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Cathay apologizes over data breach but denies cover-up

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Nov 14 03:55 PM

It emerged this week that the breach was the result of a sustained cyber attack for three months. Read more »

Japan orders Facebook to improve data protection

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 22 09:37 PM

The Japanese government on Monday ordered Facebook to improve protection of users' personal information following data breaches affecting tens of millions of people worldwide. Read more »

Malicious login attempts spike worldwide, says cloud service provider

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 17 11:41 PM

Akamai recorded more than 30 billion malicious login attempts from November 2017 to June 2018, with hackers using botnets and stolen login credentials. Read more »

Pentagon investigating cyber breach of travel records

Reuters
Posted at Oct 13 06:29 AM

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon is investigating a cyber breach of some of its travel records that led to personal information being exposed, the military said on Friday. Read more »

Facebook says hackers accessed data of 29 million users

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 13 01:51 AM

Facebook said Friday that hackers accessed personal data of 29 million users in a breach at the world's leading social network disclosed late last month. Read more »

Babae, patay matapos pagtatagain ng nakaalitang kostumer

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 10 06:33 AM

AGUSAN DEL SUR - Patay ang isang babae matapos pagtatagain ng nakaalitang kostumer sa Barangay San Vicente, Sibagat, Agusan del Sur noong Linggo ng hapon. Read more »

New Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked: report

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 10 02:33 AM

New US weapons systems being developed by the US Department of Defense can be easily be hacked by adversaries, a new government report said on Tuesday.   Read more »

Dutch expulsion of alleged spies a 'misunderstanding': Russia

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 08 11:32 PM

Four Russians expelled by the Netherlands were on a "routine visit", Moscow said Monday, insisting that the Dutch intelligence operation had failed to provide proof of any hacking plot. Read more »

Ahead of US election, angst over hacking threats

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Oct 07 11:06 AM

At a Boston technology conference last month, computer scientist Alex Halderman showed how easy it was to hack into an electronic voting machine and change the result, without leaving a trace. Read more »

UK cyber security agency backs Apple, Amazon China hack denials

Guy Faulconbridge and Joseph Menn, Reuters
Posted at Oct 06 09:38 PM

Britain's national cyber security agency said on Friday it had no reason to doubt the assessments made by Apple Inc and Amazon.com Inc challenging a Bloomberg report that their systems contained malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence services. Read more »

US indicts 7 Russians for hacking nuclear power company

ABS-CBN News
Posted at Oct 05 12:17 AM

WASHINGTON - The United States on Thursday indicted seven Russian intelligence officers for conspiring to hack computers and steal data, including attempts to break into the computer networks of the nuclear power company Westinghouse Electric Co.   Read more »

Apple, Amazon deny Bloomberg report on Chinese hardware attack

Reuters
Updated as of Oct 04 10:27 PM

Apple Inc and Amazon denied a Bloomberg report on Thursday that their systems contained malicious computer chips inserted by Chinese intelligence, statements from the tech companies released separately by Bloomberg showed. Read more »

Security failure at Facebook - what we know

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Oct 04 10:06 AM

The security breach revealed on September 28 by Facebook affected tens of millions of accounts at the social network, which boasts more than 2.2 billion monthly users. Read more »

Facebook says hackers did not access other sites with its login

Reuters
Posted at Oct 03 06:34 AM

NEW YORK - Facebook Inc said on Tuesday that investigators have determined that hackers did not access other sites that use the social networking site's single sign-on in a massive cyber attack that the company disclosed last week. Read more »

Nasa 50 milyong Facebook accounts, apektado ng 'pananamantala' ng hackers

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 30 08:00 PM

Inanunsiyo ng Facebook nitong Biyernes na aabot sa 50 milyong Facebook accounts ang apektado ng umano’y security flaw na pinagsamantalahan ng mga hacker.   Read more »

Facebook: Security flaw affected almost 50 million accounts

Agence France-Presse
Updated as of Sep 29 03:31 AM

(3rd UPDATE) Facebook announced Friday that up to 50 million accounts were breached in a security flaw exploited by hackers. Read more »

Hackers target real estate deals, with devastating impact

Rob Lever, Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 23 10:06 AM

James and Candace Butcher were ready to finalize the purchase of their dream retirement home, and at closing time wired $272,000 from their bank following instructions they received by email. Read more »

Press statement on ABS-CBN Store and UAAP store websites

ABS-CBN News
Updated as of Sep 19 01:46 PM

ABS-CBN has temporarily taken down the ABS-CBN Store (store.abs-cbn.com) and the UAAP Store (uaapstore.com) websites today (19 Sep 2018) at 9:30 AM following a report of a data breach of its online shopping facility. Read more »

North Korea says US accusation of hacking a 'smear campaign'

Reuters
Posted at Sep 14 02:41 PM

North Korea said on Friday US accusations that it was responsible for cyber attacks in 2014 and 2017 were a "smear campaign" and the man sanctioned by Washington does not exist, the official KCNA news agency said. Read more »

British Airways hacked with details of 380,000 bank cards stolen

Agence France-Presse
Posted at Sep 07 03:31 PM

The almost two week long hack did not involve travel or passport details, the airline said, adding that it had launched an urgent investigation into the theft of customer data. Read more »