Hacker reportedly wants about $5 million in ransom from Pemex by month's end
The hacker behind a cyberattack that has crippled the Petroleos Mexicanos computer systems since the weekend is hoping to squeeze about $5 million out of the company and appears to have set a deadline of Nov. 30. Pemex has other ideas, saying it won't pay ...
Defending the perimeter isn't enough on election hacking
The to-do list for 2020: Eliminate passwords, add end-to-end encryption, counter look-alike accounts.
From cat videos to credit cards, Amazon says customers have to secure own data
Amazon's cloud computing customers have to decide themselves how best to protect sensitive information online, a senior executive said Tuesday, following accusations by U.S. lawmakers that the web giant has not done enough to secure data on its servers. Amazon Web Services (AWS), the cloud ...
Trump campaign manager Manafort pushed Ukraine hack theory as early as 2016
Documents released by the U.S. Department of Justice on Saturday indicated that a top adviser to then-candidate Donald Trump said as early as the summer of 2016 that Ukraine, not Russia, was behind a hack of Democratic party emails. Trump and his surrogates have suggested ...
‘Just too darn old’: Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden confront age obstacle in 2020 White House bids
Bernie Sanders insists he feels better than ever less than a month after heart surgery, but his return to the campaign trail this past week sparked new questions about the unusually old age of the Democratic Party's leading 2020 presidential candidates. Both Sanders, 78, and ...
Russia-linked group likely used Iranian hacking tools, NSA says
A Russia-linked group is believed to have utilized Iranian tools to conduct cyberattacks against dozens of countries, in an apparent effort to mask their identities, according to joint advisories by the U.S. and the U.K. The group, known as Turla, used tools from suspected Iran-based ...
Bangladesh police say violence over Facebook post left four dead
At least four people were killed and dozens injured Sunday after security officials in southern Bangladesh opened fire to disperse hundreds of Muslims during a protest over an alleged social media post undermining Islam's Prophet Muhammad, police said. The violence took place in Borhanuddin in ...
Hacking of New Zealand health firm may expose data on a million people
Nearly a million New Zealanders face the risk that their medical data has been accessed illegally on the website of Tu Ora Compass Health, the company said on Saturday. The website was hacked in August, but investigations also uncovered previous attacks dating from 2016 to ...
Iranians tried to hack Trump's re-election campaign, sources say
A hacking group that appears to be linked to the Iranian government attempted to break into U.S. President Donald Trump's re-election campaign but were unsuccessful, sources familiar with the operation told Reuters on Friday. Microsoft said earlier on Friday that it saw "significant" cyberactivity by ...
Hackers reportedly tried to steal Airbus secrets via contractors, with China link suspected
A series of cyberattacks on Airbus in the past few months was conducted via the computer systems of its suppliers and security sources suspect a link to China, AFP news agency reported on Thursday. China has repeatedly denied involvement in hacking and neither the foreign ...
Chinese hackers who pursued Uighurs also targeted Tibetans, researchers says
Sophisticated Chinese hackers who used a previously unknown iPhone security flaw to target ethnic minority Uighurs also went after Tibetans in exile, according to a report published on Tuesday. It was the first detected use of malicious software against exiled Tibetans that required only a ...
Personal data leaked for almost entire population of Ecuador
The personal data of almost the entire population of Ecuador has been leaked online, security experts said Monday, in a massive breach the government called a "very delicate" issue. An estimated 17 million people, including almost 7 million minors and children, had their data exposed ...
