Research presented at the Hacker Halted conference in Miami late last month showed how hackers could take control of industrial control systems used in prisons. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security Gregory Evans | LinkedIn Interview With Gregory Evans Gregory Evans…
Dax hacker’s rugby club mistake
4 November 2011 Last updated at 11:15 ET The website said it was flooded with German-language insults A French rugby fan site is back online after an apparent case of mistaken identity. Owners of the AllezDax website said they believed a hacker had confused them with the Frankfurt stock exchange….
Hackers harvest Facebook private data with social bots
Facebook’s fake account detection mechanisms can be defeated 80 percent of the time with the help of automated tools, researchers from the University of British Columbia have found after an eight week test. The research team, composed of Yazan Boshmaf, Ildar Muslukhov, Konstantin Beznosov and Matei Ripeanu, created a network…
Duqu hackers shift to Belgium after India raid (Reuters)
Reuters – Hackers used a server in Belgium to collect data stolen from machines infected with the Duqu computer virus, after authorities shut down another rogue collection system in India, according to security experts. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National Cyber Security Gergory…
Showdown looms between ‘Anonymous’ hackers and Mexico’s Zeta cartel
The hacker group Anonymous has set a weekend deadline for Mexico’s Zetas to release one of its kidnapped members, putting the drug cartel in what could prove a highly vulnerable position. View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Shadowy groups spar in hackers vs. drug cartel
“Anonymous” hacker movement aims to attack Mexico’s bloody Zetas that largely shuns Internet View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hackers used “Poison Ivy” malware to steal chemical, defense secrets
Attackers used an off-the-shelf Trojan horse to sniff out secrets from nearly 50 companies, many of them in the chemical and defense industries, Symantec researchers said today. The attack campaign – which Symantec tagged as “Nitro” – started no later than last July and continued until mid-September, targeting an unknown…
Hacker’s group ‘Anonymous’ continues anti-Zetas campaign
An Internet video is threatening Mexico’s Zetas drug cartel with exposure of its allies in the police and news media unless the gang frees a kidnapped member of the international hacker movement known as ‘Anonymous.’ View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Security firm: Hackers hit chemical companies
Cyber attacks traced to China targeted at least 48 chemical and military-related companies in an effort to steal technical secrets, a U.S. computer security company said Tuesday, adding to complaints about pervasive Internet crime linked to this country. View full post on cyber crime hacking – Yahoo! News Search Results…
Hackers port ancient Linux Trojan to Mac OS X
The Tsunami malware is in limited circulation and is likely still being tested, say experts Hackers are testing new Mac malware that they’ve ported from a nine-year-old Trojan horse originally written for Linux, according to security experts. The malware, dubbed “Tsunami,” has been circulating in limited numbers since last week,…