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Hackers Commandeer Moving Jeep; Fiat Chrysler Offers Software Patch
Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV is offering a software patch to close a loophole that let two hackers take control of a moving Jeep sport utility vehicle in an incident spotlighting the vulnerability of ...
Scope of Federal Hack Attack Widens as White House Weighs Responses
More federal personnel records have been hacked than previously reported and U.S. officials are weighing responses ranging from new counterintelligence initiatives to destroying the data in the ...
Hacking Attacks That Destroy Data More Widespread Than Realized
Hacking attacks that destroy rather than steal data or that manipulate equipment are far more prevalent than widely believed, according to a survey of critical infrastructure organizations throughout ...
New Cybersecurity Tool Uses Hackers’ Efficiency Against Them
Fraudsters are slick and smooth when they request new bank accounts or credit cards—a characteristic an Israeli company wants to use against them. Banks and other financial firms are coming under ...
Obama Plan to Create Anti-Hacker Agency May Worsen Bureaucracy
President Barack Obama's plan to create a new agency to combat hackers may improve information sharing between government and industry, although it adds to a security bureaucracy that some have ...
Cyber Victims Warned Against Revenge Hacking
The hacked are itching to hack back. So say a dozen security specialists and former law enforcement officials who described an intensifying and largely unspoken sense of unease inside many companies ...
Hack Attack Hits Sony Pictures Entertainment Hard
Sony Pictures Entertainment said its computer system was down for a second day on Tuesday, following media reports of a major hacking attack aimed at the film and television studio. Before Sony ...
Disgruntled Workers Hacking Employers Is on the Rise, FBI Says
Employees with an ax to grind are increasingly using Internet cloud services and other computer tools to hack their current or former companies, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation and ...