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Barack Obama’s Site Leading to Trojan
Tuesday, 27 Jan, 2009 – 8:59 | No Comment

Change has finally arrived in the United States of America, marking the dawn of a new era. The US Presidential campaign has shown the world how governments can leverage Web 2.0 to better understand and …

Monster.com Reports Another Breach Of Its User Database
Tuesday, 27 Jan, 2009 – 7:40 | No Comment

Monster.com, the popular online job-hunting site, is reporting another major breach of its user database — the third time it has disclosed such a breach in the past two years.
In a warning issued to users …

Heartland hacker identified
Monday, 26 Jan, 2009 – 13:49 | No Comment

The cybercriminal responsible for the Heartland Payment Systems breach has been identified by the Secret Service with the hacker’s location “pinpointed” outside of North America.
According to the trade publication Storefront Backtalk, the investigation has been …

Tokyo police department network shutdown
Sunday, 25 Jan, 2009 – 15:53 | No Comment

According to Worldwide Net, the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department network was shutdown from January 22-24 due to a computer virus. Department officials thought the possibility of a hacker attack were minimal and that the …

Network Solutions Under Large Scale DDoS Attack, Millions of Websites Potentially Unreachable
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 22:34 | No Comment

Network Solutions is having problems with “all” its name servers, according to their tech support and a recent post on North American Network Operators’ Group (NANOG) mailing list indicates that it has been under very …

Obama pledges better cybersecurity, top advisor
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 21:08 | No Comment

Two days into his administration, U.S. President Barack Obama issued a statement outlining his homeland security policy, including the creation of a top advisor in the White House to set cybersecurity policy.
In the homeland security …

Chinese hackers eye $400 million market
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 10:22 | No Comment

In 2007, the domestic market for Chinese virtual goods was estimated at $900 million and 45% of that directed at Tencent online products, the owner of QQ. A QQ coin, which has been described …

Hacker deleted 10,475 public servants
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 8:42 | No Comment

A MAN has admitted hacking into the Northern Territory Government’s computer system causing $1m of damage.
Computer engineer David Anthony McIntosh, 28, pleaded guilty in the NT Supreme Court in Darwin today to 12 counts of …

DoD Foots the Bill for Web-Based Security Training
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 8:30 | No Comment

Our tax dollars at work…or is it tax dollars from our work? Regardless, you can save budgetary resources by outsourcing security training to our government. A curriculum of free web based training from the Department …

Worm Infects Millions of Computers Worldwide
Friday, 23 Jan, 2009 – 8:24 | No Comment

A new digital plague has hit the Internet, infecting millions of personal and business computers in what seems to be the first step of a multistage attack. The world’s leading computer security experts do not …