Anonymous eyes political role, but won't go legit
Hacker group Anonymous plans to promote an affiliated political party to attract people who share its civil liberties goals, but do not agree with its methods.
John Ribeiro | 08 Jul | Read more
Hacker group Anonymous plans to promote an affiliated political party to attract people who share its civil liberties goals, but do not agree with its methods.
John Ribeiro | 08 Jul | Read more
Attorneys-General from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand and Australia will meet in Sydney next week to discuss joint actions to address the growth of online threats.
Stilgherrian | 08 Jul | Read more
After years of being accused of doing little to enforce Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act's security and privacy rules, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services appears to be finally getting serious about cracking down on offenders.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 08 Jul | Read more
News Corp. will close its weekly U.K. newspaper News of the World amid allegations that the tabloid hacked into the mobile voicemail accounts of celebrities, the British royal family, and crime victims.
Grant Gross | 08 Jul | Read more
Phishing, spear phishing, trojan horse and other attacks are growing in number and sophistication, seemingly by the day. There can be little disputing that notion after RSA, Sony, Lockheed and Citicorp were embarrassed by breaches this year.
Jim Buchanan | 08 Jul | Read more
The Washington Post has alerted job seekers who use its employment pages of a data breach that compromised up to 1.27 million accounts.
Jeremy Kirk | 07 Jul | Read more
Morgan Stanley has warned 34,000 investment clients that their personal data may have been stolen while in transit to a government tax office.
Anh Nguyen | 07 Jul | Read more
It was widely reported last week that as part of a study, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) randomly dropped USB and optical drives in government and private contractor parking lots -- and more than half of those who picked one up readily plugged it into their work computer.
Lucas Mearian | 07 Jul | Read more
The Department of Energy's Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) is working on restoring Internet connectivity and email services after being hit by a "sophisticated cyberattack" five days ago.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 07 Jul | Read more
Italian police have reported 15 suspected members of the Italian branch of the Anonymous hacker group to the judiciary for investigation on charges of illegally accessing IT systems, damaging IT systems and interrupting a public service, Italian media reported Wednesday.
Philip Willan | 07 Jul | Read more
A group of hackers going by the name of the "Inj3ct0r Team" are claiming they've compromised a server belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Jul | Read more
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or parties allied with the country, computer security company McAfee said in a report.
Martyn Williams | 06 Jul | Read more
Microsoft Tuesday said the coordinated take-down of the Rustock botnet and follow-up efforts had purged the malware from over half of the PCs once controlled by Russian hackers.
Gregg Keizer | 06 Jul | Read more
A proposal to force employers to use the federal <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135526/DHS_Congress_look_to_strengthen_E_Verify_system">E-Verify system</a> to vet new employees has stoked widespread privacy concerns.
Jaikumar Vijayan | 06 Jul | Read more
A consortium of eight companies launched a campaign on Tuesday to provide better training for law enforcement agencies in order to tackle cybercrime, which costs the U.K. economy tens of billions of pounds annually.
Jeremy Kirk | 06 Jul | Read more
An official Fox News Twitter account falsely reported that President Barack Obama had been assassinated after hackers gained access to the account early Monday. The phony messages were posted to the Fox News Politics Twitter account sometime before 2:30 a.m. Eastern Monday and were still live more than five hours later. The account has more than 33,000 followers. A group calling itself the Script Kiddies claimed responsibility for the hack, according to <a href="http://thenextweb.com/media/2011/07/04/hackers-claim-fox-news-twitter-account-report-fake-obama-shooting/">The Next Web</a>.
Mobile payments technology is a loud sonic boom thundering through the payments industry. But are all -- or any -- of these payment schemes compliant with the <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/519563/the-great-pci-security-debate-of-2010-transcribed">Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS?)</a>
George V. Hulme | 05 Jul | Read more
The Twitter account for Fox News was apparently hacked, with six tweets falsely reporting early Monday morning that U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot twice in an Iowa restaurant while campaigning.
Jeremy Kirk | 04 Jul | Read more
Mantra is an open source, browser-based framework for penetration testing and security assessments. It's based on Mozilla's Firefox Web browser, so it's cross-platform, and it's part of the Open Web Application Security Project -- OWASP.
Rohan Pearce | 04 Jul | Read more
“Just got off the phone with the embassy. Having to talk to a consul about my husband's suicide is the worst conversation I've ever had,” Sassaman’s wife, Meredith Patterson confirmed on Twitter Sunday evening.