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SINGAPORE – The police have advised the public to secure smart home devices like Internet-Protocol (IP) cameras, smart televisions and digital locks, as cyber crime…
Read More S'pore police advise public to secure smart home devices amid cyber attacks around the world
SINGAPORE – A mad scramble to clean up IT systems ensued after a Russia-linked hacking exposed top government agencies in the United States and many…
Read More Threat from SolarWinds hack far from over, warn experts
A Dutch hacker who allegedly accessed President Donald Trump’s Twitter account with the password ‘MAGA2020!’ has had his claims accepted by Dutch authorities. Victor Gevers,…
Read More Trump's Twitter password was 'Maga2020!', Dutch authorities accept
The Twitter hackers behind the unprecedented coordinated July 15 attack on high-profile accounts of multiple celebrities, politicians, tech titans and Silicon Valley companies went after…
Read More Twitter Says 130 Accounts Targeted in Hack That Hijacked Feeds of Kanye, Biden, Obama, Bezos and Others
CIA cyber-spooks have been hacking China for more than a decade. That’s the astonishing accusation from a Chinese security firm called Qihoo 360, which has…
Read More The CIA has been hacking China for more than a decade, analysts allege
SINGAPORE – Ethical hackers will look for online vulnerabilities or “bugs” in 12 internet-facing government systems in the third edition of a bug bounty programme,…
Read More 'Hackers' to test 12 systems in third Government Bug Bounty Programme
It’s something that we’re all regularly warned about, but it seems that many people are still using passwords that are very easy to guess. The…
Read More UK’s most hacked passwords of 2019 – avoid these common phrases like the plague
Everyone who has watched BBC One's The Capture will know all about deepfakes and just how dangerous they can be. For those who haven't been…
Read More Dangers of deepfakes exposed – experts explain way to tell you’re being deceived
WASHINGTON (AFP) – Even with considerable security precautions in place, Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey became the victim of an embarrassing compromise when attackers took…
Read More Twitter CEO hack highlights dangers of 'SIM swop' fraud
Microsoft has confirmed that some of its Outlook, Hotmail and MSN email accounts have been hacked, with the contents of some users' emails exposed. In…
Read More Outlook and Hotmail hack leaves contents of some emails exposed for months
The Department of Justice is going after Chinese intelligence officers who have been attempting to steal US technology for years, according to a newly unsealed…
Read More Chinese intelligence officers indicted for trying to steal US technology
WASHINGTON — A government computer system that interacts with Healthcare.gov was hacked earlier this month, compromising the sensitive personal data of some 75,000 people, officials…
Read More Healthcare.gov system hack compromised data of 75K
Criminals can buy your Facebook login details on the dark web for as little as £3, a new study has revealed. The study, by experts…
Read More Facebook logins are being sold on dark web for £3 – how to protect yourself
Twitter has revealed that a software bug leaked a number of private messages to third parties for more than a year. While Twitter has not…
Read More Twitter bug leaked private messages of 3 million users for more than a year
It’s widely known that Google has some of the best software engineers on the planet. Last July, one of them — a Google engineer who…
Read More Google engineer was so bored, he hacked Google
LONDON — The Russian hackers indicted by the US special prosecutor last month have spent years trying to steal the private correspondence of some of…
Read More Russian hackers targeted top Orthodox church officials
A new bug on the Google Chrome browser allows hackers to access your private data from Facebook and Google , and possibly other sites as…
Read More Google Chrome bug discovered that could let hackers access your private data
It sounds incredible: the ability to tap into a commercial airliner’s onboard systems as it flies thousands of feet overhead. But a cyber expert told…
Read More Black Hat hacker says he can easily tap into planes already in the sky
What is up with all the hackings this summer, people?! One month after the social media accounts of stars such as Big Sean, Joey King…
Read More Kat McNamara Instagram Hacked Following Joey King Hacking
As top Democrats submit a letter to Trump with their concerns, Trump forges ahead with the planned meeting with Putin. In light of the indictments…
Read More List Of The Democrats’ Worst Fears For The Trump-Putin Meeting
‘Why didn’t they do something?’ Furious Trump lashes out against the ‘Deep State’ and blames Obama for failing to act in 2016 following the indictment…
Read More Trump rails against ‘Deep State,’ blames Obama hacking response
Tana Ramsay reveals she has forgiven her father for hacking celebrity chef husband Gordon’s emails and that he is now her ‘fitness role model’ Tana’s…
Read More Tana Ramsay has forgiven father for hacking husband Gordon’s emails
John McCain calls on Trump to CANCEL summit in Helsinki ‘unless he is prepared to hold Putin accountable for election tampering’ after 12 Russian agents…
Read More John McCain tells Trump to CANCEL summit after Russian agents charged