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From April through mid-September, with a 45-day hiatus in between, hackers were busy attacking a series of targets, culminating in the chemical and defense industries, Symantec has reported. A total of 29 chemical industry companies and 19 others, mainly in the defense sector, were hit. The hackers ...
Malware that appears to be similar to the highly toxic Stuxnet worm was made public Tuesday by security firm Symantec. Duqu, named for the "~DQ" file names it creates, appears to work as a remote access data-collecting program that uses some of the same infecting techniques as Stuxnet, the malware d...
October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month -- so says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which asserts Americans have a shared responsibility in increasing the resiliency of the nation and its online infrastructure. Perhaps other federal bodies and departments should visit that websit...
Facebook, long a darling of cybercriminals looking to lure in unsuspecting cybersocializers, has partnered with content security vendor Websense to help protect members from links that lead to malware and malicious sites. That may prove good news to corporations, where many IT managers consider empl...
The United States Department of Defense is reportedly extending its Defense Industrial Base Cyber Pilot program, first announced by deputy defense secretary William Lynn in June, to defense contractors. Under this program, the DoD, together with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, will share c...
Right now, you can buy a car that you can unlock by just touching the door handle. No need to struggle with key fobs or keys. Known by various names, including "Keyless Go" and "Smart Key," this feature is available for a cool grand or so as an option on various cars, including the Mercedes-Benz S-C...
In the wake of repeated hacker attacks on defense contractors in the United States comes news that the systems of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Japan's biggest defense contractor, have been breached. Mitsubishi's submarine, missile and nuclear power plant component factories were reportedly targeted ...
The break-in and theft of security certificates from a Dutch authority brought home, once again, how vulnerable Web browsers can be to hackers pretending to be who they're not. The authority, DigiNotar, is one of many that issue security certificates for websites. The digital certificates tell a br...
It's been another wild and crazy week for the security community. Scotland Yard arrested two suspected members of Anonymous and LulzSec Thursday. Meanwhile, the major players in the browser market -- Google, Microsoft and the Mozilla Foundation -- have chopped Dutch certificate DigiNotar off at the ...
If you thought the hacks by Anonymous and AntiSec were bad, boy, are you in for a revelation. This past week brings news that the Apache Web server -- the one that powers the majority of the Internet and most websites -- has a vulnerability that can be exploited with relatively little effort. The Ap...
Solid proof regarding the origins of high-profile international cyberattacks is typically elusive. However, when Western interests are targeted, suspicion often turns to China -- whether rightfully or otherwise. Those suspicions were again aroused recently, courtesy of government-controlled China Ce...
This past week saw considerable hacker activity: AntiSec released to the Internet 1 GB worth of emails and documents stolen from the account of VanGuard Defense Industries SVP Richard Garcia. A related hacker community, Anonymous, hacked into the servers of the BART Police Officers' Association. Ano...
It was once the case that computer viruses and other malicious software were written primarily by hobbyist hackers. Their motivations, for the most part, were simply bragging rights and the respect of their peers -- desirable rewards, to be sure, but certainly not the sole focus of any career. The r...
In terms of online communication, social media is the biggest trend in recent years. There are billions of participants around the globe as well as an array of forms: blogs, forums, wikis, multimedia content, social bookmarking and, of course, popular platforms such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+....
Could Facebook be the next target in hacker group Anonymous' crosshairs? A tweet from the Twitter handle "OP_Facebook" -- which is labeled "Anonymous" yet had only a single tweet in its history as of mid-day Wednesday -- urged readers to go to a Pirate Bay Web page or watch a YouTube video in which ...
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