Tag: Security / Cyberattacks and Hacks

John Strand breaks into things for a living. As a penetration tester, he gets hired by organizations to attack their defenses, helping […]

Distributing malware by attaching tainted documents to emails is one of the oldest tricks in the book. It’s not just a theoretical […]

For years, North Korea’s Lazarus Group hackers have plundered and pillaged the global internet, scamming and infecting digital devices around the world […]

For more than a decade, Russian hackers have tormented the country’s neighbors, bombarding Estonian websites with junk traffic and even triggering blackouts […]

That laptop on your desk or that server on a data center rack isn’t so much a computer as a network of […]

More than 500 browser extensions downloaded millions of times from Google’s Chrome Web Store surreptitiously uploaded private browsing data to attacker-controlled servers, […]

More than 500 browser extensions downloaded millions of times from Google’s Chrome Web Store surreptitiously uploaded private browsing data to attacker-controlled servers, […]

In September 2017, credit reporting giant Equifax came clean: It had been hacked, and the sensitive personal information of 143 million US […]

Workplace phones and routers have a long, storied history of very bad vulnerabilities. Now it’s time again to add to the list: […]

Only a few times in the history of hacking has a piece of malicious code been spotted attempting to meddle directly with […]