Tag: cybersecurity

• Thursday, October 22nd 2026 - 02:14 UTC

  Global alert over two critical PHP flaws forces government websites offline

  

  Governments and companies in several countries temporarily took websites offline this week over two critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language that powers much of the internet, which allow an attacker to run code remotely on servers without authenticating. PHP’s development team released fixes on Wednesday and urged users to update immediately.

• Tuesday, January 21st 2025 - 21:45 UTC

  Italian teenager toys with Mediterranean merchant ship traffic just for fun

  

  A 15-year-old lad from Cesena, Italy, toyed with merchant ship routes in the Mediterranean after accessing the navigation systems just for fun. Although no material damage was reported, a criminal case has been opened against the teenager, whose parents claimed to be unaware of those activities.

• Friday, June 11th 2021 - 08:40 UTC

  JBS paid hackers US$ 11 million; cyber extortion crime netted US$ 18 billion in 2020

  

  Brazilian corporation JBS, the world's biggest meat processors, paid a US$11 million bitcoin ransom to hackers to prevent any further disruption after a paralyzing cyberattack believed to have originated in Russia.

• Thursday, September 10th 2020 - 08:20 UTC

  US former top spy contracted by Amazon

  

  Amazon Inc said on Wednesday former National Security Agency chief Keith Alexander has joined the e-commerce giant's board.

• Tuesday, October 2nd 2018 - 08:20 UTC

  Hackers warn voting machines in the US pose security “serious risks”

  

  Voting machines pose “serious risks” to US security, hackers are warning. A report outlines major flaws in voting hardware, weeks before US mid-term elections. One ballot machine, used in 23 US states, carries a cybersecurity flaw that was reported over a decade ago, the hackers claim.