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Oil and gas companies, including some of the most celebrated industry names in the Houston area, are facing increasingly sophisticated hackers seeking to steal trade secrets and disrupt operations, according to a newspaper investigation. A stretch of the Gulf Coast Read More …
A spamming group called River City Media (RCM), led by well known spammers Alvin Slocombe and Matt Ferris, has had its database of 1.4 billion records leaked. Revealed by Chris Vickery from the MacKeeper Security Researcher, in cooperation with CSO Read More …
Hardly a day goes without headlines about any significant data breach. In past year, billions of accounts from popular sites and services, including LinkedIn, Tumblr, MySpace, Last.FM, Yahoo!, VK.com were exposed on the Internet. Now, according to the recent news, Read More …
Hackers are now selling malware for Mac devices straight out on the dark web. They claim the malware is undetectable and provides hackers with the ability to take full control over MacOS devices by evading antivirus software. Proton, as it Read More …
Shamoon—the mysterious disk wiper that popped up out nowhere in 2012 and took out more than 35,000 computers in a Saudi Arabian-owned gas company before disappearing—is back. Its new, meaner design has been unleashed three time since November. What’s more, Read More …
Digital systems and internet networks belonging to U.S. oil and gas companies have increasingly come under attack from hackers in recent years, experts tell CyberScoop. The Homeland Security Department received — between 2011 and 2015 — roughly 350 reports from Read More …
WikiLeaks published thousands of documents Tuesday described as secret files about CIA hacking tools the government employs to break into users’ computers, mobile phones and even smart TVs from companies like Apple, Google, Microsoft and Samsung. The documents describe clandestine Read More …
It is no secret that cybercriminals are becoming dramatically more adept, innovative, and stealthy with each passing day. While new forms of cybercrime are on the rise, traditional activities seem to be shifting towards more clandestine techniques that involve the Read More …
According to a new report, if there was a cyber attack on global firms, almost 73 per cent of them will fail to identify the threat and ward off any damage to their important data and high-value assets. An era Read More …
Several European countries have moved to adopt distinct cybersecurity measures as a result of the increased interconnectivity within Europe’s energy system along with a changing paradigm that includes decentralized power sources, the integration of electric vehicles, new digital infrastructure, and Read More …