Tag: cybersecurity

• 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.