Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans Facebook just launched a new kind of notification that will warn users if it suspects their account has been targeted by an attacker working on behalf of a nation-state. “While we have always taken steps to secure accounts that we believe…
‘Unprecedented’ Hacking Scheme Worth Over $100 Million Called the Largest Case of Its Kind
Source: National Cyber Security – Produced By Gregory Evans (TheBlaze/AP) — In late October 2013, Panera Bread Co., the national chain of restaurants that specializes in healthy soups and baked goods, prepared a news release to announce it was adjusting its earnings expectations downward for the recently begun fourth quarter….
Mysterious “unkillable” computer virus could be new kind of cyberweapon – or is it?
Somewhere in a Russian computer lab lurks a computer virus so deadly, so indestructible that it can spread even when machines are disconnected from Wi-Fi – or power cables. A researcher and his team have battled the infection for three years – and seen it infect Macs and PCs,…
Hackers, Cyber crime, and a New Kind of War.
In which Hank talks briefly about the fundamental shift in espionage, warfare, crime, and activism that may re-define our age. More about Stuxnet here: www.youtube.com with a pretty in depth article here: www.computerworld.com Hackers have been mounting increasingly sophisticated attacks. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry… View full…
New kind of malware steals, uploads docs to cloud
A new breed of malware has taken data theft one step further – it now grabs document and spreadsheet files and uploads them to a cloud-based file hosting service. Computer security firm Trend Micro said the new malware it recently encountered particularly sends the stolen files to Sendspace.com. “Sendspace was…
What Kind of Linux User Are You? – A Reflection of the Common Types of Linux Users
Alright, the other day I read an article entiled 5 types of very annoying Linux users, and the article is very true. The article is a reflection of a certain Linux user who observed that there are many kinds of Linux users and that there are five types of Linux users…
