Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking 'Vault 7' hacking tools to Wikileaks

A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in the agency's history.

Joshua Adam Schulte, who once created malware for both the CIA and NSA to break into adversaries computers, was indicted Monday by the Department of Justice on 13 charges of allegedly stealing and transmitting thousands of classified CIA documents, software projects, and hacking utilities.

Schulte has also been suspected of leaking the stolen archive of documents to anti-secrecy organization WikiLeaks, who then began publishing the classified information in March 2017 in a series of leaks under the name "Vault 7."

Chinese Cyber-Espionage Group Hacked Government Data Center

A Chinese-linked cyber-espionage unit has hacked a data center belonging to a Central Asian country and has embedded malicious code on government sites.

The hack of the data center happened sometime in mid-November 2017, according to a report published by Kaspersky Lab earlier this week.

What Israel's crack majority-women Unit 8200 hackers can teach tech about diversity

Continuous education and training of personnel is of paramount importance. Ladies are no less good at cyber security, on the contrary.

Visa Card Payment System Crash – Services Now ‘Close To Normal’

If you have just faced an embarrassing failed payment through your Visa card, then don’t worry. You aren’t the only victim who apparently ‘ran out of balance’. In fact, millions of Visa customers faced the same annoying situation across Europe on Friday, when the Visa Card payment system crashed unexpectedly, meaning the users were unable to complete their payments. Apparently, the customers were declined in such a way as if they had insufficient funds in their accounts.

On Friday, at around 2.30 p.m., Visa customers across Europe starting facing major troubles while making their payments. They couldn’t complete their shopping or any other payments through their debit/credit cards as the Visa Card payment system crashed unexpectedly.