“China on Monday accused a U.S. congressional advisory panel of bias for a report in which it said the Chinese government appeared increasingly to be piercing U.S. computer networks to gather useful data for its military. The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission said in its 2009 report to Congress released last week that there [...]
“The UK Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit made two arrests earlier this month for suspected use of the Zeus Trojan. A man and a woman, both 20, were apprehended in Manchester on 3 November in Europe’s first arrests with regard to Zeus, according to a Met Police statement on Wednesday. A Met Police spokesperson told [...]
“The Federal Bureau of Investigation told Congress this week that when it comes to cyber crime, terrorist groups like Al Qaeda aren’t the sharpest pencils in the cup, but they’re not out of the game either. ‘It is always worth remaining mindful that terrorists do not require long term, persistent network access to accomplish some [...]
“If network administrators simply instituted proper configuration policies and conducted good network monitoring, about 80 percent of commonly known cyber attacks could be prevented, a Senate committee heard Tuesday. The remark was made by Richard Schaeffer, the NSA’s information assurance director, who added that simply adhering to already known best practices would sufficiently raise the [...]
“In wide ranging testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday, some of the federal government’s top cybersecurity authorities said that the status quo in federal cybersecurity is not sufficient. They discussed plans to improve cyber defenses, including a new comprehensive National Cyber Incident Response Plan to delineate duties in case of a major cyber [...]
“A HACKER has broken through Shaolin Temple’s legendary kung fu defenses – by attacking its official Website and faking a letter from abbot Shi Yongxing apologizing for the commercialization of Buddhist heritage at the Henan Province temple. The post was defamatory, said senior monk Shi Yanyu, who added that the abbot was on a business [...]
“Nearly a third of federal IT pros say their agency experiences at least one cybersecurity incident each day, according to a new survey. The survey of 300 federal IT pros found that 31% said their agency experiences a cybersecurity incident — external attack, malware, lost device, inappropriate employee access, or other threat — daily. The [...]
“Twitter, Facebook and other social networks, as well as a number of Google services, are being eyed by cybercriminals not only to steal user data, but to use their storage and bandwidth for certain botnet command-and-control capabilities. “ (Source: Botnet masters turn to Google, social networks to avoid detection)
“Four men have been indicted in Georgia on charges that they hacked into the Atlanta-based bank card processing company RBS WorldPay. They allegedly used an army of flunkies to steal $9.5 million in cash from ATM machines around the world in a span of hours. Sergei Tsurikov, 25, of Tallinn, Estonia; Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of [...]
“A massive 2007 electrical blackout in Brazil has been newly blamed on computer hackers, but was actually the result of a utility company’s negligent maintenance of high voltage insulators on two transmission lines. That’s according to reports from government regulators and others who investigated the incident for more than a year. In a broadcast Sunday [...]
