The Philippines has been tagged one of the world’s top sources of a dangerous kind of cyber “attack” designed to take down entire computer networks and shut down key consumer services. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Verizon DBIR 2012 overview, attack mitigation strategies
Christopher Porter of Verizon explains some of the findings from the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report. This year, hacktivists had a big impact on the numbers. Attacks are mainly less sophisticated and more automated in nature, Porter said. View full post on Security Wire Weekly View full post on…
LulzSec Rears Its Smirking Head in Military Dating Site Attack
Nine months after shutting down operations — and just weeks after several suspected members were arrested — the LulzSec hacker community has apparently sprung back to life, hacking the website of military dating site MilitarySingles. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
LulzSec Rears Its Smirking Head in Military Dating Site Attack
Nine months after shutting down operations — and just weeks after several suspected members were arrested — the LulzSec hacker community has apparently sprung back to life, hacking the website of military dating site MilitarySingles. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
BBC Falls Victim To ‘Iran Cyber Attack’
Hackers launched a "sophisticated cyber-attack" on the BBC, director general Mark Thompson has revealed. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
News Corp subsidiary ‘hired hacker to attack rival’
A subsidiary of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation has been accused of enlisting the help of a computer hacker to bring down a rival company. The BBC’s Panorama program says News Corp’s security arm NDS recruited a hacker to acquire the smart card codes of ITV’s ONdigital, the biggest UK pay…
HK mock poll ‘under cyber attack’
The organisers of a mock poll for Hong Kong chief executive say their online system "is under cyber attack" to prevent voting. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Federal Agents Hunt Fugitive “Homeless Hacker” Under Indictment For Online “Anonymous” Attack
A lawyer for Christopher "Commander X" Doyon, 47, has told federal officials that his client fled the U.S. for Canada. read more View full post on federal hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Chinese Trojans used to attack pro-Tibet organisations
A malware campaign targeting activists at pro-Tibet organisations could be the work of the same Chinese group behind a major attack on the chemical industry last year, researchers from AlienVault have suggested. The new attack uses a malicious Word attachment sent by email to organisations including the Central Tibet Administration…
Microsoft blames security info-sharing programme MAPP for attack code leak
Microsoft has confirmed that sample attack code created by the company had likely leaked to hackers from a programme it runs with antivirus vendors. “Details of the proof-of-concept code appear to match the vulnerability information shared with Microsoft Active Protection Program (MAPP) partners,” Yunsun Wee, a director with Microsoft’s Trustworthy…