“Huawei is getting out of the U.S. market, says a story by the Financial Times. According to the FT story, Eric Xu, executive VP, said, ‘We are not interested in the U.S. market any more.’ Xu’s remarks came during a gathering of analysts on Tuesday. Huawei will service existing accounts, but isn’t actively looking to [...]
“Australian police say they have arrested a ‘self-proclaimed leader’ of the hacking group LulzSec. The 24-year-old from New South Wales is accused of attacking and defacing a government website earlier this month, a police statement said.” Source:BBC News – Australia police arrest hacker group LulzSec ‘leader’
“A notorious cyber-espionage gang is being blamed for a set of recently discovered spear-phishing attacks that aim to steal information relating to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), better known as drones.” Source:Chinese Hackers Seek Drone Secrets – Security – Attacks/breaches -
“Between planting bombs and being on the lam, he somehow found time to tweet. Boston bombing ‘Suspect 2,’ identified by police as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, took to Twitter about a dozen times since Monday’s deadly twin blasts killed three people and injured more than 180 others.” Source: Surviving Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev had time [...]
“The FBI is hunting a 12-man terrorist ‘sleeper cell’ linked to the brothers suspected of carrying out the Boston bombings. The Bureau believes that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev received training in bomb-making before they carried out the attack, which killed three people.” Source: Boston Marathon Bombings: FBI Hunts Terror ‘Sleeper Cell’ Linked to Tsarnaev Brothers [...]
” Social media accounts maintained by CBS News programs, ’60 Minutes’ and ’48 Hours,’ were compromised on Saturday, the two programs’ official Twitter accounts said. A post on the ’60 Minutes’ Twitter microblog account, @60Minutes, said, ‘PLEASE NOTE: Our Twitter account was compromised earlier today. We are working with Twitter to resolve.’ Another post read, [...]
“An Algerian hacker using the handle ‘Ismail-man54’ said that thousands of Arab and Muslim hackers opposed to Israel participated in the recent attack on 90 Israeli websites. He also said that the attack had been planned since November 2012, with the goal of wiping Israel off the electronic map. He confirmed that ‘the campaign will [...]
“At least 35 gaming developers involved in the MMORPG field (Massive Multi-Player Online Role Playing Games) have been hacked in the last year-and-a-half by the so-called Winnti group, with one of the primary goals being to steal their digital certificates to use in other attacks, according to researchers at Kaspersky Lab. The attackers are also [...]
“The Obama administration plans to boost U.S. spending on computer network security, including a 21 percent increase at the Pentagon, after reports of rising cyber attacks and electronic theft of secrets linked to China.” Source:Obama Boosts Pentagon Cyber Budget Amid Rising Attacks – Businessweek
“Teso’s attack code, dubbed SIMON, along with an Android app called PlaneSploit, can take full control of flight systems and the pilot’s displays. The hacked aircraft could even be controlled using a smartphone’s accelerometer to vary its course and speed by moving the handset about.” Source:Researcher hacks aircraft controls with Android smartphone • The Register
