Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Mastercard.com slammed again over WikiLeaks The company's main Web site was unavailable for a while on Tuesday as WikiLeaks gloated. A MasterCard spokeswoman in Belgium would not directly answer if the site's downtime was due to a DDOS attack
Monday, June 27, 2011
Anonymous claims LulzSec members, steps up attacks The hacking group infiltrated a counter-cyberterrorism training site over the weekend. It also said it had found a "chest of 40 Terabytes internal data" from an undisclosed company, but was not sure how to put up all the data on the Web
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Ukraine helps disrupt US$72M Conficker hacking ring The hackers allegedly pushed fake antivirus software and then also stole banking details. Conficker, also known as "Downadup," was one of the most severe computer security problems in recent years
Thursday, June 16, 2011
New LulzSec hack leaks 62,000 web logins The hacking jokesters carve another notch in their belts only hours after compromising the Web site of the CIA
Tuesday, May 31, 2011
Cyberattacks can justify armed response, Pentagon says The U.S. Department of Defense is ready to use 'all available means' to counter cyberattacks, the agency says. The DOD's policy seems to be in line with President Barack Obama's International Strategy for Cyberspace, released in early May
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sony’s flawed security gets scrutinized by bloggers BLOGOSPHERE: With the Canadian Sony Ericsson eShop being just the latest target, bloggers and media pundits haven’t held back their criticisms of Sony’s security measures, nor how the later attacks have morphed into a different sort
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Sony says hacker stole 2,000 records from Canadian site A Lebanese hacker posted nearly 1,000 records online after the SQL injection attack on the Canadian Sony Ericsson eShop. Other than the names and e-mail addresses, no personal or banking information was compromised, Sony said
Tuesday, May 10, 2011
Canada shoots to sixth place in global cyber crime list Canada has usually ranked twelfth or thirteenth but its cyber crime landscape has changed dramatically in the past year, according to a new Websense report. The country is also second globally for hosting phishing sites with a 319 per cent jump in the number of servers hosting those sites
Wednesday, May 04, 2011
FBI warns that fake bin Laden video is a virus It’s in the form of malicious software disguised as photos of the dead Al Qaeda leader. The warning comes as scammers press to take full advantage of global interest in bin Laden's death
Tuesday, May 03, 2011
Sony cuts Sony Online Entertainment service after hack It has confirmed that some banking and credit card information may have been stolen. The entertainment network is separate from the PlayStation Network but both hacks have similar traits
Friday, April 29, 2011
Sony hints at compensation for PlayStation hack However, it's unlikely to involve money as access to the service is free. The PlayStation Network and Qriocity online services were taken offline by the company after it discovered they had been hacked
Friday, April 29, 2011
Avast Software finds PDF exploit The exploit is invisible to many antivirus programs, the Czech security firm said. The trick involves hiding a common Adobe Reader exploit inside a PDF file by encoding it with the JBIG2Decode filter
Wednesday, April 27, 2011
DOJ report critical of FBI ability to fight cyber attacks The U.S. Department of Justice's inspector general report says he FBI needs to bolster cyber intrusion education and forensics. The DOJ also said many field office cyberforensic and analytical capabilities were "inadequate"
Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Federal pay system breach shows bad security plan: analyst The security glitch in the federal government’s employee payment system illustrates the lack of an overarching strategy for the public sector’s IT infrastructure, said one analyst
Friday, April 15, 2011
Apple patches Pwn2Own, Comodo hack bugs The company updates iOS and Mac OS X to plug holes in iPhone, iPad, Safari, Mac OS X, iPod Touch. The same update also patched a vulnerability in WebKit
Thursday, April 14, 2011
McAfee network security gets three improvements The security vendor injects technology from Reflex Systems to help IT departments running desktop and server virtualization get more visibility into network traffic passing over the hypervisor. Plus, McAfee’s network reputation database and a new traffic analysis port are part of the platform
Friday, April 01, 2011
50,000 pages hit in SQL injection attack The Lizamoon attack started on March 29. The attack, which has been tracked by Websense, exploits a security flaw and allows hackers to insert a link to their website into the URL
Friday, March 25, 2011
RSA breach puts APT back in the spotlight The challenge is that many organizations aren't sure of what an Advanced Persistent Threat is. Some see APT as little more than marketing
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Firm points finger at Iran for SSL certificate theft Bogus certificates obtained for Google, Microsoft, Skype and Yahoo sites. Comodo's security blog offered more details of the Iranian connection and claimed that at least two Iranian IP addresses and one ISP were involved
Thursday, March 24, 2011
European Commission hit by serious cyberattack Staff were told to change their passwords and to use only secure e-mail. The event came just days ahead of the European Council summit being held on Thursday and Friday
Friday, March 18, 2011
RSA warns SecurID customers after company is hacked The information stolen could 'reduce the effectiveness' of SecurID products. This is the type of attack that compromised systems at Google and as many as 100 other companies in late 2009
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Google's Chrome untouched at Pwn2Own hack match Scheduled attackers don't show, or pass on exploiting sandboxed browser. The search giant had promised to pay $20,000 to the first researcher who broke into Chrome on the hacking contest's opening day
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Oil giants downed by Chinese hackers named A new U.S. report also alleges that the companies did not disclose the attacks to regulators
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
The cybercrime game has changed: Symantec The cybercrime industry is adapting and utilizing the same technologies and ‘mega trends’ that legitimate businesses are. In fact, they’re doing it in advance of many of us. Read what else was discussed at Infosec
Thursday, February 17, 2011
How Canada can thwart another foreign cyber attack A cyber attack originating from foreign soil could call into question the federal government’s IT security policies. Find out what two security experts think Ottawa should do