Framing itself as a Victim, China Calls for a Global Crackdown on Hackers
An article from Yahoo news in there tech section : In between swipes at the United States, China's foreign minister Yang Jiechi called for new "rules and cooperation" against cyber attacks at the annual session of the National People's Congress this weekend. The statement, which really reads as yet another denial that China's involved in the recent […]
Hacktivists plan to resume DDoS campaign against U.S. banks
An interesting article from SC Magazine about DDOS: Citing inadequate efforts to remove an anti-Muslim video from the web, a hacktivist group is calling for more distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks to be launched against U.S. bank sites. The collective, known as Martyr Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters, suspended its initial DDoS campaign in late January […]
Hackers fail to crack Chrome OS
An interesting article from YAHOO News tech section: Google (GOOG) offered hackers a chance at a big pay day if they could crack its Chrome OS platform. The company held its annual Pwnium competition at the ConSecWest security conference in Vancouver this week where it put $3.14159 million up for grabs. While a number of […]
Pwn2Own Hackers Bring Popular Browsers To Their Knees
The results from the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest are in, and the score is as follows: hackers one, software zero.
Suit: 185K spyware images sent to rental computersSuit: 185K spyware images sent to rental computers
An interesting article in Yahoo News tech section : PITTSBURGH (AP) — Spyware installed on computers leased from furniture renter Aaron's Inc. secretly sent 185,000 emails containing sensitive information — including pictures of nude children and people having sex — back to the company's corporate computers, according to court documents filed Wednesday in a class-action […]
EADS, ThyssenKrupp attacked by Chinese hackers: report
An Interesting article in NBC News technology section: FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Airbus parent EADS and German steelmaker ThyssenKrupp recorded major attacks by Chinese hackers in 2012, German magazine Der Spiegel reported, citing unidentified people within the two companies. That is a trend seen throughout the German economy, where companies are increasingly being attacked by Chinese […]
Microsoft says small number of its computers hacked
An Interesting article in NBC News technology section: SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said on Friday a small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware, but there was no evidence of customer data being affected and it is continuing its investigation. The world's largest software company […]
NBC website hacked and distributes malware - here's what happened
An interesting article form Naked Security about NBC website being hack :The latest high-profile organisation to fall victim to cybercriminals is the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), one of the so-called Big Three television networks in the USA. NBC's website was "owned" and used as a go-between in a campaign to infect online visitors automatically. For […]
Google says it is winning the war against Gmail account hijackers
An interesting article on Naked Security: It was 2011, and if you were a Gmail user you might have found things had begun to turn ugly. Spam messages, spear-phishing attacks, and bogus "I'm stranded in a foreign country" scams, began to appear in some users' inboxes, defeating Google's anti-spam systems. To read more about this click […]
Botnet master abuses Facebook for pocket money, researchers reveal
An interesting story from Naked Security on botnets: A Chinese hacker’s main job may well be running a botnet of malware-clotted zombie PCs, but there’s always time left in the day for selling fake Likes, apparently. It is not every day that remorseful confessions over lapsed adherence to the Five Precepts of Buddhism help researchers […]