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Hackers stories - Page 3

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Revealed: Imperva publishes research on decade old botnet, responsible for millions of attacks
Tue, 27th Oct 2020
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Imperva Research Labs has revealed findings of a six-month intensive investigation into a botnet that has been exploiting CMS vulnerabilities.
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HackerOne hits $100M milestone with bug bounties
Thu, 28th May 2020
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HackerOne celebrates $100M in bug bounties, marking a cyber security milestone with global impact.
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PUBG Mobile cracks down on dirty cheaters
Tue, 3rd Mar 2020
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PUBG Mobile battles cheaters with Project: Ban Pan, enhancing fair play in the gaming community.
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Australian women-focusd hackathon #SheHacks expands across Victoria
Fri, 28th Feb 2020
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Women-focused hackathon #SheHacks, run by Girl Geek Academy, will take place statewide across Victoria, Australia from February to April.
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Want $10,000? Unisys tempts hackers at San Francisco event
Thu, 27th Feb 2020
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Participants will try to compromise a target system protected by Stealth, Unisys’ encrypted, identity-based microsegmentation solution.
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Huge growth in malware connected to popular musicians - Kaspersky
Fri, 31st Jan 2020
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Cybercriminals are actively abusing the names of artists and songs nominated for a Grammy 2020 award, in order to spread malware.
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Get ready to take the red pill: The Matrix is coming back
Wed, 21st Aug 2019
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film
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film production
Warner Bros Pictures and Lana Wachowski are bringing back Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss for another installment of The Matrix.
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Cyber criminals targeting the gaming industry at an alarming rate
Fri, 14th Jun 2019
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Gaming industry faces cyber onslaught, 12bn attacks in 17 months target player credentials.
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Hackers increasingly ‘island hopping’ – so what does it mean?
Tue, 14th May 2019
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Cyberattacks escalate as hackers exploit supply chains, urging firms for vigilance.
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Use a password manager? New study reveals it may be worse than useless
Fri, 22nd Feb 2019
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The study finds using a number of the top password managers is no better than putting your passwords in a text file and saving it to your desktop.
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When hackers get the munchies, they just steal McDonalds
Tue, 12th Feb 2019
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Hackers feast on McDonald's app users, racking up hefty bills in Canada.
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WatchGuard’s eight (terrifying) 2019 security predictions
Fri, 16th Nov 2018
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The next evolution of ransomware, escalating nation-state attacks, biometric hacking, Wi-Fi protocol security, and Die Hard fiction becomes reality.
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Exclusive: Venafi talks weaponisation of machine identities
Wed, 29th Aug 2018
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As companies integrate more digital tools into their business, many of them remain unaware of the risk code-signing certificates are exposing them to.
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French national behind UK data breach caught in Thailand
Tue, 19th Jun 2018
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Europol has revealed details surrounding the arrest of a 25-year-old coder who allegedly helped to extort a British organisation.
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Why agility matters in the war against cybercrime
Wed, 6th Jun 2018
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Endace's EMEA senior director shares why agility is fundamental to cybersecurity, enforcing that if it isn't top of the agenda, it should be.
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Report finds major banks under assault from stealth attacks
Tue, 29th May 2018
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Cybercriminals are developing new technologies to not only penetrate system defences, but also to dwell within a company environment for longer.
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Germany infiltrated by Russian group that crippled Ukraine’s power
Wed, 9th May 2018
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The power grid in modern countries may not be as secure as you think, as reports have emerged revealing hackers have breached Germany's supply.
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Five reasons to kill off passwords as we know them
Thu, 3rd May 2018
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Centrify urges end to passwords, branding them ineffective ahead of World Password Day.
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Cybercrime industry raking in $1.5 trillion profit - most from online markets
Mon, 23rd Apr 2018
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How much are cybercriminals earning for their efforts? A new study by Bromium suggests that figure could be as much as US$2 million per job.
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'Honeypot' experiment exposes how hackers are doing their work
Thu, 19th Apr 2018
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bots
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Cybereason created a fake financial services company with weak cybersecurity to reveal how cybercriminals are using bots to do all the grunt work.
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All in a day's work: Why hackers hack and how they do it
Thu, 12th Apr 2018
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It can take hackers less than an hour to steal data from an organisation, and most of the time their targets don’t even detect the attacks.
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IT decision makers unsure about their security maturity
Wed, 11th Apr 2018
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Respondents in APAC put forth highest IT budget allocation to security, but overall executives allocate security less than 10% of their budget.
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Not a Bitcoin owner? You're still fair game for a cryptomining attack
Wed, 21st Mar 2018
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Check Point has released a 'cryptomining 101' document that details how cybercriminals hack into devices to steal their CPU power for illicit mining.
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New study details how easy it is for hackers to steal your data
Thu, 15th Mar 2018
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It’s no secret that web browsers store a substantial amount of sensitive information about their users - hackers are taking advantage of this.