Anonymous Targets Capital One, Wal-Mart, Viral Video Judge William Adams, and More

It was a busy weekend for the shadowy collective of Internet hackers and activists that calls itself Anonymous, with claims by the group to have launched attacks that took down the Web pages of both government- and private sector Web sites as well as public- and Internet personalities, including...

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...

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...

In Report, U.S. Accuses China, Russia of Cyber Espionage

In its most blunt statement to date, the U.S. government accused both China and Russia of conducting far flung cyber espionage campaigns against U.S. and other Western firms in an effort to promote domestic interests. The report, “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace” was...

Government's Cloud Audit Program Falls Behind Schedule

In a speech on Wednesday, Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel said that a federal plan for qualifying and providing security audits on private sector cloud providers will become mandatory for any agency that wanted to contact with third party cloud providers, according to a report ...

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ?

How to Beat Evil Governments When Your Internet Turned Off ? Bruce Sutherland explain at DefCon 19 Conference that "How To Get Your Message Out When Your Government Turns Off The Internet" . Bruce Sutherland is a network systems architect and software developer with Domex Computer Services Inc,...

Like Enterprises, Government Agencies Are Struggling With Security

WASHINGTON–The U.S. government has a lot of money. Not as much as it used to have, of course, but still, it has a lot. It also has a lot of computers and servers and routers and other things that move and store data. In fact, they have so many that they don’t really know what all of them are doin...

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...

Top Government Security Officials Call For Secure OS Development

WASHINGTON–One of the keys to addressing the widespread security threats facing both private and government networks is to develop more secure operating systems from the ground up and not rely on trying to secure existing ones, top CIA and Pentagon information assurance officials said. The federa...

Google Report Shows It Complied With 93% of U.S. Law Enforcement Data Requests

Google complied with 93 percent of the requests for user data that it received from U.S. law enforcement agencies through the first six months of this year. In the latest update to its Transparency Report, Google for the first time not only disclosed the number of requests that it receives, but...

Mitsubishi Hack May Have Yielded Defense, Nuke Secrets

A report claims the recent hack of Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries may have led to the theft of sensitive data related to weapons systems and nuclear reactors. The report, on the Website of The Asahi Shimbun, cites unnamed sources as saying that malware planted on servers...

Hackers Hit Japanese Parliament, Nab Log-ins and E-mails

Hackers believed to be working for the Peoples Republic of China hit computers in Japan’s Parliament with a virus according to reports from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Government computers and a server used by three members of the lower house were targeted by a sustaine...

Report says : US considered cyber war on Libya

Report says : US considered cyber war on Libya Officials in the US Obama administration considered compromising Libya's government computer networks to block early-warning data gathering and missile launches on NATO war planes during the American-led strikes, but decided against it, according to...

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika Another group of Hackers, self titled Team Swastika, have caused panic amongst Facebook users after releasing the details of 10,000 accounts onto popular text sharing site, Pastebin. Pastebin, usually used to share source code, has frequent...

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika Another group of Hackers, self titled Team Swastika, have caused panic amongst Facebook users after releasing the details of 10,000 accounts onto popular text sharing site, Pastebin. Pastebin, usually used to share source code, has frequent...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

VeriSign demands Power to takedown non-legitimate website

VeriSign demands Power to takedown non-legitimate website VeriSign, which manages the database of all .com internet addresses, wants powers to shut down "non-legitimate" domain names when asked to by law enforcement. VeriSign should be able to shut down a .com or .net domain, and therefore its...

Fed Seeks Industry Standard for Botnet Mitigation

The Departments of Commerce and Homeland Security met with various other government agencies and private-sector leaders yesterday to discuss the need for a code of conduct for detecting, mitigating, and otherwise dealing with botnets. The invitational meeting was hosted by the Center for Strategi...

Celebrating 5th Birthday of Wikileaks (Born : 4th Oct 2006)

Celebrating 5th Birthday of WikileaksBorn : 4th Oct 2006 The wikileaks.org domain name was registered on 4 October 2006. The website was unveiled, and published its first document, in December 2006. The site claims to have been "founded by Chinese dissidents, journalists, mathematicians and...