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McAfee has published a new whitepaper: 'Hacktivism – Cyberspace has become the new medium for political voices'. While touching on the wider issues of hacktivism, it is largely a history of the evolution and current state of Anonymous.
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Christopher Mark Doyon, AKA Commander X, is the voice of the Peoples Liberation Front, and a high-profile and respected voice within Anonymous. He has now publicly debunked the idea of Anonymous 2.
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“Anonymous has very few hackers, it has very few activists… It is very misleading to call the groups hacktivists. The common attribute is angst. The talented ones are either quitting or starting to do things that are more clandestine.”
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Anonymous is engaged in a war against the abuse of authority. This concept has general appeal. But the very structure of Anonymous, and the inevitable internecine strife, means it will likely lose the battle for ‘hearts and minds’.
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It's been a while since the loosely-grouped Anonymous hacking group caused a sensation by organising a series of DDoS attacks against a number of high profile financial sites linked with snubbing WikiLeaks.
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Hackers are planning a third attack on Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment services data breaches, according to US reports.
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It's been a busy few days on the Anonymous front, as police in Spain and Turkey have arrested alleged active hactivists in both countries.
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It’s been a tempestuous week in the battle between Anonymous and the law: 25 arrests, the poisoning of the Anonymous DDoS tool, and now the LulzSec leader, Sabu, has been named an FBI informant.
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Anonymous is challenging a claim made by security firm Symantec that hacktivists who used a modified Slowloris distributed denial of service (DDoS) tool to bombard the FBI downloaded a data-stealing trojan instead.
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Hackers are planning a third attack on Sony in retaliation for its handling of the PlayStation Network and Online Entertainment services data breaches, according to reports.
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South-of-the-border members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous have claimed responsibility for a cyber attack on the Mexican defense ministry that brought down its website temporarily this week.
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Last week the Italian postal police arrested four 'members' of the Anonymous movement in an operation dubbed 'Tango Down'. On Monday Anonymous responded with its own tango down on the official Court of Rome website.
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There are two main factions within Anonymous: the anarchist and the hacktivist. One believes in no rules; the other takes a moral view of its responsibility to society. One of them handed over the Red Sky hacker.
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Twitter was out of action for about 40 minutes yesterday. While the company blames it on a cascading bug, hacker group UGNazi claimed it was their DDoS attack.
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The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is warning the security community about possible attacks by Anonymous on the US intelligence community (IC) and critical infrastructure in the coming months.
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In its latest escapade dubbed Operation Robin Hood, Anonymous is vowing to steal credit cards and use them to donate money to charities and the “99%” of people who are poor.
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It seems that the loose organisation of the Anonymous hacktivist group is causing problems, as reports are coming in that the web portal of Eidos International, a major gaming firm, was hacked and defaced on Wednesday night (US time) of this week.
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Malaysian authorities are preparing to resist a planned attack by cyber activist group Anonymous on the government's official website.
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Anonymous has declared a new target: Imperva Inc, a security firm, is now the subject of Operation Imperva.
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It was only a matter of time before one hacktivist group or another would react to the UK court-ordered ISP block on The Pirate Bay.
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A French T-shirt company that trademarked the Anonymous headless man logo and ‘expect us’ wording has closed shop in fear of reprisals.
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Hacking group Anonymous has defaced a website of San Francisco's rail transport company.
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Hacker group Anonymous has hacked and defaced Turkish government websites in protest against internet filtering rules to be introduced in Turkey in August.
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Hacking group Anonymous has lashed out at security firm HBGary Federal, which has been investigating its members.
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Hacktivist group Anonymous has lashed out at security firm HBGary Federal, which has been investigating its members.
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Sony said that it appears the massive data breach affecting 100 million of its PlayStation Network (PSN) and Sony Entertainment Online (SOE) customers may have been carried out by the hacker group Anonymous, although the group denies responsibility.
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This weekend saw a leaflet paperstorm in London, with masked anons handing out flyers proclaiming #OpVendetta slated for 5th November in London. Led by Anonymous UK and Ireland, it is, we are told, “the biggest Anonymous protest in the UK” yet seen.
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Research on the similarities between hacktivist groups like Anonymous and real-world protest groups and the future of hacktivism has been carried out by Czech Technical University in Prague.
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Anonymous and the various law enforcement agencies would, at first glance, appear to be pitted against each other. But events suggest that their intentions are remarkably similar.
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With a nation in mourning over last week’s Sandy Hook tragedy, the Westboro Baptist Church (WBC) has adopted its usual position: tragedies are God’s vengeance against homosexuality. It has threatened to demonstrate at the funerals – and earned the ire of both Jester and Anonymous.
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Hacktivism has been around for at least 20 years. Danny Bradbury takes a peek inside the community and finds out how it is evolving
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This weekend saw the release of around 35,000 names and other details, allegedly including Mossad agents, stolen by Anonymous and following a warning that OpIsrael phase 2 – designed to ‘erase’ Israel from the internet – would commence on 7 April.
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“#tangodown http://www.godaddy.com/ by @AnonymousOwn3r” tweeted the hacker known as Anonymous Own3r yesterday. And sure enough, the company that describes itself as a “Worldwide hosting provider and the Web's largest domain registrar” was having problems.
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In a wide-ranging interview broadcast over online Spreaker radio but conducted probably via IRC, UK Anon Winston Smith has been talking to Null, the leader of the NullCrew hacking group.
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Anonymous does not need sophisticated tools like Stuxnet or Duqu to carry out its threat to attack industrial control systems that regulate critical infrastructure, warned Dominic Storey with Sourcefire.
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Anonymous has had at least one beneficial effect: top management at companies are starting to pay attention to information security, judged Grady Summers, vice president at MANDIANT, who participated in a Wednesday panel discussion on hacktivism at the RSA Conference.
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Fresh off its successful hack of an FBI-Scotland Yard conference call, Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the US Central Intelligence Agency’s public website.
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NullCrew, a new hacking group that has been particularly active over the last couple of months, has hacked Sony mobile websites – adding to its rapidly growing list of victims (Cambridge University, Yale University, Cambodia Army, PMT Air and many more).
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The Russian branch of hacker group Anonymous is claiming credit for shutting down the websites of the Kremlin and Russian President Vladimir Putin using distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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Anonymous claimed credit for launching distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS) against a number of high-tech trade groups in retaliation for their support of the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA).
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Research just released claims that 87% of IT managers in the UK educational sector consider anonymous proxies to be a security problem, compared with, respectively, 56% and 44% in the private and public sectors.
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The Wikileaks-inspired Anonymous hacktivist group has announced plans to stage a series of DDoS attacks against various Sony sites. The attacks are in retaliation, the group says, for the legal action against George Hotz, the famous hardware cracker.
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This week both the The Pirate Bay and WikiLeaks have been ‘taken down’ by sustained DDoS attacks: TPB for over 24 hours, and Wikileaks for 72. What isn’t known is who is behind the attacks.
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As Infosecurity reported yesterday, both the MI5 and MI6 websites were attacked by Anonymous in the name of OpFreeAssange. Both sites were down for about an hour, demonstrating that few sites can withstand a concerted DDoS attack.
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The first indication of what was to come seems to have been a post on Pastebin dated January 22. It announced Operation Last Resort, and indicated that at midnight, 25 January, the operation would begin.
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In what has been described as “the largest coordinated international law enforcement [carding] action in history”, the FBI has arrested 12 US citizens among a total of 24 arrests in eight countries.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous launched distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on a number of major stock exchanges this week, continuing its reign of information security mischief.
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Author and journalist Barrett Brown, once the ‘friendly face of Anonymous’ and now the founder of Project PM, has said that the purpose behind the Stratfor hack was not to obtain credit card numbers, but to gain access to “the 2.7 million e-mails that exist on the firm's servers.”
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Two days after Anonymous threatened to attack the Israeli government, the servers of much of Israel's government systems were down yesterday. Although some Anonymous supporters crowed their victory on security forums, the government said that the problem was server-based.
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Hacking group Anonymous has hit the website of the Texas Police Chiefs Association, despite a continuing clampdown on its members.
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It seems that the Anonymous hacktivist crew, apparently taking up the slack from the departure of LulzSec, have cracked the corporate systems at Apple, posting around two dozen sets of admin credentials - and encrypted passwords - to an Apple server.
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Reports are coming in that hacktivists have staged a series of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against a number of government and other agency sites in Tunisia.
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In a high-profile example of insider threats to corporate networks, Reuters' social media editor Matthew Keys has been indicted for conspiracy to help the Anonymous hacking collective break into Tribune Co. networks – in retaliation for being fired from his job as a web producer there.
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Many may be feeling the warm fuzzies after the end of the world failed to manifest on Dec. 21, 2012, but hacktivist collective Anonymous doesn’t want the public IT sector to get too comfortable. “Expect us in 2013” it has proclaimed, indicating that it has no intention of turning over a new leaf ...
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As public demonstrations against austerity measures grow in Greece, and support for far-right organizations such as the Golden Dawn increases, Anonymous hacks into the Ministry of Finance and releases confidential documents just days before the government is due to vote on further cuts.
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Hacktivist collective Anonymous has a new target: Israeli websites. The group has launched the #OpIsrael offensive via Twitter in response to Israel’s military dispute with Gaza this week.
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Privacy advocates are furious at plans by DVD rental service Netflix to unveil more data about the rental habits of its customers. Experts argue that the data could easily be used to identify customers and draw inferences about their lifestyles.
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The Wikileaks-inspired Anonymous hacktivist group has announced plans to stage a series of DDoS attacks against various Sony sites. The attacks are in retaliation, the group says, for the legal action against George Hotz, the famous hardware cracker.
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At the RSA Conference 2012 in San Francisco, February 29, Bruce Schneier and Davi Ottenheimer discuss Schneier’s latest book and how to enable the trust that society needs to thrive.
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Torrent site what.cd reported on Friday, 9 November (via Twitter) that, “The site, tracker and IRC will be down while we sort out this DDOS...” As of writing (Monday, 12 November), the site is still down, with the finger being pointed at Zeiko.
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Following the death of Aaron Swartz, himself an online activist, the activist collective known as Anonymous launched #opAngel. Its purpose was to protect the Swartz funeral from disruption by followers of the Westboro Baptist Church.
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US defense firm ManTech has acquired technology security firm HBGary, which was at the center of a controversy last year when it claimed to have infiltrated Anonymous and was then attacked by the hacktivist group.
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The Anonymous hacktivist group was apparently able to listen in on a conference call between the FBI and Scotland Yard by hacking into a participant’s email account and obtaining the conference call number and access code, according to security analysts.
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As the first arrest allegedly associated with the LulzSec hacktivist group has taken place, Rob Rachwald, director of security with Imperva, has detailed who the group's leaders are.
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Hackers have stolen data from over 70 websites of various law enforcement agencies in the ongoing AntiSec campaign led by hacktivist group Anonymous.
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Police and law enforcement officials have swooped on and arrested more than 20 people in the US, the UK and the Netherlands in connection with the spate of LulzSec and AntiSec hacktivist attacks in recent months.
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Hacker group Anonymous and offshoot Lulzsec have started releasing secret information they claim to have stolen from servers of the CNAIPIC Italian cyber crime unit about the protection of critical national infrastructure.
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Police have arrested five men in relation to the denial of service attacks on firms that withdrew support for WikiLeaks after its controversial release of classified US diplomatic cables.
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The latest version of the Google Chrome browser is negating the efforts of anonymous browsing services to protect users' identities, according to bug reports.
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Reports are coming in that, after a week of staging DDoS attacks against a number of sites that are perceived as 'anti-WikiLeaks', the Anonymous group of hacktivists are changing their approach.
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Following the AntiSec attack on PandaLabs on Tuesday, Anonymous ‘besieged’ Vatican websites on Wednesday – probably with a DDoS attack.
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Monday Mail Mayhem was this week launched by Anonymous starting with the Pirate Bay dump of a 1.7GB database stolen from the Department of Justice, and the release of the traditional Anonymous video announcement.
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Government websites for the Swedish Armed Forces, Sweden.se, the Swedish Institute and the Swedish Courts have been taken down by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, by hacktivists supporting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
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Hacktivism cuts both ways. The biter gets bit, and a war evolves. Where there is war, there are weapons. And where there are weapons, there is collateral damage. There is a hacktivist war around Julian Assange, between his detractors and his defenders – and there is collateral damage.
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Anonymous has rebuked the media, effectively accusing it of being Indecisive Dave – the Fast Show character (Brilliant in the US) who continually changed his opinion to agree with the most recent comment he heard.
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Yesterday home secretary Theresa May blocked the extradition of hacker Gary McKinnon to the US; but the fate of Richard O’Dwyer remains in the balance. Today, AnonUKIre will announce the continuation of #OpTrialAtHome in ‘defense’ of O’Dwyer – this time against the originators of the extradition ...
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Par:AnoIA (Potentially Alarming Research from the Anonymous Intelligence Agency) has released 14 GB of data that it claims was lifted from the Bank of America.
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Tyler is touted as ‘WikiLeaks on steroids.’ The current site (codenametyler.org) is unimpressive – so Infosecurity reached out to Anonymous for an update on its development.
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On 4 December a new indictment against Barrett Brown, the one-time self-proclaimed spokesman for Anonymous, says that he “did knowingly traffic in more than five authentication features knowing that such features were stolen and produced without lawful authority.”
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The hacker group Anonymous claims that it breached a server at defense contractor Booz Allen Hamilton and stole 90,000 military emails and password hashes.
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Despite the situation surrounding the raft of DDoS attacks staged by WikiLeaks hacktivists last month apparently quietening down, a Trend Micro security expert is predicting that 2011 will see more of the same type of attacks on a growing number of organisations.
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December is rapidly turning into a festival of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on WikiLeaks and a number of sites looking to distance themselves from the high-profile government reporting portal.
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On 4 August a new group appeared on Twitter with a simple announcement: “Anti Leaks: Tango down wikileaks.org #Wikileaks #Cowards”. Since that time WikiLeaks and its affiliate sites and mirrors have remained unavailable or severely disrupted.
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Concerns over hacktivism and targeted state-sponsored attacks are at the top of security professionals’ minds, according to a new report by endpoint security firm Bit9.
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PandaLabs’ 2011 report puts facts and figures to what really happened last year: rising malware, cyber-activism, cyberwarfare, increasing mobile malware, more attacks on social networks and the “first large-scale attack on Mac”.
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Cybercriminals are increasingly using “whaling” – a targeted spear phishing attack that goes after “big fish” in an organization – to gain access to critical proprietary data, according to IBM’s X-Force 2011 Mid-Year Trend and Risk Report.
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After weeks of saber-rattling, the Anonymous hacking collective made good on its #OpNov5 Bonfire Night threats to hack a variety of websites this week.
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A Staffordshire man was arrested in Fenton on Tuesday in a joint operation by Scotland Yard and the Staffordshire police, and questioned under the Serious Crime Act on suspicion of assisting or encouraging crime.
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Two more people have been arrested in the UK as part the on-going transatlantic crackdown on hacktivist group Anonymous and offshoot Lulz Security (LulzSec).
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SparkyBlaze, a former hacktivist with Anonymous, offered some advice to companies to stop hackers, in an interview with Cisco’s Jason Lackey.
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A hacker associated with an Anonymous affiliate has released source code for Symantec’s pcAnywhere security software onto the Pirate Bay file-sharing website after an apparent attempt to extort $50,000 from the security vendor.
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Giddy with its recent successes against the FBI, Scotland Yard, the CIA, and US stock exchanges, Anonymous and its affiliates are vowing to launch cyberattacks every Friday.
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The Peace Officers of California (POC) group is demanding a legislative investigation into the handling of an Anonymous hack of the California State Law Enforcement Association (CSLEA) website.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has arrested a hacker associated with Anonymous for a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against the website of Gene Simmons, front man for the band KISS and reality TV celebrity.
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Guido Fawkes in the UK is the pseudonym of an award-winning anti-establishment blog operated by Paul Staines. In the US it is a name associated with a Twitter account handed over to law enforcement. Around the world is has become associated with the Anonymous movement.
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Bloxx, a web filtering firm, has issued a warning that anonymous proxies - which are now being used by students to bypass campus blocks on inappropriate content - pose a serious information security threat to young people.
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As the first arrest allegedly associated with the LulzSec hacktivist group has taken place, Rob Rachwald, director of security with Imperva has detailed who the group's leaders are.
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Yesterday's arrest of five alleged hactivists who are reported to have been involved with a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against major websites has been welcomed by the organisers of the Infosecurity Europe show.
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Police have arrested five men in relation to the denial of service attacks on firms that withdrew support for WikiLeaks after its controversial release of classified US diplomatic cables.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America has settled its PS3-related legal spat with the infamous code cracker George Hotz. Also known as Geohot, Hotz is well known for being the first person to jailbreak the Apple iPhone in his mid-teens.
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Sony Computer Entertainment America has settled its PS3-related legal spat with the infamous code cracker George Hotz. Also known as Geohot, Hotz is well known for being the first person to jailbreak the Apple iPhone in his mid-teens.
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The blame for a DDoS enhancement to the infamous SpyEye banking trojan has been laid firmly at the door of the Anonymous WikiLeaks-inspired group of hackivists by Idappcom.
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At RSA Europe, we got a chance to sit down and talk to Greg Hoglund, the founder of HBGary – a company that hit the headlines earlier this year when it was attacked.
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Interpol, the international police organization that facilitates co-operation between many of the world’s police forces, yesterday reported the arrest of 25 alleged members of Anonymous.
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Kaspersky Lab has published its monthly malware report for February, discussing Duqu, Google Wallet and Google Analytics, mobile threats and attacks on corporate networks.
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Every EU committee tasked with recommending how the European Parliament should vote on the ratification of the ACTA agreement has now voted: No. But ACTA just won’t lie down.
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The Anonymous hacking collective is flexing its social justice, anti-corporate bent yet once again. The group has threatened to take down Facebook and release games from social gaming developer Zynga online for free if the latter carries out a restructuring plan to lay off 5% of its workforce.
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As it languishes in the US Senate, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act (CISPA) has spurred hacktivist group Anonymous to threaten Congressional supporters of the bill, claims co-author Rep. Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.).
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AT&T hacker Andrew Auernheimer, a.k.a. “weev,” has been sentenced to 3+ years in jail. He will spend 41 months behind bars for leaking 114,000 iPad users’ emails to a Gawker reporter, who posted the information online in a redacted format.
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Barrett Brown is now facing his third round of charges. The first was for threatening an FBI agent on Twitter; the second involved ‘trafficking’ by making available an URL; and this third is for concealing evidence.
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The ever-present hacktivist group Anonymous is claiming that it took down the websites of the US Department of Justice (DoJ), the FBI, the Motion Picture Association of America, and other organizations in protest to US law enforcement's shutting down of the Megaupload file sharing site.
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The rash of apparently successful hacks against major corporates in recent weeks has hit the headlines but, says Rik Ferguson, director of security research with Trend Micro, it does not represent an internet meltdown as some experts are saying.
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Lumension looks at the information security risks with USB devices – and how to overcome them – in its latest white paper Portable Panic: Evolution of USB Insecurity.
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Knowing precisely who did what in cyberwar is an important part of understanding and planning for future threats – but it is notoriously difficult. Right now, despite accusations, claims and denials, we simply do not know who successfully disrupted HSBC bank worldwide last week.
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Pirate Bay, the file-sharing index portal that has been the subject of several legal skirmishes in recent years, is about to fly into another storm of controversy following the development of what appears to be an anonymous VPN for its registered users.
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Reports are emerging that IT security software from Computer Associates and Kaspersky Lab have registered false positives on legitimate files and websites.
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A new tool released by privacy advocacy group EFF is designed to help users find out how identifiable their web browsers are online.
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The WikiLeaks attackgeist known as Anonymous has staged distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attacks on more sites, including Moneybookers and the Dutch National Police Service.
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The WikiLeaks attackgeist known as Anonymous has staged distributed denial of service (DDoS) network attacks on more sites, including Moneybookers and the Dutch National Police Service.
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An online activist group – apparently using the 4Chan web portal as its forum – started a major distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) at around midnight CET yesterday evening against the web portal of the Spanish copyright protection society, the SGAE.
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The twin hacktivist groups - Anonymous and LulzSec - have announced plans to pool their resources and continue their electronic fight against the world's governments.
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It looks like the resurgence of the infamous Rustock botnet – which returned after a near-outage over Christmas and New Year's – has ended, as unconfirmed reports suggest that it has been taken down.
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Research just released shows that there was a large rise in the number of DDoS attacks during the second half of 2010. And, says the study, this is down to a lack of properly implemented anti-automated attack defences on company websites.
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Megaupload.com founder Kim Dotcom is awaiting extradition to the US after the country requested New Zealand authorities detain him, pending a formal extradition request.
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Opposition to SOPA and PIPA (the anti online piracy acts) continues to grow. Net Coalition reports on Al Gore’s reservations, while also threatening its own internet blackout.
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US security analysis firm Stratfor is warning victims of a data breach that they may be the target of retaliation by hacktivists if they speak out publicly.
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The Daily Mail, one of the UK’s leading newspapers, and generally considered to be politically right of center, has had its website defaced by the Teampoison hacking group.
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FBI agents raided an Iowa woman’s home this week looking for information on the Lulz Security (LulzSec) hacker group that had been on a 50-day hacking spree before an alleged member of its group was arrested in the UK.
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Hacktivist group Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec have published information stolen from rural US police departments in revenge for recent law enforcement actions.
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The Japanese Finance Ministry announced on Friday that it had discovered 123 desktop computers that had been infected with a remote access trojan between January 2010 and November 2011.
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A hacking ring pledging to defend WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange’s honor has claimed to have attacked computer systems at the University of Cambridge, saying it has broken into multiple databases.
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Anonymous has vowed to do a hack every Friday, calling it the #FFF campaign. Today AntiSec defaced the New York Ironworks, a police equipment supplier that describes itself as ‘NYC's finest police equipment & tactical op’s gear store.’
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The UK’s Serious Organised Crime Agency has today confirmed that a DDoS attack forced it take its website off-line at 22:00 Wednesday. As of writing, 14:30 Thursday, it is still down.
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US federal prosecutors in Manhattan have charged four Irish and British men for helping with the breach of the US security analysis firm Stratfor last year.
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What stands out most from Imperva’s new analysis of DDoS attack methodologies, is that DDoS is easy, growing in use and probably more prevalent than commonly perceived.
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Hacking group Team GhostShell launches a new logo, drops 1.6 million hacked records in the name of ProjectWhiteFox (NASA, European Space Agency, Bigelow Aerospace and more), and signs off until the new year.
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As friends and family lay to rest Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz, who apparently took his own life on Friday amid a storm of legal accusations, the aftermath is beginning to play out.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a new version of its HTTPS Everywhere for Firefox browser extension, which identifies fake or expired SSL certificates.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous apparently gained control over the Boston Police Department's community policing website in retaliation for the police crackdown on the Occupy Boston protests.
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Credit card numbers and expiration dates of hundreds of Saudi, Egyptian, and Syrian citizens were posted online by an Israeli hacker in apparent retaliation for the posting of Israeli credit card information by Saudi hackers.
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An 84MB update has been shipped by Apple for its Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard, addressing 13 security vulnerabilities.
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Members of Congress have written to Apple chief executive Steve Jobs about concerns that the firm is collecting and sharing geo-location data of iPhone and iPad users.
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Microsoft has issued a security note about a flaw in Windows ASP.NET that it says could allow a DDOS security situation.
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The office of an attorney working at the US Department of Justice made the biggest email mistake of his life last week, sending out information revealing the names of 25 anonymous witnesses in a financial fraud investigation.
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Trusteer, the internet authentication, encryption and security specialist, has taken the wraps off a real-time malware analysis and remediation technology for banks and other financial institutions.
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The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has published its annual report, revealing that it is investigating "hundreds" of security threats against Australia's critical national IT infrastructure.
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According to Ed Gibson - EdTheFed on LinkedIn - data that is posted on the internet should be regarded as permanent after 20 minutes, even if the originator has deleted the file.
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The Office for National Statistics is investigating reports that hacker group Lulz Security, or LulzSec, may have succeeded in hacking into the database of the UK's 2011 Census.
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Building on a presentation he made at the Infosecurity Europe event in late April, Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of Kaspersky Lab, has warned of the danger that the internet could become a cyberconflict vehicle for governments to attack each other.
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Kaspersky Lab’s analysis of the ‘evolution of malware’ during 2011, from the rise of hacktivism to the emergence of Mac malware; and the consequent lessons for the future.
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In its Q2 analysis of DDoS attacks, Kaspersky Lab reports that the old principle of most attacks being driven by financially-motived hackers has gone by the board, with politically-motivated attacks from Anonymous and LulzSec changing the DDoS playing field.
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Almost one-in-four computers in the UK is infected – and the UK is one of the least infected countries in the world, says the new PandaLabs report released today.
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The latest quarterly McAfee threats report shows cyber threats increasing across the board: PC, Mac, mobile malware; botnets and hacktivism are all on the rise.
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A new study by Kroll Advisory Solutions highlights the information security risks lurking in oft-neglected places, such as voicemail, conference calls, and even the mailroom.
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Conflict-magnet and MegaUpload creator Kim Dotcom is back in the news, pushing out a challenge from his New Zealand refuge to those who have criticized the cryptography used in his just-launched Mega cloud storage service.
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NullCrew is a hacking team that bears some similarities to the defunct LulzSec: it has sympathy with Anonymous, but is separate from Anonymous. It does, however, operate with none of the taunting flamboyance that probably led to the downfall of LulzSec.
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PeRiQuito AB, a Swedish web-hosting company better known as PRQ and even better known as a host for Wikileaks and one-time host of The Pirate Bay, has been raided for the third time by the Swedish police. The reason is not yet known.
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In an effort to make the evaluation of security resilience and risk reduction strategies more accessible, the Information Security Forum (ISF) has launched a “Benchmark as a Service” (BaaS) tool, for real-time benchmarking via the cloud.
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The Federal Reserve confirmed that an internal site was briefly hacked on Sunday, but the US central bank was quick to assure the public that no information was compromised. Still, the success of the operation, such as it was, has some worried.
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Firefox 20 was released on Tuesday. It includes 3 critical, 4 high, and 4 moderate vulnerability fixes; plus several enhancements including a private browsing mode and improved download manager.
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The Copyright Alert System – CAS – better known as ‘six strikes’ finally started its 'implementation phase' on Monday 25 February 2013. It is designed, say its operators, to reduce casual piracy on the internet.
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Hector Monsegur – aka Sabu, the former LulzSec leader turned FBI informant – was expected to be sentenced on Friday following a six month reprieve. It didn’t happen; instead he got a further six months reprieve.
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On Thursday last week the American Express website went offline for a couple of hours during a DDoS attack by the Izz ad-Din al-Qassam Cyber Fighters in pursuance of their ongoing protest against the Innocence of Muslims video.
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Is the IT security industry getting better at defending against threats? According to Josh Corman of Akamai Technologies, the answer is no, and there are some fundamental reasons why
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Last night, the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia was the backdrop for the non-profit certification body’s 2012 Americas Information Security Leadership Awards (ISLA)
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General Petraeus, head of the CIA, resigned on Friday. Details are sparse, mostly coming from unnamed officials, but it seems to follow an FBI investigation into emails sent to Jill Kelley, a social liaison ‘ambassador’ with access to the military’s Central Command and Special Operations Command.
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An analysis of the hacked files dumped by hacker Hardcore Charlie fails to prove Chinese culpability, but finds evidence of ‘yet another cyber espionage campaign against Vietnam.’
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The UK faction of Anonymous has announced a campaign against the Home Office in protest against extradition arrangements with the US, and the European Arrest Warrant (EAW). It is timed for 9:00pm on Saturday.
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At the RSA 2012 conference last week in San Francisco, Corero Research revealed research findings that show more than half US companies who have been victim of a DDoS attack blame a competitor for the breach.
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The amount of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76% in the second quarter compared with the first, according to McAfee’s latest threats report.
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The information security industry is changing and as more and more crime is committed online, security software vendors will have no choice but to adjust. Kevin Hogan, director of Symantec’s response centre explains how it is leading the market in responding to this shift…
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The developers behind the Tor Project, a voluntary IP anonymising project that allows internet users to proxy through to destination websites using a variety of free-to-use servers around the world, appears to have been hacked.
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US government officials are reported to be watching India with interest, where the government has taken the major national security step of recommending a ban on international internet telephony until a system to trace the calls is in place.
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Network service security vendor, Prolexic, has released a report highlighting the difficulties in tracing the activities of cybercriminals using botnets.
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After years of gestation and evolution, criminal hackers are reaching critical mass in terms of their knowledge and ability to develop new attack methodologies, says Imperva.
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Reports are coming in about a worm that appears in an email, masquerading as a job offer or detailing job-related information. Known as Win32.Worm.Mabezat.J. The worm appears to be a variant of an earlier edition, but uses clever wording to persuade recipients to click through on to an infected ...
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In what some people might term as a case of Big Brother on steroids - or an in-depth anonymous analysis - depending on your viewpoint, Microsoft has published the latest version of its six monthly security intelligence report.
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In this week’s information security news: Microsoft patch exploited by hackers; Office 2010 sandbox security welcomed by security industry; hackers get their revenge on police; and more…
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The UK is to share fingerprint information with Canada and Australia, with the US and New Zealand to follow soon, the Home Office said today.
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Researchers have developed technology that enables users to participate in an anonymous, private communication session using nothing but an HTML 5-compliant web browser.
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Panda Software has confirmed its Cloud AntiVirus software will be launched in the second quarter of next year. And the good news for Cloud Computing users is that it is now available in beta test and is free to all users.
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It seems that a spate of recent distributed denial of services (DDoS) attacks against sites such as The Pirate Bay and other filesharing portals –- which are reported to have been generated by an Indian company at the behest of the Motion Picture of America (MPAA) – have resulted in a tit-for-tat...
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Dell KACE has taken the wraps off a free virtualised edition of the Mozilla Firefox browser designed to run on almost any PC, and the firm has promised a similarly secure version of Internet Explorer will be released soon.
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With the latest web browsers including a 'private' or 'anonymous' mode, you might think that you'd be relatively safe surfing to websites with a dubious reputation. But, according to researchers with Stanford University computer science security lab, this isn't actually so.
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With the latest web browsers including a 'private' or 'anonymous' mode, you might think that you'd be relatively safe surfing to websites with a dubious reputation. But, according to researchers with Stanford University computer science security lab, this isn't actually so.
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Microsoft's record-equalling Patch Tuesday security update for August did not include a fix for a newly-discovered flaw in several versions of Windows.
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A representative from the Microsoft Security Response Center said the company is investigating the security flaw disclosed earlier this week but that it will not issue a separate advisory based on current information.
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DVD rental company Netflix has quietly cancelled a sequel to its Netflix Prize, a contest to enhance its movie recommendation technology using anonymous user data.
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A Google insider has revealed that the losses incurred by cyber attacks on the firm, disclosed in January, included a password system that controls access to almost all Google web services.
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Veracode has announced what it claims is the industry's first application intelligence service, essentially allowing companies to set their own benchmarks to compare their own software portfolio against their peers and the rest of the business world.
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A Chinese government official has confirmed that Google has been granted its license renewal to operate in China.
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A survey of workers in the US, UK, Germany and Japan has revealed that almost a quarter of employees surveyed now visit social networking sites whilst on the corporate IT network.
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A survey of workers in the US, UK, Germany and Japan has revealed that almost a quarter of employees surveyed now visit social networking sites whilst on the corporate IT network.
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Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
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Facebook has revealed it has suspended an unspecified number of developers for selling user identification numbers (UIDs) to an unnamed data broker.
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Trusteer, the in-browser web security specialist, has warned internet users to be aware of a highly sophisticated phishing technique that effectively compromises two-factor authentication (2FA) technology as a means of online banking security.
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A new trojan called Ares has been identified as a potential successor to the notorious Zeus trojan that has been employed to steal credentials used in millions of pounds in theft.
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A new trojan called Ares has been identified as a potential successor to the notorious Zeus trojan that has been employed to steal credentials used in millions of dollars in theft.
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UK government departments are preparing for cyber attacks as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London today.
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UK government departments are preparing for cyber attacks as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in court in London today.
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Online retailing was disrupted yesterday when Visa and Mastercard were targeted by hackers following the firms' refusal to process Wikileaks payments.
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Online retailing was disrupted yesterday when Visa and Mastercard were targeted by hackers following the firms' refusal to process WikiLeaks payments.
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Reports of hacker subversions of URL shortening services such as bit.ly have been around for several months, but now a Symantec researcher claims that his research team has uncovered evidence of a large-scale attack in progress this month.
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After hiding behind a “no comment” regarding Anonymous’s claim that it stole 90,000 military email addresses and password hashes from the defense contractor, Booz Allen Hamilton has admitted that it did in fact suffer a data breach.
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The development team behind the Cocoon service - a cloud-based extension to Mozilla Firefox that stores all cookies and internet session attributes securely in the cloud - have announced the service is now free of charge.
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Reports are coming in that the LulzSec hacktivist crew - who spectacularly disbanded themselves at the end of June as the authorities started to move in on the group’s leadership - are reforming.
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Hackers were able to infiltrate computers at the German federal police and customs service and remain there for months without being detected, according to a German newspaper.
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The latest security report from the IC3, the Internet Crime Complaint Center, says that DDoS attacks - driven by hacktivist groups - are on the rise, largely owing to the availability of DDoS utilities such as LOIC.
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The FBI announced the arrest of 16 people, at least 14 of whom were allegedly part of the ‘Anonymous’ hacker group. The charges relate to the recent cyber attacks on PayPal and AT&T.
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UK police have arrested a 19-year-old believed to be the spokesman for hacktivist groups Anonymous and its offshoot LulzSec.
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Cisco Systems may cut as many as 10,000 jobs, roughly 14% of its workforce, to combat weak profit growth, according to Bloomberg.
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The Office for National Statistics has confirmed the UK Census 2011 data is secure and was not stolen by hacker group Lulz Security.
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The New Scotland Yard and London’s Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU) have confirmed the detainment of a 19-year-old British man believed to be connected with several website hacking incidents, including those of the US Senate, the CIA, and Sony.
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Hacker group Lulz Security claims it has attacked the CIA's website.
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Hacker group Lulz Security claims it has attacked the CIA's website.
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Sony has been hit by another major data breach just as it restored its PlayStation Network and online entertainment services after the personal data of up to 100 million users was stolen in April.
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The Guardian newspaper has made the interesting assertion that the FBI has used the threat of prison to create an army of informants amongst hackers, with one in four US hackers now recruited by the law enforcement agency.
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It's taken almost a week, but Apple has finally responded to reports that its iPad and iPhone have been quietly logging the location of mobile devices into an unencrypted data file.
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It's taken almost a week, but Apple has finally responded to reports that its iPad and iPhone have been quietly logging the location of mobile devices into an unencrypted data file.
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Building on trials held in Australia last summer, Visa has announced plans to launch a secure person-to-person micropayments service in the US in the second half of this year, with the promise of rollouts later on in the UK and Europe.
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Based on its research on the rash of DDoS attacks by hacktivists in recent months, Radware is advising financial institutions, utility companies and ISPs to be on the alert for attacks on their websites in the near future.
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Google is reportedly developing an app that uses facial recognition to overlay existing apps and offer auto-identification of users on the internet.
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FireEye, a security vendor that describes itself as a malware protection system (MPS) specialist, has opened its office in the UK, as well as launching what it claims is a unique approach to malware security.
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The French finance ministry has revealed that hackers subjected one of its main server farms to a barrage of attacks last December, apparently in a bid to download documents ahead of the G20 summit in Paris.
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The organisers of Black Hat Europe 2011, which opens for a four-day run next Tuesday in Barcelona, have announced that two security experts will be making a presentation on the recent WikiLeaks-inspired DDoS attacks.
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Apple is being sued again over alleged disclosure of its mobile devices’ unique device identifiers (UDIDs) to third parties without users’ consent.
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The Obama administration is creating a new office within the Department of Commerce to oversee implementation of its trusted identities in cyberspace strategy.
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The UK government has announced plans to spend an extra £63 million in the fight against cybercrime. Exact plans have not been revealed by the Home Office, but will be announced later this year.
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Symantec has launched the Norton 360 version 5 security suite along with the Norton Cybercrime Index, which tracks and warns computers users about daily cybercrime risks around the world.
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Reports are coming in that a cybercriminal gang - with members who were involved in the Storm and Waledac worms - have raked in more than $150 million promoting unlicensed online pharmacies between May 2007 and June 2010.
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It used to be a reflection of the maturity of the computer software marketplace that applications went through beta testing to iron out bugs. Now it seems the same process applies to malware, as Sophos is warning users to be on alert for a beta test of a new Mac OS X trojan.
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Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks has accidentally released confidential data containing the names of anonymous sources.
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A 10-year-old code cracker taking part in the first Defcon kids event over the weekend – part of the DefCon 19 event that has just taken place in Las Vegas – has reportedly discovered a zero-day flaw in the way the iOS and Android smartphone/tablet operating systems rely on the system clock.
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A leading IT security expert is warning companies that AV, firewalls and IDS technology may no longer be enough to defend company IT resources against attacks.
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A Trend Micro threat response engineer says he and his team have recently discovered a botnet that turns an infected host computer into a bitcoin miner.
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The website of the Northumbria Police Authority was hacked recently but, according to Chris Boyd, a senior researcher with GFI Software, the hack lives on in Google's search caches.
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Whistleblowing website WikiLeaks is suing the Guardian over allegations that the newspaper published a password to files which led to the identity of top secret sources being revealed.
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The US intelligence community is blaming the Chinese and Russian governments for conducting an “aggressive” campaign to steal US industrial secrets through cyberattacks, according to a US government report released on Thursday.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is probing the hacking of the NBC News Twitter account.
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Adobe has patched 13 vulnerabilities in its latest quarterly security update, including critical flaws in Reader and Acrobat.
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Bangladeshi hackers have been hacking Indian sites, and Indian hackers have been hacking Bangladeshi sites. Now it is escalating as each side calls for ‘cyberwar’ against the other.
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The FBI likely employed its CIPAV spyware to eavesdrop on Kim Dotcom and other managers of MegaUpload, according to a report by CNET.
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The commercialization of cybercrime continues, with Trusteer describing what it calls ‘Factory Outlets’ for the sale of stolen user credentials.
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Anonymous is entering the US legislative fray by targeting Sony over its support of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) being considered by the US House.
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Pastebin.com, a favorite venue for hacktivists, was shut down twice this week by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks.
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More than two-thirds of those surveyed by Sophos believe that malware is on the rise, and 61% feel user error is the biggest threat on the internet.
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The hacktivist group Anonymous claimed this week that it took down a dozen Egyptian government websites using distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in retaliation for the government’s treatment of protestors.
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On 6 February hacktivist group Anonymous delivered a threatening email to Bashar Assad’s personal email account. On 7 February his use of that account ceased.
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The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) is asking a federal judge to save data seized from Megaupload, the file-sharing service that was shutdown by the FBI in January for copyright infringement.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is teaming with one of Megaupload’s users to convince a court to protect data from the file-sharing site seized by US federal law enforcement.
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Online passwords are so insecure that 1% can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to a researcher at Cambridge University.
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A hacker has posted source code for VMware’s ESX virtual machine on the internet, the company has confirmed.
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Yesterday WikiLeaks started to publish the Syria Files: 2,434,899 emails with 1,082,447 different recipients from 680 domains. The total size of the dataset is said to be eight times the number of documents contained in ‘Cablegate’, and 100 times its size.
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The Obama administration accelerated cyberattacks against Iranian fuel processing facilities after public disclosure of the US-Israeli developed Stuxnet worm, says the New York Times.
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Hector Xavier Monsegur, aka 'Sabu' and former lead figure in LulzSec, has been granted six months' reprieve before sentencing for his continuing co-operation with the authorities.
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Raynaldo Rivera (aged 20), aka neuron, royal and wildicv, has been taken into custody following his indictment last week charging him with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer; that is, last year’s Sony hacks.
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Kim Dotcom, the kingpin of the Megaupload filesharing website who was arrested by New Zealand authorities on US copyright infringement charges, has launched a website and video to spur an online protest movement on his behalf.
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Another Middle East-focused cyber-attack has been launched, but it’s a piece of news that would not be out of place in the Cold War era: the International Atomic Energy Agency has been hacked. Information from an out-of-use server has been stolen and posted online.
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Global hacktivist collective Anonymous is targeting Syrian websites worldwide to protest an internet blackout in that country, which was instituted Thursday in what most think is an attempt by President Bashar al-Assad to cut off communication routes for the opposition.
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Apple has released a new iOS, version 6.0.2, that addresses a handful of vulnerabilities in the system affecting iPhone 3GS and later, the iPod touch fourth generation and later, and the iPad 2 and later devices.
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In a brief series of tweets, WikiLeaks seems to have named Aaron Swartz as a WikiLeaks contributor; but the motivation for the move remains unclear.
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The war of disinformation surrounding the Syrian unrest and other political hot potatoes is continuing, with the Al-Jazeera news service falling victim in the latest attack.
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Hacktivist collective Anonymous is planning a new protest, this time against global surveillance systems, which will take place on October 20.
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Saudi hackers who claim they are members of Anonymous have breached the Israeli ONE sports website and leaked personal information on 400,000 subscribers.
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UK police have named the teenager they arrested in the Shetland Islands last week in connection with the LulzSec and Anonymous hacktivist groups.
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The FBI has announced the execution of 40 search warrants throughout the US for information relating to the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks carried out by the pro-WikiLeaks group known as ‘Anonymous’.
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At this week’s Visa Global Security Summit in Washington, Howard Schmidt said the proposed National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program will not only solve security challenges for internet users, but provide opportunities for commerce and security firms alike. At the sam...
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It looks as though cybercriminals are starting to get to grips with the advanced persistent threats (APT) attack strategies first outlined by Stonesoft late last year. And, says one security researcher, they are linking the strategy with zero-day attacks for maximum effect.
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Panda Security's research arm, Panda Labs, claims that 34% of all malware ever created was coded/created during 2010.
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The surge of distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in recent days – driven largely as a result of the WikiLeaks retaliatory measures on major corporates – are reportedly causing consternation in security circles, as they appear to have effectively downed major websites that have robust IT ...
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As many readers of Infosecurity may have noticed, Web 2.0-driven social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter have become attractive targets for phishing and scamming attacks as online criminals follow the latest internet trends that are attracting the most users.
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Microsoft may be forced to release an out-of-cycle security update for a vulnerability published the same day as the firm released its September Patch Tuesday update.
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Reports are coming in of web-based email services from the likes of Gmail, Hotmail and Yahoo being hacked, and large numbers of user account details being posted to the internet.
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Many voice encryption products currently available are hackable through the use of a trojan being planted on the host PC, an IT security researcher has claimed.
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As the US heads into a presidential election year, politically motivated attacks are likely to increase significantly, predicted Tom Cross, IBM X-Force threat intelligence manager.
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“The Microsoft Store India is currently unavailable. Microsoft is working to restore access as quickly as possible. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused”, is the note from Microsoft's online retail outlet.
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More than half of policy makers and global cybersecurity experts believe that an arms race is taking place in cyberspace, according to a new report by McAfee and the Security and Defence Agenda think tank.
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At the RSA Europe event earlier this month, Infosecurity got a chance to catch up with Paul Simmonds, a board member of the Jericho Forum.
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Despite the best efforts of IT security and anti-spam vendors, it seems that the volume of spam getting through to users' mailboxes is still rising – and it's annoying. Now one security researcher with the University of Cambridge Computer Lab says he has had enough and formally complained about t...
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A poorly contained data breach and mishandled response could cost companies millions of dollars in lost business and damaged reputation, warns Forrester analysts.
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Wieland Alge, EMEA general manager at Barracuda Networks, claims that most government institutions are failing to practice what they preach when it comes to cybersecurity, despite public proclamations to the contrary.
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Juniper Networks says that it has seen a 472% increase in malware in the official Android Market since July of this year.
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The Q3 security threats report from Kaspersky Lab claims that all manner of new and varied threats are now heaving into view on the threats horizon. Threats such as hidden malware in QR codes all the way to targeted attacks on major firms are the latest problems on the internet, the security vend...
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One in three information security professionals admitted that they had violated their own internal security policies in order to complete a work-related task more quickly and easily, according to a survey by Tenable Network Security.
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Data security specialist claims that cybercriminals are tapping the powerful search features that Google offers, generating more than 80,000 daily queries. This, the firm says, allows the hackers to conduct a significant amount of cyber reconnaissance at little of no cost to themselves.
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A blunder by recruitment company Hays has revealed that some IT contractors at Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) earn as much as £2000 per day.
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Organizations should ensure that their information security, public relations, and legal departments coordinate their response to a hacktivist attack, recommends Greg Nowak with the Information Security Forum (ISF).
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Reuters has finally come clean on its hack – “a now closed vulnerability in the WordPress software” – but indicates that it is a small part of a widespread war of disinformation being waged between the two sides in Syria.
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As if there aren't already enough banking trojans to worry about, with SpyEye and Zeus, Carberp and OddJob, ESET is now warning that Gataka (aka Tatanga) – another man-in-the-browser trojan – appears ready for take-off.
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Shamoon is now thought to be the malware used in the August 15 attack against the Saudi oil giant Aramco. A group calling itself Cutting Sword of Justice has claimed responsibility, and has threatened to confirm this power by returning at 21:00 GMT on August 25.
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In an article published in yesterday’s Guardian, Professor Ross Anderson (University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory) questions the reliability of David Cameron’s plan to make anonymized health data available to researchers.
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Hacker collective Team GhostShell is boasting that it has breached more than one million user records from 100 corporate and public affairs websites across a variety of industry segments, and leaked them online.
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The European Commission (EC) has issued an online ‘consultation’ document: How would you envisage ‘governance’ of the ‘Internet of Things’?
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TheWikiBoat, a new hacking group that uses techniques and tools similar to Anonymous, but for the lulz rather than the principle, plans to launch its first major operation, #OpNewSon, today.
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Two recent and separate events, involving Yahoo and TalkTalk, demonstrate that no amount of security policy or product can defend against the one great security weakness: human error.
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Pirates, typified by The Pirate Bay, are under increasing attack from the authorities around the world. Sweden is more than the spiritual home of The Pirate Bay – so it is not surprising that user-reaction to these attacks is being led by Swedes with an increasing use of VPNs.
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While the number of vulnerabilities in web applications has declined, attacks on those applications have more than doubled, according to HP’s 2011 Top Cyber Security Risks Report.
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It is with some irony that The Pirate Bay (TPB) came to the defense of Virgin Media (TalkTalk was also disrupted) after the ISP’s website was taken down by Anonymous.
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“I am looking to hire some extra people soon to monitor more of the website's content, not just the items that are reported. Hopefully this will increase the speed in which we can remove sensitive information,” says Jeroen Vader, owner and developer of Pastebin.
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StubHub, an online ticket exchange, was having trouble with criminals using its open platform to verify credentials that had been stolen from other sources. The website turned to SilverTail for help, explained Robert Capps, senior manager of trust and safety at the company.
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The two hackers from the nefarious cybercriminal group LulzSec arrested in conjunction with the Sony Pictures data breach have turned out to be college friends, sharing a history of cyber-research and seemingly well-meaning training in the arts of security intrusion and detection.
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An unidentified hacking group claims to have hacked PricewaterhouseCoopers's Franklin, Tenn., office to obtain access to Mitt Romney’s tax returns. It’s now attempting to hold the information for ransom, asking for $1 million, deliverable via Bitcoin, the encrypted digital currency.
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Arrrrrgh: Cambodia is finding itself under attack from hacktivists protesting the arrest of one of the founders of The Pirate Bay file-sharing website. Cambodian authorities apprehended Gottfrid Svartholm Warg last week.
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After five years, three trials and as many different judgements, the case against Thomas-Rasset comes full circle: the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that the original $222,000 fine should stand.
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Despite the hoohaa about the ‘Chinese cyberthreat’ (in reality, read east Asia), Russia’s Peter the Great (in reality, read east Europe) is beating Sun Tzu in modern cyber wargames. Eastern Europe has better cybercriminals than eastern Asia.
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Just weeks before the Leveson Inquiry is expected to deliver a critical report on press ethics to prime minister David Cameron, a new lawsuit over alleged phone hacking is filed; this time against Trinity Mirror Group, including the time when Piers Morgan was editor.
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A class-action suit against Sony over a PlayStation Network data breach in April of 2011 has been largely dismissed, after months of consumer backlash and high-profile recriminations against the company.
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In the US, the availability of 135,000 DNA records in two public consensual genealogy databases is causing concern among researchers; in the UK, the government is proposing a non-consensual national DNA database.
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First it was reported that 3 million accounts had been stolen from Verizon, then denied and ‘explained’ by Verizon. The consensus now is that the data did not come from Verizon – but the company still has questions to answer.
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The rapid spread of false information through social media could cause extensive damage for businesses and society, the World Economic Forum warned at the launch of their Global Risks 2012 report on January 8 2013.
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Facebook has opened up registration once again for its annual worldwide programming competition, where hackers compete against each other for “fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup.”
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Facing charges of treason and looking for a deal, a former Army intelligence analyst is willing to plead guilty to lesser charges in the case brought against him for allegedly delivering thousands of classified government documents to WikiLeaks.
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has warned about US government claims that a Megaupload user lost his property rights by using cloud storage has implications for all data stored by any user or company with any cloud provider, including Amazon’s S3, Google Apps or Apple iCloud.
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Digital signage seems like it should be an irresistible target for cyber-pranking – just imagine the havoc one could wreak with control over the pixel screens in Times Square, or Piccadilly Circus, or the Fremont Street Experience in Vegas. Two Serbian teenagers have gone where many others have m...
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A new report published in Nature's Scientific Reports section shows how the location data available from mobile devices can be used as a virtual fingerprint to identify individual people regardless of whether the data is 'anonymized'.
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A critical review of the Jimmy Savile case, who now posthumously has hundreds of sexual abuse allegations against him, suggests that a combination of his celebrity status and police privacy rules combined to protect him for decades.
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The Reserve Bank of Australia has admitted that its been an ongoing target for hackers, although the nation's central bank says no data has been lost as a result of the attacks.
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Hacker Jeremy Hammond is accused of being part of the Stratfor breach. Presiding judge Loretta Preska’s husband, Thomas Kavaler, appears on a list of Stratfor ‘victims’. Hammond’s legal team says this creates an appearance of partiality, and has demanded that Preska be recused.
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Would you bet $100 of your own money that your organization is safe from a data breach for the next six months? If the answer is “no”, then be assured that you are not alone.
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“Hope is not a strategy” is the title of a new DDoS threat and impact survey. It finds that while business recognizes the growing threat from DDoS attacks, the majority of companies still rely on traditional defenses like firewalls and routers to protect themselves.
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The US government and MIT/JSTOR had agreed that documents concerning the prosecution of Aaron Swartz could, in part, be made public. The Swartz estate asked for the documents in full. The court has denied the estate and allowed the government and MIT/JSTOR to redact certain information.
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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.
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Commonly referred to as the year of the hack, it is no secret what 2011 has become famous for in the information security industry. This year’s headlines, reports Fred Donovan, have been made up of data breaches, hacks, APT attacks and mergers and acquisitions
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Drew Amorosi recounts the events surrounding WikiLeaks’ publication of thousands of confidential US diplomatic cables that recently garnered so much international attention, and takes a look at the political fallout.
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Are security budgets addicted to anti-virus at the expense of more immediate and emerging threats? Imperva’s Rob Rachwald explains why its time to shift the focus
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WikiLeaks is back in the news. The site dedicated to leaking state secrets has teamed with Anonymous to disclose emails from intelligence firm Stratfor, which Anonymous offshoot LulzSec breached in December.
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The UK Government is renewing its plans to retain internet and mobile phone traffic data on everyone for a year.
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An Australian broadcaster asks why Symantec is guarded over the Norton AV and pcAnywhere source code that was lost to the hacker Yamatough and the Lords of Dharmaraja, while a US researcher fears he may know the reason.
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The 2011 Lloyd’s Risk Index has been published. While cybersecurity is only one aspect of overall business risk, it shows a surprising disparity in companies’ attitude and preparedness in information security.
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Ben Franklin once said that “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”. At least one VP at Tripwire would likely agree with this advice when applied to network security.
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Don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater says Google; and there’s more baby than bathwater suggests Prof. James Boyle.
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In a report partly drawing on the Mansion House speech earlier this week by Jonathan Evans, head of the UK Security Service, the Associated Press has delivered an analysis of the astonishing level of government security being used to protect the London 2012 Olympics.
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Last month Ofcom finally published its draft code for the application of the Digital Economy Act. Now UK ISP Entanet asks, “is the DEA old before its time?”
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It was always to be expected that hacktivists would respond vigorously to the effective house arrest of Julian Assange within the Ecuador Embassy in London, and the UK’s apparent determination to extradite him to Sweden.
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While nation-states actively attempt to exploit the networks of the US government, critical infrastructure, and commercial networks, US Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn told the RSA Conference audience that terrorist groups are inevitably more likely to fire the most severe type of destru...
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The rate of unique web malware more than doubled in the second quarter, from 105,536 unique encounters of web malware in March 2011 to 287,298 unique encounters in June 2011, according to Cisco’s latest quarterly threat report.
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As the electronic conflict being waged by the LulzSec hactivist group escalated yesterday with the arrest of a 19-year-old teenager, IT security professionals have been advised to prepare for retaliation attacks.
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Black Hat DC This week, Black Hat DC was on in Arlington, VA. Moxie Marlinspike announced a new attack against SSL that forces HTTPS traffic into HTTP to allow a man in the middle attack. Dan Kaminsky, who discovered the infamous DNS flaw last year and criticized SSL at the the time, reacts here....
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In its 2011 IT security predictions, Panda Security is predicting that a further rising tide of malware, along with an online cyberwar plus cyberprotests, will be the order of the day as the year progresses.
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While detailing Panda Security’s role in taking down the Mariposa botnet, threat analyst Sean-Paul Correll said the crew were hardly criminal masterminds, characterizing their technical skills as somewhat rudimentary.
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Four LulzSec members who claim to be "latter-day pirates" have plead guilty to hacking charges and compromising millions of people's information.
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This month’s patches resolve four vulnerabilities in Flash, two in ColdFusion and four in Shockwave. The Flash update is probably the most urgent, although IE10 and Google Chrome users will be updated automatically.
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Mandiant, a security firm with a close relationship with both US and UK governments (one of the five companies in GCHQ’s new Cyber Incident Response scheme) has made the clearest statement yet: the Chinese military is behind the hacking team known as APT1 (aka ‘Comment Crew’).
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This month’s Patch Tuesday will include seven security bulletins from Microsoft: four are critical and three are important; three require reboots, three may require a reboot, and one does not. Both businesses and consumers will likely be affected.
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There’s a row brewing in the UK after a senior security official at the Cabinet Office advises users to provide false personal information to websites such as Facebook. Opposition MPs and Facebook are not amused.
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Researchers from North Carolina State University and the University of Oregon have found a way to use a technique called MapReduce to exploit cloud-based web browsers, which execute JavaScript code for mobile clients.
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As a companion guide to its retrospective of the security lowlights of 2012, Kaspersky Lab has taken its turn peering into the crystal ball to see what’s ahead for 2013. The researchers also see the cloud, Mac malware, Android and exploits/vulnerabilities as trends to watch in 2013.
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At a bail hearing last week, Chief U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska denied bail and warned LulzSec’s Hammond that he faces a custodial sentence of 30 years.
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With advertisers still claiming that ‘do not track’ will destroy the free internet, and a European Commission proposal for privacy-by-design and by default – enforced by sanctions – ENISA has published ‘a technical perspective on behavioral tracking.’
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An analysis of conversations in one of the largest known hacker forums – with around 250,000 members – has revealed that SQL-injection and DDoS are the subjects of most interest to up-and-coming wannabe hackers.
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Announcing that the UK is spending £2 million to set up a new cybercrime center, UK Foreign Secretary William Hague has warned that virtual threats are "one of the greatest global and strategic challenges of our time.”
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Verizon Enterprise Solutions has become the newest member of the Lockheed Martin Cyber Security Alliance, a collaborative effort to address national cyber defense challenges – including the growing threat posed by cyber attacks against the US' critical IT infrastructure.
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Today is last day for responding to the UK government’s consultation on a filtered internet. The Department of Education is proposing the introduction of a nationwide opt-out ISP-operated internet filtering system.
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Following research by Darth Null, a Florida-based publishing firm called BlueToad has now admitted that the million Apple UDIDs stolen and leaked by AntiSec came from its own servers.
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The danger comes from staff bringing both their personal devices and their personal preferences to work – whether that’s listening to the radio, watching the latest episode of their favorite soap during break periods, or browsing YouTube.
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Researchers have combined stolen web browser history data with membership of social networking groups to identify large numbers of users who would otherwise be anonymous, it was revealed this week.
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Cybersecurity threats will overtake terrorism as the top US national security concern, FBI Director Robert Mueller told the RSA Conference on Thursday.
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The start of 2013 witnessed the resurrection of besieged file sharing site MegaUpload. Drew Amorosi lays out a timeline of the service’s rebirth and the legal troubles of its embattled founder, Kim Dotcom
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Should you have to give up privacy to get more security, or does one actually support the other? Danny Bradbury sounds out the experts
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Ross Brewer of LogRhythm explores the danger posed by advanced persistent threats, the rash of high-profile data breaches that have been making headlines this year, and the steps organizations should be taking to protect IT assets
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GeneWatch, a policy research and public interest group that monitors genetic science, has linked the announcement of a new UK phenome center with the likelihood of a UK national DNA database.
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AlienVault’s Conrad Constantine explains why the need to establish reputation information from cloud instances cannot be underestimated for incident responders
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Matthew Pascucci shines a light on a by-product of hacktivism: increased security awareness. Their attacks may be embarassing, but he says hacktivists do serve a functional purpose for the security professional
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Keith Ducatel of Article 10 talks about the dangers of off-the-shelf information security policies and training
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Philip Lieberman, CEO of Lieberman Software and well-known cybersecurity expert, gives insight into what's lacking in most organizations' identity management, password, access and auditing policies.
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Benga Erinle, president of 3eTI, discusses the shift in focus from securing physical facilities to warding off cyber attacks against critical infrastructures – and why our reliance on control systems makes us more vulnerable than ever to attack
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We're not in Kansas anymore: The third quarter of 2012 saw a marked increase in Android adware, while new evidence surfaced suggesting that the Zeus-in-the-Mobile (Zitmo) banking trojan is evolving into a botnet. And, Romanian hackers are continuing to perform large-scale scanning for web vulnera...
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The closing keynote at last week’s RSA Europe conference in London was delivered by internet pioneer Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, where he discussed the role the internet has played in promoting political discourse and the dangers that ‘free speech’ encounters from censorship and government...
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As the year draws inexorably to a close, it’s only fair and natural that we, as an industry, peer into the future to see what could await us in the New Year. The latest to tackle such prognostication is the Information Security Forum (ISF), which has ID’d the top five security threats businesses ...
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In a development that appears to be as politically motivated as the kidnapping of embedded investigative journalists in the Middle East, the New York Times said that it has uncovered a four-month-long hacking effort on the part of Chinese hackers.
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Does wireless necessarily equate to insecure in the world of payment transactions? Davey Winder examines the fears, and the realities
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Companies are embracing new web and mobile technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation, social networking and mobile communication at a faster rate than their information security strategies are updated.
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AirTight Network’s Ajay Kumar Gupta says it’s no coincidence that cybercriminals like to use WiFi connections. Here he provides an overview of the reasons why, and what can be done to prevent them from using your wireless network as an accomplice.
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Imperva, the web security specialist, has reported that the tool released by the Anonymous Hacker Group for would-be WikiLeaks protesters has been downloaded over 40 000 times, with the majority of downloads occurring in the US.
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Imperva, the web security specialist, has reported that the tool released by the Anonymous Hacker Group for would-be WikiLeaks protesters has been downloaded over 40 000 times, with the majority of downloads occurring in the US.
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An anonymous researcher has posted a proof-of-concept attack that fakes a trusted root certificate on the iPhone. Researchers have confirmed that the attack works, making it possible for anyone to create a web page that is deemed to be trusted by Apple.
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Hacktivists seem to have learned a lot from the WikiLeaks/Anonymous attacks seen in recent months, as an automated DDoS attack has reportedly frozen access to BREIN, the Dutch anti-piracy web portal.
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Mike Yaffe, director of enterprise marketing with Core Security, has launched what appears to be a thinly-veiled attack on the IT security professionals defending the systems that have been hacked in recent weeks and months by hacktivist groups such as Anonymous and LulzSec.
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The DDoS weapon of choice for Anonymous activists, the Low Orbit Ion Canon (LOIC), was downloaded from the internet 381,961 times during 2011. That number has already been exceeded in 2012, with daily downloads averaging more than 3400.
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Special Forces Gear, which sells military gear online, apparently sat on a data breach involving credit card numbers for four months until outed by Anonymous spinoff LulzSec, which claimed responsibility for the attack.
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Eight days ago an ‘anonymous victim’ posted details of a new Linux rootkit to the Full Disclosure mailing list, asking for information. The rootkit was adding an iFrame into HTTP responses returned by the victim’s web server.
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Jester (th3j35t3r) describes himself as a patriotic cyber activist. He spends his time trying to find and take down what he considers to be enemies of the USA, ranging from Wikileaks and Anonymous to militant Islamic websites.
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As high-profile data loss incidents become commonplace, Wendy M. Grossman examines the nascent field of data breach insurance aiming to hedge against the risks
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Take a stroll through recent history, as John Walker reviews the origins of hacking and how it arrived at where it is today
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Once upon a time, anti-virus technology was a well-coveted standalone product. These days, it is often considered a commodity that can be adequately built into a UTM offering. Cath Everett investigates whether or not a market for standalone anti-virus technology still exists
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Maintaining a LinkedIn profile is a ‘necessary evil’ in the opinion of security consultant Kevin Eagles. Here he examines some of the privacy and security pitfalls of having a presence on the social networking site
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With the 2012 Olympics fast approaching, Davey Winder takes a look at the growing problem of IP espionage in the big, expensive world of sport…
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Crimes, scams, and various forms of nonsense are hardly inventions of the digital age. In fact, they are likely as old as human civilisation. Wendy M. Grossman examines why criminals are finding it easier to engage in cybercrime over more traditional forms of physical theft, and why law enforceme...
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The recording industry continues to lose billions of dollars each year, along with tens of thousands of jobs, all thanks to illegally downloaded files. Lauren Moraski examines what is being done to combat the drain on this sector
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Once poison found only in email accounts, spam is now polluting every form of electronic communication from IM to SMS and from blogs to tweets. But how well is it doing outside its natural domain? William Knight takes a look at non-email spam
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Employee surveillance is near ubiquitous, but it may be damaging both staff performance and morale, say Adam Joinson and Monica Whitty...
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Securing IT means coping with Donald Rumsfeld’s ‘known unknowns’ – expected attacks whose nature is a surprise. Concepts from medicine, game theory and crowd sourcing may help, finds Danny Bradbury
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The development of virtual servers and cloud computing has brought with it a new information security problem - artificially intelligent (AI) superbots. Steve Gold explains what can be done to defend against this totally new genre of information security threats
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The hacking underground is driven by three things: money, information, and reputation. Danny Bradbury takes a walk through its dark tunnels
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Ill news travels quick and far, or so the saying goes. But how well is security-related news covered in the press, and what are people writing about? Danny Bradbury investigates
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With more than 30 000 web pages being compromised every day, search engine results could increasingly lead to malware infection. Kari Larsen asks what the search engines are doing to mitigate security threats, and how users can protect themselves
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Proposals to curb online piracy in the US boiled over into high-profile digital protests this past winter. Drew Amorosi examines what the fuss is all about
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Vendors, analysts, and commentators alike have long predicted a surge in malware affecting Apple’s products. Yet, until recently, these prognostications have failed to materialize. Drew Amorosi examines recent malware threats to Apple’s OS X operating system to find out if this is an anomaly, or ...
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Hackers exist almost anywhere there is an internet connection, yet the Chinese government continues to downplay their existence at home. Drew Amorosi takes a journey of enlightenment and seeks the truth
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