cybersecurity

'Boost cyber-warfare tech'

"Britain's army chief wants traditional investment in warships and fighter jets cut to fund a boost in cyber warfare technology, he told The Sunday Times newspaper. General David Richards said future conflicts would be fought in increasingly high-tech ways and the threat of cyber-attacks against Britain's infrastructure now meant radical change was unavoidable. Britain's armed forces are facing a new 'horse versus tank moment' in dealing with the challenges of modern warfare, he told the weekly broadsheet." (Source: 'Boost cyber-warfare tech': News24: SciTech: News) ›
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Apple releases security patch for 12 vulnerabilities in MAC OS X systems

"In its Security Update 2010-001, released on Tuesday, Apple has fixed as many as 12 vulnerabilities in its Mac OS X Leopard and Snow Leopard – with the fixes dealing, as usual, with issues within the core system, and not including the addition of new features to built-in applications or fixing of application bu ›
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China's Baidu sues U.S. company over cyber-attack

"China's leading Internet search engine, Baidu, has filed a lawsuit in a New York court against a U.S. firm that managed its domain registration, Baidu said in a statement on Wednesday. Baidu is seeking damages from its U.S. domain name registration service provider Register.com, Inc., following an attack on its website www.baidu.com last week, the Beijing- ›
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Microsoft to issue emergency patch for flaw used in Google attack

"Microsoft has just announced that it will issue an emergency patch -- something it rarely does -- for the Internet Explorer security hole implicated in recent data-stealing cyberattacks against Google, Adobe, Jupiter and dozens of other companies. Signaling high urgency, Microsoft will not wait until it's next Patch Tuesday -- Feb. 9 -- the next scheduled ›
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India Suspects Chinese of Hacking Attempt

"India suspects that Chinese hackers attempted to gain access to Indian government information at the same time as they have been accused of targeting U.S. companies including Google Inc., according to a report Monday. The Times of London quoted India's national security adviser, M.K. Narayanan, as saying of the attempted cyber attacks on his and other gove ›
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Network Flaw Causes Scary Web Error

"A Georgia mother and her two daughters logged onto Facebook from mobile phones last weekend and wound up in a startling place: strangers' accounts with full access to troves of private information. The glitch — the result of a routing problem at the family's wireless carrier, AT&T — revealed a little known security flaw with far reaching implications for everyone on ›
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Yahoo Was Also Target in Hacker Attack

"Yahoo Inc. was among the companies targeted in the recent cyber attacks that hit Google Inc. and other companies, according to several people briefed on the matter. Yahoo has talked with its Internet rival about the attack, according to two of these people, though it wasn't clear whether the attack on Yahoo resulted in a breach of its systems, as it did for Google. The ›
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U.S. plans formal complaint over Google attacks

"The U.S. government plans to ask China for a formal explanation regarding the cyberattacks against Google and other U.S. companies, according to a State Department spokesman. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had already hinted at such a move in a statement she released when Google first revealed the attacks. 'We will be issuing a formal demarche to the C ›
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After Google's Loud Stance on China, US Treads Lightly

"Last month, when Google engineers at their sprawling campus in Silicon Valley began to suspect that Chinese intruders were breaking into private Gmail accounts, the company began a secret counteroffensive. It managed to gain access to a computer in Taiwan that it suspected of being the source of the attacks. Peering inside that machine, company engineers a ›
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Juniper Hit by Same Cyber Attack as Google

"Juniper Networks Inc. said Thursday that it was a target of the same cyber attacks believed to have affected Google Inc. and other companies. The announcement makes the Sunnyvale, Calif., maker of networking equipment the third company to say publicly that it was targeted since Google announced Tuesday that attackers based in China broke into its computer ›
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Google Hack Attack Was Ultra Sophisticated, New Details Show

"Hackers seeking source code from Google, Adobe and dozens of other high-profile companies used unprecedented tactics that combined encryption, stealth programming and an unknown hole in Internet Explorer, according to new details released by researchers at anti-virus firm McAfee. ‘We have never ever, outside of the defense industry, seen commercial indus ›
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Google Attack Used Internet Explorer Flaw

"The cyber attack from China that hit Google and 33 other companies in December leveraged a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer. 'In our investigation we discovered that one of the malware samples involved in this broad attack exploits a new, not publicly known vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer,' said McAfee CTO George Kurtz in a blog post on Wedn ›
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L.A. Law Firm Reports Cyber Attack From China

"A Los Angeles law firm representing a company suing China for allegedly stealing its software code announced its computers have come under a cyber-attack that originated in the Asian nation and that the FBI is investigating the attempted intrusion. Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, which is representing Santa Barbara-based CYBERsitter, LLC in a $2.2 billion lawsu ›