In Report, U.S. Accuses China, Russia of Cyber Espionage

In its most blunt statement to date, the U.S. government accused both China and Russia of conducting far flung cyber espionage campaigns against U.S. and other Western firms in an effort to promote domestic interests. The report, “Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace” was...

NSA Director Says U.S. Working to Push Attack Data to ISPs

WASHINGTON–The commander of the U.S. Cyber Command said that the federal government is working on a system now that would allow it to work with ISPs and others to help stop ongoing attacks against government and private networks by pushing intelligence and attack signatures to them. Gen. Keith...

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...

Analysis: Duqu Targets Certificate Authorities

With virus researchers scrambling to decode a new piece of malware that is based on the code of the Stuxnet worm, an analyst at McAfee is speculating that the new worm, Duqu, may have been created to target certificate authorities. Writing on McAfee’s research blog, Guilherme Venere and Peter Szo...

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran

Reality Based Cyber Crime Novella Explores Aftermath of Stuxnet Attack On Iran GRAND RAPIDS – Cyber Styletto is a new novella by a journalist, a writer, and a security expert who have pooled their talents to create an enthralling good read that is future forward and predictive. The facts are base...

Report: Japan Fesses Up to First Cyber Attack on Defense Industry

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHI, Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters. The attack, first discovered in early August, is believed to have...

Akamai Employee Attempts to Sell Trade Secrets to Israel, Pleads Guilty

A Massachusetts man plead guilty on charges of foreign economic espionage on Tuesday after selling trade secrets from his former employer to an undercover FBI agent posing as an Israeli intelligence officer. According to an Associated Press report, Elliot Doxer, 43, of Brookline, Massachusetts,...

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks

F-Secure : Chinese Government Launching Online Attacks According to F-Secure Chinese military documentary shows footage of gov't systems launching attacks against US target. China is often blamed for launching online attacks, but the evidence is almost always circumstantial. Many of the targeted...

Italian Intelligence agency CNAIPIC steals sensitive data from Indian Embassy

Italian Intelligence Agency CNAIPIC steals sensitive data from Indian Embassy Sensitive defence information appears to have been stolen from the Indian embassy here by an Italian intelligence agency during the past two years. If the documents released by Anonymous Hackers are to be believed, the...

On 4th August SAP systems will be hacked on internet in BlackHat USA 2011

On 4th August SAP systems will be hacked on internet in BlackHat USA 2011 On the 4th of august at the world largest technical security conference - BlackHat USA 2011, which will take place in Las Vegas, SAP security expert and CTO of ERPScan Alexander Polyakov will show how any malicious attacker...

U.S. House Committee Questions Ability to Secure Wall Street Data

Cyber security experts warned on Thursday that the U.S. government is failing to learn the lessons of past computer and intelligence breaches and often exhibits a careless attitude towards securing the data it keeps. The testimony came in a hearing on Thursday before the U.S. House of...

Byzantine Hades

Byzantine Hades is a code name given to a wide ranging and persistent group of network intrusions into U.S. military, government, and corporate systems. The operations can be broken down into three sub-categories: Byzantine Candor, Byzantine Anchor and Byzantine Foothold. Information on the hacks...

ISI (Pakistan) hack email account of Indian Army Major !

ISI Pakistan hack email account of Indian Army Major ! A serving Inter-Services Intelligence ISI officer Major Sameer Ali hacked an Indian Army major's e-mail account in 2010 and extracted many sensitive documents, intelligence sources said. Ali has been named by India in the list of 50 'most...

Bahrain says Iranian hackers hit government website

Bahrain says Iranian hackers hit government website Bahrain's authorities said late Saturday that Iranian hackers hit a government website. In retaliation, the Bahrain Chamber for Commerce and Industry is urging a boycott of Iranian goods, The Associated Press reported. According to the governmen...

Insecure Mail Server Offers Chinese Government Accounts To The Masses

A security researcher who identified holes in SCADA software used by utilities in China has issued a new warning to that country’s CERT about insecure Web infrastructure, including an e-mail server that allows any Web user to create their own Chinese government mail account. Dillon Beresford, a...

Report Describes Far-Flung Chinese Cyber Espionage Against U.S. Government

The massive campaign of cyber intrusions of U.S. government Web sites by China’s People’s Liberation Army PLA now has a name: “Byzantine Hades,” according to a report Thursday by Reuters. The report says that China has gained the upper hand over the U.S. in the arena of cyberwarfare, developing a...

Chinese hackers suspected in compromise of Australian PM's computer

Chinese hackers suspected in compromise of Australian PM's computer The parliamentary computers of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and at least two other senior ministers are suspected of being hacked. Ms Gillard's parliamentary computer, along with those of several cabinet ministers including Forei...

Kaspersky Lab forecast for the IT threat landscape 2011 – 2020 !

Kaspersky Lab has released its forecast for the IT threat landscape for this decade 2011 – 2020. Kaspersky bases this forecast on an analysis of the main changes and issues in the sphere of IT security over the past decade, as well as emerging trends in the development of personal computers, mobi...

Chinese hackers targeted House of Commons !

Chinese hackers not only attacked key federal departments: they also cracked into the computer system of the House of Commons, targeting MPs with large ethnic Chinese constituencies, CTV News has learned. Sources say Canada's secret cyber spy agency -- the Communications Security Establishment --...

Anonymous Surpasses Wikileaks !

The exploits of Anonymous to hack the systems of firms providing spying services to governments and corporations suggest that the WikiLeaks mini-era has been surpassed. Much of WikiLeaks promise to protect sources is useless if the sources are not whistleblowers needing a forum for publication...