The information security industry needs to adopt rational models rather than emotional ones for risk management, according to the Deputy Assistant Director of the FBI, Donald Freese.

The hacking efforts were mostly preliminary, involving things like testing for weak links in voter registration systems.

The most recent variant uses personae from the global hit to add unpredictability to its ransomware delivery process.

A criminal hacker group faces eight years in jail for one of the biggest IT-based frauds in Swedish history.