Unbeknownst to its users and perhaps even to its developers, the popular Windows download manager Orbit Downloader has been outfitted with a DDoS component.
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The hacker collective Anonymous has not produced as many high-profile cyber attacks as it once did, a drop-off that can be directly attributed to the arrests of the group’s core members, an FBI official told The Huffington Post this week.
NakedWines.com, the customer-funded online wine retailer, has raised $10 million in a third round of investment from WIV Wein International AG, a German group of direct wine-selling companies and founder shareholder.
Businesses globally are overwhelmingly ill prepared when it comes to disaster recovery, says Riaan Hamman, spokesman for the South African chapter of the international Disaster Recovery Preparedness Council.
The US government spied on electronic communications between Americans with no links to terror suspects until a judge ruled it illegal in 2011, officials acknowledged Wednesday.
The survey, carried out by IT Governance, found that 54% of those interviewed believed that insiders were the biggest threat, in contrast to the 27% who believe that criminals are the greatest threat.
In 2012 we saw significant data breaches across multiple industries and governments impacting millions of users. This year seems to be bring more of the same. Is this an uncertain future we will have to live with?
Apple iCloud users have been hit by yet another outage, though this one seems to have affected a relatively small percentage of users.
Global conflicts have increasingly led tech-savvy protesters and loyalists to express their views online by hacking, and while many groups have focused on attempting to damage or deface government websites
It only took one attack last week, but it was enough to allow the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) to compromise The Washington Post, CNN and Time.
