Thieves supplement cyber attacks with old-fashioned brute force
Certificate Snafu Forces Global Sites Offline
GlobalSign accidentally revoked cross certificate, causing downstream chaos
UK Banks ‘Under-reporting’ Cyber Incidents
Report claims lenders are trying to protect image by staying mum
Pro-Trump Hackers Deface Clinton Wikipedia Page
Pornographic image uploaded to site as campaign chief’s Twitter account is hacked
Cards at Risk as Online Skimming Jumps 69%
Researcher finds malicious JavaScript stealing card info from e-commerce sites
IDC: Security Spending to Top $100 Billion by 2020
The overall spend on security hardware, software and services will increase an impressive 38% by 2020.
Whisper Adds Self-Destructing Messages to Signal Email
Any conversation can be configured to delete sent and received messages after a specified interval.
Hillary Clinton’s Military Targets
Steven Yaccino & Steven Yaccino, Bloomberg For the first time since the dawn of the Cold War, Republicans have nominated a presidential candidate who’s often been proudly more dovish than…
Feds Investigate Email Hack of Clinton Campaign Boss
Russia again suspected as investigation widens
Catching IRS fraudsters proves the scale and profitability of impersonation cons
Fraudsters who
posed as IRS officials threatened hardworking Americans with imprisonments for
the crime of tax default. Their modus operandi was simple; question victims
about defaulting on their tax payments, threaten legal action, arrest,
depo…