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Wall Street Plans to Hold a Simulated Cyber-Attack Against Equity Markets This Month
Jun 19, 2013Wall Street plans to hold a simulated cyber-attack against equity markets this month that experts hope will set an example of how industries should test their defences against assailants. Called Quantum Dawn 2, the drill will involve big ...
Tags: Wall Street, Security Defences
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U.S.Officials Blamed Iran for The Ongoing Stream of DDoS Against Major U.S. Banks
Jan 14, 2013Though U.S. officials have consistently blamed Iran for the ongoing stream of distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against major U.S. banks, a number of security experts now say that there is not enough evidence to assign the blame ...
Tags: Iran, bank attacks, financial services networks, cyber security
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ITU Played a Standards-Setting Role for Global Telecommunication Networks Over The Decades
Dec 31, 2012The 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
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A 22-Year-Old U.K. Man Was Convicted
Dec 28, 2012A 22-year-old U.K. man was convicted for his involvement in a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks launched by the hacktivist group Anonymous against PayPal, MasterCard, Visa and other companies in 2010. Christopher ...
Tags: attacks, Anonymous, PayPal, MasterCard, Visa
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Anonymous Brought Down Government Websites in Protest at UK's Handling Julian Assange
Dec 26, 2012Hacktivist group Anonymous claims it brought down government websites in protest at the UK’s handling of the asylum case of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. The group targeted the websites of No. 10, the Home Office, the Ministry ...
Tags: Anonymous, Computer Products, Government Websites, Julian Assange
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US Indictment Means The 20-Year-Old Briton Could Face Extradition to The US to Stand Trial
Dec 18, 2012The US has indicted UK suspected LulzSec member Ryan Cleary in connection with the hacking of the Fox and PBS television networks and Sony's film and TV studio. The move comes two months after LulzSec member Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty ...
Tags: US, UK, LulzSec member, hacking
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Godaddy Websites Resulted in Thousands of Websites Being Brought Down
Dec 17, 2012A member of hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for a hack targeting GoDaddy,the world's largest domain name registrar,which has resulted in thousands of websites being brought down. The US service provider hosts ...
Tags: Hacker, Anonymous Attack, Website, Personal Data
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Anonymous Has Claimed Responsibility for Outages to Several Government Websites
Dec 17, 2012Hacktivist group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for outages to several government websites last night. Various Twitter accounts that belong to the group were awash with the claims yesterday,including Anonymous Operations,an account ...
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Hacktivist Group GhostShell Has Posted Log-in Details of 1.6 Million
Dec 11, 2012Hacktivist 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 ...
Tags: Hacker group, GhostShell, Pastebin, a series of attacks
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Sabotage Malware Discovered Last Week Matches The Exact Time and Date
Aug 23, 2012A timer found in the Shamoon cyber-sabotage malware discovered last week matches the exact time and date when a hacktivist group claims to have disabled thousands of computers from the network of Saudi Aramco,the national oil company of ...
Tags: Shamoon cyber-sabotage malware, Saudi Arabia, oil company, Aramco company
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AAPT Confirmed Some Business Customer Data Was Compromised in Breach of Computer System
Jul 26, 2012Australian telecommunications company AAPT has confirmed some business customer data was compromised in a breach of computer systems at an external service provider. The telco began investigating after hacktivist group Anonymous ...
Tags: AAPT, business customer data, computer systems, external service
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Two UK Teenage Pleaded Guilty to Charges Linked with Attacks on High-Profile Websites
Jun 27, 2012Two UK teenage members of hacktivist group LulzSec have pleaded guilty to charges linked with attacks on several high-profile websites. Ryan Cleary, 19, and Jake Davis, 18, admitted being part of LulzSec, an offshoot of the Anonymous ...
Tags: teenage, hacktivist group, attacks websites, hacking charges