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.

5 ways deception tech is disrupting cybersecurity

Enterprises and their Security Operations Centers (SOCs) are under siege. Security events are being triggered from all corners of the security stack – from the firewall, endpoints, and servers, from intrusion detection systems and other security solutions.

What’s more is that security teams do not have enough people or hours in a day to analyze the alerts that are coming in, and most ‘security events’ don’t even imply an attack in progress. They often are simply sharing information (failed connections, for example) or are what we call ‘false positives’ (when a solution thinks it has found a specific vulnerability, but in fact, it hasn’t.)

How AI and machine learning are redefining cybersecurity

We are now a connected global community where many digital natives cannot remember a time before the iPhone. The rise of smart homes means that we are increasingly attaching our lighting, door locks, cameras, thermostats, and even toasters to our home networks. Managing our home automation through mobile apps or our voice illustrates how far we have evolved over the last few years.

However, in our quest for the cool and convenient, many have not stopped to consider their cybersecurity responsibilities. The device with the weakest security could allow hackers to exploit vulnerabilities on our network and access our home. But this is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.

Cybersecurity Training and Certifications

Cyber-criminals and hackers are in the headlines almost every week. They can ruin a company's reputation and destroy the business. And the threat is increasing rapidly. This is why cybersecurity is becoming one of the world’s fastest growing business components.

But to be truly effective, cybersecurity shouldn't be just an application that comes in a box. It also must include expert teams of highly trained and qualified professionals who know how to secure every facet of the organization.

Top Cybersecurity Threats Active in the Education Sector Today – and Why You Should Care

Educational institution networks continue to be a favorite playground for cybercriminals. Because of the age and interests of the majority of educational users, these networks tend to incorporate cutting edge technologies and strategies. And at the same time, those students also tend to push hard against network restrictions, looking for workarounds to access data and applications that IT administrators may have restricted. To do that, a disproportionate number of users begin cutting their teeth on things like hacking.

Harvard Undergraduate Council Website Hacked By Iran Cyber Security Group

On Thursday evening, the Undergraduate Council website was briefly hacked by a group that calls itself “Iran Cyber Security Group” The website was restored by Friday morning by UC Vice President Nicholas D. Boucher.

The outcome of the hack upon visiting the website presented visitors with a cartoon of President Donald Trump being punched in the chin by an individual. The individual’s face was not depicted however it wore a wristband that had stripes on, the color of the stripes were similar to the color of the Iranian flag: green, white and red.

Students caught hacking teacher's email account for exam papers after returning 'near perfect' papers

Five students have been disciplined after hacking a teacher's email account in order to cheat in an exam.

The teens managed to log into the account and stole the answers for the maths test.

But they were caught - when teachers noticed all five managed to get exceptional scores in the preliminary exams.

How to Find Out Everything Facebook Knows About You

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress this week to explain how his company collects and handles users' personal information.

The past few weeks have been difficult for Facebook over concerns that the data of millions of users has been breached.

Facebook stores details of almost every action you have taken and interaction you have engaged in on its platform.