Chinese hackers broke into NSA, service chiefs’ comps
More than 200 computers belonging to top-ranking government officials, including the three service chiefs and former national security advisor (NSA) MK Narayanan, were compromised in the hacking operation that originated in China on December 15, it has emerged. Security agencies now believe that the operation was bigger in scale than earlier believed. In a shocking [...]
Chinese police shut down hacker training op
Police in central China have shut down a hacker training operation that openly recruited thousands of members online and provided them with cyber attack lessons and malicious software, state media said Monday. The crackdown comes amid growing concern that China is a center for Internet crime and industrial espionage. Search giant Google said last month [...]
Google Attack Is a Mystery, China’s Foreign Minister Says
Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi said his country shouldn’t be blamed for cyber attacks on Google Inc. e-mail accounts that led the search- engine company to threaten an end to operations in China. “I don’t know how come this Google thing has popped up,” Yang said in remarks at the Munich Security Conference today. “We [...]
Hacker admits stealing, reselling VoIP services
A Miami man this week admitted hacking into the networks of several VoIP providers between 2004 and 2006 and then reselling millions of stolen minutes. Edwin Pena, 27, of Miami, yesterday pleaded guilty in a Newark, N.J. federal court to one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking and wire fraud, and one count of [...]
IE flaw gives hackers access to user files
Microsoft warned on Wednesday that a flaw in its Internet Explorer browser gives attackers access to files stored on a PC under certain conditions. “Our investigation so far has shown that if a user is using a version of Internet Explorer that is not running in Protected Mode an attacker may be able to access [...]
Lifestyle change’ best way to lose weight
08 February 2010
Part of “Healthy 2010,” a series offering tips on the best ways to experience optimal health and fitness during the year. Forget about Atkins. Ditch South Beach and The Zone. Cut out cabbage and low-carb, faux-carb, no-carb and the rest of the gimmicks many people turn to when it’s time to lose weight. There’s really [...]
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BlackBerry spyware released
08 February 2010
Veracode has released Blackberry-specific spyware, which the code-review specialist intends as a “call for defensive research” to show that the BlackBerry is vulnerable to spyware problems. “The Blackberry ‘sandbox’ keeps you from getting into the operating system level. It’s effective for that,” says Tyler Shields, senior researcher at Veracode Research Lab and author of the [...]
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World’s First Mac Cloud Computer Unveiled
08 February 2010
The DiscCloud Social Network today announced the release of “Flurry”, the desktop cloud infrastructure for Mac OS X. DiscCloud’s Mac desktop cloud provides a new degree of mobility, security, and flexibility for Mac users, enabling access to ‘their desktop’ from any Mac device on the network. DiscCloud Flurry extends enterprise classbusiness continuity to the Mac [...]
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Cyberspace Threats Could Affect National Security
08 February 2010
According to the White House’s top counter-terrorism advisor on Sunday, the United States faces “serious and significant” cyberspace threats which may affect national security. The advisor, John Brennan, told NBC that a cyber-security board has been set up at the White House to work on the matters of cyber crime. “It’s a very complex and [...]
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Infinite Group, Inc. Launches Information Security Practice
08 February 2010
Infinite Group, Inc. today announced the launch of the company’s information security practice. Established to meet the data security needs of both commercial and government sector organizations, Infinite Group will deliver a full range of IT security management services, emphasizing security processes and advanced technologies. The new practice group will offer virtualization security, network perimeter [...]
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Trend Micro Expands its Hosted Security Service and Puts Focus on Channel-Success and Protecting Mobile Workers
08 February 2010
Trend Micro is delivering its “Worry-Free” promise of safer, smarter, simpler security through a new subscription-based, hosted service solution that allows small businesses to be always connected, always protected. With the introduction of the new Trend Micro™ Worry-Free™ Business Security Services, small businesses are relieved of server-management burdens and time-consuming updates, yet still have easy [...]
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Antivirus maker Symantec hit with class-action lawsuit
08 February 2010
A New York man has sued security software maker Symantec for automatically renewing his subscription to Norton Antivirus, alleging that the company did not notify him before charging $76 to his credit card. The lawsuit comes seven months after the New York Attorney General’s office fined Symantec $375,000 for the practice and ordered it to [...]
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Computer virus attacks increasingly malicious
08 February 2010
Though the Gumblar computer virus and its variants initially targeted private firms, these viruses are now increasingly affecting Web sites of local governments, universities and independent administrative institutions. Attacks by new types of computer viruses similar to Gumblar have recently come to light, with about 400 private firms’ Web sites altered since late December, according [...]
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Smart Grid cybersecurity vulnerabilities identified
08 February 2010
The second draft of the Smart Grid Cyber Security Strategy and Requirements released last week provides more detail about the Herculean task of securing the nation’s modernized electrical infrastructure. The draft looks at anything that could threaten the Smart Grid from terrorists to simple but potentially disastrous errors. Read more…
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Zero-day vulnerabilities on the market
08 February 2010
Zero-day vulnerabilities have become prized possessions to attackers and defenders alike. As the recent China-Google attack demonstrated, they are the basis on which most of the successful attacks are crafted these days. Since to find this kind of vulnerability usually takes months of full-time hacking, hackers ask from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands [...]
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