Is China Behind the Massive Data Theft of 4 Million U.S. Officials?

The US federal agency has notified its 4 Million current and former government employees that their private data has been compromised in a massive data breach. Hackers managed to break into US government computer systems in the Office of Personnel Management OPM and steal records of Millions of...

IC3 Warns of Cyber Attacks Focused on Law Enforcement and Public Officials

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has issued an alert warning that law enforcement personnel and public officials may be at an increased risk of cyber attacks. Doxing—the act of gathering and publishing individuals’ personal information without permission—has been observed. Hacking...

DDoS Attack Against GitHub Continues After More Than Four Days

More than four days after it began, the massive DDoS attack on GitHub is still ongoing. The attack has evolved significantly since it started and GitHub officials said they believe that the goal of the operation is to force the site to remove some specific content. In the evening hours of March 2...

India to Host 3rd Annual 'The Hackers Conference' this Year in August

A crowd of Cyberspace experts along with the best minds in Indian hacking community, leaders in the information security community, policymakers and Government representatives will come together at a common platform to join their efforts in addressing the most critical issues of the Internet...

Iranian Campaign Snooped on U.S. and Israeli Officials

Iranian spies have carried out an intelligence gathering campaign since at least 2011 by targeting U.S. military, diplomats, D.C. journalists, and government emissaries, just to name a few, a via social media. According to iSIGHT Partners, a cyber threat intelligence firm, attackers have long bee...

HackerOne Bug Bounty Platform Lands Top Microsoft Security Expert

With bug bounties being all the rage, the platforms that support them are emerging as important pieces of the security research, disclosure and reward ecosystem. One of those platforms, HackerOne, has scored a major coup in hiring Katie Moussouris, the driving force behind Microsoft’s bounty...

Malaysian flight MH370 tragedy abused by Chinese hackers for Espionage attacks

The Mysterious Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777-200 aircraft that has gone missing by the time it flew from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The Malaysian Prime Minister had also confirmed that the Malaysia Airlines plane had crashed in a remote part of the southern Indian Ocean. Cyber...

Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 spear phishing emails spotted

Hold off on the notion that watering hole attacks may supplant phishing as the initial means of compromise in advanced attacks. A number of recent targeted campaigns have used the crash of Malaysia Airlines 370 as a lure to infect government officials in the U.S. and Asia-Pacific. FireEye today...

The NSA, Obama and Straw Men

For the people expecting President Barack Obama to announce sweeping changes to the NSA’s surveillance programs, his speech on Friday likely was a major disappointment. Obama laid out some new controls and limits for some of the more controversial programs, specifically the phone metadata...

China APT Hackers Target Diplomats in Ke3chang Campaign

European diplomats and ministries of foreign affairs have been targeted during recent G20 meetings by Chinese-speaking hackers conducting espionage campaigns using malware to siphon secrets from compromised computers. The latest incidents came in August when spear phishing messages spiked with...

Iranian Hackers infiltrated US Navy computers

The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated unclassified US Navy computers, the allegations were made by US officials that consider the attacks a serious intrusion within the Government network. "The U.S. Officials said the attacks were carried out by hacker...

Air Force Classifies Some Cybersecurity Tools as Weapons

The United States government for years has been developing and deploying offensive cyber capabilities, most of it done without much in the way of public notice. That’s been changing of late, as government and military officials have become more open in discussing these capabilities and under what...

Old School Hackers spying on European governments

Kaspersky Lab's team of experts recently published a new research report that analyzed that Cyber criminals have targeted government officials in more than 20 countries, including Ireland and Romania with a new piece of malware called 'MiniDuke'. In a recent attack, malware has infected governmen...

Anonymous General Purpose Operating System: Whonix

Whonix is a free desktop operating system OS that is specifically designed for advanced security and privacy. Based on Tor, Debian GNU/Linux and the principle of security by isolation, it realistically addresses common attack vectors while maintaining usability. Online anonymity is made possible...

Anonymous leaks personal information of 5000 Israeli officials

Internet hacktivist group Anonymous has declared cyberwar on Israel, posting personal data of five thousand Israeli officials online. "It has come to our attention that the Israeli government has ignored repeated warnings about the abuse of human rights, shutting down the internet in Israel and...

Члены группировкиAntiSec заявляют что выложили в инет данныекред карт 13федералов США

Взято с: http://www.anti-malware.ru/news/2012-09-16/10023 Дата публикации: 16.09.12 Поводом для этой акции послужил арест Баррета Брауна, называвшего себя пресс-секретарём хакерской группировки Anonymous. Брауна обвиняют в том, что он угрожал федеральному агенту. Баррета Брауна арестовали AntiSec...

Indian Officials Get Training from Hackers who cracked CERN's IT system

Two Argentina-based cyber security experts - Chris Russo and Fernando Viacanel, who claimed to have cracked the security code of IT systems involved in the discovery of 'God Particle', today conducted training sessions for Indian government officials. Both the hackers are partners of IT security...

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China

Cyber Attacks on gas pipeline linked to China The spear-phishing attacks laying siege to networks in the natural gas pipeline industry apparently are being carried out by the same group that hacked RSA security last year. The attacks, which have been occurring since late this past March, have...

UK Govt. Investigating London Marathon Data Breach That Spilled Info On 38,000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office ICO said it is looking into a possible data breach of the Website used by organizers of the London Marathon – major, international sporting event that attracted more than 37,000 runners for the 37th running on April 22nd. According to a BBC report, the hom...

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick

Stuxnet was planted by Iranian double agent using memory stick The Stuxnet computer worm used to sabotage Iran's nuclear program was planted by a double agent working for Israel. The agent used a booby-trapped memory stick to infect machines deep inside the Natanz nuclear facility, according to a...