A crude but dangerous email-based social engineering scam has been targeting small-to-medium-size businesses in the U.S., U.K. and India since early 2015, the Symantec Security Response blog warned today.
SplashData’s list of the 25 worst passwords of 2015 includes multiple references to Star Wars: The Force Awakens, including “starwars,” “solo” and “princess.”
Sixty-one percent of CEOs are concerned that cyberthreats could have negative impact on their corporate growth prospects, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers’ (PwC) 19th Annual Global CEO Survey report.
A report from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) noted a rise in reported cyberattacks against critical manufacturing organizations during 2015.
In a joint statement, the U.S. Attorney Office and FBI’s Boston Division announced a guilty plea in a cyberstalking and “sextortion” case in which a Pennsylvania man repeatedly harassed a Boston-area college student online.
As part of its ongoing campaign against whale hunting, vigilante hacktivist group Anonymous yesterday launched distributed denial of service attacks against Japanese car manufacturer Nissan, though the car company has no known link to hunting.
A bipartisan coalition of U.S. House members led by Rep. Justin Amash (R-Mich.) introduced a bill that would repeal recently passed cybersecurity legislation.
In a global survey of more than 200 executives and IT managers, 24.6 percent of respondents indicated they would be willing to pay hackers a ransom to prevent them from leaking critically sensitive stolen data.
Yahoo Inc. has agreed to pay up to $4 million in fees to settle a class-action lawsuit filed, but the lawyers, not the plaintiffs will get the pay-out.
