Report: Anonymous Targets Neo-Nazis

The Anonymous Internet collective’s campaign against groups with whom they disagree surged into 2012 with “Operation Blitzkrieg,” which is targeting Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. Their latest effort includes a Wikileaks-style Website, Nazi-leaks.net, to uncover and expose the identities of...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...

Quality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?

I recently read a blog post by CloudFlare and Shawn Graham that asked a fantastic and timely question: “Do Hackers Take The Holidays Off?” CloudFlare sees traffic for hundreds of thousands of websites and was able to answer the question. They looked at the average percentage of requests that...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...

Attacks Against Oil Conglomerates Ramping Up, Execs Claim

Executives for some of the world’s largest oil companies stressed that cyber attacks against their companies are becoming more strategic and happening more frequently at a conference last week, according to a report today from the BBC. At the 20th World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar, one of...

Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

Hacker Claims He Breached Texas Water Plant

A hacker claims to have breached a water utility in Texas and has posted reputed screenshots online to prove it. The water plant targeted by the hacker, who uses the alias “Pr0f”, is in the Harris County city of South Houston. In a post on Pastebin, Pr0f said his actions were in response to what ...

Citing Crisis, Senate Leader Puts Cybersecurity Bill On 2012 Agenda

Citing a looming crisis over lax computer security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that the Senate will debate cybersecurity legislation. The move comes despite the lack of a coherent Senate plan and could set up a showdown with House Republicans over the government’s role in...

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers Anonymous Hackers take down the The Muslim Brotherhood websites. The hacking group had made an announcement Tuesday in which they threatened to launch "Operation Brotherhood Takedown," on all Brotherhood sites at 8pm ...

A New Cybersecurity Research Agenda (In Three Minutes or Less)

Editor’s Note: As the CISO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA-backed strategic investment firm focused on developing technologies for the intelligence community, Dan Geer gets paid to help find the answers to big questions about computer security, national security, privacy and technology. Headlines proliferat...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Hackers Interrupt U.S. Government Satellites

Hackers interfered with two U.S. satellites on four separate occasions in the last few years, according to a draft of a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission obtained by Bloomberg BusinessWeek on Thursday. The attacks are believed to have been orchestrated from China...

Japanese Parliament Struggling To Address Hack, Data Theft

The fallout from a targeted attack on computers belonging to members of the Japanese House of Representatives continued on Tuesday, with claims that both servers and PCs on the House network were infected with a password stealing Trojan, and reports that House members had taken to storing sensiti...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

SEC Says Public Companies May Need to Disclose Attacks

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new guidance to help public companies determine when they may need to disclose an attack–or even a potential attack–in order to make potential investors aware of possible risks to the company’s business. The guidance, which does not constitute a...

Can we kick the attachment habit?

As consumers of messaging services, particularly email, we have become addicted to attachments. This habit has become an easy avenue for mounting cyber-attacks against an organization. In the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, conducted in cooperation with the United States Secret...

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released

Linux - Means Freedom The Hacker News Magazine October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers, We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think...

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released

Linux - Means Freedom The Hacker News Magazine October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers, We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think...

British VPN Service Defends Role in Lulzsec Bust

British virtual private network VPN company Hide My Ass has taken a stand about their involvement in the arrest of an alleged Lulzsec member last week. In a blog post published on Friday, the company reiterated that they keep logs of their users’ history for 30 days and they will cooperate with l...