“‘We have to be also prepared for the worst,’ said Kroes. ‘If we want our digital markets to grow, users need to feel comfortable spending online. If companies are to take advantage of all the potential benefits of ‘cloud computing’, they need to know their business secrets will not be intercepted. If we want to [...]
“Deep inside the computer worm that some specialists suspect is aimed at slowing Iran’s race for a nuclear weapon lies what could be a fleeting reference to the Book of Esther, the Old Testament tale in which the Jews pre-empt a Persian plot to destroy them. “ (In a Computer Worm, a Possible Biblical Clue [...]
“The Police Central e-crime Unit (PCeU) has arrested 19 people on suspicion of using a well known malware program to steal millions from bank accounts, according to widespread reports. The Metropolitan Police unit arrested 15 men and four women aged 23 to 47 in dawn raids on Monday in the London area. The gang is [...]
“US keyboard warriors were doing battle Tuesday with a simulated cyberattack on government and private computer networks that undermines basic trust in the Internet. The ‘Cyber Storm III’ exercise involves participants from seven US government departments, including the Pentagon, 11 US states, 60 private companies and 12 international partners. The biennial exercise is being staged [...]
“A complex computer worm capable of seizing control of industrial plants has affected the personal computers of staff working at Iran’s first nuclear power station weeks before the facility is to go online, the official news agency reported Sunday. The project manager at the Bushehr nuclear plant, Mahmoud Jafari, said a team is trying to [...]
“A computer that monitored drilling operations on the Deepwater Horizon had been freezing with a ‘blue screen of death’ prior to the explosion that sank the oil rig last April, the chief electronics technician aboard testified Friday at a federal hearing. ‘Blue screen of death,’ or BSOD, is a term most often used to describe [...]
“After a new Twitter security hack created chaos for thousands of users, the company said it had fixed the problem. ‘We’ve identified and are patching a XSS attack; as always, please message @safety if you have info regarding such an exploit,’ Twitter said on its status blog. Soon after, the company said the breach had [...]
“As first reported on July 15 by KrebsOnSecurity.com, Stuxnet uses a vulnerability in the way Windows handles shortcut files to spread to new systems. Experts say the worm was designed from the bottom up to attack so-called Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, or those used to manage complex industrial networks, such as systems [...]
“The security firm Damballa is warning of a large and fast growing botnet created specifically to deliver distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on demand for anyone willing to pay for the service. The IMDDOS botnet is operated out of China and has been growing at the rate of about 10,000 infected machines every day [...]
“The Russian hacker at the centre of a massive $9.4m fraud against RBS WorldPay has avoided jail after he agreed to turn informant on his fellow cybercriminals and pay compensation to the bank. Viktor Pleshchuk, 29, of St. Petersburg, Russia, received a six year suspended sentence after agreeing to pay back 275m roubles ($8.9m) to [...]
