"Cybercrime and Hacking" news, interviews, and features

News about Cybercrime and Hacking

• About 4.5M face risk of ID theft after hack of hospital network

  Community Health Systems says Chinese hackers accessed names, social security numbers and other data of people it treated or referred

• Ferguson's tiny IT operation in the maelstrom

  Another small community gets big hacker attention

• Windows tech support scammers take root in the U.S.

  Security company accuses Florida firm of mixing old and new tactics to dupe unwary consumers with fake infection anxieties

• Russian credential theft shows why the password is dead

  It's way past time for companies to implement strong authentication measures

• Researchers to name the most hackable cars at Black Hat

  An attacker who penetrates a vehicle's radio or Bluetooth connection can gain access to other critical functions

• Attackers exploit remote access tools to compromise retail systems

  DHS warns retailers of threat to point-of-sale systems

Features about Cybercrime and Hacking

• Supervalu breach shows why move to smartcards is long overdue

  US remains one of the last developed nations to use magnetic stripe cards

• XPocalypse, not now

  Didn't hackers get the memo? They were supposed to be exploiting the unpatched Windows XP

• Huge turnout at RSA shows hackers are winning

  The high number of attendees and exhibitors at security confab are indication of troubled times

• Perspective: Payment system security needs less talk, more action

  Finger-pointing between retailers and banks in wake of Target breach a symptom of the problem; Congress likely to step in

• Breach goes from bad to worse for Target and its customers

  Company now says up to 70 million cards exposed -- up from 40 million -- and that hackers accessed more data than previously thought

• Adobe hack shows subscription software vendors lucrative targets

  Hackers jack 3 million credit cards, many tied to Creative Cloud software-by-subscription service