LAS VEGAS - Defcon, a huge hacker convention held annually in this desert playground, received more than 30 voting machines to play with, providing a rare opportunity for hackers to find the flaws in our democracy's technology. How long did it take to crack them? About 90 minutes. The security of voting technology was elevated
LAS VEGAS - Hackers behind some of the most notorious ransomware around are taking some hints from legit Wall Street companies. Malware strains like Locky and Cerber helped make ransomware a $25 million industry in 2016 and its operators are starting to operate like conventional corporations with "customer" service staff and outsourced resources, researchers explained Wednesday
LAS VEGAS - The Unicorn Team researchers from 360 Technology, China's leading security company, discovered they could hack phones when they switched from modern LTE wireless networks to older, slower 2G technology. Of course, our phones do this all the time when the signal's weak, although you may not notice when it's happening. Still, if hackers take
WASHINGTON DC - The Department of Justice and Europol announced Thursday that they have shut down AlphaBay and Hansa, two massive marketplaces on the dark web that served hundreds of thousands of customers trying to get their hands on illegal goods online. While you or I can easily buy groceries, electronics and clothes online, when it comes
SAN FRANCISCO - More than 14 million records of Verizon subscribers who called the phone giant's customer services in the past six months were found on an unprotected Amazon storage server controlled by an employee of Nice Systems, a Ra'anana, Israel-based tech company. Verizon has a base of 113.9 million total customers. The data was
NEW YORK - A United Nations survey released Wednesday shows major gaps in the security among the world's most powerful countries, with the United States coming in second on the “most committed” list. The Global Cybersecurity Index (PDF) takes a look at defense capabilities in 134 countries, focusing on five factors: technical, organizational, legal, cooperation
SAN FRANCISCO - A new strain of a malware called CopyCat has infected more than 14 million Android devices around the world, rooting phones and hijacking apps to make millions in fraudulent ad revenue, researchers at Check Point said Thursday. While the majority of victims are in Asia, more than 280,000 Android devices in the US were
WASHINGTON DC - On Monday, the National Security Agency contractor was charged in a Georgia court with releasing classified material to a news outlet. The top-secret information was an NSA report from May 5, which was first released to The Intercept, detailing Russian hackers trying to compromise US officials less than two weeks before Election Day
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Gmail is hoping to prevent phishing with machine learning, like its early phishing detection. If an email looks suspicious and heads to a person's inbox, Gmail will delay it and analyze the message to make sure it's not a phishing attempt. "As we find new patterns, our models adapt more quickly than manual
WASHINGTON DC - It was a bombshell. Operatives from two Russian spy agencies had infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee, months before the US national election. One agency -- nicknamed Cozy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike -- used a tool that was "ingenious in its simplicity and power" to insert malicious code into the
