Tag: Cybersecurity

US government charges three Iranian hackers with Trump campaign hack

The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of...

Iranian hackers charged with hacking Trump campaign to ‘stoke discord’

The U.S. Department of Justice announced criminal charges against three hackers working for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), accusing the trio of...

UK data watchdog confirms it’s investigating MoneyGram data breach

The U.K.’s data protection regulator has confirmed it’s investigating MoneyGram after receiving a data breach report from the U.S.-based money transfer giant. The U.K.’s...

Kaspersky defends force-replacing its security software without users’ explicit consent

Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky’s antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared from their computers and...

Some Kaspersky customers receive surprise forced-update to new antivirus software

Customers of Kaspersky antivirus in the United States found out in the last few days that their cybersecurity software was automatically replaced with...

The TechCrunch Cyber Glossary

Cybersecurity is a world full of technical lingo and jargon. At TechCrunch, we have been writing about cybersecurity for years, and even we...