IDG News Service - Some of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the websites of U.S. financial institutions this week have peaked at 60 Gbps, according to researchers from DDoS mitigation provider Arbor Networks. ...
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Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia's national energy company, said on Sunday it had repaired 30,000 workstations infected with a malicious virus earlier this month. The eighth largest refiner in the world said its main internal networks were ...
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Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
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A group of hackers has released a file containing unique identification data for over 1 million Apple iOS devices and claim that the information is part of a larger database stolen from the compromised laptop of an FBI agent. "During ...
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VMware warned on Sunday that more of its source code for its ESX hypervisor technology could become public after another batch of code was released by a hacker. The source code dates from 2004 and is related to other code released in ...
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Hacktivist group GhostShell has posted log-in details of 1.6 million accounts they claim are taken from a series of attacks on organisations including NASA,the FBI and the European Space Agency. The Anonymous subsidiary group posted the ...
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IDG News Service-A group of hackers leaked email contact information of experts working with the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA)after breaking into one of the agency's servers. The group published a list of 167 email addresses ...
Tags: computer systems, computer data, computer, information security
Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
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Anonymous,the loosely affiliated hacker group,has claimed responsibility for a distributed-denial-of-service attack against banking giant HSBC. The attack was launched last night at about 10pm,and took down a number of customer-facing ...
Tags: Anonymous, hacker group, HSBC, distributed-denial-of-service attack
Anonymous, the hacking collective, has ended its association with Wikileaks after Julian Assange's whistleblowing website erected a 'selective paywall' to help increase public donations to Wikileaks. Clicking to access a number of the ...
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world,including Harvard,Stanford,the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. ...
The Financial Services Information Sharing and Analysis Center (FS-ISAC) has put U.S. banks on high alert against cyberattackers seeking to steal employee network login credentials to conduct extensive wire transfer fraud. The alert warns ...
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The FBI on Tuesday denied that the 1 million unique device identifiers for Apple devices(UDIDs)posted publicly by hacker group AntiSec on Monday had come from its computers. In a brief statement,the FBI's national press office said the ...
IDG News Service-PricewaterhouseCoopers said Wednesday it has not found evidence of unauthorized data access despite a group's claim that Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney's tax returns were stolen in a late-night office theft. ...
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Claims that 12 million unique device identifiers(UDIDs)of Apple iPads were hacked from the laptop of an FBI agent have been rebutted by the US law enforcement organisation. The FBI–which has its own Twitter feed–initially ...
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