Records for more than 1.5 million customers of the computer security wing of Verizon, Verizon Enterprise Solutions, appeared for sale. This Verizon unit aids large corporations when they’ve been the victims of a hack. Now the company itself has been breached.
U.S. officials said that they are hopeful they will be able to unlock an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino shooters without help from Apple Inc, but said the national debate over privacy and encryption must still be resolved. Attorney General Loretta Lynch told a news conference that the Justice Department is "trying to exhaust all investigative tools" to gain information on the San Bernardino attackers, including by using techniques offered by third parties.
A government report says the web portal for health insurance coverage under President Barack Obama's law logged 316 security incidents during a period of about 18 months. The nonpartisan Government Accountability Office says none of the attempted cyberattacks appeared to have succeeded in compromising sensitive data, including the personal information of millions of consumers shopping for subsidized health insurance.
Google updated Gmail with two new security improvements. First up, Google has turned on its Safe Browsing service for Gmail users. Next up, Google wants to be even more helpful in fighting state-sponsored attacks.
The Justice Department announced it has indicted seven hackers associated with the Iranian government and charged them with cybercrimes. The crimes include disrupting U.S. banks’ public websites from late 2011 through May 2013 and with breaking into a small dam in Rye, N.Y., in an apparent attempt to stop its operation.
The Obama administration is expected to blame Iranian hackers for a coordinated campaign of cyber attacks in 2012 and 2013 on several U.S. banks and a New York dam, sources familiar with the matter have told Reuters. The Justice Department has prepared an indictment against about a half-dozen Iranians, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the matter.
A 50-year-old Chinese man has pleaded guilty to being involved in a plot to hack into systems containing sensitive U.S. military data. Su Bin is believed to have been part of a group targeting data relating to fighter jets, cargo aircraft and weapons.
A purported set of Google's new top-secret version of Glass eyewear that ignited a dramatic eBay bidding war over the weekend appears to have been the real thing. Google quickly pounced on the vendor and got its Glass back.
Israeli company Cellebrite has been appointed by the FBI to find an alternative way to unlock the iPhone 5c involved in the San Bernardino shootings, according to Israeli newspaper the Yedioth Ahronoth and Reuters. Cellebrite has been developing forensics solutions for law enforcement and intelligence.
A startup cyber security company has uncovered a flaw they say leaves millions of networks and billions of computers vulnerable to attack. Wireless mice from companies like HP, Lenovo, Amazon and Dell use unencrypted signals to communicate with computers.
Uber, the high-flying transportation firm, is releasing a technical map of its computer and communications systems and inviting hackers to find weaknesses in exchange for cash bounties. While so-called "bug bounties" are not new, Uber's move shows how mainstream companies are increasingly relying on independent computer researchers to help them bolster their systems.
Hillary Clinton urged the United States to do more to counter the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) on social media, hours after the group took responsibility for a deadly terror attack in Brussels. "We've got to take them on on the Internet," Clinton, the Democratic presidential front-runner told CNN's Wolf Blitzer.
The Justice Department has indicted three current or former members of the so-called Syrian Electronic Army for computer hacking-related conspiracies. Prosecutors allege that two Syrians, 22-year-old Ahmad Umar Agha and 27-year-old Firas Dardar, tricked email users to steal usernames and passwords to compromise government, media and private-sector computer systems.
Bangladesh's central bank has hired a lawyer in the United States for a potential lawsuit against the New York Federal Reserve after unknown hackers stole $81 million from its account with the U.S. bank, an internal report said. In one of the largest cyber heists in history, the hackers breached the computer systems of Bangladesh Bank in early February and succeeded in issuing instructions to the New York Fed to transfer $81 million to accounts in the Philippines.
The Justice Department said that it might no longer need Apple’s assistance to help open an iPhone used by a gunman in last year’s San Bernardino, Calif., mass shooting, leading to a postponement of a key hearing over the issue and potentially sidestepping what has become a bitter clash with the world’s most valuable company. The turn of events came after the Justice Department said in a new court filing that as of Sunday, an outside party had demonstrated a way for the FBI to possibly unlock the phone used by Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the San Bernardino attackers.
The U.S. government was hit by more than 77,000 "cyber incidents" like data thefts or other security breaches in fiscal year 2015, a 10 percent increase over the previous year, according to a White House audit. Part of the uptick stems from federal agencies improving their ability to identify and detect incidents, the annual performance review from the Office and Management and Budget said.
A bipartisan group of U.S. senators has begun circulating long-awaited draft legislation that would give federal judges clear authority to order technology companies like Apple to help law enforcement officials access encrypted data, according to sources familiar with the discussions. The proposal from Senators Richard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, does not spell out how companies must provide access or the circumstances under which they could be ordered to help.
Jurors in the Hulk Hogan sex tape case ignored a plea for mercy Monday and added another $25 million to the $115 million they already awarded ex-wrestler Hulk Hogan. The six jurors said that Gawker was liable for $15 million in punitive damages and founder Nick Denton was liable for $10 million.
A group of Johns Hopkins University researchers has found a bug in Apple's vaunted encryption, one that would enable a skilled attacker to decrypt photos and videos sent as secure instant messages. This specific flaw in Apple’s iMessage platform probably would not have helped the FBI pull data from an iPhone recovered in December’s San Bernardino, Calif., terrorist attack, but it shatters the notion that strong commercial encryption has left no opening for law enforcement and hackers, said Matthew D. Green, a computer science professor at Johns Hopkins University who led the research team.
The U.S. Supreme Court stepped into the high-profile patent fight between the world's two fiercest smartphone rivals, Apple and Samsung, agreeing to hear Samsung's appeal of what it contends were excessive penalties for copying the patented designs of the iPhone. Samsung Electronics paid Apple more than $548 million in December related to a jury verdict from 2012.
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