USA

Who broke the internet? CIA and FBI scramble to find authors of massive cyberattack

A huge cyberattack in America and Europe takes many vital or household internet names offline for several hours.

22/10/2016

Focus

Dutch technology to protect internet devices from hacking

How can we protect electronic devices from hacking?

19/10/2016

Czech Republic

Russian man held by Czech police over 'hacking aimed at US'

Police in the Czech Republic have released video footage of a Russian man’s arrest in connection with hacking attacks on targets in the United States.

19/10/2016

World News

Yahoo "complies with NSA and FBI requests to scan customers' emails" - reports

Yahoo is said to have built a custom-made software program to scan all of its clients’ incoming emails on behalf of the US government.

04/10/2016

USA

Yahoo - is this the world's biggest cyber security breach?

Yahoo! Inc says information was stolen from at least 500 million user accounts in 2014 by what is believes was a "state-sponsored actor".

22/09/2016

World News

World anti-doping agency confirms second leak of athlete records

15/09/2016

Sport

US athletes confidential medical records leaked following hack of WADA database

A group of Russian hackers calling themselves ‘Fancy Bears’ on Tuesday leaked confidential medical files of some US athletes, including four time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Simone Biles and te

13/09/2016

Sri Lanka

Teenager hacked president's website to delay exams

How many of us have despaired as exams approach, wishing we could press an imaginary ‘pause button’ to freeze time and delay the inevitable?

30/08/2016

USA

Trump calls on Russia to hack Clinton's emails

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump has just invited Russia to spy on his Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

27/07/2016

USA

MySpace and Tumblr hacked

Your old profile on one of the first social media networks may have been hacked.

01/06/2016

USA

FBI paid over $1 million to unlock San Bernardino iphone

The FBI is estimated to have paid more than $1.3 million to get into the iPhone of one of the San Bernardino killers The figure, the largest ever

22/04/2016

Cinema

Killer Kevin Costner gets someone else's memories in "Criminal"

Death row inmate Kevin Costner gets a memory implant in “Criminal”, not to remember how to make a hit movie again, but as a sort of hard disc for a

12/04/2016

Lithuania

Crimean Tartar event hit by cyber attack in Lithuania

Lithuania’s parliamentary website came under cyber attack on Monday just as a special session of the World Congress of Crimean Tartars was meeting to

11/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey probes leak of 50 million people's data

Turkey is investigating how hackers managed to post online the personal data of nearly 50 million people, or two-thirds of the population. It is

06/04/2016

Turkey

Turkey: personal data of 50 million citizens leaked online, hackers claim

Turkey has launched an investigation into an alleged leak of the personal data of almost 50 million citizens. The information is said to have been

06/04/2016

World News

FBI says it may be able to unlock San Bernardino gunman's iPhone

The FBI says it may have found a way to unlock the San Bernardino attacker’s iPhone without the help of Apple and has postponed a court hearing with

22/03/2016

Economy

Bangladesh central bank boss resigns over cyber heist, money hunt continues

Bangladesh's central bank governor has resigned over the theft by hackers of $81 million (73 million euros) as investigators try to track where that money went.

15/03/2016

Economy

Bangladesh cyber bank heist blame game underway

The blame game is underway in Bangladesh after computer hackers stole the equivalent of 73 million euros from the central bank and nearly got away with 10 times as much

14/03/2016

Business Series

Apple Macs hit by first ever ransomware attack

Apple's Macintosh computers have been hit for the first time by a hacking attack using what is known as ransomware. Previously only Microsoft's Windows operating system was targeted.

07/03/2016

World News

Turkish banks and government offices at standstill in Anonymous-claimed attack

Banking systems and government offices were especially badly hit in a day of worsening cyber chaos in Turkey. Since December 14 the government has

25/12/2015