Social media accounts belonging to the National Football League along with 15 teams have been hijacked by notorious hacking group OurMine. The hacks primarily affect Twitter accounts but in some cases include Instagram and Facebook accounts. Hacked Twitter accounts showed messages that read “We’re back (OurMine). We are here to show people that everything is ...

Czech cybersecurity firm Avast Software s.r.o., the owner of popular free products such as AVG and Avast Antivirus, is reported to be selling web browsing data that can be linked to individual users via a subsidiary called Jumpshot. A joint investigation from PCMag and Motherboard uncovered the practice. Although Avast has previously claimed that the data ...

The Wuhan Novel Coronavirus currently spreading through China is making international news, and ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing Technology Co. is doing its best to help. The virus, a “novel” form of coronavirus, has claimed 56 lives in China so far, with 2,118 people official infected as of 9 p.m. EST Sunday. The spread of the ...

A new cryptography chip prototype designed using chaos theory is aimed at delivering “perfect secrecy” with unbreakable security. The working chip-based prototype was designed by the Center for Unconventional Processes of Sciences in conjunction with the University of St. Andrews and King Abdullah University of Science and Technology. It uses standard CMOS-compatible silicon chips. The ...

At least 2,000 WordPress sites have been hacked as part of a new campaign that redirects visitors to scam websites. Uncovered Tuesday by security researchers at Sucuri Inc., the hack exploits vulnerabilities in various third-party plugins, including Simple Fields and the CP Contract Form with PayPal. The hackers gain access through the plugins to inject JavaScript that ...

Cloud identity authorization startup CloudKnox Security Inc. said today it has raised $12 million in new funding to accelerate its product and sales plans. The round was led by Sorenson Ventures and included ClearSky Security, Dell Technologies Capital and Foundation Capital. Joining the board will be Stephen Ward, chief information security officer at The Home Depot; Ken Elefant, managing ...

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Cyber and Infrastructure Security Agency issued an alert today relating to a range of vulnerabilities found in GE Healthcare patient monitoring devices. The vulnerabilities, discovered by researchers at CyberMDX Technologies Inc. and dubbed MDhex, affect a range of GE’s CARESCAPE Clinical Information Center Pro patient monitoring products. The CIC Pro workstations are ...

The founder and previous owner of a cybersecurity firm has confessed in court to hiring hackers to carry out a distributed denial-of-service attack. Tucker Preston, 22, from Macon, Georgia, the previous owner of BackConnect Inc., a company that claims to be “the new industry standard in DDoS mitigation,” pleaded guilty under the terms of a plea ...

Microsoft Corp. today disclosed a data breach that exposed 250 million customer records via a misconfigured Elasticsearch database. As is somewhat typical with these exposures, the database was exposed because the settings on the Elasticsearch database were set to “public.” The data was first exposed Dec. 5 and Microsoft secured the data Dec. 31. As is ...

Microsoft Corp. is making its search engine Bing the default search engine for Office 365 ProPlus customers who use Chrome, at least according to a Microsoft support document. “Starting with Version 2002 of Office 365 ProPlus, an extension for Microsoft Search in Bing will be installed that makes Bing the default search engine for the Google Chrome ...