Back in January, the FDA has finally acknowledged that some pacemakers and other cardiac devices are vulnerable to hacking. But how vulnerable are they, exactly? A security company called WhiteScope has discovered 8,000 bugs that hackers can exploit in pacemaker...

Somaliasamtalen som drabbat tiotusentals svenskar de senaste dagarna sköts via datorer och det är inte troligt att de som ligger bakom finns i Somalia eller på Seychellerna. Det menar polisens bedrägerirotel i Sundsvall som också anser att telebolagen borde kunna...

SAN FRANCISCO — It took only one attempt for Russian hackers to make their way into the computer of a Pentagon official. But the attack didn’t come through an email or a file buried within a seemingly innocuous document.A link, attached to a Twitter post put out by a...

British Airways was operating most of its flights from London's two largest airports on Monday after a computer system failure stranded thousands of passengers over a holiday weekend and turned into a public relations disaster.The airline planned to run more than 95...

Retail giant Target agreed this week to pay $18.5 million to settle claims by 47 states and the District of Columbia and resolve a multi-state investigation into a massive data breach in late 2013.The investigation — led by the Attorneys General of Connecticut and...

Stephen Fry has called for Facebook and other “aggregating news agencies” to be reclassified as publishers in order to stop fake news and online abuse spreading by making social media subject to the same legal responsibilities as traditional news websites.Outlining...

WARS ARE RARELY announced in advance, but President Trump provided an abundance of warning about his intention to wage an assault on journalism. During the election campaign, he called journalists an “enemy of the people” and described media organizations he didn’t...

The music-streaming service Tidal is saying goodbye to yet another CEO.Jefffrey Toig, who became CEO in December 2015, is leaving the company. This would make him the third CEO to leave Tidal in two years, following the departure of Andy Chen and Peter Tonstad,...

The authorities in the US are still considering banning laptops from cabin baggage on all international flights, the head of Homeland Security says.John Kelly said there was a real threat and terrorists were "obsessed" with the idea of knocking down a US plane.The US...

When personal data is dumped online, it can take just nine minutes for bad guys to start using it, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission.Over the course of three weeks in April and May, the FTC analyzed what happens when hacked personal data is...

De misstänkta bluffsamtalen från Somalia fortsätter att strömma in. Men det är inte säkert att lurade kunder behöver betala för samtalen.– Det är oändligt många fler samtal nu än tidigare gånger. I går hade varenda granne och kollega blivit uppringd, säger Jan Olsson,...

When portraying hackers, hoodies are everyone's favorite stereotype: From TV shows, to movies, to articles on CNN.There are many types of hacking -- from "white hats" who find vulnerabilities to protect users, to "black hats" who try and make money off of stolen data....