“A malware attack dressed up as an e-mail from organizers of the upcoming Shanghai World Expo targeted at least three foreign journalists in China, in the latest sign of increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks from the country. The e-mail appeared to be sent from the inbox of the Expo news office, but it was not sent by [...]
“Cyber criminals are focusing on developing expertise in one specific skill–such as coding, hacking or moving money–rather than being generalists as they collaborate with colleagues to carry out computer exploits, a senior FBI cybersecurity official said today. The cyber underground now consists of subject matter experts that focus on their specific areas, Steven Chabinsky, an [...]
“Foreign countries that fail to crack down on cyber criminals operating within their borders could face a host of new economic penalties if a Senate bill introduced Tuesday becomes law. That legislation, authored by Sens. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.), aims to cut down on the growing number of ‘countries of cyber concern’ [...]
“Russian authorities have nabbed a man allegedly responsible for masterminding a coordinated global ATM heist that stole $9.5 million from Atlanta-based card processing company RBS WorldPay. Viktor Pleshchuk, 28, of St. Petersburg, was arrested by the Russian Federal Security Service, or FSB, according to the Sunday Mail in the United Kingdom, which broke the story [...]
“The hacked sites were operated by the PMO and the incident is considered to be a serious security lapse. ‘We have initially detected an Indian IP address that belongs to Videsh Sanchar Nigam Limited (VSNL), one of the largest Internet service providers in India,’ said S M Akash, media manager of Access to Information (A2i) [...]
“A bipartisan bill, unveiled yesterday in the US Senate, proposes closer links between US intelligence agencies and private sector companies active in areas of ‘critical infrastructure’. Drafted and proposed by Republican senator Olympia Snowe and Democrat Jay Rockefeller, the legislation builds on concerns by government officials that US energy and telecommunications systems may not be [...]
“European governments are not doing enough to improve online security – leaving the entire continent vulnerable to cyberattack, according to a new parliamentary investigation. A report from the House of Lords suggests that officials in Brussels have failed to boost the union’s internet defences – creating a yawning gap between Nato, the EU and member [...]
“US losses to online crime almost doubled during 2009, reveals a report. Losses totalled $560m (£371m) in 2009, up from $265m (£176m) in 2008, showed the annual report by the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). Complaints about online fraud grew 22% during 2009 and the IC3 received more than 336,655 reports of high-tech crime incidents [...]
“A former Transportation Security Administration contractor is being charged in Colorado for allegedly injecting malicious code into a government network used for screening airport security workers and others. The malicious code, a logic bomb installed last October, was designed to cause damage and ‘disrupt’ data on servers on an undisclosed date but was caught by [...]
“As economic espionage and hacking become growing threats to the West, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service is stepping up efforts to persuade businesses to safeguard secrets deemed vital to national interests. CSIS’s corporate-outreach program, which started in the 1990s, largely fell by the wayside during the years after the Sept. 11 attacks in the United [...]
