US Senate Hacked! “We Don’t Like The U.S. Government Very Much” LULZ Security
The video states some reasons in significant rise of hack attack by Lulz Security on US information assets including critical assets (US senate) which is a growing threat to national security.
Leon Penetta warned in last week hearing that next Pearl Harbor might [...]
By Brian Grow and Mark Hosenb
WASHINGTON: As America and China grow more economically and financially intertwined, the two nations have also stepped up spying on each other. Today, most of that is done electronically, with computers rather than listening devices in chandeliers or human moles in tuxedos.And at the moment, many experts believe China may [...]
‘Best Practices for Keeping Your Home Network Secure’ is a new guide published by the National Security Agency. This document provides home users directions for keeping their systems secure and protected.
Users are faceing lots of security issues now a days, and trying to apply all the required security measures is complicated due to the [...]
Source: Computer World
The successful use of phishing emails to breach secure organizations like Oak Ridge National Laboratory and RSA are stark reminders of the serious threat posed by what some experts have dismissed as as a low-tech method of attack.
Oak Ridge, a U.S. Department of Energy-run research lab, this week disclosed it had shut down [...]
Federal Cyber Attacks Rose 39% In 2010
Cyber attacks on the federal government increased in 2010 over the previous year, even though the total number of cybersecurity incidents was down overall, according to a new report from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).
There were 41,776 reported cyber incidents of malicious intent in the federal network [...]
Security 2020: Reduce Security Risks This Decade
Identify real security risks and skip the hype. After years of focusing on IT security, we find that hackers are as active and effective as ever. This book gives application developers, networking and security professionals, those that create standards, and CIOs [...]
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By LOLITA C. BALDOR, Associated Press
A malicious computer attack that appears to target Iran’s nuclear plants can be modified to wreak havoc on industrial control systems around the world, and represents the most dire cyberthreat known to industry, government officials and experts said Wednesday.
They warned that industries are becoming increasingly vulnerable to the [...]
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Fraud-related losses rose 20 percent to $1.7 billion in the past year, Kroll study says
Incidence of theft of information and electronic data at global companies has overtaken physical theft for the first time, according to a study released yesterday.
According to the latest edition of the Kroll Annual Global Fraud Report, [...]
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By Kevin Poulsen @wired.com
The federal agency in charge of protecting other agencies from computer intruders was found riddled with hundreds of high-risk security holes on its own systems, according to the results of an audit released Wednesday.
The United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team, or US-CERT, monitors the Einstein intrusion-detection sensors on nonmilitary government [...]
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100% Internet Credit Card Fraud Protected
by Robert McMillan
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has disrupted a long-running online scam that allowed offshore fraudsters to steal millions of dollars from U.S. consumers — often by taking just pennies at a time.
The scam, which had been run for about four years, according to the FTC, provides [...]
