The group of Chinese cyber-espionage hackers reportedly operating as an arm of the People’s Liberation Army is allegedly back at it, attacking a range of US enterprise and government targets to steal everything from technology blueprints to business plans to manufacturing information.
20 May 2013
In a move to comply with President Obama’s Executive Order on cybersecurity, the US General Services Administration (GSA) is issuing a request for information (RFI) calling for input on ways to make the federal government's cybersecurity more resilient.
20 May 2013
Most corporate security incidents are uncovered by a third party, like a security firm, that picks up on evidence of nefarious activity being carried out by infected machines. However, many of the victim organizations don’t have processes in place to react quickly when they’re notified of an incident. And some are simply not discharging their corporate duty, argues one security firm.
20 May 2013
Password strength meters that offer web surfers a visual gauge of how weak or strong a chosen lock may be are increasingly present on websites – but how effective are they at getting folks to choose stronger options? When it comes to locking down sensitive data, meters had an impact, suggesting that they act as important reminders for users about what’s at stake.
20 May 2013
Apple has patched 41 vulnerabilities in iTunes with version 11.0.3 of the digital store for OS X and Windows, including the one that Pinkie Pie rode to a $60,000 prize in the Google Pwnium 2 hackathon.
17 May 2013
The Syrian Electronic Army is continuing its campaign to highjack the Twitter accounts of high-profile media outlets, with the Financial Times becoming its latest victim.
17 May 2013
Critical infrastructure threats are up significantly according to US officials – a worrying state of affairs that spans a wide range of threat vectors and potential participants.
16 May 2013
Barracuda Networks, eyeing Google’s move to unify storage across its products, has increased the amount of free cloud storage for its own Copy online file syncing users, from 5GB to 15GB.
16 May 2013
The European Union could soon consider a proposal that would give law enforcement the ability to engage in “offensive hacking,” i.e., compromise private infrastructure and systems to gather information via spyware, delete data or even take servers offline completely when there is probable cause to suspect cybercriminal activity.
16 May 2013
Stuxnet is often cited as history’s first true cyber weapon. By common consensus it was developed and used by the US and Israel to successfully disrupt Iran’s nuclear program – but a new report questions its success.
16 May 2013