Cyber Security

Researchers say a botnet of connected home appliances, such as air conditioners and water heaters, could cause massive blackouts by overwhelming the…

Industrial control systems (ICS) security was much simpler before the web. Firewalls and demilitarized zones (DMZs) separating the corporate and…

A former Microsoft network engineer who was charged in April this year has now been sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to money…

Screenshot by Sean Hollister/CNET When the notorious former antivirus kingpin John McAfee called his Bitfi cryptocurrency wallet “unhackable,” you’d…

Instagram has been hit by a widespread hacking campaign that appears to stem from Russia and have affected hundreds of users over the past week,…

Apple says its customers’ data wasn’t compromised by an Australian teen’s alleged hacking. NurPhoto An Australian teen has pleaded guilty to…

Got the following email on the Aug 7th. Had to laugh. Thought about teasing them and saying I was trying to break into the porn industry and to…

  How to Positively Use Compliance Mandates to Drive your Security Standards Seems like every year there’s a new/modified cybersecurity regulation,…

With the release of Chrome 68, Google prominently marks all non-HTTPS websites as ‘Not Secure’ on its browser to make the web a more secure place…

The stage at the Black Hat cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas. Black Hat During the week of Black Hat and Defcon, tens of thousands of security…