“A type of ‘ransomware’ hitting users across Europe demands payment for alleged copyright violations, according to a Swiss security blog. “ Source: New malware strain locks up computers unless ransom is paid | Security & Privacy – CNET News
“The cleverly crafted missive included a link to a malicious webpage, where workers could get information about employee benefits. But instead of getting facts about a health plan or retirement fund, workers who visited the site using Internet Explorer got bit with malicious code that downloaded silently to their machines.” (Everyone Has Been Hacked. Now [...]
“Two of the 10 organizations listed in a recent hack attack have confirmed the alleged security breaches. Furthermore, the new hacker group The Unknowns behind the attack says many of the systems have now been patched, which was supposedly their goal.” Source: NASA, ESA confirm hacks; The Unknowns says systems patched | ZDNet
“Washington will not pressure its allies to avoid certain telecommunication companies over cybersecurity concerns, a U.S. official said Thursday amid controversy over Australia’s banning Chinese giant Huawei from working on a national broadband network.” Source: US says won’t pressure allies on cyberthreat firms – BusinessWeek
“A group of hackers calling themselves the Russian branch of the Anonymous Movement promised to launch cyber attacks on the websites of the Russian state agencies to support the opposition. The hackers announced their intent by posting videos on two micro-blogs. In these videos they said that the Russian government website will be subjected to [...]
“Lockheed Martin Corp on Thursday said it had won a contract worth up to $454 million to support the Pentagon’s Cyber Crime Center, a government facility that investigates the growing number of attacks on U.S. government networks.” Source: Lockheed wins contract to run U.S. cyber crime lab | Reuters
“The government is witnessing an uptick in assaults on the computers that control industrial operations such as power transmission and transportation, the top Homeland Security Department cybersecurity official said this week.” Source: Threats to Industrial Systems Are Growing, Says Homeland Security Cyber Chief
“Microsoft has kicked a Chinese security company out of its MAPP vulnerability information sharing program following a recent leak of proof-of-concept code for a serious security hole in all versions of Windows.” Source: Microsoft kicks Chinese company out of vulnerability sharing program | ZDNet
“British intelligence agent Dr Gareth Williams’ last mission before he was ‘unlawfully killed’ was to infiltrate and report on US hacker meetings, evidence given at his inquest this week has indicated. Williams appears to have been one of a team of intelligence officers and agents sent to penetrate hacking networks in the US and the [...]
“Computer hackers have managed to breach some of the top secret systems within the Ministry of Defence, the military’s head of cyber-security has revealed. Major General Jonathan Shaw told the Guardian the number of successful attacks was hard to quantify but they had added urgency to efforts to beef up protection around the MoD’s networks.” [...]
