Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a U.S. industrial system.
The Nov. 8 incident was described in a one-page report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, according to Joe Weiss, a prominent expert on protecting infrastructure from cyber attacks.
THE CYBER ATTACK on the Nasdaq OMX Group electronic stock exchange last year was caused by weak security that let the hackers right in.
A report at Reuters says that lax security practices opened up the door to hacking. However, while the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is still making enquiries, sources have come forward with their view of what happened.
SCAMS are the hardest security threat to protect against because they rely on exploiting naivety rather than technical flaws.
Always be suspicious of emails, faxes, text messages, instant messages and even phone calls from people you don't know. Anything that sounds too good to be true probably is.
Outfits that ban social notworking on company PCs much more likely to be hacked, according to surprising new figures.
A report in IT security issued by Telus and the Rotman School of Management surveyed 649 firms and found companies that ban employees from using social media suffer 30 percent more computer security breaches than ones that allow free use of sites like Facebook and Twitter.
Inspector Knacker of the Romanian Yard has fingered the collar of a 26-year old hacker who is accused of breaking into multiple NASA servers and causing $500,000 in damages.
The Romanian Directorate for Investigating Organised Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT) swooped on the Cluj home of Robert Butyka.
More than eight months after the RSA SecurID breach bombshell was dropped on the industry, security professionals still whisper among themselves at the long-term ramifications of what RSA called the extraction of "information related to the RSA SecurID product." To this day, RSA still won't confirm what exactly was stolen from its systems, but speculation has run high that the token seeds were compromised in some way.
On July 19, 2011, FBI agents in nine states rounded up 14 men and two women ranging in age from 21 to 36 for their alleged involvement with the international hacking group Anonymous. Fourteen of these individuals were arrested for allegedly plotting and executing a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack in December 2010 that took down PayPal's Website.
The Internet is a gold mine of information – for the bad guys who want to break into your organization.
Just as foreign spies can use seemingly innocuous bits of personal information to get unwitting people to aid in their nefarious plans, hackers, criminals and enemy agents can easily obtain information from a wide range of online sources that can be used to turn one of your employees into a security threat.
Barnes & Noble made it clear at the launch event for its Nook Tablet that it has the Amazon Kindle Fire firmly in its sights. The tablets from the two companies are pushing media sales for both, and ratcheting up the ebook wars a notch. With so much on the line, and both companies depending on selling content to make a profit, will these be the first Android tablets that get locked down from hacking?
DARPA has reached out to hackers to help secure U.S. military networks from future cyber threats.
DARPA or Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency which helped create the Internet more than 40 years ago is now looking for more offensive ways to fight against cyber threats. In its Cyber Colloquium that hosted academics, computer security professionals and hackers, DARPA Director Regina Dugan reinforced the need for more options in the future warfare which would include cyber terrorism.
