tuesday. “It’s best to assume that your MacRumors Forum username, email address and (hashed) password is now known,” he warned.