Shanghai: The Chinese government is working with domestic Internet search engines like Baidu Inc and Sohu.com, and financial institutions to prevent phishing attacks on unsuspecting Chinese web users. The Ministry of Public Security said on Friday it would work with 10 Chinese search engines to protect the website rankings of financial institutions to lessen the chances that Internet users will be duped by phishing websites. A phishing attack occurs when...
12:01 PM, Dec 30, 2011
Tokyo: Sony Corp picked a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, previously director of the US National Cyber Security Centre, will become senior vice president and will report to general counsel Nicole Seligman, the Japanese electronics conglomerate said on...
05:28 PM, Sep 06, 2011
Washington: Each week brings word of another cyber attack on a major US institution, sending law enforcement scrambling and raising new questions about whether it has the ability or resources to track down cyber criminals. The FBI says it is working to bulk up its cyber division as hackers focus on higher-profile targets, but is at the mercy of a Congress struggling to cut the massive budget deficit. FBI Director...
02:30 PM, Jun 22, 2011
London: British police arrested a 19-year-old man in England on suspicions that he was linked to cyber attacks on the CIA, Britain's anti-organized crime agency and Sony Corp. As part of international efforts to catch the culprits behind a string of high-profile hacks, London's Metropolitan Police, working with the US FBI, said they arrested the teenager in the town of Wickford, close to London. The raid was linked to recent...
02:28 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Boston/Johannesburg: The Lulz Security group of rogue hackers is threatening to steal classified information from governments, banks and other high-ranking establishments, in what would be an escalation of its cyber attacks. So far LulzSec's publicized assaults on Sony Corp, the CIA, News Corp's Fox TV and other targets have mostly resulted in temporary disruptions of some websites and the release of user credentials. But now, LulzSec says it is teaming...
02:21 PM, Jun 22, 2011
Istanbul: Official Turkish websites were attacked by Internet vigilante group Anonymous on Thursday as part of a protest against what it says is government Internet censorship. With an election three days away, access to Turkey's telecoms authority website, identified as a main target in the protest against a planned new Internet filtering system, was blocked as planned at 6 pm (1500 GMT). While authorities worked to limit the disruption, other...
01:06 PM, Jun 10, 2011
London: Britain's military chief says he wants to set up a UK version of America's Cyber Command, the Pentagon's newly formed cyber warfare division. Gen David Richards was quoted in the Sunday Times as saying that cyber attacks were going to be a part of future warfare "just as tanks and aircraft are today," and that he wanted Britain to work on its offensive capabilities. The paper said that Richards,...
12:22 AM, Jan 10, 2011
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07:07 PM, Jan 09, 2011
Hackers. Faceless people who deface government Web sites, who can peek into your computer without you knowing. What are they like? Forbes India asked Akash Mahajan, a Certified Ethical Hacker, for a few insights into the shadowy world.
Hackers — the good guys — are different from crackers, who have nefarious goals. Does it bug you that everyone uses the term 'hacker' for both? It used to. Then I realised...
12:54 PM, Aug 16, 2010
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