More than 199 Indian govt websites defaced in last 6 months !

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation CBI was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites wer...

Attack Can Extract Crypto Keys From Mobile Device Signals

SAN FRANCISCO–Many carriers and mobile providers are touting smartphones as the future of secure mobile payment systems, enabling users to pay for purchases with an app on their phones, and this already reality in many parts of Asia and Europe. However, researchers have discovered that some of th...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

NY Times: Stuxnet Traced to Five Iranian Internet Domains

The Stuxnet Worm attempted to infiltrate five industrial complexes in Iran over a span of ten months according to a report in the New York Times based on a Stuxnet Dossier published by Symantec. Stuxnet was designed to not only attack industrial control systems built by Siemens Corporation, which...

Students will analysis cyber security skills vs. peers !

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial...

President Ali Abdullah Saleh website hacked !

Yemen has denied that the website of President Ali Abdullah Saleh—the ambition of anti-government protests—was brought bottomward by hackers this accomplished week, its official account bureau said. "An official in the admiral of advice and advice technology denied letters claiming that the websi...

Hacker Fantasy Cyberworld Of Good And Evil : Wikileaks !

What is the future of political protest, as in a highly digitized world? We follow the real-time display via Wikileaks Cablegate. The day of the cables has been convicted for release in major newspapers worldwide, called a "political hack" cut the Wikileaks site with a distributed denial of servi...

CIO said - London Olympics Will Be 'ready' For Cyber-attacks !!

London Olympics will be well prepared for attempted cyber attack, according to CIO Gerry Pennell London 2012. Speaking in London to start in 2012, and Atos Origin IT testing organization, Technology Lab, Pennell said the attacks at the Olympics - is also trying to overthrow the Games, to influenc...

How Attackers Steal Your Data

ARLINGTON, VA–Pulling valuable data out of corporate networks is the end goal of many, if not most, attacks these days and the tactics that attackers use to get into their targets are fairly well understood and publicized. But it’s not often that you get a look at the way that the data is actuall...

PCA hack CBI Through The Creation Of Proxy Server from Other Three Countries !!

The research on hacking the website of the IWC by the Pakistan Army Cyber PCA revealed that Islamabad were able to overcome the first line by creating proxy servers. CBI has traced these servers in Pakistan, United States California, Indonesia Jakarta and Latvia. CBI source said, "the IP addresse...

OECD said Cyber attacks could create 'perfect strom' !!

Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD said in a report on Monday. The study, part of a wider OECD project examining possible "Future Global Shock...

Hackers will not be deterred by UK cyber defences !

Military "cyber weaponry" will become commonplace this century, but it will be unlikely to deter attacks by "hacktivists" and criminal gangs, and could easily be used for state-sponsored cyber attacks instead, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development warns. The British authors o...

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...

Saudi ministry restores hacked website !

Saudi Arabia's Ministry of Education has restored its website, weeks after it was taken offline in the latest of a series of hacking attempts on some of the kingdom's most prominent sites. "The website was hacked a few weeks back, but has now been fully restored, and is safe and functional,"...

According to CERT-In : Indian sites hacked most in 2010 !

System administrators would surely want to forget the year 2010, which saw a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks on Indian websites. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-In, the defacement of websites with India specific domain '.in' tripled in 2010. Around 8,864...

FBI Chases Pro-Wikileaks Hackers !

U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, has asked all countries work together to jointly support track hackers who managed to paralyze the site Wikileaks 'enemy' Wikileaks. Reported by Yahoo News from the Smoking Gun website on Saturday 01.01.2011, FBI showed detailed written statement about the...

Be Aware Hacker - Honeypots now in India trap to lure hackers !

Decoys have been present in each and every culture, to capture the unknown as well as the known defaulters. The honey, which was used in turning the heads of bears that we used to find in jungles, well the same honey, but in a revisited version is being implemented and used here and has already...

'BitTorrent' exploit could be used to stage massive cyber attacks !

With the Federal Bureau of Investigations FBI treating successful cyber attacks by "Operation Payback" as criminal offenses, a new level of ambiguity is being introduced into the enforcement of cyber crime laws. The FBI was treating efforts by "Anonymous" and "4chan" as an "unauthorized and knowi...

China said that needs 'more Internet security' !

China should invest more in its own Internet security, lest it become a victim, or even scapegoat, for international hacking activities, an industry expert said on Tuesday. "Our current protection input is not enough, and the scale and size is far less intensive compared to that of Europe and the...

Germany to create cyber defense center !

Germany is planning the creation of a national cyber defense center in 2011 in reaction to a growing number of cyber attacks on government institutions that mostly originate in China. An interior ministry spokesman said Monday that while in 2009 the government registered only 900 attacks, there...