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...

Google Report Shows It Complied With 93% of U.S. Law Enforcement Data Requests

Google complied with 93 percent of the requests for user data that it received from U.S. law enforcement agencies through the first six months of this year. In the latest update to its Transparency Report, Google for the first time not only disclosed the number of requests that it receives, but...

Report: Obama Administration Considered Libyan Cyber-Offensive

The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times. The details of the Obama Administration’s plan remain classified, but the Times...

Report: Air Force Struggled For Weeks With Malware In Drone Fighter Systems

A troubling and persistent virus infection at Creech Air Force base was kept secret from senior Air Force cyber security officials for weeks while IT staff in the affected unit at Creech struggled to eradicate the infection, according to a report by Wired.com. The Air Force’s cyber security...

Report: Virus Infects U.S. Military Drones

Wired’s ThreatLevel Blog reported on Friday that a computer virus is plaguing the systems used to remotely control the U.S. military’s fleet of unmanned drone aircraft. According to the report, which is unconfirmed, personnel at Creech Air Force Base in Nevada have been battling the persistent an...

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team VAT at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of...

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team VAT at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of...

RSA SecurID Attack May Have Also Struck U.S. Defense Orgs

Attackers behind March’s RSA SecurID attack apparently used the same method to try to infiltrate two U.S. national security organizations according to data recently made public by file checking site VirusTotal. Per an IDG News Service story, the malicious Flash-laden Excel spreadsheet was uploade...

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."...

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."...

China Propaganda Film Reveals Military Hacks Of Political Targets

It’s no secret that China is a major source of attacks on governments and political groups and individuals. However, it’s been harder to prove that the Chinese government and military is directly involved in such attacks. At least until now. According to this report on the Website...

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees ThEhAcKeR12 has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. Hacker posted an Excel spreadsheet...

Colbert: U.S. Should 'Unleash' Kevin Mitnick As A Secret Weapon

We all know that the fake news shows like The Daily Show and Colbert Report are a lot smarter and more informative than the nightly “GlobalCarWreckStrangerAbductionSportsHighlight” montage that passes for the local news. Last night’s interview of famed hacker and security consultant Kevin Mitnick...

On the Up and Up

It just keeps getting bigger – with all the news about stealthy cyber attacks on U.S. corporations and the government, it should be no surprise that both Black Hat and DEFCON had record attendance again this year. Among the notables: organizers at DEFCON running through their allotment of 10,000...

EMC Foots $66 Million Bill For RSA Attack

EMC Corporation announced via an earnings call Tuesday that it spent $66 million during the second quarter on its security firm division RSA to recover from a cyberattack that compromised their SecurID product in March, according to a post on the Washington Post’s Post Tech blog. The money went...

U.S. Says Cybercrime a Major National Security Threat

A new report from the National Security Council warns that international cybercrime has reached the upper echelon of threats of to the security of the United States and is responsible for as much as $1 billion in losses in just one year in the U.S. The report, which focuses on a number of broad...

Alleged Anonymous Member Faces Internet Ban, Monitoring Software

The U.S. Government is demanding that an alleged member of the online hacking group Anonymous be banned from using the Internet as a condition of his release, but won’t require him to run FBI monitoring software on his computers, saying the monitoring wasn’t enforceable. In a motion filed on July...

THE CRAZIES Hackers Leaks Server Certificates of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)

THE CRAZIES Hackers Leaks Server Certificates of Defense Information Systems Agency DISA THE CRAZIES Hackers steal the Several Certificate revocation lists CRLs from Server of Defense Information Systems Agency DISA - and leak the Certificates at : Reason of Hacking is Freedom of Libyan nation,...

Anonymous Hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, Nabs Info on 90,000 U.S. Military

The loose hacking collective known as Anonymous resumed its campaign against the U.S. government and companies that do business with it on Monday, releasing a trove of documents from government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The release of data, believed to be stolen from systems belonging to th...

McAfee Fingers North Korea in Attacks on South Korean Sites

An analysis by anti malware firm McAfee says that attacks against South Korean government and U.S. military Websites most likely came from North Korea. Analysis of the March, 2011 attacks and the malware used to carry them out suggest that the mission was carried out by forces in North Korea in...