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PPP group photo after winning @Defcon CTF 2016 pic.twitter.com/BpDYmMH7nA — David Brumley (@thedavidbrumley) August 8, 2016 Cyber Scoop : ...

Image credit: Leo Espinosa Are You Following A Bot? -- The Atlantic How to manipulate social movements by hacking Twitter. One day last Febr...

Epic Fail Malicious programs could blow up factories and sabotage power grids Jamie Sneddon What Could Possibly Go Wrong: Industrial Cyber-S...

From Go Hacking: Google serves almost 80 percent of all search queries on the Internet, proving itself as the most popular search engine. Ho...

From CNET: The Stuxnet worm has taken the computer security world by storm, inspiring talk of a top secret, government-sponsored cyberwar, a...

Photo: Going nuclear: The Stuxnet computer worm may have designed to infiltrate an Iranian nuclear facility in Natanz, 180 miles south of T...

Sneaking past security (Image: 2010 IIPA/Getty) From New Scientist: Stuxnet is the first worm of its type capable of attacking critical infr...

Emails can bear malicious links ready to unleash computer-enabled chaos with just a single click. (Getty Images) From ABC News: How Do E-Mai...

Darpa’s Star Hacker Looks to WikiLeak-Proof Pentagon -- The Danger Room Tomorrow’s WikiLeakers may have to be sneakier than just dumping mil...

From ZNET: A currently ongoing ransomware campaign is using a novel approach to extort money from end users whose PCs have been locked down...

Photo: Cyber warrior: Vladislav Sherstuyuk, a retired four-star Russian general who leads the Institute of Information Security Issues at M...

From The BBC: Internet security techniques must adapt to keep up with the rising tide of net attacks say officials. The issue is top of the ...

From Discover Magazine: Spanish authorities announced this week that they shut down what appears to be the largest botnet ever discovered. T...

The virus was used to steal login credentials and record every key stroke on the 13m infected computers From The Daily Mail: Spanish police ...

From Wired News: A ring of ticket brokers has been indicted in connection to an elaborate hacking scheme that used bots and other fraudulent...

Shanghai Jiaotong University students won a programming competition this month, once again defeating colleges like Stanford. Jillian Murphy ...

A bird flies over Google China headquarters building next to a Chinese national flag in Beijing in this January 14, 2010 file photo. Credit:...

Security could be lacking (Image: Frazer Hudson) From New Scientist: ONLINE banking fraud doesn't just affect the naive. Last year, Robe...

China Tried To Hack Our Computers, Says India’s Security Chief M.K. Narayanan -- Times Online Chinese hackers are believed to have attempted...

From CNET: Citigroup denies it, but its Citibank unit was reportedly robbed of tens of millions of dollars, the victim of a cyberattack by m...