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Over the past few months, the NowSecure team plunged into the depths of our mobile security intelligence to gather and correlate data in order to present a snapshot of the current state of mobile security - the 2016 NowSecure Mobile Security Report.

A stolen cache of files that may belong to the National Security Agency contains genuine hacking tools that not only work, but show a level of sophistication rarely seen, according to security researchers. That includes malware that can infect a device's firmware and persist, even if the operating system is reinstalled.

A storm has erupted over the theft and black-market sale of the US National Security Agency's hacking tools. Edward Snowden revealed the widespread use of 'offensive security' tools in 2014. Since then, industry commentators have suggested that the tools and tactics used by the NSA may greatly harm Internet security.

There is a debate within the Obama administration over whether to publicly blame Russia for the hack of the Democratic National Committee or to wait for the FBI to complete its investigation - a delay that has frustrated some lawmakers and national security officials.

Automobiles are starting to resemble robotic smartphones on wheels. Unfortunately, that makes them a pretty juicy target for would-be hackers. So far there have been relatively few incidents of car hacking beyond demonstrations by security researchers. However, GM CEO Mary Barra said today that car security would become a significant public safety issue in the years to come.

US officials have downplayed the impact of the latest hack of government data, this one containing employee information from 29,000 Department of Justice (DoJ) and Homeland Security (DHS) staff. Hackers claimed Sunday night to have stolen sensitive information from some 20,000 people employed by DoJ, including Federal Bureau of Investigation officials, and another 9,000 from DHS.

WASHINGTON - Apple engineers have begun developing new security measures that would make it impossible for the government to break into a locked iPhone using methods similar to those now at the center of a court fight in California, according to people close to the company and security experts.

A group of Russian-speaking hackers that has targeted politicians, state entities, and companies over the past eight years is continuing to develop its skills, according to an analysis by security researchers. "Our recent investigation into the Sofacy operations revealed that the cyber-group is extremely active and focused on specific regions," said the report from security company Bitdefender.

"En devenant de plus en plus connectées, les entreprises sont de plus en plus touchées par des attaques informatiques. Ce constat est confirmé par l'étude « The Global State of Information Security Survey 2016 » réalisée par le cabinet d'audit et de conseil PwC auprès de 10.000 dirigeants dans 127 pays."

"Kevin Mandia and his security company, Mandiant, are probably most well known for their 2013 report exposing APT-1, one of China's espionage units."

What's the best way to recover from a very public security meltdown? Offer your own security services to the government, of course! At least, that seems to be the approach of the Hacking Team, a spyware vendor that was itself successfully attacked earlier this year, resulting in the loss of some 400 GBs of confidential information.

You don't see this every day...a hacking group claims to have hacked a U.S. intelligence agency-linked hacking group and has put the 'best' cyber weapons up for auction. When Kaspersky Lab released a report on the cyberespionage "Equation Group," researchers said the threat actor "surpasses anything known in terms of complexity and sophistication of techniques."

Est-ce compliqué d'hacker un hôpital ? Le journal du médecin a demandé à la société de sécurité The Security Factory et à l'Az Groeninge d'en faire l'expérience. La société a commencé par tenter de pénétrer l'hôpital via le réseau WiFi. Mais comme celui-ci était bien protégé, les spécialistes ont alors essayé de s'introduire via une des adresses IP de l'hôpital.

A U.S. investigation into a leak of hacking tools used by the National Security Agency is focusing on a theory that one of its operatives carelessly left them available on a remote computer and Russian hackers found them, four people with direct knowledge of the probe told Reuters.

But the lawsuit suggested that the breach might have been warded off had Yahoo, having been targeted by hackers before, lived up to its promise of taking user privacy "seriously" and bulked up its security measures. It also faulted Yahoo for taking roughly three times longer than organizations typically need to uncover the breach.

Hacking is a hot topic right now. With cybercrime, encryption debates and data breaches increasingly in the headlines, the general public has never been more aware of digital security and Hollywood is set to go big on the theme with the biopic on Edward Snowden.

Huge leaks of data from US organisations have been attributed by some to Russia, so has the former Soviet state launched cyberwar on the US elections? Hacking tools allegedly developed by the US National Security Agency (NSA) were dumped online by a group calling itself Shadow Brokers.

Cybercrime has reached epidemic proportions in the U.S. and abroad. From spam and phishing attacks to identity theft and ransomware, your personal information is under threat like never before. For years, hackers have been playing a high-stakes cat-and-mouse game with software security specialists who race to patch vulnerabilities as soon as they're discovered.

The letter from the top ranking Democrats on the Oversight, Judiciary, Foreign Affairs and Homeland Security committees follow a similar missive from Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, who also asked the FBI to look into any possible link between the campaign and Russian meddling in the US election.

Congress should block proposed changes to rules governing U.S. law enforcement investigations that could give law enforcement agencies new authority to hack thousands of computers, several tech and advocacy groups said.