Its 3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down !

3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down ! The website of the much sought-after Central Bureau of Investigation CBI continues to remain inactive, three weeks after it was hacked into by the so-called Pakistani Cyber Army. As a result, many have been badly hit, particularly the media...

India's Gov't Websites Still under Cyber Attacks !

Cyber crime experts in India are warning about the security flaws of many government websites, claiming the recent cyber attacks by Pakistani hackers have spurred little action in terms of enhanced cyber security. "Websites like that of Income Tax of India has loopholes and it can be hacked...

Unauthorized Access to Ohio State Server Affects 760,000

UPDATE Ohio State University warned those who have had contact with the University that a server containing personally identifiable data was illegally accessed by a third party and may have exposed data on 760,000 people. The university is notifying past and present students, faculty, staff, and...

Second Dutch Teen Arrested Over Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Police in the Netherlands have arrested a second teenager in connection with the pro-WikiLeaks distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks seen earlier this week. The arrest of the 19-year-old man follows Friday's attacks on websites belonging to the Dutch Police and the national prosecutor's...

Dutch Police Arrest 16-Year-Old for Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 16-year-old hacker involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the websites of MasterCard and PayPal. The Dutch National Prosecutors Office reported that the teen, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested by a high-tech crime team last night. The arrest...

55 Indian sites deface by Pakcobra's

55 Indian sites deface by Pakcobra's Links : https://exams.victorgrowth.com https://victorgrowth.com https://www.allindiaarchitects.com https://www.shyamlalexports.com https://www.theexodusevent.com https://leadwings.com https://e-ant.in https://www.abellatechnologies.in https://chennaibook.com...

EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Attacks Drive South Korea to Install DDoS Bunkers

In hopes of combating ongoing distributed-denial-of-service DDoS attacks, South Korea recently erected digital “bunkers” throughout their networks, according to a post on ZDNet’s Australian site. Created to help smaller businesses too poor to defend themselves, the “bunkers” are providing tempora...

The Persistent Adversary: Targeted Hacking Attacks and What They Mean For Your Business

Join Dennis Fisher, Ryan Naraine and their special guests, Oliver Day, Andy Ellis, and Robert Hansen as they take a look at the rising sophistication of real-world, web-based cyber attacks from the offensive, defensive and end-user perspective. / //These variables control the player launch proces...

Researchers Can Keep Web Servers Up During Attack

MIT researchers funded by DARPA U.S. Defense Department’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency have developed a system to keep web servers — or, for that matter, any Internet-connected computers — running even when they’re under attack. Read the full article. MIT News...

Banking Losses for Small Biz Blowing Up

Most small business owners have no clue about the threats they face or the liability they assume when banking online, even as the frequency and sophistication of attacks appears to be increasing. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

Financial Industry Group Plans Cyber Attack Simulation

A financial services industry group is planning to simulate a series of cyber attacks to test how well banks, payment processors and retailers deal with online threats. Participants will be expected to activate their incident response procedures in accordance with the scenario presented and to...

Report: Cyberterror Not a Credible Threat

A new report by a Washington policy think tank dismisses out of hand the idea that terrorist groups are currently launching cyber attacks and says that the recent attacks against U.S. and South Korean networks were not damaging enough to be considered serious incidents.The report, written by Jame...

Parsing JS Trojan attack with anti-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Web hang horse has now become hackers launched cyber attacks the main one way, and therefore protect against Web security threats, it is particularly important, this article will introduce some of the common JS hung it to the phenomenon and how to respond. Trojan has always been a hack of adept...

Private sector relations should be job one for cyber security czar

Whoever is brave enough to fill the soon-to-be-created cybersecurity czar position will find a rather large pile of challenges waiting. Among them will be dealing with a confused and argumentative Congress, doing a full-scale assessment of the country’s critical infrastructure and reaching out to...

Forensic experts fuse technology, intelligence for investigations

From The New York Times John Markoff The small cadre of experts who spend their time doing the meticulous, painstaking work of tracing cyber attacks is increasingly relying on a combination of advanced technical tools and old-fashioned intelligence-gathering techniques to track down the people an...

Radical steps are needed to fix Internet security

The Internet as we know it today was designed to be a place where people could go about their business, whatever it happened to be, anonymously and without interference from other users. This model worked reasonably well for a long time, but it’s become painfully clear in recent months that some...

GhostNet shows extent of online spying

As a result of some tremendous work done by researchers at the University of Toronto, we now know that there is an enormous network of compromised machines in more than 100 countries around the world, many of them in government agencies, embassies and other sensitive locations. The network has it...

The cybersecurity mess on the White House front steps

If President Obama thinks fixing the broken U.S. economy is a challenge, and ending the ground wars in the Middle East a conundrum, wait until he gets around to tackling cybersecurity. Obama must reverse the abject lack of any sort of meaningful coordinated defense against intensifying and...

A springboard for attack and Defense-bug warning-the black bar safety net

Hackers in the attack will borrow from other systems to their own purposes, such as for the next target of the attack and occupied the computer itself use, and so on. This article describes the common hacker to the usurped computer use and Security Administrator to the appropriate response method...