Content Tagged ‘Hackers’

Who Wants a Cyberwar?

September 30, 2010 - The short answer is the media wants a cyberwar. Cyberwar is a dark, sexy, mysterious headline that sells and so each time something nefarious happens on the internet that potentially involves two or more countries, security experts are besieged with (continue reading...) Read more

Will Cyber Crime Affect Our Lives Outside the Cyber Space?

September 27, 2010 - Up to a few weeks ago, computer viruses were an issue for every person who uses a computer. People knew that they exist and people have been getting infected by them daily. Yet, (continue reading...) Read more

Weekly Security News – September 16, 2010

September 16, 2010 - 1. ‘Stuxnet’ Worm Far More Sophisticated Than Previously ThoughtRead More 2. Report: More Than 1 Million Web Sites Serving Malware in Q2Read More 3. UK teen banned from US after sending threatening Obama emailRead More 4. (continue reading...) Read more

Assessing Intent

August 4, 2010 - There have been recent articles with fantastic titles such as “New threat: Hackers look to take over power plants” and “Hackers Target Power Plants and Physical Systems” in the wake of the Stuxnet worm that targeted certain industrial (continue reading...) Read more

Flotilla clash and the social media war

June 8, 2010 - Since the Flotilla incident about 2 weeks ago, we’ve been witnessing many clashes over the net between both sides, especially between (continue reading...) Read more

TPM “Undressed..”

February 16, 2010 - Recently it was announced (http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wirestory?id=9780148&page=1) with much fanfare that the now-ubiquitous “TPM” chip found in most modern computers had been hacked. This obviously unnerved a lot of people, especially those hanging the safety of their secrets on free solutions like (continue reading...) Read more

Hackers use a Facebook hoax to plant Rouge Antimalware

January 28, 2010 - Hackers are spreading a rumor regarding Facebook, describingit as a botnet that is used it to infect Facebook users with rogueanti-malware.In the last 48 hours a rumor was spread claiming that an“unnamed app” in Facebook is actually a (continue reading...) Read more

Johnny Depp fake death notice – fake ActiveX codec

January 26, 2010 - (continue reading...) Read more

Top 10 Chinese cyber attacks

January 25, 2010 - The malicious activity that comes from Chinese servers isknown for a long time. In many cases we are seeing the use of Chinese serversby bots that being spread over the web. Most of these bots are beingpropagated in order (continue reading...) Read more

Out-of-band patch for the Aurora exploit will be released today by Microsoft

January 21, 2010 - Many words have been written about the new IE zero-day vulnerability which was used in the China attack. Microsoft will release a patch today (continue reading...) Read more

Google vs. China – Round 1

January 18, 2010 -  The Google-China relationship has been the subject of many recentarticles and debates in the media. Across the globe, thousands have protestedagainst Google, claiming that the renowned web browser is lending a hand to thetrampling of human rights in (continue reading...) Read more

Hackers use Twitter to control botnets

August 16, 2009 - Security researcher Jose Nazario from Arbor Networks has discovered an account on Twitter that acted as command and control (C&C) center for controlling computers that are part of botnets. The Twitter account was being used to send a single line (continue reading...) Read more

A comprehensive look at botnet attack incident

July 14, 2009 - An official website of the Iranian government was compromised. A hidden Iframe tag which retrieves an obfuscated malicious scripts which exploit multiple vulnerabilities was injected into the website. Visitors of the governmental website may end up with a Trojan downloader taking (continue reading...) Read more

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