By Aaron Kesel On May 10th, 2018, the hacktivist group Anonymous attacked the official website of Russia’s Federal Agency for International Cooperation (Rossotrudnichestvo) by hacking and defacing…
By Norman A. Paradis, Dartmouth College On April 25, California law enforcement announced the possible capture of a long-sought serial killer. Shortly after, it was…
By Derrick Broze The UK High Court has ruled that hacker Lauri Love will not be extradited to the United States for his suspected role…
By Aaron Kesel WikiLeaks has released part 1 of its new Vault 8 series following its popular and widely distributed Vault 7 series which exposed…
By Jeremy Straub, North Dakota State University You’ve probably been told it’s dangerous to open unexpected attachment files in your email – just like you…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Over a year ago, reporter Ruth Lyle of the UK’s Daily Mail, published a rather introspective article about how AMI Smart…
By Catherine J. Frompovich In February of 2012, three attorneys with the Congressional Research Service (CRS) issued a lengthy report “Smart Meter Data: Privacy and…
By Catherine J. Frompovich According to news reports [1], Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro is concerned about and investigating the credit bureau Equifax’s data breach…
By Aaron Kesel The federal government just announced on Friday that election officials in 21 states had Russian hackers target their systems before last year’s presidential election according…
By Aaron Kesel Credit reporting agency Equifax was hacked, potentially endangering 143 million Americans’ social security numbers, birth dates, and other private information. Unless, according to…
By Catherine J. Frompovich Do you recall that a hospital actually paid hackers $17,000 ransom for the release of the hospital’s data? That was the…
By Joseph Thomas The threat of cyberterrorism has competed for center stage in American politics with fears of “Russian hackers” disrupting everything from elections to…
By Aaron Kesel During his plane ride extradition from Romania to the United States, Guccifer told Fox News’ Pamela Browne that one of his handlers…
By Aaron Kesel The hacker arrested for his alleged involvement in creating and selling a banking trojan who infamously stopped the WannaCry malware attack may…