“Researchers said they have uncovered yet another mass compromise of home and small-office wireless routers, this one being used to make malicious configuration changes to more than 300,000 devices made by D-Link, Micronet, Tenda, TP-Link, and others.” Source: Hackers hijack 300,000-plus wireles...

“St. Joseph Hospital is notifying more than 400,000 current and former clients about ‘a major cyberattack from China’ that compromised their personal data in December 2013, the television station reports.” Source: Hackers in China steal Texas hospital patient’s identity – Nextgov.com Via...

“Meetup, a popular social networking site for organizing group activities, said today that it spent the weekend fending off what it called a ‘massive attack’ on its servers that caused the site to be unavailable to many users. The attackers attempted to extort the company by email to stop the ...

“Russia has demonstrated a sophisticated capacity to conduct both overt acts of cyberwar and clandestine operations.[11] As the crisis in Ukraine unfolds, and potentially escalates, the likelihood that Russia will again turn to offensive cyberspace operations to achieve its objectives will only in...

“The Syrian Electronic Army threatens to target the US government, and not with the types of attacks they’re usually launching. ‘SEA advises the terrorist Obama to think very hard before attempting ‘cyberattacks’ on Syria,’ the hackers wrote on Twitter. ‘We know what Obama is planning ...

“We usually think of cyberwar as a secretive world, dominated by spooks and shadowy government agencies. So why did South Korea recently admit that it is developing a cyberweapon to cripple the North’s nuclear capabilities? Almost every nation with enough cash is funding its own cyberwar program...

“Sears Holdings Corp said Friday it has launched an investigation to determine whether it was the victim of a security breach, following Target Corp’s revelation at the end of last year that it had suffered an unprecedented cyber attack. ‘There have been rumors and reports throughout the retai...

“Hacktivists continue to launch attacks against Ukrainian government websites. The latest targets are the sites of the parliament, or the Verkhovna Rada (rada.gov.ua), the Right Sector nationalist movement (banderivets.org.ua), but also some Euromaidan websites. “ Source: Hacktivists Disrupt Web...