hacking

In this week’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a breach impacting Massachusetts taxpayers, alien hackers, contactless payment fraud, and more.

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a vulnerability in Sonic the Hedgehog, a woman who has a habit of sneaking onto flights and more.

A representative of the US Department of Homeland Security claims that he hacked into a Boeing 757.

A hacker connects a mysterious device to a lock, picks its code within a few seconds, and unlocks the door. That’s how it always happens in the movies, but is it the same in real life?

Connected dolls pose a hacking risk.

A story of dumb password usage, good intentions, and bad actions — and how all these led to the imprisonment of a former St. Louis Cardinals scouting director.

Politics are not immune to cyber hijinks and hackers.

VTech, a company that manufactures electronic learning devices, baby monitors, smart toys announced that information from 5 million customer accounts were accessed in an attack.

If the idea of “hacking-back” against cybercriminals who have harmed you or your company has seized you, your executive team, or your spouse as a reasonable thing to do, read

“The Girl in the Spider’s Web”, the 4th book of Millenium series released today. Our security expert David Jacoby tells how he consulted the author of the book on what exactly hacking is.

Since there’s nothing unhackable in this world, why should chemical plants should be the exception?

To hackers’ delight, merchant vessels that transfer about ninety percent of the world’s cargo heavily depend on automation and remote monitoring systems with poor IT security.

Five lessons from the story of the Enigma cryptographic machine which are still relevant.

The annual RSA Conference in San Francisco, California of Internet-of-things insecurity and how no amount of money can fix computer security

Recent report by US GAO was treated by medias as “Modern aircrafts can be hacked and commandeered through onboard Wi-Fi”. Is it really that bad?

Fraudsters hacked Skype and tricked people from a contact list to send them about $5,000 over the course of a few days. Skype support, local banks and the police refused to do anything.

A Trojan malware called Podec uses popular Russian social network VKontakte, and other channels, to infect Android phones. Beware: It can bypass CAPTCHA.

New allegations against the NSA claim the group hacked into the network of the world’s largest SIM card provider, stealing encryption keys to millions of devices.

There is a flood of appliances which could be connected – and some are connected – without a second thought as to whether or not it’s necessary or secure.

Blackhat was finally released in theaters and its strongest aspect is its technological portrayal of hacking.

Anyone who goes online could be hacked. During Christmas time, this possibility doubles as we make a number of purchases and get so excited that we forget about security.