Java poses the biggest security risks to PCs in US
Oracle Java is of among the most popular software ever installed in personal users’ systems in the US. In 2014, Java was installed on 65 percent...
Pentagon Doesn’t Know Who’d Be In Charge In Cyber Attack
Much has been said recently of preparedness for cyberattacks. Intelligence, homeland security, and defence departments and agencies are tasked with setting up defences, coming...
Is a cyber-Pearl Harbor likely?
A surprise cyber attack on U.S critical infrastructure – an imminent scenario?
Cybersecurity experts often contemplate how U.S. security agencies would react to a cyber-9/11...
New Tech to Verify Identity of Smart Card Users
IBM scientists have developed a new mobile authentication security technology based on the radio standard known as near-field communication (NFC). The technology provides an...
Increase In Use Of Dark Web For Data Unlock Ransom Demands
IBM’s security division has published its security threats reports for the third quarter of 2015 which it pointing out to an increasing danger of...
Anonymous Claim To Have Foiled ISIS Attack On Italy
Anonymous are stepping up their game in the fight against ISIS, if latest claim by the hacktivist collective is to be believed.
It has now...
Effective Defending of Municipal Infrastructure Against Cyber Attacks
Daniel Ehrenreich
Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) experts are well aware that there is no single measure ("no silver bullet") that provides absolute cyber...
Israel Hosts Major Cyber-War Simulation
The cyber-simulation was held at the Tel Aviv University's SIMLAB unit. This is the unit's first simulation.
The SIMLAB simulation unit, headed by Dr. Haim...
Britain To Get Cyber Defence Centre
We’ve reported on the upgrades to the cybersecurity of Britain’s Trident nuclear deterrent, but the United Kingdom is stepping up its game in cyber-defence...
DARPA Fighting Propaganda And Lone Wolfs
“Lone wolf” terrorist attacks are becoming the new normal. These individuals, almost unconnected to larger organisations, are hard to find, monitor, and apprehend on...
The NSA To Undergo Major Reorganisation For The 21st Century
The US National Security Agency (NSA) is about to undergo a major reorganisation, according to past and current agency officials. The world’s largest electronic...
US DHS To Get Cyber Defence Agency
A US House of Representatives committee has voted to create a new agency under the purview of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that...
New Developments in Power Grids Protection against Cyber Threats
Power grids and utility SCADA systems may be volneruable to a variety of threats, including cyber attacks. might be a target to such attacks....
Solutions to Cyber Hacking Risks at the Automotive Sector
Hacking has become one of the auto industry's biggest concerns, especially as modern cars add more electronic controls and infotainment systems. Last March, the...
Four DARPA projects that could change the world
Forty years ago, a group of researchers with military money set out to test the wacky idea of making computers talk to one another...
Is Your Android Device Really Secure?
We have written before about China building its own secure smartphone ecosystem - including a homegrown operating system and even processing chips - all...
ISIS Hackers Publish Police Officers’ Details, Call For Lone-Wolf Attacks
ISIS hackers have posted the personal details of U.S. officials online, encouraging the group’s supporters to carry out “lone wolf” attacks against them.
Newsweek reports...
Islamic State spies hacked emails of UK ministers
Britain’s intelligence service has uncovered a “sophisticated espionage operation” run by Islamic State extremists in Syria to hack into the email accounts of British...
UK Communications Company Hacked By “Russian Jihadis”
TalkTalk, the British telecoms company, has admitted that it has suffered its third major cyberattack in the last 12 months with data from its...
Ransomware Could Target Medical Devices
Medical devices may not be ever-present in headlines, but that does not mean no new developments in the field happen. Rather, in recent years...
Do We Trust China-Russia’s Cyber Nonaggression Pact?
Nonaggression pacts signed between countries in the past, such as the Ribbentrop-Molotov agreement between the USSR and Nazi Germany, were meant to prevent a...
The FBI Doesn’t Know How iPhone Hack Works
The FBI paid around $1m for the hack used to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone 5C, but doesn’t know how it works.
The hack,...
















































