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Uber paid 20-year-old hacker to destroy stolen data: Reuters
Uber announced last month that the personal data of 57 million users, including 600,000 drivers in the United States, was stolen in a 2016 breach.1 2475
Hackers increasingly target shared Web hosting servers for phishing
Cyber criminals increasingly hack into shared Web hosting servers in order to use the domains hosted on them in large …
Spanish police say DDoS suspect used a van as a mobile office
The man suspected of participating in a large DDoS attack on an anti-spam organisation that caused intermittent Internet hiccups drove …
LivingSocial’s breach draws advice from security experts
The cyber attack Friday on the Internet deal site LivingSocial that forced it to reset the passwords of some 50 million users …
South Korean banks, broadcasters hit in cyber attack
Computer networks of banks and some broadcasters in South Korea were hit Wednesday in what is suspected to be a …
Microsoft falls victim to ‘Chinese’ cyber attack
Microsoft last week disclosed that it recently fell victim to the same type of cyber attack that targeted Apple and …
iPhone 5 hack bypasses lock code
An iOS 6.1 hack has been published online allowing users to bypass the iPhone 5‘s pin code. A security hole in the latest version of Apple‘s iOS …
Chinese authorities exploit Office for Mac hole
Chinese authorities may be exploiting a security hole in Microsoft Office for Mac to target the Uyghur people, an ethnic …
Apple insists on jailbreak warnings
iOS jailbreaks may come and go, but Apple continues to warn that hacking an iPhone and jailbreaking it, while not …
Researchers crack Philips hospital system
A Philips information management system, which is used in making administrative chores in hospital more efficient, contains vulnerabilities that can …