After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group today retaliated by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous' embryonic social network.
Gregg Keizer |
09 Aug |
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LAS VEGAS --Warnings about emerging cyberthreats shouldn't be treated with the same skepticism that many government officials showed toward the alarms sounded prior to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, warned a leading counter-terrorism at the BlackHat security conference here Wednesday.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
04 Aug |
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Law enforcement may be interested to see if anyone actually shows up to this year to accept the annual <a href="http://pwnies.com/nominations/">Pwnie Award</a> for Epic Ownage at Black Hat, since all the nominees face possible criminal charges.
Tim Greene |
27 Jul |
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Randy Vickers, the director of the U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team (US-CERT), has resigned from his position without any official explanation for the abrupt move.
Jaikumar Vijayan |
26 Jul |
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Just a few weeks after German authorities opened a national Cyber Defense Center in Bonn it was attacked by hackers and now officials are struggling to arrest all of those involved.
Nicolas Zeitler |
22 Jul |
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High-profile hacking group LulzSec has taken over the website of UK newspaper The Sun, inserting a fake news story and then redirecting the home page to their own Twitter feed. Other News International sites have also been hacked.
Stilgherrian |
19 Jul |
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I'm a big fan of search. The ability to use the Internet to cull information on virtually any topic with just a few clicks has made me more efficient and better informed. And "information" can come in the form of pictures, documents, videos, news feeds -- whatever you need.
Mathias Thurman |
19 Jul |
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Romanian law enforcement on Friday arrested more than 100 people alleged to be involved in a multi-million dollar US-Romanian fraud network.
Liam Tung |
18 Jul |
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In its new <a href="http://www.defense.gov/news/d20110714cyber.pdf">cyberdefense strategy</a>, the <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/071511-pentagon-unveils-five-steps-for.html?hpg1=bn">Pentagon is drawing on lessons</a> about agility, lifecycle management and supply-chain protection that have already been learned by private corporations.
Tim Greene |
16 Jul |
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The Department of Defense says it was hit by a cyberattack by a "foreign intelligence service" that managed to pilfer 24,000 sensitive files.The attack, which occurred in March, was perpetrated by an unnamed "nation state," according to Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III. Lynn who disclosed the breach during a speech Thursday outlining the Pentagon's new cyber strategy for dealing with cyber-breaches.
Sarah Jacobsson Purewal |
16 Jul |
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Romanian law enforcement officials on Thursday executed 117 searches targeting more than 100 people in an ongoing effort with the U.S. Department of Justice to break up a large Internet auction fraud scheme, the DOJ said.
Grant Gross |
16 Jul |
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The U.S. Department of Defense has announced a set of five guiding strategic principles for better preparing its forces to handle operations to defend the nation in cyberspace.
Robert Lemos |
16 Jul |
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US talkshow host Jay Leno, singer Madonna, actress Cameron Diaz and President Barack Obama share an unpleasant secret their publicists are powerless to do anything about.
John E Dunn |
15 Jul |
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Russia and the U.S. are working to reduce chances for a cybersecurity incident that could damage the countries' relationship, according to the top cybersecurity adviser to U.S. President Barack Obama.
Jeremy Kirk |
15 Jul |
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Mobile staff of a large financial firm in China are enjoying the convenience of working remotely through a security solution provided by Check Point Software Technologies.
Veronica C. Silva |
14 Jul |
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A Minnesota man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison after he hacked a neighbor's Wi-Fi <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/120909-network-router-cheat-sheet.html?ts0hb&story=rtrcheat">router</a> and then launched a vengeful two-year campaign to frame them with child pornography and threats to government officials, including Vice President Joe Biden.
John Cox |
14 Jul |
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Managing consumer or citizen identities comes with two key problems--scale and cost--prompting organizations that require onboarding, authentication, and <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/684895/password-management-systems-how-to-compare-and-use-them">password management</a> to look for ways to outsource this effort. Entertainment websites, online retailers, and even US federal government-to-citizen websites are experimenting with a federated model for more of their identity management life cycle. By using single sign-on (SSO) and attribute-sharing between "social" identity providers (IdPs) (i.e. Google and Facebook) and relying parties (RPs), this model effectively reduces cost and improves the customer experience.
Eve Maler |
14 Jul |
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London Grid Ltd, a London Grid for Learning subsidiary, has signed a framework contract with Atos for identity management services.
Anh Nguyen |
13 Jul |
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There has been a bit of a splash in the press recently about a mention by former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden of the idea of creating new, extra secure internets for government or commerce. Users would have to give up their privacy to use these versions of the Internet, with a requirement for the use of real names and all their traffic subject to deep packet inspection. The vision seems to be that government would use one such network and services such as banking would use another.
Scott Bradner |
13 Jul |
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The curtain has fallen on the 50 day performance by hacker group LulzSec. Its campaign of mayhem and destruction, peppered with witty commentary captivated the world.
In an alternate universe where Lulzcats reign and anti-security is the norm, it might have even earned a spot on its first target, The X-Factor. But on this earth its members may still be captured by its later targets: the CIA, US law enforcement and the FBI.
Liam Tung |
12 Jul |
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