The United States mounted a spate of cyber-attacks against Iran after the Iranian military downed an American surveillance drone. Following the US drowning of the drone, the military response to Iran began from the cyberspace. US President Donald Trump initially approved military strikes against Iran in response to downing a Continue Reading
A Florida city paid $600,000 in ransom to hackers who seized its computer system, the latest in a large number of attacks globally aimed at wringing money from governments and businesses. The Riviera Beach City Council voted with unanimity this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach Continue Reading
Highly popular encrypted messaging app, Telegram, briefly went offline on Thursday for millions of users globally in the wake of a powerful distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that hit its servers. Telegram founder Pavel Durov later discovered that the attack was largely coming from the IP addresses located in China, suggesting Continue Reading
On Tuesday, a team of cybersecurity researchers disclosed details of a new side-channel attack on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that could let spiteful programs installed on a modern system to read sensitive memory data from other procedures running on the same hardware. The new attack, dubbed RAMBleed and recognized as Continue Reading
It was reported yesterday that the online graphic-design tool website Canva was massively breached wherein a hacker pilfered upwards of 139 million accounts of registered users. Now, according to the security notice published by the company, Flipboard, the highly popular social sharing and news aggregation app, has been hacked twice in Continue Reading
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