Real Hacking

Virtual private networking (VPN) companies market their services as a way to prevent anyone from snooping on your Internet usage. But new research su... Read more

A 26-year-old Finnish man was sentenced to more than six years in prison today after being convicted of hacking into an online psychotherapy clinic,... Read more

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) today levied fines totaling nearly $200 million against the four major carriers — including AT&T... Read more

The head of counterintelligence for a division of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) was sentenced last week to nine years in a penal colon... Read more

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hack... Read more

The U.S. government is warning that smart locks securing entry to an estimated 50,000 dwellings nationwide contain hard-coded credentials that can be... Read more

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said today it is investigating a breach at business intelligence company Sisense... Read more

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If only Patch Tuesdays came around infrequently — like total solar eclipse rare — instead of just creeping up on us each month like The Man in the Mo... Read more

A cybercrook who has been setting up websites that mimic the self-destructing message service privnote.com accidentally exposed the breadth of thei... Read more

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “ The Manipulaters ,” a sprawling web hosting network of ph... Read more

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conver... Read more