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The hacker group LulzSec has been carrying out a security-busting blitzkrieg across the Web over the last few weeks, and its targets are getting bigger and bigger. You can tell where it's been by the path of sites left shivering in a fetal position -- sites belonging to organizations like PBS, Sony,...
News of two cybersecurity efforts undertaken by the United States government surfaced Friday. One is the Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot, in which the U.S. Department of Defense, partnering with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share classified threat information and the knowledge ...
Spanish police announced Friday they have arrested the leaders of the Anonymous hacker group in that country. They also claim to have found a server that coordinated and implemented computer attacks on government, financial and business websites worldwide, including the Sony's PlayStation Network, a...
Sony's security nightmare just won't end. Earlier this week, malicious hackers released a bundle of personal information on thousands of Sony customers that was stolen -- quite easily, according to the infiltrators -- from Sony's IT systems. That was only the latest in a long series of cyberattacks ...
The Gmail accounts of hundreds of high-profile individuals were hijacked through a so-called spear phishing campaign originating in China, according to Google. Hackers apparently gained access to users' accounts using passwords likely obtained through malicious software and targeted phishing techniq...
The United States federal government last month released the country's first comprehensive international strategy for cyberspace. This lays out President Barack Obama's vision for the future of the Internet and outlines how the U.S. will partner with other countries to achieve that vision. Assuring ...
When the very companies that provide us security technology are themselves either getting hacked or hamstrung with security flaws, how can we be sure that our computers have any protection at all?Within the space of just over a month, security issues hit three major players in the security field -- ...
The FBI has requested and received a preliminary injunction from a U.S. district judge to continuing issuing "stop" commands to the zombie machines infected with the Coreflood botnet. It is an essential step that is part of the agency's dramatic takedown of the botnet's command-and-control system ea...
The United States Department of Justice and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have hammered the Coreflood botnet, which its owners used to conduct cyberfraud on a massive scale. They have seized five command and control servers and 29 domain names registered in the United States, obtained a tempor...
The audience at a panel discussing challenges and opportunities from a global IT security perspective Wednesday at the IT Security Entrepreneurs' Forum was nodding off until question time, when Jody Westby blasted the panelists. She accused them of not sticking to the topic and suggested they focus ...
Late last year, an online battle erupted when Wikileaks supporters attacked the websites of businesses that had attempted to sever ties with the online leak depository following Wikileaks' release of thousands of secret U.S. State Department cables. Is it fair to call the dust-up to first cyberwar? ...
The United States will leverage IT know-how among members of the National Guard and the nation's military reserves by increasing the number of units that have dedicated cybermissions, U.S. Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn announced Tuesday. Government efforts alone can't fend off cyberattackers...
Teamwork is important. We all know this to be the case whenever we do anything in a group involving other people. But arbitrary -- even directionless -- teamwork doesn't make success by itself, no matter what the motivational poster might tell you. There are different kinds of teamwork. Consider, ...
Cybercrime has evolved into a professional activity, one example of which is a large-scale attack McAfee CTO George Kurtz has dubbed "Night Dragon" in a recent blog post. The activity is described as a series of largely unsophisticated cyberattacks targeting energy companies and going back as far as...
Anonymous, an amorphous group of cyberactivists, has set its sights on HBGary Federal, a company claiming to provide security expertise to the United States' federal government. The group took down HBGary Federal's websites and posted a message denouncing the company online. Anonymous' attack follow...
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