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
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
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
A new U.S. military program shares classified information about <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/061411-despite-years-of-talk-utilities.html?hpg1=bn">cyber threats</a> with defense contractors and their ISPs as part of a stepped up effort to blunt potential cyber attacks, a Department of Defense official announced on Thursday.
Tim Greene | 17 Jun | Read more
Debbie Crowell never ordered the iPhone, but thanks to a hacking group known as Lulzsec, she spent a good part of her Thursday morning trying to get US$712.00 in charges reversed after someone broke into her Amazon account and ordered it.
Robert McMillan | 17 Jun | Read more
Five dollars for control over 1,000 compromised email accounts. Eight dollars for a distributed denial-of-service attack that takes down a website for an hour. And just a buck to solve 1,000 captchas.
Jon Brodkin | 16 Jun | Read more
The hacking group known as LulzSec called it Titanic Takeover Tuesday. Gamers called it by a variety of names, many of which cannot be reprinted here. But for system administrators at a handful of gaming companies, Tuesday, June 14 was a nightmare: the day their websites went down under an online attack.
Robert McMillan | 15 Jun | Read more
Security analysts have been predicting the emergence of mobile malware for many years. In 2011, the criminals have finally come through by attacking Google's popular Android OS. Meanwhile, the sophistication of Stuxnet — anasty piece of code that infected a nuclear power facility — has alarmed researchers who believegovernments are stockpiling tools for cyberwar. Looking ahead, it seems a cataclysmic Cloud failure is just around the corner.
The Lulzsec hacking group continues to cause headaches for IT staffers. On Monday it published data it obtained from servers belonging to the U.S. Senate and Bethesda Softworks, a Rockville, Maryland, game maker.
Robert McMillan | 14 Jun | Read more
For any company that makes its living selling security, it's a nightmare come true. This week, RSA Security admitted that <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2011/031811-rsa-warns-securid-customers-after.html">hackers who broke into its network</a> three months ago had stolen information about its SecurID tokens and then used that information to attack a customer, Lockheed Martin.
Robert McMillan | 11 Jun | Read more
Federal authorities have seized all the cash in a Swiss bank account held by a scareware mogul and scam artist who is charged with selling phony Symantec security software.
Tim Greene | 10 Jun | Read more
Police in Greece have arrested an 18-year-old Athens man on suspicion of hacking into the Interpol website and other government sites in the U.S. and France.
Jeremy Kirk | 09 Jun | Read more
As part of a look at the impact of identity theft and the Internal Revenue Service, watchdogs at the Government Accountability Office issued the IRS' top 10 list of identity theft information everyone should be aware of. Some of the information is obvious, perhaps, but overall even the basics of security were followed in many cases the impact of identity theft could be reduced.
Michael Cooney | 03 Jun | Read more