“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 …

“Hackers who breached Google and other companies in January targeted source-code management systems, security firm McAfee asserted Wednesday. They manipulated a little-known trove of security flaws that would allow easy unauthorized access to the intellectual …

“Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted.
The giant California-based chip maker …

“Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets …

“Cyberactivists have launched an distributed denial of service attack on Australian government servers, as part of a protest against proposed anti-porn and net censorship regulations.
Operation Titstorm, launched on Wednesday, will also involve spam emails, junk …

“A hacker attack at payroll processing firm Ceridian Corp. of Bloomington has potentially revealed the names, Social Security numbers, and, in some cases, the birth dates and bank accounts of 27,000 employees working at 1,900 …

“A mysterious flood of SSL packets from the Pushdo botnet, possibly an attempted DDOS attack, is not succeeding, according to the Internet Storm Center. None of the attacked sites are experiencing significant outages.
The attacked sites …

“49 web sites of members of the US House of Representatives were hacked following the State of the Union address recently. The defacement contained a vulgar insult and a claim of credit for Red Eye …

“Russian opposition newspaper Novaya Gazeta has said it was the target of a hacker attack after its web site crashed on Tuesday.
‘Today, beginning from about 9-9:30 a.m. [6-6:30 GMT], the web site of Novaya Gazeta …

“At least three US oil companies were the target of a series of previously undisclosed cyberattacks that may have originated in China and that experts say highlight a new level of sophistication in the growing …