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Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski
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A hacking group that calls itself Team GhostShell this week claimed credit for breaking into servers at 100 major universities from around the world, including Harvard, Stanford, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Michigan. |
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Source: Mybroadband ZA - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Hackers are stepping up the intensity of their attacks, moving from “disruption” to “destruction” of key computer systems, the top US cyber-defense official said Monday.
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Source: Washington Post - Posted by Dave Wreski
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The e-mails arrived like poison darts from cyberspace. Some went to the Chertoff Group, a national security consulting firm in Washington. Others targeted intelligence contractors, gas pipeline executives and industrial-control security specialists. Each note came with the personal touches of a friend or colleague. |
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Source: 7.30 - ABC - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Australian intelligence authorities are reporting a major increase in cyber espionage attacks from abroad, and they fear the consequences could be devastating. Hacking attempts are now so frequent that entire teams work around the clock to repel attacks on sensitive Government departments. |
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Source: Schneier on Security - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Interesting article on how the NSA is approaching risk in the era of cool consumer devices. There's a discussion of the president's network-disabled iPad, and the classified cell phone that flopped because it took so long to develop and was so clunky. Turns out that everyone wants to use iPhones. |
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Source: Wired - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Cosmo is huge — 6 foot 7 and 220 pounds the last time he was weighed, at a detention facility in Long Beach, California on June 26. And yet he’s getting bigger, because Cosmo — also known as Cosmo the God, the social-engineering mastermind who weaseled his way past security systems at Amazon, Apple, AT&T, PayPal, AOL, Netflix, Network Solutions, and Microsoft — is just 15 years old. |
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Source: Tech World - Posted by Alex
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An elite hacker group targeting defense industry sub-contractors has an inexhaustible supply of zero-days, or vulnerabilities that have yet to be publicised, much less patched, according to Symantec.
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Source: BBC News - Posted by Dave Wreski
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Anyone using file-sharing service BitTorrent to download the latest film or music release without paying is likely to be monitored, UK-based researchers suggest. |
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Source: TorrentFreak - Posted by Anthony Pell
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Two prominent anti-piracy companies that are expected to participate in the U.S. six-strikes anti-piracy scheme are already monitoring thousands of torrent files. Statistics obtained by TorrentFreak show that BayTSP and Peer Media have been increasing their activities in recent months. The BitTorrent activity of these two companies is three times greater than that generated by all customers of a smaller ISP such as Sonic.net |
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Source: The Daily Journal - Posted by Dave Wreski
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When it burst upon the scene in the summer of 2010, Stuxnet changed everything in the world of cyberwarfare.
An ultra-sophisticated computer worm credited with taking down centrifuges critical to Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program, Stuxnet made it impossible to ignore the possibility that other critical systems — including America’s electrical grid — could be severely compromised by malicious software called malware, used by hackers to disrupt computer operations. |
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