The automation company, Schneider Electric, reveals a weakness in its engineering system. This weakness unintentionally enables cyber criminals to remotely interfere with the company’s operations. Programmable logic controllers or PLCs are special computers or machines that have the ability to control and monitor the mechanical…
It only takes three minutes to break into a computer network. This isn’t an exaggeration but a warning from many Internet researchers about the vulnerability of network-connected devices. Any device which is connected to the Internet makes it easier for cyber crooks to sneak into…
A security update is coming to the iOS 10 in order to patch up some flaws, says Apple. The weakness allowed hackers to obtain user’s passwords and other sensitive information. The security flaw was said to have been discovered by the contentious Elcomsoft, a Russian…
A technology company had fallen prey to the wiles of Hector Monsegur, the most notorious cybercriminal for Anonymous when the crook had successfully waged a phishing scam on twelve of the company’s newly hired employees in its IT department. Their names had been meticulously selected out…
An election malware has been discovered by a certain malware detection team just recently. This software menace invades your computer system by shutting down all your processes and puts a seemingly scary message on your screen. The annoying popup message would ask you to pay…
The European Union’s law enforcement agency, Europol, had authorized to conduct on study the youth behavior on the Internet. The researched pointed out the there is a stunning similarity in the way youngsters grow up to become hackers to drug and alcohol addiction. Because there…