Cyber Attacks on Six Major American Banks

According to reports, some of the United States biggest financial institutions including Wells Fargo, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, Citigroup, and Bancorp were hit by a series of cyber attacks last week, by a group claiming Middle Eastern ties, that caused Internet blackouts and delays in onli...

The Rise of Data-Driven Security

The phrase “you’re doing it wrong” is a common refrain in the security community these days as people wander around in various states of disillusionment with the technology and processes that have led to what many perceive as a systemic failure. But that refrain usually is not followed by any...

Symantec Norton Utilities 2006 source code leaked by Anonymous

Symantec is looking into claims more of its products' source code has been leaked online, following a similar incident earlier this year. This time source code from Norton Utilities 2006 was reportedly leaked on The Pirate Bay by Anonymous member STUN. "As you all see its fully 7z packed content,...

Report: Advanced Malware Targeting Organizations up Nearly 400 Percent

There’s been a huge jump in malicious, web-based infections targeting companies in the last year, a nearly 400 percent increase from last year, according to research released today by network security company FireEye. The company’s “Advanced Threat Report – 1H 2012,” blames the jump on attackers’...

Frankenstein Malware turning legitimate software into invisible malware

Many malware and viruses can be identified by detection software because of known bits of malicious code. But what if there was a virus compiled from little bits of programs you already had installed? That's just what two security researchers are looking into. Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheu...

Power Plants Are Vulnerable To Hackers with Siemens flaw

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security has issued an alert warning that hackers could exploit code in Siemens-owned technology to attack power plants and other national critical infrastructure. Justin W. Clarke, an expert in securing industrial control systems, disclosed at a conference in Los...

Joe Stewart on APTs and Cyber Espionage

Dennis Fisher talks with Joe Stewart of the Dell SecureWorks Counter Threat Unit about his team’s new research on the landscape of APT malware families, who is behind the use of these tools and how poorly prepared most organizations are for attacks by these crews. Download: digitalunderground101...

Study: SQL Attacks Jump 69 Percent In Recent Months

The number of SQL attacks jumped by nearly two thirds earlier this year according to cloud hosting firm FireHost who recorded over 450,000 blocked SQL injection attacks between the first and second quarter this year. According to a report in ComputerWeekly, the firm claimed this week that it...

Cyber Security Alliance Launches Trend Spotting Project

A new international cyber security alliance announced plans to put the Continents best heads together to try to envision future cyber security trends. The International Cyber Security Protection Alliance ICSPA, a British organization that helps support law enforcement cyber crime units, announced...

Dark Comet RAT Tailored For Attacks On Gamers, Governments

Researchers analyzing the Dark Comet remote access Trojan RAT program say that data from more than 400 campaigns suggests the malicious program is being used for a wide range of jobs, from attacks on online gamers, to potential hacks of air force bases and government Web sites. In the blog entry,...

An Unhappy Birthday For Uncle Sam On Cyber Security

Here’s the good news on America’s birthday: the last year has seen the U.S. emerge as an undisputed global leader in the use of offensive cyber operations. Averting another “Sputnik” moment, the nation’s longest running and most successful democracy blazed new trails in non-kinetic warfare,...

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan Japan's legislature has approved a bill revising the nation's copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in...

LulzSec Affiliate, Ryan Cleary, Indicted in U.S.

Ryan Cleary, the 20 year-old Essex, England hacker associated with the hacker collective LulzSec, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the United States on Tuesday. According to an FBI press release, the grand jury indicted Cleary with one count of conspiracy and two counts of the unauthorized...

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

Diving Into Flame, Researchers Find A Link To Stuxnet

Researchers digging through the code of the recently discovered Flame worm say they have come across a wealth of evidence that suggests Flame and the now-famous Stuxnet worm share a common origin. Researchers from Kaspersky Lab say that a critical module that the Flame worm used to spread is...

Report: North Korea Accused Of DDoS Attack On South Korean Airport

North Korean agents have been linked to a malware attack on a South Korea’s Incheon International Airport, according to a report from the JoongAng Daily, a South Korean paper. The paper, citing the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, said that a 39 year-old South Korean man was arrested for...

Serco: 'Sophisticated' Attack On U.S. Govt. Pension Plan Nets Info On 123k

Serco Inc., a well-known contractor working with the U.S. government, announced that it was the target of a sophisticated attack that exposed data on 123,000 civil employees of the Federal government and their families, including names, addresses and social security numbers taken from the company...

DHS To Critical Infrastructure Owners: Hold On To Data After Cyber Attack

The Department of Homeland Security Is Offering Organizations That Use Industrial Control Systems advice or mitigating the effects of cyber attacks. Among the agency’s recommendations: hold on to data from infected systems and prevent enemies from moving within your organization. DHS’s Industrial...

DHS Warns of Potential Scams and Attack in Run-up to London Olympics

Hacktivists, malware, scams, data theft and DDoS attacks are among the Department of Homeland Security’s concerns regarding this summer’s Olympic Games set to take place in London, according to the DHS Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center’s Strategic Outlook. The document focuses...

From Atari to Steam

The past year has seen a sharp increase in attacks aimed at online gaming platforms and game makers. In fact, there was a point last summer, in the wake of Sony’s Playstation Network outage, when it seemed like no video game company was safe from hackers – whether they be ideologically motivated...