If you are one of some 600,000 subscribers to the Financial Times, you may wish to change your account’s password. Earlier today, a few of the paper’s Twitter accounts and a blog were compromised by Bashar Assad’s thugs, bragging on their Twitter, ”Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army.” Earlier the FT reported…
PDF is still better
A few weeks ago, I surprised myself. I had decided to learn a new code language, and O’Reilly of course has a great little book about this particular language, so I pulled up the eBook files, and almost without thinking, … View full post on O’Reilly News and Commentary For…
Some areas of Mexico still dangerous for travelers, says State Dept.
Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: border_security Image Caption: Chihuahuan desert In a detailed region-by-region update of its travel warning to Mexico, the U.S. State Department continued to urge caution for U.S. tourists in the country, but noted the most of the violence in the country stayed out of major tourist…
Cambridge still being attacked by NullCrew
This week we published an article about the on going attacks on Cambridge university mainly led by #nullcrew hackers but has since been a reason for other hackers to start having a ago at the university network. View full post on Cyber War News View full post on The Cyber Wars
Queen’s Speech Confirms Government Snooping Plans Still In Place
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Low Orbit Ion Canon DDoS tool still going strong
The Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC) ‘do it yourself’ DDoS tool recently surpassed its download numbers for the whole of 2011 at a rate of nearly 3,500 per day, security firm Imperva has reported. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
SOCA website still down after suspected DDoS cyber attack
The website of the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) has been downed by what is starting to look like the most serious cyberattack ever to hit the site. View full post on Techworld.com security View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking
64% of people think cloud storage is risky, but 45% still go right ahead and use it
Sophos polled people at their InfoSec Europe booth last week to find out their views on security in the workplace. Here’s what they found. View full post on Naked Security – Sophos View full post on National Cyber Security
Flashback Trojan still on 650,000 Macs, security company discovers
The Mac Flashback Trojan was still installed on more than half a million Apple computers late last week and is declining only slowly, Russian security company Dr. Web has reported. Although all security companies now agree that the best days of Flashback (or ‘Flashflake’) are now behind it, the new…
Mac Flashback Malware Still Going Strong, Security Experts Say
Security experts looking at the Flashback malware that had infected hundreds of thousands of Apple Macs worldwide are trying to come to an agreement over how many of these systems are still compromised by the exploit. Earlier this month, Internet security companies Kaskpersky Lab and Dr. Web, a smaller Russian…