With geopolitical tensions rising and war in Iran, cybersecurity has become more important in recent months for governments, companies, and organizations. That may be why there has been a surge of interest among investors in cybersecurity stocks. Palo Alto Networks (PANW 4.05%) is one of the leading enterprise cybersecurity firms, focusing on providing cybersecurity for...Read More
Three American men were sentenced Friday for crimes they committed in furtherance of North Korea’s vast scheme to get operatives hired at U.S. companies, the Justice Department said. The trio — Audricus Phagnasay, 25, Jason Salazar, 30, and Alexander Paul Travis, 35 — pleaded guilty in November to wire fraud conspiracy for providing U.S. identities...Read More
College of Engineering, Computing and Applied Sciences The CEO of a company works on a laptop connected to the cloud while a hacker hundreds of miles away uses a technique called a “side-channel attack” to figure out her passwords and what sites she is visiting. This is the kind of scenario Zhenkai Zhang is trying...Read More
Earlier this year, I traveled to Texas to spend a few days with a few thousand people who were convinced that they were going to live forever. Or, if not exactly forever, then at least for a very long time and in very good health. How? Through the good graces of biohacking, which a banner...Read More
The 2014 Sony hack is one of the biggest information breaches in corporate history—and one that was ultimately hugely important to the cinematic legacy of Spider-Man. Across thousands and thousands of emails, a picture began to emerge of Sony’s increasing floundering over how to approach its ownership of one of the most popular comic book...Read More
The impact of the Iran conflict extends beyond fuel costs, bringing more fraud and cybersecurity risks to the trucking industry. In the opening days of March, diesel prices rose 80 cents per gallon in a single week, a shock the industry has not seen since Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022. This is one of the...Read More
By Byron V. Acohido SAN FRANCISCO — RSAC 2026 opens here Monday at Moscone Center, with upwards of 40,000 cybersecurity professionals, executives, and policy leaders, myself among them, filing in to take stock of an industry under acute pressure. Related: RSAC 2026’s full agenda The dominant undercurrent is already unmistakable: AI hasn’t just arrived in...Read More
“This approach, popularized by actors such as Cl0p through large-scale exploitation of third-party and supply chain vulnerabilities, is now being mirrored more widely, alongside increased abuse of valid accounts, legitimate administrative tools to blend into normal activity, and in some cases attempts to recruit or incentivize insiders to facilitate access,” Mourtzinos says. The evolving tradecraft...Read More
DALE COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) – A Dale County mother says what started as an innocent gaming distraction for her 8-year-old daughter in 2020 quickly turned into a nightmare involving online predators and sexual exploitation. The mother, who wants to remain anonymous, is one of at least three Alabama families who have sued Roblox in recent...Read More
They call it “stopping the bleeding”: the vital window to prevent an entire database from being ransacked by criminals or a production line grinding to a halt. When a call comes into the cybersecurity firm S-RM, headquartered on Whitechapel High Street in east London, a hacked business or institution may have just minutes to protect...Read More
