Global market for cyber security solutions may grow to USD 870 million by 2017, says research firm IDC. Cybercriminals use thousands of networked computers (botnets) to 'jam' a website by directing excessive traffic to it, causing it to crash. ...
01:22 PM, Mar 31, 2013
Forbes India's Charles Assisi writes an open letter to Ankit Fadia questioning his credentials as a computer security expert. ...
01:00 PM, Mar 04, 2013
Facebook said that is was clear that other websites were attacked and infiltrated recently as well. ...
08:18 AM, Feb 16, 2013
The Pentagon plans to assign significantly more personnel in coming years to counter increasing threats against US government computer networks and conduct offensive operations against foreign foes, a US defense official said on Sunday. ...
04:56 PM, Jan 28, 2013
A few SMS messages, a couple of inflammatory photos. They triggered off the largest internal exodus in India since partition. We're talking about the north ...
05:49 PM, Oct 03, 2012
New York: Websites of exchange operators Nasdaq and BATS have been attacked by hackers over the last 24 hours, causing ongoing disruptions for those trying to use the sites, spokespersons for the companies said on Tuesday. Only the banner carrying the logo at the top of the web page for www.nasdaq.com was visible during repeated attempts to access Nasdaq's site on Tuesday afternoon. Trading in Nasdaq-listed stocks has not been...
08:25 AM, Feb 15, 2012
Amsterdam: Philips Electronics said it shut down one of its servers on Monday because of a possible cyber attack and that it was investigating the nature and extent of the information that might have been accessed. Philips spokesman Steve Klink couldn't confirm whether any personal customer information or sensitive company data were put at risk. "It isn't prudent to make any statements until we've gotten to the bottom of this...
08:21 AM, Feb 15, 2012
London: With growing worries about the threat of "cyber warfare," militaries around the world are racing to recruit the computer specialists they believe may be central to the conflicts of the 21st century. But whilst money is plentiful for new forces of "cyber warriors," attracting often individualistic technical specialists and hackers into military hierarchies is another matter. Finding the people to command them is also tough. After a decade of...
10:54 AM, Feb 11, 2012
Washington: The US federal government's plan to expand computer security protections into critical parts of private industry is raising concerns that the move will threaten Americans' civil liberties. In a report for release Friday, The Constitution Project warns that as the Obama administration partners more with the energy, financial, communications and health care industries to monitor and protect networks, sensitive personal information of people who work for or communicate with...
02:32 PM, Jan 28, 2012
Boston: A group of Indian hackers has offered support to an American man who filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corp by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software program at the heart of the legal dispute. A spokesman for the group, which is known as "Lords of Dharmaraja," released more than 13,000 files that were part of the product's source code late on Friday. "Pass...
04:47 PM, Jan 14, 2012
New Delhi: A memo that triggered a US investigation into a possible cyber-attack by Indian military intelligence is probably a fake, but it is clear from leaked documents that serious security breaches did take place. A little-known hacker group, 'Lords of Dharmaraja', began posting the documents last year, but only drew widespread attention after the anti-virus software firm Symantec confirmed on Saturday that a segment of its source code had...
04:22 PM, Jan 12, 2012
Boston: US federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack on a US industrial system. The November 8 incident was described in a one-page report from the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center, according to Joe Weiss, a prominent expert on protecting infrastructure from cyber...
01:06 PM, Nov 19, 2011
Washington: There were no lines for the ladies room. That was unusual for an event attended by thousands but typical in the cybersecurity field where a futuristic image clashes with an old-fashioned gender gap. At cybersecurity and hacker gatherings, women are clearly in the minority among the sea of men lining escalators, filling gigantic hotel ballrooms and networking in hallways. (Some men grumbled about the lack of women at event...
01:48 PM, Oct 28, 2011
San Francisco: The United States and Australia will take the rare step on Thursday of declaring the cyber realm as part of a mutual defence treaty, meaning that a cyber attack on one could lead to a response by both nations. Defence and diplomatic chiefs from the United States and Australia are meeting in San Francisco some 60 years after the birth of the ANZUS military alliance, which commits Australia...
02:57 PM, Sep 15, 2011
Washington: The US Defence Department unveiled a new strategy for protecting military computer networks from hackers on Thursday, designating cyberspace as an "operational domain" US forces will be trained to defend. US Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn said the Pentagon wanted to avoid militarising cyberspace, but aimed to secure strategic networks with the threat of retaliation, as well as by mounting a more robust defence. "Our strategy's overriding emphasis is...
10:59 AM, Jul 15, 2011
London: In its bid to boost web security in the US, the Barack Obama administration is working out a plan to issue American computer users with an Internet identity, a media report said here Monday. Obama has put the US Commerce Department in charge of the cybersecurity initiative, the Daily Mail reported. The Obama administration is drafting a paper called the National Strategy for Trusted Identities, which investigates ways that...
01:32 PM, Jan 11, 2011
According to a Symantec report, fake security software pose greatest threat to computer users in 2009. ...
04:23 PM, Apr 20, 2010
Cybersecurity market could generate more than $10 bn in contracts by 2013. ...
04:04 PM, Feb 15, 2009
