Yahoo has been given until August 31 to comply with a court order asking how the company was able to recover emails that were presumed deleted. Yahoo’s policy guide claims it cannot recover emails from a user’s account that have been deleted but defense lawyers for a convicted U.K. drug trafficker are speculating whether the company...

More than 100 malicious Tor Hidden Services Directories (HSDirs) were found to be snooping on the services they host, and in some cases, operators were actively using the data collected to attack the services. While at first blush, the discovery would seem to put another dent in the privacy and anonymity aspects so heavily associated...

The Electronic Frontier Foundation filed a lawsuit Thursday against the U.S. Government over a provision within the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that it says impinges on free speech and hobbles security researchers ability to do their job. The lawsuit asks the court to strike down the highly contentious Section 1201 of the DMCA that restricts the reverse...

The Federal Court came down hard on a former scouting director for the St. Louis Cardinals on Monday, sentencing Christopher Correa to almost four years in prison for hacking into a computer system that belongs to the Houston Astros. Correa, who until last summer served as Director of Baseball Development for the Cardinals, was sentenced to...

Hacking Jeeps is about to get a lot more competitive. That’s because Jeep maker Fiat Chrysler Automobiles has launched a bug bounty program in conjunction with Bugcrowd that will payout as much as $1,500 per bug. Fiat Chrysler, the world’s No. 7 automaker, claims it will be the first Detroit automaker to introduce a bug bounty...

A scathing congressional report points the finger at hackers sponsored by the Chinese government for their role in a series of hacks against the U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC). The report also alleges the agency covered up the hacks in order to guarantee the appointment of current chairman Martin J. Gruenberg. The report from...

Don’t judge an APT by its exploits alone. That’s the takeaway from a report that details a unique advanced persistent threat that leverages a kludge of unsophisticated, outdated and rudimentary attack tools to conduct cyber espionage. The target of the attacks are government and diplomatic agencies in Asia with close ties to China. Researchers discovered the...

An advanced persistent threat tied to Southeast Asia and the South China Sea is targeting governments and entities around the world including the U.S. The attacks are unique, according to security experts, because the perpetrators are relying nearly 100 percent on computer code copied-and-pasted from sources on the web. Cymmetria Research, which discovered the APT...

The Federal Trade Commission doesn’t investigate every reported breach, but when it comes to prosecuting data security cases it has an impressive 70 percent closure rate, according to agency officials. FTC Commissioner Maureen Ohlhausen shed light on the agency’s approach to enforcing data security in a keynote address for a panel titled Federal Online Data...

The transportation industry is increasingly being targeted by cyber criminals who see the sprawling multi-billion dollar industry as ripe for financially motivated attacks. According to IBM’s X-Force security team, the systems behind planes, trains and automobiles have now become bigger paydays for hackers than industries such as the retail sector – once a favorite of...