French President François Hollande has promised to "respond" after a hacking attack targeted presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron.He gave no further details but said he knew of the risks of such attacks because they had "happened elsewhere".The French media and...

France sought to keep a computer hack of frontrunner Emmanuel Macron's campaign emails from influencing the outcome of the country's presidential election with a warning on Saturday it could be a criminal offence to republish the data.Macron's team said a "massive"...

Code dive You can remotely commandeer and control computers that use vulnerable Intel chipsets by sending them empty authentication strings.You read that right. When you're expected to send a password hash, you send zero bytes. Nothing. Nada. And you'll be rewarded...

WikiLeaks dumped today the documentation of a new supposed CIA hacking tool called Archimedes, whoch the Agency had used to perform Man-in-the-Middle attacks on local networks.According to the nine leaked documents, this tool was previously named Fulcrum but was...

A Florida man whom the Federal Bureau of Investigation says created the “world’s largest child pornography website” has been sentenced to 30 years in prison.Steven W. Chase, 58, was arrested in February 2015, after a search of his Naples, Florida, home turned up...

Facebook has kicked its push for TV-like shows into high gear and is aiming to premiere its first slate of programming in mid-June, multiple people familiar with the plans told Business Insider.Facebook plans to have roughly two-dozen shows for this initial push and...

ANOTHER PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, another massive data dump seemingly intended to sabotage a center-left candidate. But in the case of France’s impending runoff, slated for Sunday, the latest leak of emails appears far more slap-dash than the Russian hacks and leaks that...

The "live" surveillance of British web users' internet communications has been proposed in a draft technical paper prepared by the government.If made law, such access would occur via the Investigatory Powers (IP) Act, whoch includes provisions for the removal of...

Attempts at cyber wire fraud globally, via emails purporting to be from trusted business associates, have surged in the last seven months of 2016, the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation said in a warning to businesses as it bid to curb such crimes.Fraudsters sought...

Donkey Kong and Pokemon Red and Green have been inducted into the World Video Game Hall of Fame.Halo: Combat Evolved and Street Fighter II were also honoured with places in the permanent exhibition at The Strong Museum of Play in Rochester, New York.They join titles...

A Florida judge has ruled that two defendants in a sextortion case must hand over the passwords to their mobile phones so officials can search them.Reality TV star Hencha Voigt and former boyfriend, Wesley Victor, are accused of threatening to release explicit images...

Independent security researcher Dawid Golunski has released a proof-of-concept exploit code for an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in WordPress 4.6 (CVE-2016-10033), and information about an unauthorized password reset zero-day vulnerability...