Weird Science: Verizon Finds Stunning Drop in Data Theft

If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported...

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released !

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released ! Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the " Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report ." These findings continue to demonstrate that businesses 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...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

Rustock: March, 2011

By the time U.S. Marshals, in the company of Microsoft Corp. attorneys, busted into the data centers of dozens of U.S. hosting firms to shut down the Rustock botnet in March, 2011, it was the main source of global spam. The takedown was notable for the success Microsoft had in using the courts to...

Report: NSA Looks Into NASDAQ Hack

The National Security Agency has joined in a cyber forensic investigation off a major attack on NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. which operates the NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg. As reported by Threatpost, the tech-heavy stock exchange was discovered to be infiltrat...

Hacker group defies U.S. law, defends exposing McAfee vulnerabilities !

The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing vulnerabilities, especially on security vendor websites. The hacker group that exposed holes in McAfee's website knows it's breaking U.S. law, but vows to continue exposing...

Microsoft brings down world's biggest spam network !

A Microsoft lawsuit, unsealed earlier today, is responsible for causing government raids last Wednesday that lead to the downfall of the world's biggest spam network, Rustock. Microsoft's Digital Crimes Unit used information gained in its 2010 takedown of the Waledac botnet to work with the U.S...

HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr Resigns After being Exposed by Anonymous Hackers !

HBGary Federal's Aaron Barr Resigns After being Exposed by Anonymous Hackers ! Aaron Barr's time in the security industry's spotlight may have finally, mercifully ended. On Monday, the much-tormented chief executive of HBGary Federal announced that he has resigned from his position, three weeks...

Hacker claims credit for shutdown of WBC church's Website !

Twitter post suggests 'The Jester' may have been responsible for knocking controversial church offline A Twitter message from Monday suggests that a seld-proclaimed "hacktivist" using the handle The Jester may have been responsible for knocking the controversial Westboro Baptist Church offline. I...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

Plextor Site Hacked by ViciOuS Hacker After Product Launch !

Plextor has been hacked. Just days after announcing a new series of solid state drives, the digital storage company has found its U.S. site defaced by a digital vandal calling himself "ViciOuS". The altered page declares "Hacked by ViciOuS", and includes a shout-out to fellow hackers, a link to...

Still Smarting, Anonymous Releases 20,000 More HBGary Emails

More e-mail messages believed to belong to HBGary Federal Chief Operating Officer Greg Hoglund were posted online Sunday, fulfilling a promise by online mischief making group Anonymous to further embarrass the Washington D.C. security firm, whose CEO aroused the ire of the hacktivists last week. ...

Chinese man flip-flops on hacking claims in McAfee Report !

A Chinese technician quoted by U.S. Internet security firm McAfee Inc. as informing that hackers from China had attacked a number of US oil and gas companies over the past years has denied claims attributed to him in the 19-page report released on Thursday. In a telephone interview to the Wall...

Anti-computer hacking bill coming in U.S. Congress !

Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in the U.S. Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ.O and at oil and gas companies. "Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, wh...

Is WikiLeaks Really Hacking for Secrets !

In April 2009 the whistle-blower website WikiLeaks appear a abstruse U.S. aggressive certificate account abstruse capabilities of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai. In an online column answer how it acquired the information, WikiLeaks adumbrated alone that it came from "a...

You Have $ 500? You Can Buy A Hack For The Site Of U.S. Army !

If you are a criminal looking for total control of the World Wide Web, used by the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command CECOM, you can get it for just under $ 500 U.S. Or so we offer underground hackers in the forums. security provider Imperva found on the black market sales pitch on...

Expert: Stuxnet Just Latest in U.S. Hacks of Covert Nuke Programs

CORRECTION: This article originally included the incorrect name for an associate of A.Q. Khan. The correct name of the associate is “Friedrich Tinner,” a Swiss nuclear engineer. The name has been corrected in the article. The author of a new book on the evolution of the world’s first nuclear blac...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

Dongfan "Greg" Chung (Boeing)

Chung, a 72 year old engineer from Orange, California was charged with eight counts of economic espionage in 2008. According to a statement by the U.S. Department of Justice, Chung, a naturalized U.S. citizen, had secret clearance for work on the U.S. Space Shuttle program that he performed as an...