Feds claim victory over Coreflood botnet
Federal authorities have declared victory over the Coreflood botnet and shut down the replacement server that the FBI used to issue commands to infected PCs.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Jun | Read more
Federal authorities have declared victory over the Coreflood botnet and shut down the replacement server that the FBI used to issue commands to infected PCs.
Gregg Keizer | 24 Jun | Read more
The European Commissioner for the Digital Agenda has told Web companies to come up with a do-not-track standard by mid-2012, or the Commission will have to impose new rules.
Jennifer Baker | 24 Jun | Read more
Hactivist groups such as <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061311-turkey-arrests-32-anonymous-hackers.html">Anonymous</a> and <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/062211-lulzsec-ousted.html">LulzSec</a> hearken back to earlier days when Web attacks were done for bragging rights, not profits, says the new CTO of incident-response, forensics company Mandiant.
Tim Greene | 24 Jun | Read more
A 19-year-old British man who remains the lone suspect detained for a series of successful cyberstrikes by the hacking group Lulz Security will remain in police custody until at least Saturday, a London court ruled Thursday.
Jeremy Kirk | 24 Jun | Read more
India has issued digital identities to about 9.5 million people so far, and plans to step up enrollment to 1 million a day from October, the head of the agency issuing the biometric identities said on Thursday at a conference in Bangalore.
John Ribeiro | 23 Jun | Read more
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
Incident-response forensics company Mandiant has received strategic investments from two separate investment firms with the aim of expanding the company's field staff that responds to <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/topics/security.html">security</a> breaches as well as investing more in research and development.
Tim Greene | 24 Jun | Read more
The rush toward virtualisation of internal enterprise computing resources and cloud computing can have many advantages, such as server consolidation, but it's largely outracing traditional security and identity management practices. That's leaving huge gaps, a sense of chaos and questions about where security products and services should be applied in the world of multi-vendor virtual-machine (VM) hypervisors.
Ellen Messmer | 24 Jun | Read more
Reader Ash wants to know if there's a way to password-protect individual folders in Windows 7:
Rick Broida | 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
In June of 2003, we ran a <a href="http://www.csoonline.com/article/218166/all-over-the-map">long article about organizational structures</a>. We titled it "All Over the Map," which pretty much tells you what we concluded about how security was handled at the time: a bit like a ship with no home port, passing from executive to executive. The article had examples of security variously reporting to Human Resources, Facilities, Operations, Legal, and IT. Responsibility without authority was a theme.
Derek Slater | 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
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>.
Enterprises without a chief security officer or a beefed up security department will be left wide open as hackers use new exploits to strike, warns a security industry expert.
Hamish Barwick | 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
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 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