A local council in regional NSW has emerged as the supposed target of alleged computer hacker Matthew Flannery, the self-proclaimed leader of the international cyber-crime syndicate Lulzsec, police say. Mr Flannery, 24, known by the ...
Tags: Hacker, Computer Products
Alberto Yusi Lajud Pena, found dead in the Dominican Republic two weeks ago, was the leader of the New York cell of an international gang of cyber thieves that authorities allege stole a staggering $45 million from ATM machines around the ...
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Hackers are finding it pays to call ahead before sending malware-laden email. Symantec has seen what it describes as a sophisticated social engineering campaign aimed at French-speaking accounting and finance department employees. The ...
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Intruders used to creep in through ventilation ducts. Now they break in using the software that controls the ventilation. Hundreds of organizations across Australia are using out-of-date industrial control systems (ICS) to control the ...
Microsoft has released a temporary fix for a zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer 8, which was used by hackers in a prominent attack against the U.S. Department of Labor's website. The problem is particularly dangerous since it can ...
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Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
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Adobe has warned users of its ColdFusion application server platform of a critical vulnerability that could give unauthorized users access to sensitive files stored on their servers. The vulnerability is identified as CVE-2013-3336 and ...
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The chief executive of the UAE-based National Bank of Ras Al Khaimah has denied a claim by US prosecutors yesterday that an ATM-based "cyber-heist" resulted in $45m (£29m) of customer money being stolen. "The bank can confirm that ...
Teaching engineers cyber security skills is vital in order to protect the UK's critical national infrastructure, according to cyber expert at the Institute of Engineering and Technology (IET), Hugh Boyes. The IET is trying to raise ...
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Hackers could have turned up the heat in one of Google's offices in Sydney. Literally. Computer security researchers with Cylance found that Google's Australia branch was using an unpatched version of Niagara, a software system used for ...
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Chinese cyber espionage activities are fueling a rapid modernization of the country's defense and high tech industries, the Pentagon said in an unusually candid assessment of China's military and security developments last year. In a ...
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Several media outlets in the Washington DC area have had their websites hacked and used to spread malware. WTOP, the largest radio station in the region, and Federal News Radio, along with the website of technology blogger John Dvorak ...
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A Pentagon report has accused the Chinese government of cyber attacks against military and civilian computer systems in the US. It marks the first time US authorities have directly suggested that Beijing is behind computer hacking, with ...
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For a few months earlier this year, the personal data of customers of the Schnucks supermarket chain was exposed to hackers whose work went undetected until after a card processing company issued an alert about fraudulent activity on a ...
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Microsoft late Friday confirmed that a "zero-day," or unpatched, vulnerability exists in Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), the company's most popular browser. According to multiple security firms, the vulnerability has been used in active ...