Report: Norwegian Military Hit by Cyber Attack in March

The Norwegian military has admitted it was hit by a “massive” phishing cyber attack in March, according to a report from Techworld.com. The attack began in an e-mail sent to select members of the defense ministry from what appeared to be another Norwegian government agency. An enclosed attachment...

Hackers attack on Norwegian military Computers

Hackers attack on Norwegian military Computers The Norwegian security police is investigating a hacker attack that zoned in on military computers shortly after Norway joined the Libya air campaign in March. The army says about a hundred computers were targeted in the attack, where staff received ...

Govt militry Engineering services database hacked by MaDnI (PCA)

Govt militry Engineering services database hacked by MaDnI PCA Madni ,member of Pakistan Cyber Army today hack the admin login /password of Govt militry Engineering services at . Admin login is leaked by him at...

Bin Laden's Hideout On Google The Whole Time?

UPDATED: Osama bin Laden may have been the U.S.’s most wanted fugitive for the last decade, but his comfortable mansion on the outskirts of Islamabad, Pakistan was there for all to see – providing they had Google Earth and knew where to look. In the wake of U.S. President Barack Obama’s surprise...

Report Describes Far-Flung Chinese Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Government

The massive campaign of cyber intrusions of U.S. government Web sites by China’s People’s Liberation Army PLA now has a name: “Byzantine Hades,” according to a report Thursday by Reuters. The report says that China has gained the upper hand over the U.S. in the arena of cyberwarfare, developing a...

Website critical of Myanmar regime hacked by unknown Hackers !

A Thailand-based news website critical of Myanmar's military government says it has been hacked by unknown attackers who posted fake articles on it. The Irrawaddy website is run by exiled Myanmar journalists. It said on its home page Sunday that it was trying to fix the problem and prevent furthe...

Pentagon tightens computer security in wake of WikiLeaks breach !

Top defense and intelligence officials reiterated their commitment to information-sharing at a Senate hearing Thursday, even as they outlined new safeguards to prevent a repeat of the WikiLeaks breach that has led to the release of thousands of classified military reports and diplomatic cables. T...

North Korea Trains Up Hacker Squad !

Concerns about North Korea's cyber warfare squads are resurfacing after Friday's cyber and GPS jamming attacks, which are being blamed on the North. Pyongyang began developing electronic warfare capabilities in 1986 when it founded Mirim University, the present-day Automation University, to train...

China Hackers hacked into secret South Korean military files !

CHINESE computer hackers last June gained access to secret South Korean military files on a planned spy plane purchase from the United States, a Seoul lawmaker says. The hackers accessed information in defence ministry computers on the plan to buy unmanned Global Hawk aircraft, said Shin Hak Yong...

Cyber Attacks Hit Nearly 40 South Korean websites !

According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military websit...

U.S. Military's Cyber Chief Warns Of Eroding Technical Prowess

SAN FRANCISCO — The U.S. Military’s top officer in charge of cyber security said that the country must invest more in so-called “STEM” programs – science, technology, engineering and math – to avoid being outflanked in a world where cyber offensive- and defensive operations are the keys to milita...

Progress Crawls in Securing Critical Infrastructure

The US government is progressing at a snail’s pace in securing critical American infrastructure according to a Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS commission on cybersecurity examining the first two years of the 44th presidency. Two years ago the CSIS published Securing Cyberspace...

Government Sites, Military And Educational For Sale By Hackers !!

A hacker has a number of sites belonging to government agencies, military and educational for sale on internet forums. The discovery was made by Noa Bar-Yosef, a senior security strategist at security vendor Imperva. Bar-Yosef, wrote about it in the company's blog last Friday, noting that prices...

NATO networks vulnerable to cyber threat !

BRUSSELS AFP - NATO's military networks are not fully protected against cyber threats and the alliance must make good on a promise to erect a virtual wall in 2012, a defense official U.S. says Tuesday top. U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn warned after a two-day visit to Brussels that...

Government, Military Sites Hacked, Data and Access for Sale

The Web site of the U.S. military’s Communications-Electronics Command CECOM was off line on Monday after reports that access to the site was among those being fenced by hackers in an underground forum. The CECOM home page, cecom.army.mil displayed a message saying the site was “temporarily...

Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Website Hacked !!

HACKERS APPEARED to have brought down another government Web site, this time that of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority BCDA. The text "S4UD! 4R$B!AN H4CK3R OWNED YOU" was plastered repeatedly on the homepage along with photos of an unidentified man, child and woman that seemed of...

You Have $ 500? You Can Buy A Hack For The Site Of U.S. Army !

If you are a criminal looking for total control of the World Wide Web, used by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command CECOM, you can get it for just under $ 500 U.S. Or so we offer underground hackers in the forums. security provider Imperva found on the black market sales pitch on...

Estonia institutes volunteer cyber army !

In 2007, when Estonia's government, financial and media computer networks were attacked by unknown Russian hackers following the government's decision of relocating a Soviet war memorial, it must have been hard to believe that something good would come from it at the end. With that attack, Estoni...

Xiaodong Sheldon Meng (Quantum3D)

Meng was a 44 year-old software engineer living in Cupertino, California when, in 2008, he became the first person sentenced for a violation of the U.S.’s Economic Epionage Act of 1996. Meng had worked as an engineer for Quantum3D, a defense contractor that makes visual simulation software used f...

South Carolina Bill Targets Cybercrimes with Up to 10-Year Prison Terms

Computer hackers and unauthorized informants could face up to 10 years in prison under a proposed state law designed to protect South Carolina military installations from WikiLeaks-type scandals. Charleston Republican Rep. Chip Limehouse announced on Monday that his bill, which will be considered...