Tag Archives: hacking

Just in time for Halloween, one of the world’s stealthiest, most pervasive, and just plain terrifying botnets has received a complete makeover. A disturbing development in an arena where adware, malware, botnets and Trojans are already making our worst nightmares …

In a world where the only thing standing between us and the spammers, phishers and hackers is a little piece of tunneling security that keeps IT admins dreaming about warm and snuggly things, the idea of that security being breached …

Spam-ready tablets off the shelves? Zombie PCs out of the box? Testifying before U.S. Congress this week, a top official for the Department of Homeland Security said that technology being imported into the country is sometimes known to contain preloaded …

  The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) was hit with a cyberattack that was likely spawned from a spear phishing attack. The facility immediately disabled its internet access and email system when the attack was discovered. They …

In what surely must be the third sign of the pending apocalypse, video game industry icon, Sega Corp. is hacked for data on 1.3 million of its users. And just when you thought the world hadn’t gotten any stranger, hacktivist …

The hacking group Lulzsec is at it again. Via their twitter account, they bragged that they had stolen over 60,000 email addresses and passwords. This is pretty serious, judging from the sites they apparently got the stolen data from: Gmail …

In what’s quickly becoming (or has already become) something of a joke ending with a simple punch line – ‘Sony’ – another hack attack saw the entertainment giant scrambling to quietly warn users that another breach in its security, this time of Sony BMG Music’s website, had occurred. The announcement seemed like it came from the Bizarro world, considering that over at Playstation.com, splashed in prominence on the main page is the announcement of Sony’s ‘Welcome Back’ program, designed to mollify irritated users whose access to the Playstation Network and Qriocity had been down for a month.

While it may be premature to declare this the Year of the Cyber Terrorist, it certainly seems like these attacks are becoming more frequent and more severe. Perhaps it would be more accurate to dub this the ‘Era of the Cyber Terrorist.’ Bill Davidow at Forbes suggests that World War III, if it ever occurs, will be fought on the battlefield of cyber space. Tony Bradley of PCWorld takes an interesting perspective in his article, Lockheed-Martin Attack Signals New Era of Cyber Espionage, suggesting that the era of cyber espionage is in full bloom. The attack on Lockheed Martin, Bradley writes, “seems at face value like either a state-sponsored attack, or an attack by well-funded hackers with the intent to market whatever information can be extracted internationally to other governments.”

Cyberattacks are a growing security threat. Hackers and scammers are quickly moving beyond the traditional types of attacks such as phishing and browser hijacking. They’re getting much more sophisticated and some of the newest threats could threaten the country’s very infrastructure. …

In the most recent spam scam to assault Facebook, users are being greeted with a message advising them to ‘verify’ their account, seemingly a noble act of spam prevention and surely not spam itself, right? Not so fast.