The Departments of Justice and Finance websites in the Irish Republic are both taken offline for an hour in an apparent cyber attack. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Israeli hackers believed behind attack on UAE central bank
The central bank of the UAE has fended off an onslaught from hackers trying to bring down its website, the bank’s head of information technology told Reuters Sunday… View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
‘Anonymous’ hackers attack Brazilian websites
The computer hacker group Anonymous attacked websites of Brazil's federal district Saturday as well as one belonging to a Brazilian singer to protest the forced closure of Megaupload.com. View full post on federal hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Zappos reports hacker attack
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 5–> PORTLAND, ORE. — Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers. Customers’ credit card and payment information was not stolen, but names, phone numbers, email addresses, billing and shipping addresses, the last four digits from…
Facebook users targeted in Carberp man-in-the-browser attack
Facebook users are being targeted in a new man-in-the-browser (MitB) attack that attempts to steal money by duping the user into redeeming an e-cash voucher. The malware is a new configuration of the Carberp Trojan, according to security firm Trusteer. Carberp replaces any Facebook page the user navigates to with…
Amazon’s Zappos Hit With Cyber Attack; 24 Million Possibly Impacted
Zappos.com, the popular online shoe retailer owned by Amazon.com, said its internal network was infiltrated by a cyber attacker. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Israeli businesses the target of spate of cyber attack
Israel was cyber-attacked Monday. A hacker claiming to be from Saudi Arabia brought down several high-profile websites, including the sites of the Tel Aviv stock exchange , Israel’s national airline El Al and three Israeli banks. The immediate damage was limited through what is known as denial of service attacks.. Stock…
‘Saudi’ hackers attack websites of Israel’s stock exchange and El Al airline
The First International Bank of Israel said their marketing sites had been hacked but those providing online services to clients were unaffected. Neither the stock exchange nor El Al's web pages held sensitive data. View full post on bank security hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on…
Facebook Security impersonated by hackers in chat phishing attack
Hackers are impersonating the Facebook security team using hijacked accounts in a new phishing attack spreading through the social network. The attackers replace the profile picture of compromised accounts with the Facebook logo and change their names to a variation of “Facebook Security” written with special Unicode characters, said Kaspersky…
Zappos alerts millions of customers to cyber attack
The online retailer says accounts are vulnerable because of a breech to a server in Kentucky. View full post on cyber security alerts – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security