Three Square Market, located in Wisconsin, is going to be the first US company to implant microchips to its employees. The company announced a project, according to which the microchips will be implanted to volunteers from among employees. Subcutaneous chips ...
Read More »FBI Warns Parents of Safety Risks of Internet-Connected Toys
According to the FBI statement, the Internet-connected toys usually contain sensors, microphones, cameras, data storage components, and other multimedia capabilities – including speech recognition and GPS options. These features could put the privacy and safety of children at risk due ...
Read More »Hackers Stole Millions Through South Korean Bitcoin Exchange
The hackers attacked Bithumb, a South Korean Bitcoin Exchange with thousands of users. The personal data of more than 30,000 customers were stolen through an employee’s private computer. The hack took place in February, but Bithumb discovered the digital burglary ...
Read More »New computer virus spreads from Ukraine to disrupt world business
The virus is believed to have first taken hold on Tuesday in Ukraine where it silently infected computers after users downloaded a popular tax accounting package or visited a local news site, national police and international cyber experts said, according ...
Read More »Ukrainian banks, electricity firm hit by fresh cyber attack
The latest disruptions follow a spate of hacking attempts on state websites in late-2016 and repeated attacks on Ukraine’s power grid that prompted security chiefs to call for improved cyber defences, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Reuters. The central bank said ...
Read More »Personal Details of Nearly 200 Million US Citizens Leaked
The data leak contains a wealth of personal information on roughly 61 percent of the US population, according to Gizmodo. Along with home addresses, birthdates, and phone numbers, the records include advanced sentiment analyses used by political groups to predict ...
Read More »British Airways cancel all flights due to global system outage
Hundreds of passengers are currently stuck in ‘huge’ check-in lines while others remain grounded on planes after the airline’s global computer system went down this morning, Joinfo.com reports with reference to Metro. Several passengers have reported that the captain and ...
Read More »British Airways is ‘under cyber attack’: computer systems crash across the world sparking chaos at airports with huge queues and passengers stuck on planes
British Airways computer systems have crashed across the world, sparking chaos at airports with massive queues and delayed flights, Joinfo.com reports with reference to MailOnline. Hundreds of fliers are stuck in ‘huge’ check-in lines and parts of BA’s website and ...
Read More »Reurters: Hackers hit Russian bank customers, planned international cyber raids
Their campaign raised a relatively small sum by cyber-crime standards – more than 50 million roubles ($892,000) – but they had also obtained more sophisticated malicious software for a modest monthly fee to go after the clients of banks in ...
Read More »Security researcher says he’s figured out how to decrypt WannaCry
Adrien Guinet says that he was able to decrypt a ransomwared computer running Windows XP in his lab by discovering the prime numbers that make up the WannaCry private key, according to Mashable. The private key is what a ransomware ...
Read More »Group linked to NSA spy leaks threatens sale of new tech secrets
Using trademark garbled English, the Shadow Brokers group said in an online statement that, from June, it will begin releasing software to anyone willing to pay for access to some of the tech world’s biggest commercial secrets, Joinfo.com reports with ...
Read More »Ransomware cyber-attack threat escalating – Europol
He told the BBC the act was “unprecedented in its scale” and warned more people could find themselves affected on Monday morning. The virus took control of users’ files, demanding payments; Russia and the UK were among the worst-hit countries. ...
Read More »Global cyber-attack: Security blogger halts ransomware ‘by accident’
The 22-year-old man, known by the pseudonym MalwareTech, had taken a week off work, but decided to investigate the ransomware after hearing about the global cyber-attack, the BBC reports. He managed to bring the spread to a halt when he ...
Read More »Massive ransomware infection hits computers in 99 countries
Computers in thousands of locations have been locked by a programme that demands $300 (£230) in Bitcoin, Joinfo.com reports with reference to the BBC. In April hackers known as The Shadow Brokers claimed to have stolen the tools and released ...
Read More »French election: Macron’s presidential campaign hacked
The document dump happened Friday night, less than 48 hours before the country votes in the final round of the presidential election, which pits the independent centrist Macron against the far-right Marine Le Pen, according to CNN. The files were ...
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