Cybercrime

Spanish crook snags almost $53,000 in sneaky smartphone scam

A creepy – and completely fictitious – spying app took would-be snoops for a ride.

Cyber-Jacking Cars, Not in the Future but Now!

A few years ago researchers theorized that modern car control systems could be hacked. Hackers will demonstrate exactly that later this month.

Apple confirms hack of its developer website

Explains mysterious days-long outage, says names and email addresses may have been stolen

US court renews permission to NSA to collect phone metadata

A disclosure that the government was collecting phone data from customers of Verizon has already generated controversy

Apple’s developer site was hacked; customer information is safe

Apple on Sunday emailed developers and informed them of a security breach on Apple's developer site this past Thursday.

Hackers claim attack on global phone directory firm Truecaller

Cyber drills like Quantum Dawn 2 vital to security in financial sector

Mock exercises can help banks identify weaknesses in their incident response capabilities, analysts say

Microsoft, Google not doing enough on phone thefts, says San Francisco district attorney

George GascA3n said he thinks Apple and Samsung are progressing on anti-theft features, but not so Google and Microsoft.

Black Hat: Top 20 hack-attack tools

Upcoming Black Hat conference is a goldmine of tips for hacking just about anything.

Wyndham lawsuit tests FTC’s data security enforcement authority

Federal judge in N.J. this week let Chamber of Commerce and others file motion to dismiss suit