() Hackers allegedly breached the Bangladesh central bank's security system and then masqueraded as Bangladeshi officials to submit a series of requests for the New York Federal Reserve to transfer large tranches of money from its account there.
Users were demanding increased protection from hackers as they store more and more personal information on devices such as smartphones, they said.
And it would be suicidal to force technology companies to weaken security at a time when institutions of all sorts are vulnerable to hackers demanding ransoms — earlier this month, a hospital in California paid the bitcoin equivalent of $17,000 to hackers who had breached its computer network.
That is when hackers began serious attacks on mobile phones, says David Emm, principal security researcher, at Kaspersky Lab, a cyber security company.
Manufacturers would also have to regularly report accidents, come up with security measures to prevent hackers from taking over cars, and tell passengers what kind of data, beyond whatever information is needed to safely run the car, the companies are collecting about them.
The students of NYU Shanghai are hosting the first bilingual hackathon for top hackers from around the world.
, It took the hackers less than two hours to take over Patsy Walsh's life.
Chatting online Hackers plant viruses on public computers and websites to steal the passwords for your accounts when you log on.
" Meanwhile, wearable devices crossing over corporate "digital perimeters" every day are an obvious target for hackers, says Dave Palmer, who spent 13 years at GCHQ and MI5 before joining cyber security company Darktrace as head of technology.
Many consumers feel hopeless and helpless, as retailers, healthcare providers and governments lose millions of records and hackers steal their identities to make fraudulent transactions.
At the end of last year the German federal office of information security revealed thatmachinery at a German steelworks was severely damaged when hackers gained access to control systems via the internet.
It has published regular status updates showing the attention of the hackers switching between different parts of the forum and the highest levels of traffic flooding the system in waves.
(Subsequent reports suggest hackers used leaked data from other sites to access 12306's database).
" US authorities have consistently alleged the contrary: that China-based internet hackers – some with clear links to the government – have been responsible for internet-based espionage as well as attempts to disable US networks.
Hackers revealed nearly 5 million Gmail account details and passwords on Bitcoin Security – a popular Russian website devoted to cryptocurrency.
Speaking at the Hackers On Planet Earth conference in New York, Jonathan Zdziarski said that Apple's iOS contains intentionally created access that could be used by governments to spy on iPhone and iPad users to access a user's address book, photos, voicemail and any accounts configured on the device.
" Beckel was commenting on a New York Times article that said Chinese hackers broke into the computer networks of a U.