Windows 8 vulnerable to hacking: Germany

FRANKFURT: A German government technology agency has warned that new security technology in computers running Microsoft’sWindows 8 operating system may actually make PCs more vulnerable to cyberthreats, including sabotage. Germany’s Federal Office for Information Security, or BSI, said in a statement posted on its website on Wednesday that federal government agencies and critical infrastructure operatorsshould…

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Newly-declassified study says electric grid ‘inherently vulnerable’ to terrorist attack

Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector:  infrastructure_protection A recently-declassified report says the U.S. electric power delivery system is vulnerable to terrorist attacks that could cause more damage to the system than natural disasters like Hurricane Sandy. The report, released on Nov. 14 by the National Research Council (NRC), said such an…

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90% SSL sites vulnerable to the BEAST SSL attack

90% of the Internet’s top 200,000 HTTPS-enabled websites are vulnerable to known types of SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) attack, according to a report released Thursday by the Trustworthy Internet Movement (TIM), a nonprofit organization dedicated … View full post on National Cyber Security » Computer Hacking

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Apple Computers Vulnerable To ‘Flashback’ Malware

By Ian Bush PHILADELPHIA (CBS) – Mac owners aren’t used to dealing with viruses. But that’s changing, now, with the biggest-ever threat, affecting hundreds of thousands of Apple computers. It’s malware called ‘Flashback.’ “It’s not a worm that spreads by itself,” explained Pierre-Marc Bureau. Pierre-Marc Bureau, a security intelligence program…

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