cybersecurity

MoD Creates Command Unit To Counter Cyber Threats

"Liam Fox has created a new joint force command at the MoD to oversee cyber warfare and military intelligence Reforms at the Ministry of Defence week will also include the creation of a new joint force command unit, that will integrate the MoD’s cyber warfare and military intelligence units. The reforms were announced by defence secretary Liam Fox in Parliament on Monday. The main thrust of the MoD reforms is a “radical” re-organisation at the ministry in an effort to end over-bureaucratic systems have previously resulted in costly and delayed procurement projects for the armed forces." Source: MoD Creates Command Unit To Counter Cyber Threats | eWEEK Europe UK ›
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Al Qaeda Using ‘Facebook and Twitter’ to Plan Terrorist Attacks.

"Home Secretary Theresa May has announced the terrorist groups including Al Qaeda are increasingly using social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter to plan terrorist attacks. The Home Secretary has said that terrorist groups such as Al Qaeda are now using technology to plan and disguise attacks on the U.S ›
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DHS: Imported Consumer Tech Contains Hidden Hacker Attack Tools

"A top Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official has admitted on the record that electronics sold in the U.S. are being preloaded with spyware, malware, and security-compromising components by unknown foreign parties. In testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, acting deputy undersecretary of the DHS National Protection and ›
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Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days

"For the second time in nine days, Adobe on Tuesday patched a critical vulnerability in Flash Player that hackers were already exploiting. Adobe also updated its popular Reader PDF viewer to quash 13 new bugs and several older ones the company had not gotten around to fixing." Source: Adobe patches second Flash zero-day in 9 days | Computerworld New Zeala ›


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Morgan Stanley Data Breach Hits Investors

"Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. According to two letters sent to clients, and obtained by Credit.com, the information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on the investments in 2010, and ›
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NATO server hacked, files published - Security

"A NATO server appears to have been hacked by a group that claims to have rooted the server with a private zero day exploit. A private zero day exploit is a vulnerability discovered in a system that is not disclosed publicly before being used in an attack. A 50 MB backup of 2646 files from what reportedly was NATO's Apache Tomcat servlet was posted on a cy ›
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Hackers hit Arizona law enforcement for third time

"For the third time in less than 10 days, confidential information from Arizona's law enforcement community was hacked and posted online, with the same basic group of hackers behind the effort. The information, posted late Thursday, was shared Friday by Anonymous, a loose collective of hackers. Some of these hackers were affiliated with LulzSec, a related g ›
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Is your family prepared for a cyberattack?

"You wake up late one morning because your alarm didn't go off. Puzzled by the lack of electricity, you reach for your phone to call the power company. You don't even get a dial tone. Your cellphone can't connect either, despite four full bars and a charged battery. You try to go online with your laptop. No dice. It dawns on you that something is really wro ›
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Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks

"Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start the leaks flow ›
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MasterCard website is target of cyber attack

"The credit card company’s website could not be accessed for large parts of the day, security experts said. Twitter user called ‘Ibom Hacktivist’ boasted the attack was for its refusal to process donations for the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks. ‘A grouMasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the e ›
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There is no patch for human stupidity DHS finds

"The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out. Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who picked them up, 60 percent plugged the ›
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'Anonymous' hackers declare war on Orlando

"The hacker group Anonymous on Monday declared war against the city of Orlando, Florida, over the arrest of people handing out food to homeless people, according to a report in The Washington Post. In a press release, the group announced the creation of "Operation Orlando" over the city's treatment of the Food Not Bombs group. " Source: 'Anonymous' hacker ›
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Richmond-based supermarket's website hit by cyberattack

"Richmond-based T & T Supermarket Inc. said today that its website was hit by a cyberattack that may have compromised the personal data of 58,000 people. Hackers may have accessed databases of customer information, including names, passwords, ages, genders, email addresses, street addresses and phone numbers. T & T does not collect credit card information, ›