Computerworld - Google confirmed a dropoff in traffic to its sites in China on Friday, echoing an online report that the company's services are being blocked there. All Google services are inaccessible in China, according to the Google ...
Tags: Google Services, China, Communist Party Congress, Bloomberg News site
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the UN body that has played a standards-setting role for global telecommunication networks over the decades, Wednesday night suffered a website attack that severely disrupted a conference to ...
Tags: ITU, global telecommunication, networks, Website Cyberattack
Iran’s national CERT has warned of a new type of data-wiping malware that bears some of the hallmarks of a cyberattack that severely disrupted the country’s oil industry earlier this year. The exact nature of the latest attack ...
Tags: Cyberattack, Oil Hit, Computer Products
In 1859, there was a solar event so extreme that witnesses reported seeing brilliant lights, electrical flashes, red glows and other aurora events, even in the South. It was the lead story on Sept. 3 of that year in the Memphis Daily, ...
Tags: solar event, aurora, solar maximum, solar storm
A Russian man has been arrested in Cyprus on charges that he launched denial-of-service attacks on Amazon.com and eBay in 2008, the U.S. Department of Justice announced. Dmitry Olegovich Zubakha, 25, of Moscow, was arrested Wednesday, the ...
Tags: Russian man, Cyprus, attacks, Amazon.com, eBay
Bank employees, not customers, are now the main target of financial cyber attacks, according to the FBI. In a warning issued earlier this week, it said the latest trend by cybercriminals is to get employee login credentials, using spam ...
Tags: BYOD, cyberattack, cybercrime, FBI, highlightedpost, risk, Trojan
An executive order issued by the White House last Friday seeks to bolster the government's ability to keep its emergency communications capabilities intact during national emergencies. But one privacy advocacy group expressed concern that ...
Tags: White House, Emergency Communications Riles Privacy Group
Computerworld - After each presidential election, the government's top release a report about the future of the world. It's always a best seller. The Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds document, released this week by the U.S. Office ...
Tags: Gravity'Shifting, Asia, intelligence experts
The recent cyberattack that infected Israeli police computers with malware was likely part of a year-long cyberespionage operation with targets in Israel and the Palestinian territories,according to security researchers from antivirus ...
Tags: Israeli, cyberattack, malware, RAT
Google's services have been riding a bit of a rollercoaster in China over the last several days. Google services were blocked in China for about 12 hours, going from last Friday evening into Saturday morning. Then services were restored ...
Tags: Google, Gmail, search, YouTube site
European institutions on Wednesday beefed up cybersecurity efforts by establishing a permanent Computer Emergency Response Team(CERT-EU). The decision was made following a one-year test for the team,which works closely with the internal ...
Tags: Cybersecurity, EU, CERT-EU, ENISA
Next month the National Institute of Standards and Technology(NIST)plans to put out for public review its draft for a new government encryption standard that,when finalized,is going to compel federal agencies with older websites to replace ...
Tags: NIST, EV certificates, encryption standard, TLS, PIV
National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community," ...
Tags: Cyberwarfare, US, cyberspace security, NSA