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Cyber experts say at least one group of hackers tied to Russia, known as Fancy Bear, has targeted international sporting organizations. According to cyber security firm Trend Micro, the same hacking outfit that penetrated the Democratic National Committee’s computer systems also hacked into the European Ice Hockey Federation, the International Ski Federation, the International Biathlon Union, the International Bobsleigh and Skeleton Federation and the International Luge Federation.

While no cybercriminal worth his salt would turn down a chance to get his hands on your credit card information, there’s an even bigger prize: your Social Security number, which cybersecurity experts say is now the single most valuable piece of information in terms of being able to steal your identity.

IoT stands for the Internet of Things. In the simplest terms possible, it means any device with an on/off switch can be connected to the Internet – from your home heating to vending machines to CCTV cameras. It can also apply in industrial contexts – for instance the drill of an oil rig. Technology research firm Gartner predicts that there will be over 26 billion connected devices by 2020 – “a pervasive digital presence…throughout business process and operations”.

As it has done many times over the past year with unwanted Android applications on its Play store, Google has removed 89 browser extensions from its official Chrome web store after a security vendor identified them as being malicious. Google has also disabled the rogue extensions from running on the devices of over 420,000 Chrome users whose browsers were infected with the malware. In a blog Feb.

The Olympics have always been a geopolitical microcosm: beyond the athletic match-ups, they provide a vehicle for diplomacy and propaganda, and even, occasionally, a proxy for war. It stands to reason, then, that in 2018 they've also become a nexus of hacker skullduggery. The Olympics unfolding next week in Pyeongchang may already be the most thoroughly hacked in the games' history—with potentially more surprises to come.

Vehicle hacking already has a 15-year pedigree. Though there are at least 36 million vehicles on the road today already connected to the internet, manufacturers appear to have learned little from the biggest security crises of the internet era. Cybersecurity is, yet again, a bolted-on afterthought rather than an integral part of the engineering of an interconnected vehicle.

Trend Micro calls the legacy threat 'Throwhack'; after the more benign 'Throwback Thursday' social media trend; but, says principal security strategist Bharat Mistry in a blog published today, "there’s nothing entertaining about this list of legacy security challenges."

The risk and insurance community consistently ranks cyberrisk as its top area of interest and concern, and it’s no wonder—these days, every year is a banner year for cybersecurity. The more that stays the same, the more things change.

North Korea is one of the least wired nations on Earth. It has two internet connections to the outside world, one that crosses the Yalu River into China, and the other plugs into Russia’s Far East.

Google’s DoubleClick ad network has come under attack by cryptocurrency miners who infiltrated Google ads to tap into the CPU power of those who view these ads on YouTube. Operating like a malware attack, the hacked ads were detected when some users got alerts from antivirus software programs and/or experienced slowdowns in their internet activity.