Results for 'hacking'

News | Personal

Mr. Cooper leaks personal data of 14 million loan and mortgage customers

December 19, 2023 - Loan and mortgage giant Mr. Cooper reported a data breach in which the personal data of 14.7 million homeowners were stolen.

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Podcast

Meet the entirely legal, iPhone-crashing device, the Flipper Zero: Lock and Code S04E25

December 18, 2023 - This week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with EFF public interest technology Cooper Quintin about the hacking tool, the Flipper Zero.

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Personal | Privacy

What Gen Z really cares about when it comes to privacy

November 2, 2023 - It would be easy to think that Gen Z doesn’t care about privacy. It's not that, though, they just care about privacy in a different way to older generations.

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Business | News

SolarWinds and its CISO accused of misleading investors before major cyberattack

November 1, 2023 - The SEC has announced charges against SolarWinds and its CISO for fraud and internal control failures related to the company's cybersecurity.

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News | Personal

Customer data stolen from gaming cloud host Shadow

October 16, 2023 - Cloud infrastructure provider Shadow has warned of the data theft of over 500,000 customers. The customers were informed by a breach notification...

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MALWARE

Ransomware

Short bio Ransom malware or ransomware is a threat that prevents users from accessing their system or personal files and demands ransom payment...

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Rootkits

Short bio The term “rootkit” comes from “root kit,” a package giving the highest privileges in the system. It is used...

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MALWARE

Distributed Denial of Service (DDOS)

Short bio DDOS, or Distributed Denial of Service tools, are malicious applications designed to mount an attack against a service or website...

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Business | News

Teenage members of Lapsus$ ransomware gang convicted

August 25, 2023 - A wave of video game developer compromises has come to a court-based conclusion for those responsible, with several convictions the end...

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