Hacking

For National Cybersecurity Awareness month, we take a deeper look at cybercrime scenes from recent movies and see if they’re based on fact or purely fiction.

Security researchers have been exposing smart car vulnerabilities for years, showing how susceptible they are to hackers. The automotive industry has since implemented robust cybersecurity practices while governments take steps to enact new legislation.

Pwn2Own is all about owning systems/devices—a test of technical skill to see who the best hacker is. It also demonstrated how browsers and plug-ins can be used as effective attack vectors.

A security informatics team in John Hopkins University has raised concerns over the security of drones (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs) after it hijacked one and sent it crashing.

Researchers discover a security loophole that potentially puts users of widely-used Mitsubishi Outlander at risk.

The FBI releases a security warning following a spate of mega breaches that involve social networking sites MySpace, Tumblr, and Fling.

TeamViewer users have reported unauthorized connections and hacked accounts after several reports of unknown third parties taking control of PCs.

SWIFT will be implementing new security measures to address increasing cyber threats to the global banking industry.

An Ecuador bank says hackers stole about $12 million in a 2015 cyber heist, bearing all the hallmarks of the Bangladesh Bank theft earlier this year.