CYBERSECURITY

North Korea conducted its fifth nuclear weapons test in violation of UN resolutions.

US government, military and scientific staffers targeted by 'sophisticated' malware.

Two 18-year-old Israeli hackers were arrested after Krebs exposed them as the 'alleged masterminds' behind vDOS.

WikiLeaks scraps Twitter poll on Clinton's health as 'the possibilities are too speculative'.

Researchers say they have found a way to disable the service across an entire state for an extended period.

Breach appeared to have occurred in 2011 and user passwords were allegedly not encrypted.

WikiLeaks has categorically denied withholding any relevant documents and maintains that all Syria files have been published.

Dridex developers have also been recently observed to be blacklisting configurations commonly used by security researchers.

The position was first announced in February as part of a $19bn Cybersecurity National Action Plan.

The group shot into prominence after hacking personal email account of CIA director John Brennan in 2015.

Deric Lostutter, 29, is being prosecuted under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.

The communist state is allegedly filtering messages containing at least 30 keywords.

The restaurant's website was hacked and injected with pseudo Darkleech script, redirecting users to ransomware.

UK law enforcement agencies have been in talks with Europol in efforts to mitigate the potential consequences.

Democratic House speaker Nancy Pelosi wants a 'united front' with Republicans.

The Panama Papers is considered the largest leak of financial data in history.

How the most wanted man in the world escaped Hong Kong and ended up in Russia.

The alleged malware developer even offered to give an interview to IBM to help update them about the Trojan.

'We want you to bring out your big guns, but hold off on actually breaking anything,' the company said.

Gugi is mostly spread by SMS spam.

The documents contain messages sent between 2003 and 2004 by the then NSA director Michael Hayden.

Leaked report accuses German intelligence of 'serious legal violations' over NSA XKeyscore spying

The Rambler.ru web portal offers email, internal and shopping services.

Linode employees were battling a massive DDoS attack which saw hackers targeting the firm's Atlanta data centre.

The forum hack compromised emails, usernames and even plain-text passwords.

A botched antivirus update saw Windows 7 winlogon.exe erroneously displayed as malware.

The Olympic drug-testing agency's website was previously hacked after it issued a damning report on Russia's doping cover-up.

The new app will be able to recognise and verify documents from up to 150 countries.

Hackers claiming to be Armada Collective have sent email extortion demands promising 300Gbps DDoS attacks.