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by Jonathan Shieber The Tel Aviv-based security startup LightCyber has some bad news for enterprises — their networks have already been compromised. But the new security technology vendor, which just raised $10 million from Battery Ventures, with additional participation from existing Israeli investors Glilot Capital, and Marius Nacht, the founder of Check Point Software, is […]

by Martin Brinkmann   Update: From what has been gathered so far, it appears as if this is not a new hack, and that the list may have been created from different sources. Today’s big news is the release of a database with more than 5 million Gmail email account user information. The database appears

Late last Friday, global cloud-based CRM provider Salesforce has sent out a warning to its account administrators about its customers being targeted by the Dyreza malware. “On September 3, 2014, one of our security partners identified that the Dyre malware (also known as Dyreza), which typically targets customers of large, well-known financial institutions, may now

By Lucian Constantin   A group of hackers known for past cyberespionage attacks against the U.S. Defense Industrial Base, as well as companies from the electronics and engineering sectors, has recently started using a backdoor program to target Mac OS X systems. “The backdoor code was ported to OS X from a Windows backdoor that

  by Jimmy Nicholls  A recent Financial Times summit reveals what the industry is worried about. Amid the leaking of pictures showing the likes of Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton and Rihanna in states of undress, cyber scrutiny has come up for some serious scrutiny. While the Anglophone media raked over the story computer experts descended

They’ve worked through the night and are just about to present on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt SF. Meet some of this year’s bleary-eyed (but still enthusiastic) hackers and learn about their projects. Brett Stateham, part of the Microsoft hacking team Part of the Microsoft hacking team, working on a project called Notifly. “We tried to

Summary: LinkedIn says the new security features will help users keep their accounts secure and better manage their personal data.By Natalie Gagliordi With personal data security top of mind this week, LinkedIn has introduced new security features that it says will help users of the social network for professionals keep their accounts and data secure. LinkedIn’s