CYBERSECURITY

The joint operation successfully sinkholed around 800,000 domain strong botnet infrastructure.

In 2012, Shamoon was responsible for destroying nearly 35,000 computers at oil firm Saudi Aramco.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange slammed the 'cowardly' German government.

The spy bill, which has been granted royal assent, will go into effect in January 2017.

The website was offline for roughly four hours on 1 December.

The US Senate's eleventh-hour efforts to delay the rule changes failed, despite widespread privacy concerns.

Prior to the update, Uber only collected users' location data when the app was open on their smartphone.

The number continues to rise as an additional 13,000 devices are breached each day.

Bruno Kahl says the pressure on public discourse and democracy is 'unacceptable'.

Europol stressed that no operations are believed to have been put in jeopardy.

The database reportedly appeared to include email addresses belonging to the US Army.

It is not believed that bank details were stolen or core databases accessed.

'Snowden's actions were not for personal benefit, but were intended to spur reform,' the signatories wrote.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee said that the legislation will curtail people's online freedoms.

Jeremy Hunt told the Commons health committee that teenagers' mental health is at risk.

A security expert contacted Brian Krebs claiming to have hacked the hacker.

Experts warn drone exploits will soon be traded on the Dark Web.

The hackers asked MPs to stand up for the rights of stateless citizens in Kuwait.

Experts fear hackers could take over Trump's phone and access sensitive information stored inside.

Cyber security researcher Hemanth Joseph hacked an iPad secured with iCloud Activation Lock.

Cybersecurity researchers believe that the exploits may have caused the Deutsche Telekom outage.

'Four years have passed and we are only at this stage,' Ecuador's prosecutor said.

The hackers have threatened to leak information about MUNI customers, contracts and employees.

Deutsche Telekom said hackers may have attacked "specific routers" in Germany.

Thanks to the Snooper's Charter everyone from GCHQ to the NHS can now view your online habits.

Customers have been tricked into buying high-value gift cards and sending the codes to scammers.

Scammers demand a portion of victims' bank account amount, threatening exposure.

Conflicting reports cite ministry officials confirming and later denying the attack.

Over 2,000 systems were reportedly hit by a variant of the HDDCrypto ransomware.