Washington: For computer users, a few mouse clicks could mean the difference between staying online and losing Internet connections this summer. Unknown to most of them, their problem began when international hackers ran an online advertising scam to take control of infected computers around the world. In a highly unusual response, the FBI set up a safety net months ago using government computers to prevent Internet disruptions for those infected...
12:42 PM, Apr 21, 2012
London: Online passwords are so insecure that one per cent can be cracked within 10 guesses, according to the largest ever sample analysis carried out by a Gathes Cambridge scholar at the university. The research carried out by Joseph Bonneau will be presented at a security conference held under the auspices of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in May. Bonneau's research has featured in The Economist, a university...
02:15 PM, Apr 03, 2012
New Delhi: Anonymous, the hacker group that is believed to be behind many recent high-profile hacking attacks is now moving into a new frontier - the desktop operating system (OS). The group has announced the release of its own desktop OS called Anonymous-OS. According to the Anonymous-OS Tumblr blog, the purpose of the software is only to educate and to check security of web pages. Anonymous urges its users not...
02:22 PM, Mar 15, 2012
New York: Nathan Acosta is feeling a little overwhelmed. The 24-year-old from Raleigh, North Carolina, who works for a financial services firm, is trying his best to keep up with all the passwords and security questions he has to juggle, just to log onto his personal accounts. But sometimes it feels like a losing battle. It's a battle millions of consumers can identify with. For a while it was just...
01:14 PM, Mar 09, 2012
United Nations: A hackers group calling itself "Team Poison" has posted what it says are the user names and passwords of more than 100 United Nations staffers' email accounts it pulled from a UN computer server. Many of the accounts posted on pastebin.com website appear to belong to UN Development Program staffers. A telephone call seeking comment from a UNDP spokeswoman in New York was not immediately returned Wednesday evening....
09:48 AM, Dec 01, 2011
Tokyo: Sony said on Wednesday that intruders staged a massive attempt to access user accounts on its PlayStation Network and other online entertainment services in the second major attack on its flagship gaming site this year. The Tokyo-based company temporarily locked about 93,000 accounts whose IDs and passwords were successfully ascertained by the blitz. Sony sent email notifications and password reset procedures to affected customers on the PlayStation Network, Sony...
06:23 AM, Oct 13, 2011
Bangalore: A study by Symantec Corp, the maker of Norton computer security software, estimates the cost of global cybercrimes at $114 billion annually. The Norton Cybercrime Report 2011 said 431 million adults were victims globally in the past year, with costs of cybercrime surpassing the combined global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin. "Over the past 12 months, three times as many adults surveyed have suffered from online crime...
04:30 PM, Sep 08, 2011
Bangalore: US computer security software maker McAfee said the number of malware targeted at Android devices jumped 76 per cent since last quarter, making Android the most attacked mobile operating system. "This year we have seen record breaking numbers of malware, especially on mobile devices, where the uptick is in direct correlation to popularity," Vincent Weafer, senior vice president of McAfee Labs, said in a statement. In the second quarter...
12:54 PM, Aug 23, 2011
Seoul: More than 30 North Korean hackers were hired to work in China by a South Korean crime ring to steal the personal data of South Korean gamers, and channelled $5 million to their impoverished country in compensation, South Korea's police said on Thursday. North Korea has been blamed for spreading malicious computer software that paralyzed Web sites of government agencies and businesses, and for a cyber attack on a...
12:55 PM, Aug 04, 2011
London: A major new hacking attack underscores that governments and companies are losing the war against cyber thieves, but it's unclear if the disclosure will prompt quicker global action against online break-ins. A US report that intruders breached the computer networks of 72 organisations around the world over a five-year period in the biggest hacking campaign found to date will be seized on by Western states to call for tougher...
12:52 PM, Aug 04, 2011
Boston: Security experts have discovered the biggest series of cyber attacks to date, involving the infiltration of the networks of 72 organisations including the United Nations, governments and companies around the world. Security company McAfee, which uncovered the intrusions, said it believed there was one "state actor" behind the attacks but declined to name it, though one security expert who has been briefed on the hacking said the evidence points...
07:13 PM, Aug 03, 2011
London: A teenager accused of acting as a spokesman for computer hacking groups that targeted Sony, Rupert Murdoch-owned newspapers and a British crime agency was freed on bail Monday as he awaits trial. Jake Davis, who was arrested last week at home on Scotland's remote Shetland Islands by the police e-crime unit, is accused of mounting a cyberattack on Britain's Serious Organized Crime Agency and other offences linked to the...
09:05 AM, Aug 02, 2011
Washington: Hackers with the loose-knit group Anonymous said on Friday they had broken into the network of US government contractor Mantech International Corp and posted some NATO-related correspondence online. Anonymous, tweeting as AnonymousIRC, offered the correspondence between Mantech and the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as proof of the breach. Two involve NATO contracting offices, and one discusses deploying staffers to an unnamed "NATO Theatre of Operations" for what appears to...
10:06 AM, Jul 30, 2011
Canberra: An unemployed truck driver was charged Wednesday with hacking into an Australian broadband network provider in an alleged crime that police say could have caused significant damage to the national Internet infrastructure. David Cecil, 25, was charged in a court in New South Wales state with hacking into one of the National Broadband Network's service providers and numerous other businesses and websites in Australia and overseas since May. Police...
04:40 PM, Jul 28, 2011
Seoul: South Korea' communications regulator said Thursday hackers from China had attacked an Internet portal and blogging site operated by SK Comms, accessing the personal information of up to 35 million users in what could be the country's biggest cyber attack so far. The incident follows a series of hacking incidents at South Korean financial firms in recent months, exposing the vulnerabilities of networks in the world's most wired country....
01:41 PM, Jul 28, 2011
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