The personal website of European Parliament president Martin Schulz was hacked last week, his office has confirmed. On Friday someone posted information on Pastebin indicating that they had retrieved database and… Read more »
Last year’s massive hack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, which the U.S. administration has blamed on North Korea, cost the Sony division around $15 million. In ‘s results (PDF) for the third… Read more »
Facebook’s outage early on Tuesday, which also took out linked services such as Instagram and Tinder, was down to a technical issue caused by the company itself rather than external factors… Read more »
David Omand, the former head of British spy agency GCHQ, has made an extraordinary threat. Speaking earlier this week, he said that if companies such as Apple and Google don’t abandon… Read more »
When the FBI formally accused North Korea of being behind the Sony Pictures hack, it was clear that it knew more than it were letting on about the evidence – it’s… Read more »
Police in the U.K. have arrested another man in connection with the disruption of Microsoft’s Xbox Live and Sony’s PlayStation Network over the Christmas period. The 18-year-old was arrested near Liverpool… Read more »
Two German government websites were knocked offline by a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack around 10am local time on Wednesday. Chancellor Angela Merkel’s site is still down five and a… Read more »
Skilled hackers caused serious damage at a German steel mill sometime during this year, according an annual security roundup issued Wednesday by the country’s Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). According… Read more »
The firm says the credentials were stolen from other services and just happen to work — sometimes — on the victims’ Dropbox accounts as well. Read more »
The hackers are claiming that a searchable database will soon go live, featuring hundreds of thousands of images that the senders hoped were self-destructing. Read more »