The Revolution from Cyber Terrorist attack to Indian Cyber Security

The Revolution from Cyber Terrorist attack to Indian Cyber Security Cyber attack has put our lives in danger every second. The cyber attacks are becoming the root cause of the mishappenings around us every other day. As the next generation wars are increasing depending on robust and secure...

U.S. Cyber Command Using Classified Intel To Scare CEOs To Action

The U.S.’s Cyber Command is using special, classified briefings with private sector CEOs to scare them into greater vigilance about the threat of cyber attacks, according to an NPR report. The report, quoting unnamed participants in the classified, 2010 briefings said that government officials...

Anonymous Hackers Targeting Russian government websites for Putin Inauguration

Anonymous Hackers Targeting Russian government websites for Putin Inauguration Anonymous hackers to launch cyber attacks on the websites of the Russian state agencies to support the opposition. In a YouTube video , Hackers said that the Russian government website will be subjected to DDOS attack ...

Report: Syrian Government Using Targeted Skype Attacks, Malware To Spy On Dissidents

In a post on the F-Secure Labs blog, Chief Research Officer Mikko Hypponen says the firm received a hard drive image from a “contact” within Syria who believed that his computer had been compromised. An F-Secure analysis of the drive’s contents and Web history revealed evidence of a targeted atta...

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech Last week, Hackers posted on the internet the private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including the numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on government web sites. Hacker groups Anonymous and...

CNCERT Claims - Raising Web attacks on China

CNCERT Claims - Raising Web attacks on China China's National Computer Network Emergency Response Technical Team CNCERT/CCis claiming attacks on public and private organisations from outside of its borders have rocketed in the past year from five million computers affected in 2010 to 8.9m in 2011...

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from Security Affairs - Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security...

Arab Countries websites urged to Increase Security Against Israeli Hackers

Arab Countries websites urged to Increase Security Against Israeli Hackers Recent hacking attacks online have gotten the attention of the world's media outlets in a big way. What has been reported as beginning as a youth led hacker attack against an Israeli website quickly escalated when six...

Code 2600: A Hacking Documentary

Code 2600: A Hacking Documentary Following the success of his debut documentary feature, Land of Confusion, award winning Pittsburgh filmmaker Jeremy Zerechak is already garnering early accolades for his newest project, CODE 2600. The film—a no-holds-barred look at the ramifications of the...

Market Fail: Regulations May Be Only Hope For Securing Critical Infrastructure

Threatpost’s exclusive interview with Ralph Langner continues, as our conversation shifts from the legacy of the Stuxnet worm to larger issues facing the critical infrastructure sector including mounting attacks, tensions between vendors and security researchers over responsible disclosure, and...

Report Warns of Woeful Readiness For Cyber Attacks Globally

A new report finds that the ‘bad guys’ are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks. The report, by Security & Defence Agenda SDA, was commissioned by the security firm McAfee. It concluded that friendly nations around the globe are losing out in an arms race wi...

UPDATE: Why Stuxnet-Like Attacks Aren't Going Away

Ralph Langner is the closest thing to a rock star that you get in the Dockers and pocket-protector world of industrial control systems. The German researcher made headlines in 2010 as among the first security experts to analyze parts of the Stuxnet worm’s code devoted to manipulating programmable...

Cyber War : Another 7000 Israel credit cards Exposed on Internet

Cyber War : Another 7000 Israel credit cards Exposed on Internet This week has began under worse auspices worse for Israel, which, despite its attention to the cyber threats posed by cyber-space, has been victim of a series of attacks that have checkmated the government of Jerusalem. Kosova...

World Economic Forum Sees Dark Side To Connectivity

The latest edition World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report takes a dim view of our hyper connected world. At the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, members wrestled with the consequences of ubiquitous Internet connectivity, concluding that groups or individuals with few resources ar...

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover"

FBI warning about Banking trojan "Gameover" Organized crooks have begun launching debilitating cyber attacks against banks and their customers as part of a smoke screen to prevent victims from noticing simultaneous high-dollar cyber heists. On Friday the FBI issued a warning about a banking troja...

Report: Anonymous Targets Neo-Nazis

The Anonymous Internet collective’s campaign against groups with whom they disagree surged into 2012 with “Operation Blitzkrieg,” which is targeting Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. Their latest effort includes a Wikileaks-style Website, Nazi-leaks.net, to uncover and expose the identities of...

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks

Iran government websites now on local server to Protect them from Cyber Attacks An Iranian official says the country has transferred the location of most of its government websites from foreign-based hosting agencies to new computer facilities inside the country to avert potential cyber attacks...

Quality Coding Takes A Break For The Holidays. But Why?

I recently read a blog post by CloudFlare and Shawn Graham that asked a fantastic and timely question: “Do Hackers Take The Holidays Off?” CloudFlare sees traffic for hundreds of thousands of websites and was able to answer the question. They looked at the average percentage of requests that...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...