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Microsoft now controls 99 websites previously used by Iran-linked hackers to steal information from private companies and government agencies in the U.S., according to recently released court documents. 

The Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center cooperates with the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department to identify the hackers responsible for a cyber attack that disrupted the hospital’s access to electronic health records, Defense One reported Wednesday. Kaveh Waddell writes the hospital’s medical personnel are not able to access data such as …

Raytheon has used a 1:16th scale radio-controlled truck to demonstrate an anti-hacking technology during the 2015 Association of the U.S. Army meeting and exhibition. Engineers from Raytheon’s Cyber Operations and Development Evaluation hub wanted to show how hackers could tamper Internet-connected systems through the demonstration, the company said Oct. 7. …

A cybersecurity breach at intelligence think tank Stratfor over the weekend struck close to the central point of debate over how to secure domestic networks, Josh Smith wrote in the National Journal today. Smith wrote that this debate “has revolved around the division between government and private sector security,” where …

Frederick Forsyth, author of The Day of the Jackal and The Odessa File, has accused the National Security Agency of hacking his wife’s computer in an effort to steal copy he was writing for the Daily Express in West Africa. Forsyth made the claim during a recent interview the BBC …

The website of the UK’s Human Genetics Commission was hit by a politically-motivated hack earlier this week. Iranian hackers struck the website in protest of the post-World War II plot by the United States and UK to overthrow the democratically-elected leader of Iran. Following the nationalization of the oil industry …

An underground credit card clearing house has been hacked, according to Trend Micro security researchers. Leaked data from the hack include employee emails and recorded phone calls. “A group of hackers recently published detailed information from an underground credit card company,” writes Feike Hacquebord, an advanced Threats Researcher with Trend …

A U.S. federal judge has ruled in favor of China search engine giant Baidu, allowing the company to proceed with its lawsuit against Register.com for negligence. The ruling followed Register.com’s arguments in March, claiming the suit was not valid because the master services agreement barred claims relating to employee mistakes …

A security researcher has developed an attack which can be used for stalking, using JavaScript and geolocation information from Google to determine a victim’s location. During a presentation at the BlackHat conference last week, titled “How I Met Your Girlfriend,” Samy Kamkar discussed the new method in detail. It works …

Spanish police have arrested four individuals accused of defacing the websites of Spain’s two main political parties. The hackers are alleged to have added a red fist to the website of the Partido Socialista Obrero Español and the Partido Popular, the hackers also hit the website for the TV show …

The webmaster of a Taliban-endorsed website has claimed that the website was hacked. Abu al-Aina’a al-Khorasani, an administrator for a jihadi forum endorsed by the Taliban wrote in a  post that “group’s main site and the site of its online journal Al-Sumud, have been the subject of an ‘infiltration operation,’” according …

A massive hack has targeted more than 100,000 websites belonging to police, newspapers and other major organizations. When visitors attempt to access the compromised site, the user is redirected to a website that attempts to install malware. Intljobs.org, The Wall Street Journal‘s wsj.com, and tomtom.com.tw were all hacked, in addition …

The data of around 200,000 individuals was exposed last week following the hacking of E-commerce company Digital River. The breach was revealed when a 19-year-old man allegedly attempted to sell the information for $500,000. The man, Eric Porat, repeatedly attempted to sell the information to Media Breakaway, whose officials instead …

Earlier this year, search engine giant Google revealed that it had been targeted in a widespread cyber attack that appeared to emanate from China. It now appears that Yahoo has also been targeted, according to the BBC. The Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) has confirmed that eight email accounts …

U.S. hacker Albert Gonzalez was sentenced to two consecutive 20-year terms in prison Thursday. The two sentences were for a hacking spree conducted by Gonzalez that netted millions of credit card numbers when he lived in Miami. Prosecutors called Gonzalez’s theft of the credit card data from major U.S. retailers …