“In the wake of a rash of hacks on computers owned by small businesses, the FBI and the American Banking Association have issued an alert advising businesses to use only a dedicated PC for online banking, according to USA Today. The alert was issued after numerous small businesses, universities and local governments have been targeted [...]
“The FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Citigroup Inc. that led to the theft of tens of millions of dollars, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Citing anonymous government officials, the Journal reported that the hackers were connected to a Russian cyber gang. Two other computer systems, at least one of connected to a [...]
“The decision to appoint Howard A. Schmidt, an industry executive with government experience who served as a cybersecurity adviser in the Bush administration and who also has a military and law enforcement background, is seen as a compromise between factions. Government officials and industry executives say there has been a behind-the-scenes dispute over whether strict [...]
“Italian police Friday arrested an alleged hacker with links to organized crime in the Naples area who is accused of defrauding banks and mobile phone operators out of several million dollars. Fabrizio Iannelli, 33, was arrested on arrival at Rome’s Fiumicino Airport after being expelled from Thailand, Michele De Capola, deputy director of the operations [...]
“Twitter was the target of a cyberattack Thursday that disrupted its microblogging service for many users, especially those accessing it directly through the company’s Web site. The service appeared to be functioning normally on Friday morning. In a blog post late Thursday evening, Biz Stone, a founder of Twitter, said hackers had changed the records [...]
“Hackers broke into an online database hosted at RockYou.com and illegally accessed the usernames and passwords for more than 30 million users of Facebook, MySpace, Friendster and Orkut. The hacker may also have accessed usernames and passwords for Gmail, Yahoo, and Hotmail accounts as well. RockYou produces widget applications that are widely distributed on social [...]
“The vulnerability is critical, potentially allowing remote code execution, and affects all versions of Acrobat and Reader on all platforms. Adobe has not yet scheduled a patch for the vulnerability, which is being exploited in limited attacks in the wild. Adobe updated their advisory hours after releasing it to state that a patch would be [...]
“Hackers may have had access to personal information for about 600 UCSF patients as a result of an Internet ‘phishing’ scam, campus officials said Tuesday. The security breach occurred in September when a faculty physician in the UCSF School of Medicine provided a user name and password in response to a scam e-mail message. The [...]
“The past 12 months have been a banner year for cyber crime. And that could be bad news for the future of e-commerce. ‘At current trends, in three or four years people will start to think twice about transacting on the Web, individuals and businesses,’ said Michael Fraser, director of the communications law centre at [...]
“American and Russian officials have different interpretations of the talks so far, but the mere fact that the United States is participating represents a significant policy shift after years of rejecting Russia’s overtures. Officials familiar with the talks said the Obama administration realized that more nations were developing cyberweapons and that a new approach was [...]
