World Cyber News

There’s something transfixing about the swirling animations of hurricanes gathering strength. Even for those of us who know nothing about weather science, a graphic from the National Hurricane Center can quickly convey a strong sense of impending doom: something big and dangerous is coming and there’s nothing any of us […]

Attacks against a core internet firm play havoc with some of the world’s most popular websites. Across the US on Friday, people screamed at their phones and computers and went a little crazy trying to figure out which of their favorite websites were still working. At 7 a.m. local time, […]

Kaspersky Lab has promised to work with independent companies to conduct audits on its product source code in the future in an effort to reestablish trust in the wake of alleged involvement in US government data theft. On Monday, the company issued a brief statement that said by Q1 2018 an « internationally […]

This joint Technical Alert (TA) is the result of analytic efforts between the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). This alert provides information on advanced persistent threat (APT) actions targeting government entities and organizations in the energy, nuclear, water, aviation, and critical manufacturing sectors. […]

« “Some 9,000 email accounts, including those belonging to Theresa May and other cabinet ministers, were subjected to a sustained attack on June 23. Ninety accounts were compromised.” “Whitehall officials admitted it was inevitable that the hackers had obtained sensitive material,” the Times reported. The investigation is still ongoing, for this […]

A serious flaw has been identified in Adobe Flash Player, which can deliver FinFisher spyware, according to security experts. Adobe systems already issued a warning note about the newly identified flaw, which can allow execution of a remote code. The flaw was identified by security firm Kaspersky Lab after the company […]

Researchers from security firm Positive Technologies warns of 4G/5G Wireless Networks as vulnerable as WiFi and putting smart-cities at risk The Internet of Things (IoT) presents many new opportunities and some different challenges. The vast number of devices makes it very expensive to connect everything with traditional network cabling and in many […]

Software developers and malware authors share a desire to work smart, not hard In the software development world, engineers frequently use ready-made code for various tasks, whether it involves copying a snippet from Stack Overflow, taking a library from Github, or reusing a company’s own rich, legacy code base. On […]