Robert Lemos

Recent reports alleging that the National Security Agency has infiltrated North Korean networks and collected evidence connecting the country’s leadership with the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment should have settled the question of who was responsible for the brazen breach of the Hollywood studio’s data assets. Yet, doubts persist. On Jan. 17, German news magazine […]

Changes proposed by the Obama Administration to a variety of laws used to prosecute cyber-crime have raised concerns among security professionals and vulnerability researchers, who worry that activities meant to improve security could lead to criminal charges. In a document published on Jan. 13, the White House presented its legislative proposals to amend a variety […]

An attack tool used in an ongoing cyber-espionage operation gives digital spies a backdoor into the affected network and allows them to retain control in a nearly undetectable way, according to research published by managed-security firm Dell Secureworks on Jan. 13. For more than two years, the program, dubbed ‘Skeleton Key,’ appears to have resided […]

Supporters of the radical Muslim movement that has captured territory in Syria and Iraq hacked the social media accounts of the U.S. Central Command (USCENTCOM) on Jan. 12 and reportedly posted messages supporting the Islamic State. The hackers, calling themselves the CyberCaliphate, used their access to three Twitter accounts and a YouTube account belonging to […]

While companies and their employees continue to wholeheartedly adopt cloud services, the security implications of having business data regularly stored online increasingly worry executives, according to an annual survey by the Cloud Security Alliance. The Cloud Adoption Practices and Priorities Survey Report found that 74 percent of companies plan to adopt cloud services this year, […]

Customized greeting-card maker Moonpig suspended its mobile services on Jan. 6, after a developer claimed that the company’s poor code security could allow attackers to collect details on millions of users. The security issue apparently occurs in the company’s application programming interface that’s used to communicate between Moonpig’s online services and its mobile applications. Because […]

Online thieves apparently take a break from work to do their own shopping during the holiday season, just like everyone else. The number of attacks against sites, especially against retailers, dropped dramatically during the week before and after Black Friday and Cyber Monday, according to data released on Jan. 5 by IBM. In a study […]

The second largest U.S. dollar-Bitcoin exchange, Bitstamp, suspended trading on Jan. 4, warning customers that the system may have been compromised and requesting that they refrain from making digital currency deposits. Attackers appear to have compromised the exchange’s operational cache of Bitcoins, also known as a “hot wallet,” on Jan. 4, the company said in […]

While many encryption protocols have been broken—or worked around—by the National Security Agency and other intelligence organizations, Internet users hoping to keep their information and communications private should not be entirely disheartened, according to a presentation Dec. 29 at the Chaos Communications Congress hacking convention. Based on the information from the archive of leaked Snowden […]

Ten days after the U.S. government concluded that North Korea was behind the attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, the image of events that led to the theft of tens of terabytes of data has become more blurry. On Monday, security firm Norse Corp. briefed the Federal Bureau of Investigation on its evidence that an insider, […]