Microsoft Corp said on Tuesday that hackers are seeking to attack users of its PowerPoint presentation software for Windows PCs and released patches to protect them against the threat. The world’s No. 1 software maker said that a version of PowerPoint for Apple Inc’s Mac computers is also vulnerable, though it has yet to find [...]
The Department of Homeland Security will step up operations to secure civilian computer networks against cyber attacks in coming years, getting increases in funding and personnel, and coordinating responsibilities now scattered across government agencies, administration officials said this week. (Washington Post)
Hackers have broken into the air traffic control mission-support systems of the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration several times in recent years, according to an Inspector General report sent to the FAA this week. In February, hackers compromised an FAA public-facing computer and used it to gain access to personally identifiable information, such as Social Security [...]
The U.S. military’s response to a cyber attack would not necessarily be limited to cyberspace, the head of U.S. Strategic Command said Thursday. “The Law of Armed Conflict will apply to this domain,” said Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton. The United States’ response to a cyber attack would be decided by the president and [...]
University of California, Berkeley officials say hackers have infiltrated restricted computer databases. The university is notifying 160,000 current and former students, alumni and others whose personal information may have been stolen. (Fox40)
Heartland Payment Systems reported on Thursday that the hack it experienced last year has cost the company $12.6 million so far. The amount includes legal costs and fines from Visa and MasterCard, who say the company was not compliant with payment card industry rules. (Wired)
Days after a hacker claimed to have broken into a database and encrypted millions of prescription records at the Virginia Department of Health Professions, it remains unclear what happened. Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks.org last Sunday carried a report from an anonymous poster who said that the secure site for the Virginia DHP Prescription Monitoring Program [...]
A 21-year old Swedish hacker has been indicted (PDF) on charges of stealing source code from networking firm Cisco. Philip Gabriel Pettersson, aka ‘Stakkato’, is accused of breaking into Cisco’s servers between 12 and 13 May 2004, and stealing the source code for the firm’s Internetwork Operating System (IOS). He was 16 at the time [...]
North Korea is operating a cyber-reconnaissance unit that targets South Korean and U.S. military networks, South Korean intelligence personnel said Tuesday. The Korean People’s Army has been operating for years a “technology reconnaissance team,” charged with collecting information and disrupting military computer networks in South Korea and the United States, South Korean intelligence sources told [...]
Hackers last week broke into a Virginia state Web site used by pharmacists to track prescription drug abuse. They deleted records on more than 8 million patients and replaced the site’s homepage with a ransom note demanding $10 million for the return of the records, according to a posting on Wikileaks.org, an online clearinghouse for [...]
