An unprecedented cyberattack on the Canadian government from China has given foreign hackers access to highly classified federal information, and forced at least two key departments off the internet. The attack, first detected in early January, left Canadian counter-espionage agents scrambling to determine how much sensitive government information may have been stolen and by whom. [...]

The University of London has just published news pertaining to a serious vulnerability in the popular Open Secure Shell(OpenSSH) encryption algorithm. Their shocking revelation is that attackers are able to effectively ‘steal’ 32 bits of plaintext data in an exploit, which is active in some versions of OpenSSH on the linux platform. This recent vulnerability [...]

Recently, security groups have been receiving increased reports of hackers successfully intercepting SMS messages and subsequently gaining access to banking details of individuals. This shocking revelation came to light just recently, when the security group “Ultrascan” managed to acquire not just the full working details of this exploit, but also all the hardware required. This [...]