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TV Program Shows Chinese Army Cyber Attack Tool

A recently aired Chinese TV program showed a piece of software designed to launch cyber attacks that was developed by an university with strong ties to the People's Liberation Army (PLA).According to Epoch Times, the footage is shown during a propaganda documentary about military strategy and the tool is develop...

23 August 2011
10:57 GMT

Pentagon Suffers Major Security Breach

The Pentagon has revealed that back in March it suffered a major security breach in which tens of thousands of sensitive files were stolen.The admission came from Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn in a speech about the Department of Defense's cyber strategy at the National Defense University in Washington...

15 July 2011
04:34 GMT

Hackers Declare War on Intelligence Community

Following their attack against Booz Allen Hamilton, the Anonymous hacking collective has declared war on the entire intelligence community and claims to be preparing its largest releases yet.There were rumors that AntiSec hackers are working on something big since yesterday when Sabu, the suspected leader of the now-...

12 July 2011
07:55 GMT

Two National Labs Hit by Cyber Attacks

Two national laboratories were forced to suspend Internet and email service last week in order to investigate the extent of cyber attacks targeting their networks.The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), in Richland, Washington, is doing research in the counterterrorism, science, nuclear non-proliferation an...

11 July 2011
00:00 GMT

Al-Qaida's Internet Communications Disrupted by Hackers

A cyber attack carried out by unknown hackers crippled al-Qaida's Internet communication channels used to distribute videos and messages online.According to NBC News, the disruption was spotted by Evan Kohlmann, an international terrorism consultant who has been tracking the organization for over a decade."Al-Qa...

30 June 2011
04:45 GMT

LulzSec Begins DDoSing Websites at Random

Hacking outfit LulzSec is hitting websites at random in a distributed denial-of-service spree dubbed Titanic Takeover Tuesday by its members.The notorious hackers that attacked numerous companies and leaked tons of personal data during the past several weeks, began targeting the escapistmagazine.com website because g...

14 June 2011
13:49 GMT

International Monetary Fund Suffers Major Security Breach

The International Monetary Fund (IMF) was recently the target of a sophisticated cyber attack in which hackers managed to access sensitive information.Giving IMF's important role in current and future bailout programs, the non-public data stored on its systems could be very useful to parties trying to predict ma...

13 June 2011
06:34 GMT

Sony Pictures Confirms Breach, Says Nothing About Plaintext Passwords

Sony Pictures issued a press release confirming that a group of hackers called LulzSec has managed to steal customer information from several of its websites."The cybercrime wave that has affected Sony companies and a number of government agencies, businesses and individuals in recent months has hit Sony Pictures as ...

4 June 2011
07:44 GMT

China Rejects Google's New Cyber Attack Allegations

China responded angrily to Google's new report about Gmail spear phishing attacks against U.S. government officials, military personnel, political activists and journalists, that allegedly originated in the Asian country."Blaming these misdeeds on China is unacceptable," Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Hong L...

2 June 2011
13:27 GMT

Northrop Grumman Abruptly Suspends Remote Access to Its Network

Northrop Grumman, the second largest U.S. government contractor, has abruptly suspended remote access to its network last week, raising suspicions of a cyber attack.Fox News quotes a confidential source inside the company who claims the suspension came without any advance notice on May 26."We went through a domain na...

2 June 2011
06:55 GMT

L-3 Communications Also Targeted Following RSA Breach

L-3 Communications has been attacked using information stolen during the security breach at RSA, making it the second government contractor to be targeted following the incident.Wired reports that workers from L-3 Communications, the eight largest U.S. government contractor which provides command-and-control, communi...

1 June 2011
13:19 GMT

Experts Doubt Lockheed Martin Blocked Attack Without Losses

Government contractor Lockheed Martin has admitted that its network came under attack recently, but claims it successfully repelled it without any loss of sensitive data.The attack is said to have involved cloned SecurID tokens that were used to access the contractor's network and resulted in the VPN being suspe...

31 May 2011
14:18 GMT

Sony Might Be Facing New Attack

According to reports, a group of hackers is preparing to launch a new attack against Sony's systems in response to how the company handled the PlayStation Network (PSN) breach.CNET quotes a confidential source familiar with the group's plans who says the hackers already claim to have access to some of Sony&...

6 May 2011
02:25 GMT

North Korea Accused of Crippling South Korean Bank's Systems

South Korean prosecutors claim the North is responsible for a cyber attack that crippled the systems of a bank last month causing it to halt operations for several days.The attack led to a three-day service outage at the banking division of the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation (Nonghyup), the second large...

3 May 2011
12:51 GMT

Iran Reports Being Attacked by New Computer Worm

Iranian officials are reporting that government systems have come under attack from a new computer worm, which follows last year's Stuxnet incident.The announcement was made by Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali, the leader of Iran's Passive Defense Organisation, a military unit responsible for defending ...

26 April 2011
13:00 GMT

Australian Ministers Advised to Change Their Computer Passwords

The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has advised the country's PM Julia Gillard and federal ministers to change their encryption passwords following a breach of Australian Parliament House computers last month.The compromise affected computers used by ministers during communication with Parli...

15 April 2011
02:15 GMT

Investigation Concludes EU Parliement Webmail System Was Not Attacked

The investigation of unusual activity on the European Parliament's webmail system revealed that it was not the result of a cyber attack.The EU Parliament has resumed normal webmail service operations after it was suspended last week in light of suspicious traffic.The Parliament's IT staff looked at the syst...

3 April 2011
23:48 GMT

Critical NASA Network Found Vulnerable to Cyber Attacks

According to the results of an audit performed by NASA's Office of Inspector General and published this week the agency's critical computer network is vulnerable to cyber attacks."We found that computer servers on NASA’s Agency-wide mission network had high-risk vulnerabilities that were exploitable f...

30 March 2011
09:02 GMT

European Parliament Computer Network Targeted in Cyber Attack

The computer network of the European Parliament has been under attack for the past few days in a similar manner to how the European Commission computers were targeted a week ago.An EU Parliament spokesperson confirmed the cyber attack for European Voice. "Information technology services are working day and night to i...

29 March 2011
11:56 GMT

Australian PM and Other Ministers Possibly Hacking Victims

According to media reports, computers used by many Australian ministers, including Prime Minister Julia Gillard, have been compromised by hackers. The Daily Telegraph reports that tens of thousands of emails stored on official computers might have been accessed without authorization. The security breach was confi...

29 March 2011
07:55 GMT

Large Energy Companies Targeted by Chinese Hackers

Security giant McAfee reports that a series of cyber attacks originating in China have specifically targeted global oil, energy and petrochemical companies for the past two years.In a newly published white paper, the company's researchers describe the exact process through which the companies were attacked in wh...

10 February 2011
09:58 GMT

Iran Denies Malware Damaged Its Uranium Enrichment Centrifuges

Iran's ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) denied that cyber-attacks targeting the country's nuclear programme has affected centrifuges at the Natanz Fuel Enrichment Plant."The viruses could not do anything to the Iranian centrifuges and did not affect the functioning of the Bushehr ...

22 January 2011
05:49 GMT

Law Firm Involved in Green Dam Suit Attacked from China

Gipson Hoffman & Pancione, the law firm representing Solid Oak Software in its $2.2 million lawsuit against the Chinese government and the developers of Green Dam Youth Escort, was targeted in a recent cyber attack. Hackers operating out of China attempted to infect the company's computers with an information-st...

15 January 2010
10:00 GMT

Sophisticated Chinese Cyber Attack Angers Google

A highly targeted attack of Chinese origin that impacted over twenty companies, including Google, back in December, has triggered a strong response from the Internet search giant. The company is no longer willing to censor search results in China, which will most likely force it to close its operations in the country...

13 January 2010
06:56 GMT

Hackers Steal Terabytes of Data from Pentagon in Cyber Attack

A group of hackers has yet again managed to infiltrate the firmware inside the Pentagon and to get away with an undisclosed number of terabytes of sensitive data. It's not yet clear who has been behind the infiltration, but the US government and publications such as the Wall Street Journal have already begun to ...

21 April 2009
09:38 GMT

Cyber-Attack Cripples Critical U.S. Military Networks

After the U.S. Strategic Command banned the use of removable media on the army's networks last week, new details about the incidents that might have triggered this drastic decision surfaced. The networks of the U.S. Central Command, which oversees the operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, have been crippled, while...

1 December 2008
09:45 GMT

Georgian Cyber Attacks Online Saga Continues

For the past few days, reports about the cyber attack on Georgia, which disrupted the government sites and other .ge domains, have flooded the news websites and blogs all over the world. New reactions emerged, as security researcher Gadi Evron thinks the attacks could be carried out by kids, while Google denies delet...

13 August 2008
11:26 GMT


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