Hacking
BrickerBot author claims two million bricked IoT devices
'The Janitor' claims to have removed two million insecure IoT devices from circulation
Oracle drops 299-patch security update - 25 of them rated 10 out of 10 by CVSS
Shadow Brokers, the NSA and others have kept Oracle busy this year
SWIFT and Microsoft bid to ease fears over 'NSA hacking'
SWIFT and EastNets deny Shadow Brokers' claims, while Microsoft says it has patched any vulnerabilities
Shadow Brokers' malware release includes Oracle Solaris administrator-access security flaw
US National Security Agency had 'skeleton keys' to any Oracle/Sun Solaris system for decades
Arrest of Russian national in Spain NOT linked to US election hacking
The only elections Levashov may have tried to 'hack' are Russian ones
New zero-day attack installing malware on PCs via Microsoft Word security flaws
Attackers targeting Microsoft Office use Windows OLE security flaw to compromise PCs
Shadow Brokers return with new release of NSA hacking tools - and an open letter to President Trump
Russia-linked hacking group denies links to Russia
Wonga whacked in security crack compromising 270,000 customers' financial details
245,000 UK Wonga customers at risk, along with 25,000 customers in Poland
BrickerBot targets insecure IoT devices - and then bricks them
'Grey hat' hacker suspected to be behind malware that seeks out and takes down insecure connected devices
Brazilian bank customers targeted after hackers compromise all of the bank's domains
Let's Encrypt accused of issuing the digital certificates that helped the hackers
How code from 20-year-old 'Moonlight Maze' cyber attacks was linked with Turla malware
Code analysis identifies 20-year history of malware linked to Russian government
Dimnie Trojan targeting open source developers publishing on Github
Trojan targeting developers steals passwords, exfiltrates files, takes screenshots and can even self-destruct when it has served its purpose
US prosecutors expected to accuse North Korea over Bangladesh Bank cyber attack
Trail of attempted theft of almost $1bn from Bangladesh's central bank leads back to North Korea via Chinese middlemen, believe investigators
Wikileaks attaches strings to promise to disclose security flaws to Apple, Google and Microsoft before publishing new documents
Wikileaks demands that companies promise to fix flaws abused by the CIA within 90-days of disclosure
Eight-year-old security flaw in Linux kernel patched
Fourth 'old' security flaw in Linux kernel patched
Two 'Russian spies' among four indicted in connection with 2014 cyber attack on Yahoo
Man arrested in Canada to face deportation to the US over hacks on internet company Yahoo
Thousands of Twitter accounts compromised by Turkish hackers to broadcast 'Nazi' tweets
Finger of blame pointed at Twitter app Twitter Counter
Warning over Apache Struts 2 remote-code execution vulnerability seen being exploited in the wild
Apache users urged to update ASAP as evidence emerges of increasingly widespread attacks
Verifone security breach may have compromised retail payments systems
Company admits security breach, but claims that "cyber intrusion" was only "limited"
Vault 7: Wikileaks reveals details of CIA's hacks of Android, iPhone Windows, Linux, MacOS, and even Samsung TVs
You name it, the CIA seems to have hacked it - and left their backdoors behind for others to use
Twitch suffers potential security breach
Streaming service sends messages to some users warning of potential unauthorised access
Cyber espionage campaign against Ukraine used PC microphones to eavesdrop on sensitive discussions
Seventy government, infrastructure and scientific research establishments all compromised
It's true: Russia really is the centre of ransomware development - Kaspersky
47 out of the 62 crypto-ransomware families developed by Russian speaking cyber-crooks
Windows Server SMB zero-day exploit released after Microsoft failed to issue patch for three months
US CERT recommends blocking all outbound SMB connections until Microsoft (finally) issues patch
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