reader comments 16 with 14 posters participating Share this story Covid-19 Coverage View more stories Information relating to the one of the most promising coronavirus vaccines has been “unlawfully accessed” following a hack on the European regulatory body that’s in the final stages of approving it, the firms jointly developing the vaccine said on Wednesday.… Read More »
Getty Images reader comments 185 with 115 posters participating Share this story As President Trump continues to make unfounded claims of widespread election fraud, 59 of the world’s foremost experts on electronic voting are hitting back, saying that recent allegations of actual voting machine hacking “have been unsubstantiated or are technically incoherent.” Monday’s letter came… Read More »
reader comments 9 with 9 posters participating Share this story Ransomware attacks that tear through corporate networks can bring massive organizations to their knees. But even as these hacks reach new popularity highs—and new ethical lows—among attackers, it’s not the only technique criminals are using to shake down corporate victims. A new wave of attacks… Read More »
Nick Wright. Used by permission. reader comments 56 with 51 posters participating Share this story For months, Apple’s corporate network was at risk of hacks that could have stolen sensitive data from potentially millions of its customers and executed malicious code on their phones and computers, a security researcher said on Thursday. Sam Curry, a… Read More »
sasha85ru | Getty Imates reader comments 29 with 25 posters participating Share this story For only the second time in the annals of cybersecurity, researchers have found real-world malware lurking in the UEFI, the low-level and highly opaque firmware required to boot up nearly every modern computer. As software that bridges a PC’s device firmware… Read More »
Enlarge / SONY DSC Boris SV | Getty Images reader comments 49 with 36 posters participating Share this story A warning that unidentified hackers broke into an agency of the US federal government and stole its data is troubling enough. But it becomes all the more disturbing when those unidentified intruders are identified—and appear likely… Read More »