attacks

Hey, remember the USB Killer, a device that looks like a thumb drive and lets you destroy 95% of computers by frying them with a quick jolt of electricity? There’s now an improved version on the market, which is more powerful, looks more like any generic thumb drive, and comes with micro USB...

ATM explosive attacks increased by as much as 80 percent in the first half of 2016, reveals a new report. The European ATM Security Team (EAST) tracked 492 explosive attacks. Some used solid explosive material to pull off their heists, though they were a minority at 110 of the incidents. All...

900 bugs. That’s a lot. $5,000,000. That’s a lot, too. That’s how many bugs Facebook’s pioneering bug bounty program has uncovered since it launched five years ago – and how much Facebook has paid for them. The social network giant celebrated the program’s fifth anniversary with a blog post and...

In today’s world people make up stuff to damage reputations for both individuals and companies, either because they are paid to or just because they are bad people. No matter the reasons, it can do an amazing amount of damage in this age of social media. Columnist Rob Enderle shares a resource...

SAN FRANCISCO -- The hacking group Anonymous said it planned to launch a concerted attack against Israel on Friday, but as night fell little had happened. As of 9:00 pm in Israel there had been no major cyber attacks, said Uri Rivner, head of cyber strategy at BioCatch, an authentication and...