Move over BlackBerry and say hello Taiga Systems and their TaigaPhone, the latest in cutting-edge cyber-security for the corporate smartphone users. To tackle the increasing global cyber-threat, Russia has been working on their very own super-secure smartphone to ensure that corporate information is always safe and sound.
A Russian wanted in the hacking of the Nasdaq stock market and of payment systems resulting in US$300 million in losses has been extradited to face US criminal charges.
Vladimir Drinkman, 34, appeared in court to face criminal charges in Newark, New Jersey after being extradited from the Netherlands, the Justice Department said in a statement.
More than two million unique login credentials for Australian internet users were stolen as part of the massive haul of 1.2 billion passwords by a Russian hacker outfit.
Earlier this month Hold Security reported that Russian hackers under the group dubbed CyberVors amassed the largest ever cache of stolen website passwords through automated and botnet-driven SQL injection attacks against horribly insecure websites.
Don’t worry, you’re not the only one with more questions than answers about the 1.2 billion user credentials amassed by Russian hackers.
Some security researchers on Wednesday said it’s still unclear just how serious the discovery is, and they faulted the company that uncovered the database, Hold Security, for not providing more details about what it discovered.
Criminals in Russia have amassed a huge database of 1.2 billion stolen user names and passwords and half a billion email addresses, a U.S.-based Internet security company said Wednesday.
The data, believed to be the single biggest horde of stolen Internet identity information ever collected, was garnered from attacks that reached into every corner of the Web and hit around 420,000 sites, said Hold Security.
A Russian hacker group that has attacked some of the biggest news and business sites in the world claims it penetrated CNET's website over the weekend and stole a database of registered reader data.
A representative from the group calling itself W0rm told CNET News in a Twitter conversation that it stole a database of usernames, emails, and encrypted passwords from CNET's servers. The database affects more than 1 million users.
The idea of a closed internet is hardly new; turn your eyes to East Asia, and the Great Firewall of China looms large.
The Chinese government is well known for the control it likes to exert over the levels of access its citizens have to the internet, and there have been numerous well-publicized cases of censorship and access being restricted to pages that refer to certain events in the county's history.
Russian police on Tuesday said they arrested two hackers supposedly responsible for "hijacking" Apple products via Find My iPhone, locking owners out until they pay a ransom to regain access.
According to a statement from Directorate K, the Russian Interior Ministry's cyber crime arm, the alleged hackers could face up to two years in jail if found guilty of perpetrating the hijackings, reports Re/code.
Just days before the Sochi Olympics in Russia, the founder and CEO of a Russian gay dating app called "Hunters" says his app was hacked and subject to homophobic attacks.
According to Business Insider, Hunters founder Dmitry T. -- who declined to provide his full name for safety reasons -- said hackers sent the following message to all Hunters users in Russia:
"Warning: You will be arrested and jailed for gay propaganda in Sochi according to Russian Federal Law #135 Sektion 6."
Somewhere in Russia an eavesdropper is operating a network of wiretapped nodes at the edge of the Tor anonymity network. And he’s particularly interested in what you’re doing on Facebook.
That’s the conclusion of two researchers who used custom software to test Tor exit nodes for sneaky behavior, in a four-month study published yesterday.
