The cost-saving culture of ‘bring your own device’ smartphones is tempting enterprises into taking risks they would not contemplate for conventional computing devices, a survey by Goode Intelligence has suggested. The Third mSecurity Survey (summary PDF) confirmed that Apple’s iPhone is currently the dominant device, present in 77 percent of…
Summary Box: Anonymous says it hacked China sites
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Financial services industry sees DDOS attacks triple, says Prolexic
The financial services industry saw nearly triple the number of distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks during the first three months of this year compared to the same period last year, according to a report released Wednesday. The new data comes from security vendor Prolexic, which counts ten of the world’s major…
Anonymous says it hacked Chinese government sites
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UK is less secure than its allies, says former CIO of GCHQ
Former head of GCHQ and CESG claims fragmentation is reason why UK lags behind US, Germany and France in ability to respond to cyber attack View full post on germany cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Official says weak security hampers cyber efforts
International cooperation on developing better tools and methods to prevent cyberattacks is being undermined by poor computer security among U.S. allies, a senior Pentagon official said Tuesday. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Brazil man facing child ‘sextortion’ charges bragged he wouldn’t get caught, U.S. Attorney says
<!–Saxotech Paragraph Count: 3–> A Brazil man facing child sexploitation charges bragged to one of his victims that he wouldn’t be caught, authorities said today. “I won’t get caught im (sic) a hacker I covered my tracks,” Richard Finkbiner, 39, allegedly wrote according to a 14-year-old boy he was extorting….
Anonymous says hacks Tunisia prime minister’s emails
TUNIS (Reuters) – A group claiming affiliation with activist hacker collective Anonymous says it has hacked 2,725 emails belonging to Tunisia's ruling Ennahda party, including those of the prime minister, in the latest challenge to the Islamist-led government. In a video posted on a Facebook page belonging to Anonymous TN,…
Hackers are criminals says EU amid tough new laws
The European Civil Liberties Committee is looking to bring down the hammer on hackers and those who would target security vulnerabilities for malicious purposes. They set forth a new proposal that would make hacking a criminal offense throughout the European Union, with offenders facing up to two years in prison….
McCully hacker now says he’s Kiwi
Wed, 04 Apr 2012 1:30p.m. By Patrick Gower So the Murray McCully hacker, self-described Russian ‘Yuri Petrov’ is now claiming he’s just a normal old Kiwi bloke. After my investigation of the “comrades” website last night that found it was a clumsy attempt to act like a Russian hacker, ‘Yuri’…
