Ukraine's security service said on Thursday it had disrupted a cybercrime ring that cost the banking industry more than US$72 million using Conficker, a fast-spreading worm unleashed in 2008.
Jeremy Kirk | 23 Jun | Read more
The Gillard Government's decision to set up legislative framework to allow Australia to sign the Council of Europe Convention on Cybercrime treaty was a good step forward but privacy and civil liberty concerns need to be taken into account, according to a security expert
Hamish Barwick | 23 Jun | Read more
A hacking group in the Netherlands promises to publish photos, phone numbers and addresses of <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062111-lulzsec-census-denial.html?hpg1=bn&ap1=rcb">LulzSec</a> members in response to similar treatment by LulzSec.
Tim Greene | 23 Jun | Read more
Websites belonging to the Brazilian government and energy giant Petrobras were knocked offline Wednesday in a series of cyberattacks.
Robert McMillan | 23 Jun | Read more
If it sometimes appears that just about every company is getting hacked these days, that's because they are.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 23 Jun | Read more
Hack attacks from online thugs such as Anonymous and LulzSec appear to signal a hacker Armageddon. Not only has Sony been relentlessly targeted by hackers this year so has the Central Intelligence Agency, Sega, PBS.com, the U.K. government, and dozens of other high-profile company and government agency Web sites.
Cyber attacks are becoming more frequent and severe, and the vast majority of businesses have suffered at least one <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/032811-mcafee-underground.html">data breach</a> in the past year, a Ponemon Institute survey says.
Tim Greene | 22 Jun | Read more
Some Tesco Bank customers have been unable to see their accounts for a third day, prompting <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/news/it-business/3287241/tesco-bank-system-update-blocks-customer-access/">scores of angry comments online</a>.
Ethical hacker company, Pure Hacking, has developed a strategic security practice designed to seek out vulnerabilities in companies before black hat hackers find them.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
The hacking group known as LulzSec pledged to continue their online rampage Tuesday, a day after U.K. police arrested a man allegedly affiliated with the group.
Robert McMillan | 22 Jun | Read more
The worst fears of security professionals have been realised with a hacker collective designed to target banks confirmed by LulzSec and Anonymous.
Hamish Barwick | 22 Jun | Read more
Online storage service Dropbox made an embarrassing error Monday, turning off password authentication for millions of users.
Robert Dutt | 22 Jun | Read more
The hacker group <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062111-uk-police-arrest-teen-from.html">LulzSec</a> denies it has stolen the entire results of the 2011 census for the United Kingdom, but if someone else has, it endorses the theft.
Tim Greene | 22 Jun | Read more
The English language is a fluid thing interpreted differently by speakers from different lands. Its beauty is its flexibility: bad or broken English can be just as effective at communicating as fluent English.
Stefan Hammond | 22 Jun | Read more
NATIONAL HARBOR, Md. -- About a dozen separate legions of organized hackers have been diligently attempting for years to break into aerospace and defense company Northrop Grumman to steal sensitive information, the company's chief information <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> officer (CISO) said at a Gartner security conference here.
Ellen Messmer | 22 Jun | Read more
Online criminals have evolved their tactics to harden their botnets against takedown using a variety of tactics, including fast-flux networks and Conficker-like dynamic domain generation. Yet, such tactics can also pinpoint when such networks are being created by bot operators, according to research from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
Robert Lemos | 22 Jun | Read more
U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with the rogue hacking group Lulz Security.
Jeremy Kirk | 21 Jun | Read more
Massive website compromises using a technique known as <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/499964/sql-injection-attacks-led-to-heartland-hannaford-breaches-">SQL injection</a> has long been a top security concern for Web developers and site owners. Now, the attacks may become harder to detect and prevent, according to one security firm's analysis.
Robert Lemos | 20 Jun | Read more
The Joint Select Committee on Cyber Safety has advised the Federal Government to amend the <i>Privacy Act 1988</i> to ensure certain small businesses are subject to the requirements of the Act.
Chloe Herrick | 21 Jun | Read more
A day after a pair of hacker groups promised to step up their attacks against government Web sites, one of them claimed to have knocked the U.K.'s Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) offline.
Gregg Keizer | 21 Jun | Read more