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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Computerworld - Google today awarded $60,000 to a security researcher who cracked Chrome at the search firm's second "Pwnium" hacking contest. The researcher, a teenager who goes by the nickname "Pinkie Pie," was a returning winner: Last ...
Tags: Google, security researcher, Protection
Hack in the Box will host its 10th security conference this week in Kuala Lumpur featuring an all-star cast of hacking luminaries and a cutting-edge program. The lengthy speakers list includes John Draper aka"Captain Crunch,"who famously ...
An international gang of cyber crooks is plotting a major campaign to steal money from the online accounts of thousands of consumers at 30 or more major U.S.banks,security firm RSA warned. In an advisory Thursday,RSA said it has ...
Tags: Cybercriminal, Trojan Attack, international gang of cyber crooks, RSA
A handful of Swedish websites remained down Friday evening there after hacking group Anonymous threatened earlier this week to attack the nation for a police raid on a hosting service that was once home to The Pirate Bay. As of 6:45 ...
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Romanian national Manole Razvan Cernaianu,known online as TinKode,received a two-year suspended prison sentence for hacking into computer systems owned by Oracle,NASA,the U.S.Army and the U.S.Department of Defense and was ordered to pay ...
Tags: NASA, TinKode, Oracle, computer-related offenses
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 Information Commissioner's Office(ICO)has published new guidelines that underline businesses'sole responsibility for the protection of data,even if it has been outsourced to third-party cloud network providers. As more businesses ...
Tags: ICO, data protection, cloud service, encryption key, UK
Telvent,a Canadian energy firm whose systems are used to control more than half of all oil and gas pipelines in North America and Latin America,today confirmed a security breach involving the project files of some of its customers. In a ...
Though more usually associated with the Grim Reaper, scythes are rapidly gaining a reputation for being a useful tool in the garden or at the allotment. From the lawn (yes, you can cut your lawn - and cut it short - with a scythe) to that ...
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Despite an increasing number of successful cyberattacks launched by East Asian hackers against companies and government institutions around the world in recent years,Eastern European cybercriminals remain a more sophisticated threat to the ...
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 ...
Tags: Cybercrime, Hacking, U.S.Banks, IT security
Mobile device management (MDM) is not about security, according to Eric Green, senior vice-president of business development at security firm Mobile Active Defense Partners. "There is no security in MDM; its ability to secure a device is ...
Tags: MDM, BYOD, ISC, Eric Green, mobile security
A patent by Microsoft has been discovered which sheds light on an ambitious 3D projection display system, which appears to be a future evolution of the company's Xbox gaming brand. Filed on 2 March 2011, the patent includes a clear ...
The website of Domino's Pizza India was hacked,but customers'information was not compromised,the local franchisee Jubilant FoodWorks said on Wednesday. Personal information including names,phone numbers,email addresses,passwords and city ...
Tags: Domino, Turkish hacker group, India, security breach