Reuters – Microsoft India’s retail website was down on Monday after being hacked, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting screenshots the hackers said were customers’ obscured usernames and passwords found unencrypted on the site. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on…
Microsoft India store down after hackers apparently show user (Reuters)
Reuters – Microsoft India’s retail website was down on Monday after an apparent hack, with a purportedly Chinese group called Evil Shadow Team posting doctored screenshots that seemed to be of partially obscured customers’ usernames and passwords. View full post on Yahoo! News: Security News View full post on National…
LIBRARIES LET DOWN GUARD; THEFT UP
Missing: 22 copies of “The Dark Knight,” 20 copies of “Avatar” and 19 copies each of “Toy Story 2,” “Iron Man” and “Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone.” View full post on computer theft – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hackers Take Down CIA, Other Government Websites
Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico’s mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a well-known hacking group reported. A message on a Twitter page and Tumblr feed affiliated with the hacking group known as Anonymous celebrated that the Central Intelligence…
CIA website brought down – were Anonymous attackers responsible?
The CIA’s website was brought down for some hours last night by what appears to have been an internet distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Indy battens down hatches for Super Bowl security
By Charles Wilson and Carrie Schedler Associated Press INDIANAPOLIS — From pickpockets and prostitutes to dirty bombs and exploding manhole covers, authorities are bracing for whatever threat the first Super Bowl in downtown Indianapolis might bring. Some — nuclear terrorism, for instance — are likely to remain just hypothetical. But…
First US government CTO Aneesh Chopra stepping down
Aneesh Chopra, who has served for the past two-and-a-half years as the first CTO for the US government, is stepping down in early February. Chopra, appointed by President Barack Obama to the new position in May 2009, focused on technology policy at the White House. Chopra worked on modernising the…
Hacker Group ‘Anonymous’ Gun For Brazil Banks; Itau Internet Banking Briefly Shut Down
The Brazilian offshoot of worldwide hacktivist group Anonymous is setting its sights on Brazilian banks. According to a report in Folha de São Paulo, the country’s leading daily, Anonymous is calling the operation Operation Weeks Payment, or #OpWeeksPayment in the Twitterverse. The act is against political corruption and is supposed…
MPS: Student Hacks, Shuts Down School Network
Millard Public Schools officials said a student hacked into his high school's network and shut it down, all from his cellphone, and experts said it's not that hard to do. View full post on email spoofing – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Germany to shut down DNSChanger Trojan servers
German authorities are advising victims of DNSChanger Trojan programs to fix their computers’ Domain Name System settings using a free tool developed by antivirus company Avira, because the servers resolving DNS queries on their behalf will be closed down on March 8. DNSChanger is a family of Trojans for Windows…