A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
Tags: DDoS, US banks, controversial video, Wells Fargo
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 ...
When millions of visitors start streaming into the world's biggest fair from September 22 to October 7,attention will center not only on good cheer,but also on the environment.While the Hippodrom is not the largest of the Oktoberfest beer ...
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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 ...
With opposition growing to reported plans by President Obama to issue an Executive Order to bolster cybersecurity within the nation's critical infrastructure,the main question now is whether the White House will plow ahead with the idea or ...
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The US is collecting huge amounts of data on its citizens, according to former National Security Agency (NSA) official Bill Binney. While at the NSA, Binney led the development of secret software he now believes is being used to carry out ...
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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
The U.K.'s Home Office will decide by Oct. 16 whether to block the extradition to the U.S. of Gary McKinnon, who has admitted to hacking into U.S. government computers, McKinnon's attorney said on Thursday. McKinnon, 46, of north London, ...
Tags: U.K.'s Home Office, NASA Hacker Extradition, cyberwarfare, USA
Two security researchers claim to have developed a new attack that can decrypt session cookies from HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) connections. Websites use session cookies to remember authenticated users. If an attacker gains ...
Tags: Data Center, HTTPS, computer security, security research
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 ...
Hackers stole about$250,000 from BitFloor,a BitCoin exchange,on Monday and it does not have the money to reimburse account holders,according to the website's founder. BitCoins are an electronic currency that are generated as computers ...
The Hertfordshire Police website has been hacked by a supporter of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, with data about members of the force published online. Information about officers in Hertfordshire's Safer Neighbourhood Teams, including ...
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Infoworld - When it comes to IT security, FUD (fear, uncertainty, and doubt) is more than just the tool of overhyping vendors hoping to sell their next big thing. It is the reality that seasoned IT security pros live in, thanks in large ...
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Computerworld-Gen.Keith B.Alexander,the director of the National Security Agency,asked hackers for help securing cyberspace when he spoke at the Defcon conference late last month. "This is the world's best cybersecurity community,"said ...
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Security researcher Jonathan Brossard created a proof-of-concept hardware backdoor called Rakshasa that replaces a computer's BIOS (Basic Input Output System) and can compromise the operating system at boot time without leaving traces on ...
Tags: Hardware, Basic Input Output System, computer technology, Brossard