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Hackers compromised the personal data of NASA staff

Dec 19, 2018

NASA has warned its employees that hackers may have obtained data that included their personal information, in an internal email. The US space agency says two servers had been compromised that contained the per...

US hacker admits hijacking flight control systems and engine

Abby Smith

May 17, 2015

Innovation

A security researcher, Chris Roberts, claimed that in between the year 2012 and 2014 he was able to hijack nearly 15 to 20 flights using the in-flight entertain systems. Connecting a computer to find the net...

Sony Pictures Employees Receive Email Claiming to Come From Hackers

Sony Pictures employees now get threatening emails, purportedly sent by the hackers

Amanda

Dec 6, 2014

Innovation

The hacking attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment which disrupted the company’s computer systems and leaked confidential information belonging to them over the internet looks like a perfect plot for a suspense ...

Russian hackers exploit ‘Zero Day’ bug in Microsoft Windows to spy on NATO, Ukraine

Amanda

Oct 14, 2014

Innovation

A group of Russian hackers, probably working for the government, has been exploiting a previously unknown flaw in Microsoft’s Windows operating system to spy on NATO, the Ukrainian government, a U.S. university...

BadUSB security flaw which let hackers exploit any USB device is non-fixable

Platonium

Oct 5, 2014

Innovation

The flaw that was detected back in August by some security researchers that could exploit any USB device has now been made public by the researchers for everyone to see it. Anyone with a little knowledge about ...

Malware infiltrates Hong Kong protestors’ devices

Abby Smith

Oct 1, 2014

Innovation

People in Hong Kong demanding a resign of the territory's leader, C.Y. Leung have been hit with a malware that infiltrates the protestors mobile devices, irrespective of what platform they are using. Hackers ha...

Millions of social security numbers exposed in Montana health security breach

Abby Smith

Jun 25, 2014

Innovation

Official on Tuesday announced that the month of May the Montana Health services suffered a security breach, which has resulted in the theft of social security numbers and other important personal information su...

Feedly suffers second DDOS attack, offline since Wednesday

Platonium

Jun 12, 2014

Innovation

Feedly, the RSS reader that managed to scoop up most of the Google Reader users, has been offline since Wednesday, after repeated DDOS attacks from an organisation who wants Feedly to pay to keep their service ...

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