Sue Talley Huffington Post If you’ve seen recent headlines about cyber attacks and cyber warfare, you’ve had to consider some troubling questions: How real is the threat? How serious are the consequences? How prepared are we? In a recent speech, U.S. Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta described a dire …
Read More »Facebook Hackers Busted in $850 Million Theft
Fernando Alfonso III Daily Dot Facebook has worked with the FBI to take down 10 Facebook hackers responsible for stealing $850 million over the last two years. The hackers from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the U.S. were responsible for “more than …
Read More »European Smart Power Grid Targeted By Cyber Attack
Arthur Neslen EurActiv.com A German power utility specialising in renewable energy was hit by a serious cyber attack two weeks ago that lasted five days, knocking its internet communications systems offline, in the first confirmed digital assault against a European grid operator. “It was a DOS (‘Denial Of Service’) …
Read More »Team GhostShell Hacks Pentagon, NASA, Federal Reserve
Ben Weitzenkorn Space.com Members of the Anonymous-affiliated Team GhostShell hacking collective have published what they claim is stolen information for 1.6 million accounts linked to government agencies, including the Pentagon, NASA and the Federal Reserve. The hackers appear to have breached the database with a malicious SQL code injection, …
Read More »Russian Hackers Demand Ransom For Medical Records
Sara Hicks Yahoo News Russian hackers are holding a Gold Coast medical centre to ransom after encrypting thousands of patient health records. The hackers are demanding a ransom of $4,000 to decrypt the sensitive information held on a server at the Miami Family Medical Centre. IT security expert Nigel …
Read More »Google’s Vice President Says Chinese Hackers Won’t Stop
Yasmin Tadjdeh National Defense Magazine Charleston, S.C. — The military, the government, the private sector and private citizens are underprepared for growing cyberthreats from Chinese hackers, said a top Google executive. “Security needs to be everybody’s concern, and it needs to be much more pervasive not only in the Defense …
Read More »Anonymous Spokesman Barrett Brown Indicted For Sharing Link on IRC
DJ Pangburn Death and Taxes Last week a federal grand jury indicted Barrett Brown, the former self-styled spokesman of Anonymous, on 12 charges relating to the Stratfor hack spearheaded by Jeremy Hammond. One of the charges pertains to Brown sharing a link related to the Stratfor hack. It seems …
Read More »Sony Alerts Public About Hacked PlayStation 3 Units
Tim G. Villasor GMA News Hacked PlayStation 3 units have been prevalent and a big concern for Sony Computer Entertainment. Hackers who have tried to crack the machine have met many difficulties in getting through the block that allows users to sign in the PlayStation Network with a “jailbroken” console in the years following the …
Read More »FreeBSD Hackers Compromise Project Development Servers
Lucian Constantin PCWorld FreeBSD Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages. Anyone who has installed such packages since September 19 should completely reinstall their machines, the project’s security team warned. Intrusions on two machines within the FreeBSD.org cluster were detected …
Read More »Silent Attackers Are Hacking Smart TVs
Darlene Storm Computerworld Hacking Smart TVs? Can you imagine your “smart” TV being targeted by a zero-day exploit, becoming part of a botnet, or being used to conduct espionage? How about if the TV manufacturer, an attacker, or even the CIA were to hijack the video camera in the TV? Suddenly, …
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