Browsing: cyber security

Journalists in Europe found it was “easy” to spy on top European Union officials using commercially downloaded location histories sold by data brokers, despite the continent…

Peter Williams, the former managing director of Trenchant, a division of defense contractor L3Harris that develops surveillance and hacking tools for Western governments, pleaded guilty last…

US telecommunications giant Ribbon has confirmed that government-backed hackers accessed its network for nearly a year before they were caught, according to a public filing. The…

Peter Williams, a former general manager at defense firm L3Harris, pleaded guilty to selling surveillance technology to a Russian broker buying “cyber tools,” the US Department…

On Monday, researchers at cybersecurity giant Kaspersky published a report detecting a new spyware called Dante that they say was targeting Windows victims in Russia and…

For any company that uses software, there is often a difficult balance between patching systems as quickly as possible to prevent cyber-attacks, while ensuring that updates…

The US government has accused a former executive of defense contractor L3Harris of stealing trade secrets and selling them to a buyer in Russia, according to…

An outage on Monday affected web hosting giant Amazon Web Services (AWS), taking down huge areas of the web, including websites, banks and some government services.…

Earlier this year, a developer was shocked by a message that appeared on his personal phone: “Apple has detected a targeted mercenary spyware attack against your…

Cybersecurity firm F5 Networks says government-backed hackers had “long-term, persistent access” to its network, which allowed them to steal the company’s source code and customer information.…