Antivirus Information
The Chinese group behind the recently discovered NetTraveler attacks is now using widespread interest in the infamous National Security Agency (NSA) PRISM surveillance program to encourage users to open malicious email attachments, it has emerged.…
Hacking attacks present a bigger risk to the operation of UK banks than problems caused by the ongoing eurozone crisis, according to a senior Bank of England director.…
The EU is pushing through a directive calling for harsher criminal penalties against convicted hackers.…
During the 2008 presidential campaign, top-level staffers’ laptops were infiltrated with malware that allowed alleged Chinese hackers to steal internal documents, files, and e-mails.
New legislation to be introduced by the House Intelligence Committee aims to curb cybertheft and cyberespionage done by “cyber hackers from nation-states like China and Russia.”
Hackers are increasingly turning to DNS reflection to amplify the volume of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.…
Senator says spook dollars will flow anew once refugee numbers fall Australia’s federal opposition has pledged more money for the nation’s security agencies, and more online activity, and tied the latter increase to freeing up resources currently going towards dealing with “irregular maritime arrivals”.…
More than two dozen advanced weapons systems were accessed, although documents obtained by The Washington Post do not indicate whether the breaches occurred on government or contractor networks.
The Financial Times website and its Twitter accounts were this afternoon hijacked by pro-government hackers from the “Syrian Electronic Army”.…
Three British members of the notorious LulzSec hacktivist crew and a hacker affiliate were sentenced today for a series of attacks against targets including Sony, News International, the CIA and the UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency. The youngest of the four accused avoided jail with a suspended sentence while the other three were jailed for terms ranging from 24 to 32 months.…