Électricité de France (EDF) was fined $2 million (€1.5 million) and some of its staff members were sentenced to jail after a court of law in Paris concluded that the company hacked into Greenpeace's computer network in the effort of stopping an operation against their nuclear plants.
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16 November 2011
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The Canadian Finance and Treasury Board's networks were targeted by hackers in an attempt to steal sensitive information about the potash industry.
According to the Ottawa Citizen, even though Finance and Treasury Board representatives denied it, sources close to the investigation revealed that the cybercrimina... |
31 October 2011
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One of the security updates released by Microsoft yesterday addresses a previously undisclosed vulnerability exploited by the notorious Stuxnet malware, which also leverages two additional zero-day privilege escalation bugs that have yet to be patched.These new revelations, coupled with the previous findings about th... |
15 September 2010
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Security researchers have confirmed that the newly discovered malware, which spreads by exploiting an unpatched Windows vulnerability, was signed using a valid Realtek Semiconductor signature. The targeted SCADA system appears to be using a hard-coded username and password for accesing the database.Yesterday, most se... |
16 July 2010
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It seems that when it rains it pours when it comes to incidents involving stolen or lost mobiles phones that contain confidential data, since, lately, there have been a lot of cases where mobile devices have been used as a means to get access to private information that, once made public, could prove damaging to a lo... |
19 February 2009
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