“About 117,600 customers who downloaded the app since March 2009 had their account numbers and security access codes saved to a hidden file on their smartphone or music player, the Wall Street Journal reported. Those who synced their iPhone with their home computer might have also unintentionally saved the sensitive information there. The new version [...]
“Billions of dollars in government stimulus money are encouraging utility companies to ignore security risks that could plummet large metropolitan areas into darkness, security experts say. In 2009, the Obama administration provided nearly $4 billion to upgrade and digitize the nation’s electric grid and other utilities using Smart Grid technology. Since then, utility companies have [...]
“A sophisticated new piece of malware that targets command-and-control software installed in critical infrastructures uses a known default password that the software maker hard-coded into its system. The password has been available online since at least 2008, when it was posted to product forums in Germany and Russia. The password protects the database used in [...]
“The Committee on Science and Technology’s Subcommittee on Technology and Innovation held a hearing yesterday to discuss cyber attack attribution technology and its importance in reducing the impact of network attacks and intrusions. During the hearing, the committee looked into future research and development necessities and began to decide who will be responsible for overseeing [...]
“An audacious hacker has defaced 175 Australian websites in an attack that links viewers to his personal website, email and Facebook fan page. The hacker, who is described as a 26 year old male from Tunisia, launched the attacks after a Brisbane hosting provider — which Computerworld Australia will not name — left a permission [...]
“Thousands of laptops have been stolen from the Florida office of a private contractor for the U.S. military’s Special Operations Command. Surveillance cameras caught up to seven people loading the computers into two trucks for nine hours. U.S. Special Operations Command coordinates the activities of elite units from the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marines. [...]
“Hundreds of computers that caused a wave of outages on U.S. and South Korean government websites last July launched new attacks on the same sites, but no major damage was reported, police said Thursday. More than 460 computers infected with malicious computer codes assaulted 25 websites, including that of South Korea’s presidential Blue House, on [...]
“But the White House this week issued a memorandum delineating the cybersecurity duties of the Office of Management and Budget, White House cybersecurity coordinator and DHS, with DHS gaining more responsibility in assuring agencies comply with FISMA. Technically, OMB retains its authority outlined in FISMA, the law is the law, after all. In practice, however, [...]
“The U.S. government is launching an expansive program dubbed ‘Perfect Citizen’ to detect cyber assaults on private U.S. companies and government agencies running critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and nuclear power plants, according to people familiar with the program. The surveillance by the National Security Agency, the government’s chief eavesdropping agency, would rely [...]
“Apple said a hacker who manipulated sales data on its online App Store broke into the accounts of about 400 iTunes users in the process, according to a published report. Clayton Morris, a blogger and host of Fox News’ Fox and Friends, said Apple divulged the information to him in response to his queries about [...]
