Researcher Eric Filiol Withdraws CanSecWest Presentation

A presenter at this week’s CanSecWest security conference has withdrawn his scheduled talk for fear the information could be used to attack critical infrastructure worldwide. Eric Filiol, scientific director of the Operational Cryptology and Virology lab. CTO/CSO of the ESIEA in France, pulled hi...

Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity Girds Utilities

Critical infrastructure policymakers are advocating the foundation of a new entity, the Institute for Electric Grid Cybersecurity, along with a new set of guidelines, to better protect the North American electric grid from cyber-attacks and determine how to respond if the grid is ever compromised...

Cisco Offers $300,000 Prize For 'Internet of Things' Security Apps

In the last few years, this emerging domain for the Internet of Things has been attracting the significant interest, and will continue for the years to come. It would be a $20 Trillion Market over the next several years, but Security and privacy are the key issues for such applications, and still...

Would EMV Help?

With the spate of cyber attackers on US retailers recently, Coalfires European Managing Director, Andrew Barratt considers how the attacks on retailers differ outside the US and what the potential impact of similar attacks is in a world where chip and pin technology is more widely deployed...

Dear Internet, Today is 'The Day We Fight Back', Biggest protest against NSA Surveillance

The US Government has allotted a large share of its 'Black Budget' for secret military research and weapons programs, along with surveillance programs, that is harvesting hundreds of millions of Metadata from emails, web activity, chats, social networks, and everything else around the world. To...

Snowden used web crawler tool to access and download 1.7 million Secret NSA Files

National Security Agency NSA – the one that had ruled over the privacy of the entire world from countries to individuals, the one with master access to read anyone’s data, intruded into large fiber networks, and can target anyone, at any time, at any place; but lapsed somewhere in protecting its...

SpyEye creator pleads guilty in U.S Federal Court

Aleksandr Andreevich Panin, one of the alleged masterminds behind the notorious SpyEye banking trojan, pleaded guilty in an Atlanta courtroom yesterday to conspiracy charges relating to the development and distribution of the the malware. Panin pleaded guilty to conspiring to commit wire and bank...

Foursquare vulnerability that exposes 45 million users' email addresses

A location based Social Networking platform with 45 million users,'Foursquare' was vulnerable to the primary email address disclosed. Foursquare is a Smartphone application that gives you details of nearby cafes, bars, shops, parks using GPS location and also tells about your friends nearby...

Bangladeshi Hackers defaced BCCI website after Board approves ICC takeover proposal

Apart from various Government websites falling victim to Hacking attacks, the latest to be targeted by hackers belongs to the world's richest cricket Board, the Board of Control for Cricket in India BCCI. Late night on 26th January 65th Republic Day of India, the official website of Indian...

Congress to Consider Critical Infrastructure Protection Bill

The National Cybersecurity and Critical Infrastructure Protection Act of 2013 would amend the Homeland Security Act of 2002 to better protect the country against potentially destructive cyber attacks targeting national utilities and other critical infrastructure systems. The House Subcommittee on...

'123456' giving tough competition to 'password' in Worst 25 Passwords of 2013

123456, password, 12345678, qwerty… or abc123, How many of you have your password one of these??? I think quite a many of you. Even after countless warnings and advices given to the users by many security researchers, people are continuously using a weak strength of password chains. After observi...

More than 1,400 Financial institutions in 88 Countries targeted by Banking Trojan in 2013

As the year draws to a close, we have seen the number of emerging threats like advance phishing attacks from the Syrian Electronic Army, financial malware and exploit kits, Cryptolocker ransomware infections, massive Bitcoin theft, extensive privacy breach from NSA and many more. The financial...

'The Washington Post' compromised 3rd time in the last 3 years

Security experts at Mandiant intelligence firm have discovered a new intrusion into the network of The Washington Post, it is the third time in the last three years. In time I'm writing it is still not clear the extension of the attack neither an estimation of the losses. Mandiant reported the...

General Michael Hayden Talks about the Future of Cybersecurity at MIRcon 2013

When you've got some of the cybersecurity industry's best and brightest practitioners in one room, just how do you top the conversations they're having across the breakfast table? By getting one of the foremost experts on cybersecurity to deliver a top notch speech on the future of the industry,...

Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World

Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world. Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out...

South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack

Last Tuesday, The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country. That Malware is collecting location data and IP addresses of infected users and...

13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback'

A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback" Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack,...

World War C report - Motives behind State Sponsored Cyber Attacks

Nation-state driven cyber attacks are routinely conducted on a global scale to defend national sovereignty and project national power. We are living in the cyber era, human conflict is involving also the fifth domain of warfare, the cyberspace. As never before disputes take place with blows of...

Iranian Hackers infiltrated US Navy computers

The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated unclassified US Navy computers, the allegations were made by US officials that consider the attacks a serious intrusion within the Government network. "The U.S. Officials said the attacks were carried out by hacker...

US news agency GlobalPost's twitter and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

In a series of high profile hacks, 'Syrian Electronic Army SEA' just a few minutes before took control twitter account and website of 'GlobalPost', a US based news agency. 'Syrian Electronic Army is an organized hacking group loyal to the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and known for their high...