South Africa was threatened with a serious cyberattack from people claiming to be ex-Mossad hackers, according to documents included in the “spy cables” cache that was recently leaked to Al Jazeera… Read more »
A new Israeli-based cyber-security incubator called Team8 plans to announce its launch on Tuesday and is banking that its ties to the Israeli military will give its startups a competitive edge… Read more »
Programmers of malware software have found a new way of making their exploits pay: A newly-discovered scam downloads malware to unsuspecting users’ computers and then makes those machines watch YouTube videos… Read more »
It’s been an interesting two months for new social communications app Plague as it tries to prove its concept of a content sharing network built entirely on viral principles. When we… Read more »
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has officially pointed to North Korea as the culprit behind the hacking of Sony Pictures Entertainment — an incident that was allegedly connected with a… Read more »
Plague is weird, it’s a bit scary, but it’s also an utterly fascinating networking concept. It uses the virus not just as a metaphor but as the underlying model for spreading… Read more »
The malware, known as Regin, is highly sophisticated and must have been the product of a nation state, researchers at Symantec have concluded. It has targeted many kinds of individuals and… Read more »
The tool, distributed by human rights groups such as Amnesty and the EFF, is supposed to find evidence of spyware packages such as FinFisher, which is used by governments to monitor… Read more »
Security researchers at Palo Alto Networks have identified a novel and nasty strain of malware that steals device and user data — but they reckon its full functionality is yet to… Read more »
The case involves a notorious piece of spyware, sold by a British firm, that helps spies and police all over the world gain access to their targets’ computing devices. Read more »