A North Korean satellite allegedly designed for reconnaissance was not viable for its alleged intended purpose, according to South Korea’s military on Wednesday. North Korea

A former Amazon manager described by prosecutors as the “mastermind” behind a nearly $10 million scheme to steal money from the online megaretailer using fake

Boffins at the University of California, Davis have devised a purportedly practical way to apply a memory abuse technique called Rowhammer to build unique, stable

International cops have arrested a suspected “key figure” of a cybercrime group dubbed OPERA1ER that has stolen as much as $30 million from more than

Singapore has joined the ranks of nations requiring digital payment operators to follow the same sort of regulations and customer protection requirements that apply to

Criminals increasingly create deepfake nudes from people’s benign public photos in order to extort money from them, the FBI warns The U.S. Federal Bureau of

Infosec outfit Checkpoint says it’s spotted a Chinese actor targeting diplomatic facilities around Europe. Checkpoint has dubbed the campaign “SmugX” thanks to its use of

More than 338,000 FortiGate firewalls are still unpatched and vulnerable to CVE-2023-27997, a critical bug Fortinet fixed last month that’s being exploited in the wild.

America’s Transportation Security Agency (TSA) intends to expand its facial-recognition program used to screen US air travel passengers to 430 domestic airports in under a

It’s an awkward Monday for Dublin Airport after pay and benefits details for some 2,000 staff were apparently “compromised” following a recent attack on professional

Here are some of the key insights on the evolving data breach landscape as revealed by Verizon’s analysis of more than 16,000 incidents Contrary to

The United States’ National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) has warned that China’s updated Counter-Espionage law – which came into effect on July 1 –

Asia In Brief Japan’s government last Friday rebuked Fujitsu for shabby cloud security. Fujitsu operates a cloud called “FENICS” and in February 2023 admitted that

Following claims by ransomware gang LockBit that it has stolen data belonging to TSMC, the chip-making giant has said it was in fact one of

New Jersey cops must apply for a wiretap order — not just a warrant — for near-continual snooping on suspects’ Facebook accounts, according to a

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