A computer hacker who compromised a United Nations Web site in 2007 also defaced a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers server based in Winchester that year. First reported by a computer information magazine on Friday, a hacker known by the handle “m0sted” — a 24-year-old man from Turkey, according to his YouTube page — compromised [...]
The U.S. Air Force has said that one of its most critical battles is in cyberspace, and on Friday, President Barack Obama announced that he is making that battleground one of his top priorities. (MA)
The globally-interconnected digital information and communications infrastructure known as cyberspace underpins almost every facet of modern society and provides critical support for the U.S. economy, civil infrastructure, public safety and national security. The United States is one of the global leaders on embedding technology into our daily lives and this technology adoption has transformed the [...]
In February 2009, President Obama directed the National Security Council (NSC) and Homeland Security Council to conduct a 60-day review of the plans, programs, and activities underway throughout government that address our communications and information infrastructure (i.e., “cyberspace”), in order to develop a strategic framework to ensure that the U.S. government’s initiatives in this area [...]
Microsoft today warned that hackers are using rigged QuickTime media files to exploit an unpatched vulnerability in DirectShow, the APIs used by Windows programs for multimedia support. The company has activated its security response process to deal with the zero-day attacks has issued a pre-patch advisory with workarounds and a one-click “fix it” feature to [...]
The Lake County Sheriff’s Office announced 19 arrests late today in connection with five-month-long cyber crime investigation involving child pornography. The probe resulted in 23 search warrants and more than 12,000 child pornography images seized from computers. The Lake County Sheriff’s Office Cyber Crimes Unit worked with task forces in several states, including Wisconsin, Tennessee, [...]
It’s official: The famous password-cracking tool L0phtCrack is back, and its creators plan to keep it that way. L0phtCrack 6 tool, released Wednesday, was developed in 1997 by Christien Rioux, Chris Wysopal, and Peiter “Mudge” Zatko from the former L0pht Heavy Industries — the hacker think tank best known for testifying before Congress that it [...]
The Obama administration is creating a “cyber czar” within the White House to coordinate the nation’s computer security. Critics already say the post will not have enough authority to haul the government into the digital age. Government and private industry need to better protect the nation’s computer networks, the White House warns in a plan [...]
The U.S. government says it’s lost — yes, lost — an entire hard drive full of sensitive data. The external drive, stored at the U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, held personal data from the Clinton era, including information about White House staff and visitors and electronic storage tapes from the Executive Office of the [...]
