“The risk of a catastrophic cyberattack is approaching the gravity of the nuclear risk, according to the Bush administration’s top spy. ‘The cyber risk has become so important that, in my view, it rivals nuclear weapons in terms of seriousness,’ Michael McConnell, former director of national intelligence, said Tuesday at a hearing of the Senate [...]
“Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted. The giant California-based chip maker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but said on Tuesday there was no [...]
“U.S. government analysts believe a Chinese man with government links wrote the key part of a spyware program used in hacker attacks on Google last year, the Financial Times reported on Monday. The man, a security consultant in his 30s, posted sections of the program to a hacking forum where he described it as something [...]
“Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach. The damage from the latest cyberattack is still being [...]
“Landis initially won the famous Tour de France cycle race in 2006, but was later stripped of his title when tests indicated that he had taken performance-enhancing drugs. The cyclist is now wanted in connection with a hacking incident at the French anti-doping test lab that carried out the tests that ultimately led to his [...]
“Concerns about cyber security seem to be as pervasive as the Web itself, whether it’s China’s capacity to wage cyber warfare, the vulnerability of U.S. public utilities and other critical infrastructure to online attacks, or even Google’s recent efforts to close security holes in its new Buzz social networking site. For the past several years, [...]
“Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair caught the media’s attention recently with two major headlines when he presented this year’s Annual Threat Assessment (PDF) of the U.S. Intelligence Community. The first was his statement that the United States is ‘severely threatened’ by cyberattacks of ‘extraordinary sophistication.’ The second was that al-Qaeda is intent on striking [...]
“Russian police said on Tuesday they had arrested a prankster who hacked into a computer system to show a pornographic movie on a giant advertising screen, causing havoc on a busy Moscow thoroughfare. The two-minute clip, displayed on a video screen above a main road south of the Kremlin, caused midnight traffic jams and a [...]
“The Department of Homeland Security is detecting new patterns of cyberattacks from foreign adversaries — some targeted at particular agencies and others aimed at the entire U.S. government — due to to special-purpose intrusion-detection systems that will be widely deployed in federal networks during 2010. “ (Source: Einstein 2: U.S. government’s ‘enlightening’ new cybersecurity weapon)
“Cyberactivists have launched an distributed denial of service attack on Australian government servers, as part of a protest against proposed anti-porn and net censorship regulations. Operation Titstorm, launched on Wednesday, will also involve spam emails, junk faxes and prank phone calls. Spam emails will focus on small-breasted women, cartoon porn and female ejaculation – the [...]
