Hackers

The Dubai Police have arrested a cyber crime gang who were able to transfer more than Dh7 million from exchange companies in Dubai, a senior official from Dubai Police said.

Major General Khamis Matter Al Mazeina, acting chief of Dubai Police, said on Sunday that a gang of Asians and Africans work with hackers in order to enter different websites and systems of different companies here in Dubai in order to transfer money inside and outside the country.

Malaysian and Filipino hackers waged a cyber war over the weekend before stopping a little after midnight on Monday.

Hackers claiming to be from the Malaysian and Filipino chapters of the hacktivist group Anonymous attacked websites of both countries.

 Security experts say organisations should use decepetion and decoy data in efforts to kick attackers out of corporate networks.

The vendor-based security professionals said attackers spent big money on maintaining a foothold within networks.

A campaign by hackers to deface and steal data from the web-facing systems of Australia's largest fast food chains put Domino's Pizza's security posture to the test late last year.

The pizza chain was forced to fend off daily attacks on its website over two weeks last November after hackers 0-Day and Pyknic attacked rival Pizza Hut earlier in the same month.
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Evernote, a Web-based note-sharing service, said it was resetting the passwords of its 50 million users because hackers managed to breach its computer network and access some usernames, email addresses and encrypted passwords.

Evernote spokeswoman Ronda Scott said via email on Saturday that the attack "follows a similar pattern" to other cyber attacks on Internet-based companies in recent weeks, but she did not elaborate.

A territorial dispute in Sabah, which has resulted in an armed conflict, spilled online over the weekend with a slew of local Web sites hacked and defaced.

According to GMA News Online on Sunday, one Philippine Web site and several Malaysian ones were hacked and defaced with messages sympathizing with either side of the armed conflict.

In a move to counter recent reports claiming that a special unit in the Chinese Army is behind repeated cyber attacks on U.S. institutions, the nation Thursday claimed its military and defense ministries websites are routinely hacked from IP addresses originating within the United States.

Researchers at security management company AlienVault are tracking highly skilled espionage group that is targeting two US manufacturers of solar panels.

The hacker group, thought to be from China, is targeting design documents using complex and well-obfuscated rootkit-like malware.

Website administration firm cPanel has told The Reg that one of its proxy servers was hacked, potentially exposing customers' administrator-level passwords.

cPanel discovered that one of its systems, used to handle technical support tickets, was infiltrated nearly a week ago.

Eva Yi-Hwa Chen shows no mercy when she suits up for fencing and thrusts at an opponent in one of her favorite sports. She has been even fiercer when it comes to fighting hackers throughout 25 years in the computer security industry.

The 54-year-old is a cofounder and CEO of Trend Micro, the number three antivirus software firm worldwide and the biggest in Asia. In her eight years at the top Chen has doubled sales, to $1.2 billion in 2012.