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LinkedIn was only one of thousands of websites that went down on Wednesday due to issues with its domain name system (DNS) servers, according to Cisco.

Although LinkedIn has stated that its outage was due to an error made by the company that manages its domain and not due to any form of malicious activity, there was some malicious activity involved — just not directly aimed at the social networking company.

Network Solutions wrote on its company blog that it had been resolving a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) ...

The US Department of Homeland Security has warned hospitals and health clinics that many of the electronic medical devices in use at their facilities may be vulnerable to cybersecurity attacks.

The affected devices include surgical and anesthesia devices, ventilators, drug infusion pumps, external defibrillators, patient monitors, laboratory and analysis equipment, and more, according to an alert issued on Thursday by the DHS’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).

The problem? Many of ...

Medical device makers should take new steps to protect their products from malware and cyberattacks or face the possibility that U.S. Food and Drug Administration won’t approve their devices for use, the FDA said.

The FDA issued new cybersecurity recommendations for medical devices on Thursday, following reports that some devices have been compromised.

Recent vulnerabilities involving Philips fetal monitors and in Oracle software used in body fluid analysis machines are among the incidents that prompted the FDA to issue the recommendations, ...

(Reuters) – Microsoft Corp and the FBI, aided by authorities in more than 80 countries, have launched a major assault on one of the world’s biggest cyber crime rings, believed to have stolen more than $500 million from bank accounts over the past 18 months.

Microsoft said its Digital Crimes Unit on Wednesday successfully took down ...

NC Fuel Distributor Hit by $800,000 Cyberheist

After being publicly exposed in February as the source of a long list of cyberattacks on US companies and media organizations, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) Unit 61396 largely pulled back from the networks the unit had infiltrated. But now, the New York Times reports, the hackers are back in action using new techniques to go after many of the same corporate and government targets they had infiltrated before.

The revived attacks come despite (or perhaps because of) the direct accusations leveled ...