Russian hackers attack major UK sectors
GCHQ is on the case
The chief executive of Britain's GCHQ cyber security centre said today that its spooks are aware of attempts to disrupt the UK's energy, telecomms and media by attempted hacks.
Cloudflare offers free DDoS protection
Claims that DDoS will be history
Cloudflare is making protection against DDoS attacks free, regardless of how bad they are and claims that soon that method of bringing down a website will be history.
Congress wants to stop Trump giving Putin cyber intelligence
Apparently some people think it might be risky
President Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump thinks it is rather a good idea to hand over cyber intelligence to the Russians before they have to go through the dangerous practice of hacking any computers.
FCC blames John Oliver for “hack”
Kill the comics
Not happy with trying to censor comics who make jokes at Donald Trump’s expense, the FCC is now wading into Late Night telly host John Oliver for leading a campaign against its net neutrality rules.
Hamas hacked Israel soldiers by pretending to be girls
Like the beard, gives me something to hang onto
The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online.
Obama orders sanctions against Russian hackers and spies
Don’t game our elections Putin
US president Barak Obama has ordered sanctions against Tsar Putin of all the Russias for hacking his country’s elections to help get Donald (Prince of Orange) Trump elected.
Tesla app can be hacked
Your car can be stolen, it seems
A report from Norwegian app security company Promon claims that cyber crooks can hack into Tesla cars.
Hacking a big corporation is easy
McAfee claims a grannie could do it
Hacking a major corporation is so easy that even an elderly grannie could do it, according to technology industry character John McAfee.
Apple rejects security app because it mentions Apple insecurity
Chaos shows that Apple TV will be as slanted as Fox
It is starting to look like Apple TV will be heavily censored to conform Jobs’ Mob marketing.
BIOS is hacking gateway
Flash will save every one of us
Security experts, Corey Kallenberg and Xeno Kovah have demonstrated a proof of concept hack which uses the BIOS chips that contain the firmware of a computer's motherboard.