Titan Rain

Hacks against the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies stretching back to 2003 were codenamed Titan Rain by investigators. The attacks, which breached hundreds of networks, including Departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, were coordinated from Chinese computers, investigators...

Home of Outed Alleged LulzSec Member Raided in Ohio

News reports say the FBI has raided a home in Hamilton, Ohio as part of an investigation of LulzSec, the group responsible for a string of attacks on prominent targets in recent months. Local media reports said the home, located on Jackson Road in Hamilton, Ohio, was the residence of a teenager w...

Sega Pass customer datails hacked, LulzSec wants to Help Sega !

Sega Pass customer datails hacked, LulzSec wants to Help Sega ! Sega has told gamers that some of their personal information may have been stolen following an attack on its systems. E-mail addresses and dates of birth stored on the Sega Pass database were accessed by hackers. But payment...

Barr Unbowed: Former HBGary Federal CEO says We Need to Learn from LulzSec

This is the first in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal Each of us has made mistakes in our lives – woeful errors that we’ve been forced to learn from at great personal cost. Blessedly, those painful experiences are typically private affairs. Tears are spilled...

Use of Exploit Kits on the Rise

Online attacks are increasingly being carried out by multi-function exploit kits, according to research by Web security firm zSclare. In a blog post, ZScaler’s Pradeep Kulkarni claims to have observed an increase in the prevalence and usage of exploit kits in recent months, a development he...

Turkey Responds to DDOS, Arrests 32 Members of Anonymous

Turkish authorities have arrested 32 members of the hacking group Anonymous according to the country’s state news agency. The suspects were arrested in a dozen cities, including Istanbul and Turkey’s capital, Ankara, according to a press release in Turkish from the Anadolu Agency. The arrests ste...

International Monetary Fund Reportedly Hacked

The International Monetary Fund is the victim of a sophisticated, targeted attack that has compromised an unknown number of systems within the organization, Bloomberg reports. The Washington, D.C. based organization sent employees a memo informing them that a desktop computer within the IMF had...

Many Stuxnet Vulnerabilities Still Unpatched

The media storm over the Stuxnet worm may have passed, but many of the software holes that were used by the worm remain unpatched and leave Siemens customers open to a wide range of potentially damaging cyber attacks, according to industrial control system expert Ralph Langner. Writing on his...

While U.S. Plots Cyber Strategy, Experts See Obstacles Ahead

The release of the International Strategy for Cyberspace late last month marked a major shift in the way that United States officials think about and treat information security, which now seems as if it will have a place at the table during diplomatic discussions. However, experts and U.S...

NATO Vs Anonymous

NATO Vs Anonymous Oh Anonymous, now you're for it… NATO leaders have been warned that Wikileaks-loving 'hacktivist' collective Anonymous could pose a threat to member states' security, following recent attacks on the US Chamber of Commerce and defence contractor HBGary – and promise to 'persecute...

Report: U.S. Needs Cyber Monroe Doctrine

A New Report from a Washington D.C. think tank with ties to the Obama Administration says the U.S. needs to overhaul its cyber security planning and issue a kind of Monroe Doctrine for cyber space to discourage attacks against U.S. interests. The report, “America’s Cyber Future: Security and...

Report: For Hackers, Is Android The New Windows?

Mobile malware is on track to double again in 2011, as it has every year since 2007, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab. The doubling of malicious programs for mobile devices continues a trend first spotted in 2007 and that is beginning to resemble the world of PC viruses more each day, wit...

FCC Roundtable: Small Businesses Lacking Security, But We Can Help

Small businesses aren’t taking the necessary precautions to protect themselves from cyber attacks, according to the U.S. Federal Communications Commission FCC – but Uncle Sam wants to help. The U.S. Government agency, better known for battles over media deregulation, is now looking ot help small...

Super Saturday : The Hacker News Featured Articles, If you miss Something !

Super Saturday : The Hacker News Featured Articles, If you miss Something ! Let's Re-collect all the Featured Recent Interesting Articles of THN, in this post. Hope you Guys will like every news By us. Please share the Links on your Facebook/ Re-tweet on Twitter and everywhere to spread the Cyber...

Holes in FBI cyber security !!

About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI's practice of rotating agents among...

McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption !

McAfee study - India is fourth lowest in security adoption ! McAfee and the Center for Strategic and International Studies CSIS revealed the findings from a global report 'In the Dark, Crucial Industries Confront Cyber attacks' that reflects the cost and impact of cyber attacks on critical...

DDOS attack on Change.org from China !

DDOS attack on Change.org from China ! Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attack originating from China after the site hosted a call urging Chinese authorities to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. The attacks, which starte...

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released !

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released ! Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the " Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report ." These findings continue to demonstrate that businesses a...

China's Cyber Hackers Target Western Firms !

China's Cyber Hackers Target Western Firms ! Sky News has learnt of the growing threat Western governments and corporations are under from hackers based in China. Cyber crime costs the UK tens of billions of pounds every year. The attacks cannot be traced but I have gained access to some of the...

Study: Three Of Four Energy Firms Had Data Breach In Last Year

Three quarters of global energy corporations have suffered one or more data breaches in the last 12 months, according to a new survey by The Ponemon Institute, which finds evidence of widespread shortcomings in the energy and utilities vertical. The report, “The State of IT Security: Study of...