NEW YORK - A United Nations survey released Wednesday shows major gaps in the security among the world's most powerful countries, with the United States coming in second on the “most committed” list. The Global Cybersecurity Index (PDF) takes a look at defense capabilities in 134 countries, focusing on five factors: technical, organizational, legal, cooperation
SAN FRANCISCO - A new strain of a malware called CopyCat has infected more than 14 million Android devices around the world, rooting phones and hijacking apps to make millions in fraudulent ad revenue, researchers at Check Point said Thursday. While the majority of victims are in Asia, more than 280,000 Android devices in the US were
WASHINGTON DC - On Monday, the National Security Agency contractor was charged in a Georgia court with releasing classified material to a news outlet. The top-secret information was an NSA report from May 5, which was first released to The Intercept, detailing Russian hackers trying to compromise US officials less than two weeks before Election Day
MOUNTAIN VIEW - Gmail is hoping to prevent phishing with machine learning, like its early phishing detection. If an email looks suspicious and heads to a person's inbox, Gmail will delay it and analyze the message to make sure it's not a phishing attempt. "As we find new patterns, our models adapt more quickly than manual
WASHINGTON DC - It was a bombshell. Operatives from two Russian spy agencies had infiltrated computers of the Democratic National Committee, months before the US national election. One agency -- nicknamed Cozy Bear by cybersecurity company CrowdStrike -- used a tool that was "ingenious in its simplicity and power" to insert malicious code into the
WASHINGTON DC - Your internet service provider can sell your browsing history to the highest bidder - the new reality after the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday voted to kill the Federal Communications Commission rules that would have stopped ISPs from selling your data to the highest bidder. Later that night, Google searches in
SAN FRANCISCO - If you use WhatsApp or Telegram on your web browser, you'll want to shut down the browser and start it up again to keep hackers from taking over your account. A group of researchers from cybersecurity firm Check Point revealed Wednesday that the web browser version of these popular encrypted-messaging apps had
WASHINGTON DC - The Justice Department on Wednesday said it's indicted four hackers responsible for the second-largest online breach in history. Two of the alleged hackers were Russian spies under the Federal Security Service -- the country's FBI equivalent that's better known as the FSB -- while the other two were identified as hired criminals.
SAN FRANCISCO - Cloudbleed is the latest internet bug that puts users private information in jeopardy. News of the bug broke late on Thursday, but there is already a lot of confusion about it and the actual impact it has on people's information. Cloudbleed is the name of a major security breach from the internet
SAN FRANCISCO - CloudPets maker Spiral Toys left 2.2 million children's voice recordings and account info exposed, reports say, and it appears hackers stole and ransomed user data. This is bad news for parents and kids who sent each other voice messages through internet-connected stuffed animals called CloudPets: Their account information and voice recordings
