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Could Obama's Russian hacking probe overturn the US election results?
Republicans support election-tampering probe, as Senator Lindsey Graham says "I'm going after Russia in every way".
Hackers hit ThyssenKrupp stealing trade secrets in 'massive' cyberattack
The firm confirmed the attack, adding that it currently cannot estimate the scope of intellectual property losses.
Vijay Mallya's Twitter account hacked, personal and sensitive information leaked
The hackers have dumped data on Mallya's bank accounts, business holdings, passwords and more.
Billion dollar cyberheist gang now hacking hospitality chains with new stealth malware
Security researchers believe the 'highly sophisticated' cybergang maybe funded by an organised crime syndicate.
Hackers target Ghana electoral commission amid tight race in presidential elections
Tensions are growing in Ghana following Wednesday's presidential election, as main opposition NPP urge incumbent president to admit defeat.
Trump 'factually incorrect' to deny Russia's US election hack says former CIA chief
Michael Hayden praises defence picks, but says Trump's claim Russia isn't behind hack on Democrats is not reality.
China state-sponsored hackers stole data from major US law firms in waves of data breaches – Report
The data breaches reportedly occurred in 2015, at the height of China-US cybersecurity tensions.
Scores of hacked TalkTalk routers now part of Mirai-based botnet, security researchers say
A whole host of compromised home routers were found, 'over 99% of which belonged to TalkTalk'.
UK's new National Cybersecurity Centre responds to nearly 70 hacking incidents in first month
Seven of the incidents were ransomware attacks, the UK government revealed.
Hackers launch stealth malvertising campaign exposing millions online to spyware and more
Researchers noted that the campaign targeted internet users visiting popular news sites.
Nintendo offers hackers up to £15,500 to find 3DS security vulnerabilities in bug bounty programme
The reward amount will range between £78 and £15,681.
Dailymotion data breach leaves over 85 million user accounts exposed
The cyberattack is believed to have occurred in October and allegedly involves theft of user email addresses.
Nation-state hacking from Russia and China set to continue into 2017, experts warn
Most of the biggest hacks that will happen in 2017 are 'already under way.'
Sextortion scams on the rise as cybercrooks cash in on 'safe' social media spaces
According to the National Crime Agency, sextortion scams have resulted in 4 deaths over the year.
North Korea's government sanctioned Red Star OS can be remotely hacked, say security researchers
Security experts expose a new vulnerability to 'mark Red Star's anniversary leak'.
New DDoS botnet army could rival Mirai in launching large-scale attacks targeting parts of US
Security researchers have uncovered a new botnet waging daily, massive attacks.
Hackers claim knocking thousands in UK offline was an accident
Hackers allegedly behind a new IoT botnet created from the Mirai malware claimed responsibility for the attack.
Cybercrime network Avalanche brought down by global operation
The joint operation successfully sinkholed around 800,000 domain strong botnet infrastructure.
Shamoon disk-wiping malware resurfaces with renewed cyberattacks on Saudi Arabia
In 2012, Shamoon was responsible for destroying nearly 35,000 computers at oil firm Saudi Aramco.
UK green-lights mass spying, hacking and bulk collection of your internet records
Liberty: 'This new law is world-leading – but only as a beacon for despots'.
New Mirai attacks potentially targeting millions of home routers
Cybersecurity researchers believe that the exploits may have caused the Deutsche Telekom outage.
Hackers target high-profile customers of Liechtenstein bank in extortion scam - Report
Scammers demand a portion of victims' bank account amount, threatening exposure.
Japan targeted by suspected state-sponsored cyberattack
Conflicting reports cite ministry officials confirming and later denying the attack.
San Francisco's transport system held to ransom in cyberattack giving passengers free rides for Thanksgiving
Over 2,000 systems were reportedly hit by a variant of the HDDCrypto ransomware.
Tesco Bank under investigation for possibly ignoring warning of potential cyberattack
Authorities believe that hackers leveraged a Code 91 glitch to access customers' card data.
FBI urging users to 'frequently' change passwords, but is that a good advice?
Cybersecurity experts have previously warned that changing passwords frequently does more harm than good.
European Commission confirms 'large-scale' cyberattack disrupted internet for hours
EU legislative body maintains that no data was stolen in the incident.
Hackers advertising and selling phishing kits via YouTube with secret backdoor
The malicious templates come with how-to videos which feature guidelines on collecting phished data.
DDoS-for-hire service now advertising renting out a 400,000 bot-strong Mirai botnet
Security researchers believe that the hackers most likely are operators of the largest known Mirai botnet.
US Navy admits one hacked laptop leaked personal details of over 130,000 sailors
The hack exposed the names and social security numbers of current and former sailors.