Cybercrime

A new cybersecurity video from the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has taken an unusual approach to raising awareness, playing dumb in this mock public service announcement aimed at a "non-technical" audience.

Yesterday the Anthem breach, the biggest healthcare-related breach to date was announced, as attackers accessed a database containing the records of current and former employees. As we discussed earlier this morning on We Live Security, this could affect as many as 80 million people.

A cat leads to a notorious death threat hacker finally being caught and jailed in Japan.

President Obama's budget proposal for the 2016 fiscal year includes a projected 10 percent increase in cybersecurity spend, reports Reuters.

Use HipChat? Be aware that hackers have accessed the names, usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords for some users.

The number of distributed denial-of-service attacks on websites in the final quarter of 2014 was up 90 percent on the previous quarter, according to research from Akamai Technologies.

Cybercrime was the focus of everyone’s attention at this year’s World Economic Forum in Davos.

A school entirely focussed on teaching cybersecurity skills has launched in the UK, reports Computer Business Review.

Blackhat, the hacker movie directed by Michael Mann and starring Chris Hemsworth, could spread awareness of digital threats. If it is a learning opportunity, what are the lessons?