Attacks Against Oil Conglomerates Ramping Up, Execs Claim

Executives for some of the world’s largest oil companies stressed that cyber attacks against their companies are becoming more strategic and happening more frequently at a conference last week, according to a report today from the BBC. At the 20th World Petroleum Congress in Doha, Qatar, one of...

Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

Hacker Claims He Breached Texas Water Plant

A hacker claims to have breached a water utility in Texas and has posted reputed screenshots online to prove it. The water plant targeted by the hacker, who uses the alias “Pr0f”, is in the Harris County city of South Houston. In a post on Pastebin, Pr0f said his actions were in response to what ...

Citing Crisis, Senate Leader Puts Cybersecurity Bill On 2012 Agenda

Citing a looming crisis over lax computer security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that the Senate will debate cybersecurity legislation. The move comes despite the lack of a coherent Senate plan and could set up a showdown with House Republicans over the government’s role in...

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers

Operation Brotherhood Shutdown : Multiple Sites taken down by Anonymous Hackers Anonymous Hackers take down the The Muslim Brotherhood websites. The hacking group had made an announcement Tuesday in which they threatened to launch "Operation Brotherhood Takedown," on all Brotherhood sites at 8pm ...

A New Cybersecurity Research Agenda (In Three Minutes or Less)

Editor’s Note: As the CISO of In-Q-Tel, the CIA-backed strategic investment firm focused on developing technologies for the intelligence community, Dan Geer gets paid to help find the answers to big questions about computer security, national security, privacy and technology. Headlines proliferat...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Hackers Interrupt U.S. Government Satellites

Hackers interfered with two U.S. satellites on four separate occasions in the last few years, according to a draft of a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission obtained by Bloomberg BusinessWeek on Thursday. The attacks are believed to have been orchestrated from China...

Japanese Parliament Struggling To Address Hack, Data Theft

The fallout from a targeted attack on computers belonging to members of the Japanese House of Representatives continued on Tuesday, with claims that both servers and PCs on the House network were infected with a password stealing Trojan, and reports that House members had taken to storing sensiti...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

SEC Says Public Companies May Need to Disclose Attacks

The Securities and Exchange Commission has issued new guidance to help public companies determine when they may need to disclose an attack–or even a potential attack–in order to make potential investors aware of possible risks to the company’s business. The guidance, which does not constitute a...

Can we kick the attachment habit?

As consumers of messaging services, particularly email, we have become addicted to attachments. This habit has become an easy avenue for mounting cyber-attacks against an organization. In the 2010 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, conducted in cooperation with the United States Secret...

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released

Linux - Means Freedom The Hacker News Magazine October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers, We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think...

Linux - Means Freedom [The Hacker News Magazine] October 2011 Issue Released

Linux - Means Freedom The Hacker News Magazine October 2011 Issue Released Dear Readers, We here at The Hacker News were very humbled to be given the opportunity to celebrate 10 millions hits to the website. Wow! We are so very grateful for your support and as I told you last month, I don't think...

British VPN Service Defends Role in Lulzsec Bust

British virtual private network VPN company Hide My Ass has taken a stand about their involvement in the arrest of an alleged Lulzsec member last week. In a blog post published on Friday, the company reiterated that they keep logs of their users’ history for 30 days and they will cooperate with l...

Mark Russinovich on His Novel Zero Day and Coordinated Cyber Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with Mark Russinovich of Microsoft about his novel Zero Day, the idea of a coordinated cyber attack by terrorists and the difficulty of writing a technical novel for a mainstream audience. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on Image...

Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution to Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time

Radware's Attack Mitigation System Delivers the First Fully Integrated Solution to Fight Cyber Attacks in Real Time The solution blocks the new breed of sophisticated attacks that target Multiple layers of the IT infrastructure . Today's point security tools for IT infrastructures are not enough ...

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to take Anonymous and other non-professional cyber-attackers more seriously as it issues a warning about potential attacks. The 2 September security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Securi...

Indian Government Computers are also Corrupted like Government

Indian Government Computers are also Corrupted like Government One of the Indian Hacker named "nomcat" claim to hack into the Indian Prime Ministers Office Computers and install R.A.T remote administration tool in them. He also Expose the Vulnerability in Income Tax website and Database...

Orange.fr hacked, Database and site source code leaked

Orange.fr hacked, Database and site source code leaked Anonymous Hacker Hack Orange.Fr and upload the database and Site source code backup on file sharing site. Data leaked on twitter. Orange is the brand used by France Télécom for its mobile network operator and Internet service provider...