China Publicly Claims to Be the Victim of U.S. Cyberattacks

On Thursday the Chinese government, long considered the aggressor in highly publicized U.S. cyberattacks, publicly spoke about being the victim. Two of its military Web sites were attacked an average of 144,000 per month and two-thirds of those strikes came from the United States, according to a...

Markey: GRID Act Passage Long Overdue

Representative Ed Markey D-MA is urging the Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, Fred Upton R-MI, to take immediate action toward passing the Grid Reliability and Infrastructure Defense GRID Act, which Markey calls a bipartisan bill aimed at hardening the nation’s electrical gr...

Comment Crew Exposé a New Level of China Attack Attribution

China has been blamed for cyberattacks on every major industrial base in the United States—and even in some corners for the Super Bowl blackout. But most of it has been rampant speculation coupled with the lacing together of a number of loose ends. Examples of the kind of direct attribution to th...

Researchers See Spike in Attacks Against Uyghur Users

Researchers have noticed a spike in cyberattacks over the past few weeks targeting the Uyghur people, a Turkic ethnic group based primarily in China and Kazakhstan. The attacks have been exploiting a Microsoft Word vulnerability patched in June 2009, according to a Securelist post by Kaspersky La...

Planned Cyberattacks on US Banks on Hold

Upwards of 30 major U.S. banks and financial institutions have been given a reprieve. The hacker behind a coordinated attack against giants such as Bank of America, Chase, Citibank, PNC, Wells Fargo and nearly two dozen other banks has called off the operation after media reports surfaced a month...

Internet Slows In Iran Following Attacks on Infrastructure, Communication

Hackers interrupted Internet access in various parts of the Islamic Republic of Iran yesterday after attacking a number of the country’s infrastructure and communications companies, a state official told the Reuters news agency. “Yesterday we had a heavy attack against the country’s infrastructur...

Google Warning about New State Sponsored Attacks

"Warning: We believe state-sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer." From last 3 months Google users were surprised to see this unusual notification at the top of their Gmail inbox, Google home page or Chrome browser. These warnings are not being shown because...

300% Increase in malnets Attack in the past six months

Blue Coat systems has undertaken detailed research into the use of 'malnets' by criminals to help support their various attacks in order to uncover the best ways to take down these systems. Botnet infections are commonly spread though compromised websites seeded with malicious scripts and promote...

Iranian Students Claim to have Stolen Thousands of Researcher's Records

There’s still no official response from NASA officials after a group of Iranian student programmers calling themselves Cyber Warriors Team claimed to have swiped records for thousands of NASA researchers by compromising an agency site’s SSL certificate. In a May 16 statement posted on Pastebin, t...

Anonymous target USTelecom and TechAmerica for supporting Cybersecurity Bill

Anonymous target USTelecom and TechAmerica for supporting Cybersecurity Bill Two technology trade associations said they were targeted by the hacker-activist group Anonymous as it singled out supporters of proposed legislation to improve U.S. cybersecurity. The hacker group Anonymous claimed...

2013 Federal Budget Includes Nearly $800M For Cybersecurity

President Obama is asking for $769 million to fund information security initiatives via the Department of Homeland Security in 2013. That amount is nearly twice what DHS asked for last year to fund its cybersecurity work. “The Administration proposes $769 million to support the operations of the...

NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania

NASA and Pentagon Hacker - TinKode Arrested in Romania Romanian police have arrested a man believed to be TinKode, the notorious hacker responsible for several daring, high-profile cyberattacks, including last year's breach of NASA's servers, Royal Navy, The European Space Agency and MySQL.com. T...

Chinese Hackers Use Canadian Law Firms as Backdoor to Client

Hackers operating behind Chinese IP addresses reportedly compromised seven Canadian law firms and the Canadian Finance Ministry and Treasury Board in an attempt to disrupt the high-profile acquisition of the Potash Corporation of Saskatchewan by the Australian mining giant BHP Billiton Ltd...

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the...

Russian Parliamentary Election Marred by DDoS Campaign

Yesterday was election day in Russia, and the occasion brought with it a coordinated campaign reportedly designed to silence some specific groups. A report from GlobalVoices.org details a massive wave of DDoS attacks against blogging platforms, election watchdog Websites, and various independent...

Its Fail 2011 - Year of Hacks !

Its Fail 2011 - Year of Hacks ! According to IT security experts Year 2011 have labeled as the "Year of the Hack" or "Fail 2011". Hacking has become much easier over the years allowing hackers to hack into systems easier then ever before, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking happen so far...

US CERT Director Resigns Without Warning

Randy Vickers, the director of the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team US Cert abruptly abandoned his post on Friday when he tendered his resignation immediately. The resignation came via an email penned by acting assistant secretary for cybersecurity and communications, Bobbie...

Three UK Men to Serve 13 Years for Phishing

Three individuals have been sentenced 13 years of jail time in the UK for carrying out cyberattacks on British and international banks. The men in question, Ayodeji John Kareem, 38, Vincent Alonge, 31, and Babatunde Fafore, 41, all plead guilty on July 8 to charges stemming from their arrests in...

LulzSec Hacks Main Senate Site, No Sensitive Data Compromised

Over the weekend the Senate website became the latest in a growing line of individuals, groups, and websites targeted by a new collective of Internet mischief makers, Lulz Security. The group posted what they referred to as “a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov” o...

Three Alleged Anonymous Leaders Arrested in Spain

The New York Times is reporting that Spanish Law enforcement officials have arrested three individuals in connection with cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as other corporations and governments around the world. The individuals are alleged to be leading members of the internet...