CYBERSECURITY

Previously, news broke that hackers successfully stole over 200,000 credit card accounts in the massive breach.

The trove of stolen data includes private dossiers on 90 different artistes, ranging from Taylor Swift and Justin Bieber to Madonna.

A new campaign involves hacked LinkedIn accounts being used to spread phishing links via InMail and private messages.

The firm's chief security officer, who has a degree in Fine Arts, has also drawn criticism.

25-year-old Sean Caffrey stole usernames and passwords from the US DoD.

The individuals were indicted by the Justice Department in March last year over their role in the DDoS attacks.

University team able to access personal data and create false activity records.

The malware hijacks routers and turns them into proxies, allowing the hacker to launch credential stuffing attacks.

Last week, Equifax disclosed a historic data breach that compromised valuable financial data of about 143 million Americans.

This incident is the latest in a spate of inadvertent data leaks caused due to cloud configuration errors.

The bug bounty comes with a deadline and valid flaws must be reported by 30 November 2017.

Android malware with millions of downloads was found on the Google Play Store.

'To me, this is just negligence,' Hold Security founder Alex Holden said.

It is still not clear if face recognition technology can protect users from self incrimination.

Kaspersky Lab software must be removed from all federal systems within 90 days.

One BankBot-infected app was downloaded between 5,000 and 10,000 times.

The massive hack is one of the largest in US history and the biggest known leak this year so far.

ACLU and EFF representing 11 defendants in lawsuit over electronic searches.

Companies that fail to report cybersecurity infomation will be fined.

Russian cyber firm Kaspersky Lab struck a defiant tone in expansion pledge.

Monero and ZCash are the two most popular virtual currencies as the 'anonymity of transactions' is attractive to hackers.

The zero-day vulnerability was exploited 'for cyberespionage purposes' and targeted Russian-speaking users.

Snowden said Russia 'probably did hack the systems of Hillary Clinton's Democratic Party, but we should have proof of that.'

Security experts say that nearly 99% of the infected servers are hosted in Amazon Web Services.

Silent attacks are invisible to traditional security controls, and can spread without clicks.

Risks of insecure connections revealed by industry experts.

Players warned about the dangers of WiFi connections and social media.

Bashware makes use of Windows' in-built Linux shell to make any malware essentially undetectable to security products.

Researchers warned the current period of 'relative stabilisation' will see cybercriminals diversifying their potential victims.