August 19, 2011 - Anonymous hackers working under the flag of AntiSec have targeted a US defense contractor, stealing and publishing thousands of emails and documents. Vanguard Defense Industries (VDI) works closely with government agencies (continue reading...) Read more
August 17, 2011 - How careful is your firm about ensuring that staff who leave for pastures new don't continue to log into your network? As more and more workers are allowed remote access to (continue reading...) Read more
August 16, 2011 - At the USENIX Security Symposium last week, researchers Keaton Mowery, Sarah Meiklejohn and Stefan Savage from the University of California at San Diego presented their paper "Heat (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - On the heels of the recent activity with Stuxnet, the industrial process control computer worm that targeted Iranian nuclear centrifuges, a Blackhat talk by Thanassis Giannetsos explains how to hack yet another commonly used family of controllers. We have mused (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - London and other cities in the United Kingdom have been hit by riots for the last few days. Many of those responsible for the looting, arson and rioting which has hit (continue reading...) Read more
August 9, 2011 - A Norwegian hacking gang is said to have broken into two email accounts belonging to Anders Breivik Behring, the right-wing extremist who killed over 70 people in the country last (continue reading...) Read more
August 8, 2011 - I keep getting asked - by journalists, friends, colleagues, competitors, delegates at conferences, people on the bus - what my attitude is to hacktivism, hacking and hackers. I usually answer by saying, "What do you mean by hacktivism?" And the answer (continue reading...) Read more
August 7, 2011 - Once again, hacking has turned political - with the website of the Ministry of Defense in Syria defaced by the Anonymous hacktivist collective. Amid news reports of thousands of deaths in Syria after the authorities cracked down with deadly force using (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - Matt Johansen and Kyle Osborn presented their paper at Black Hat this morning titled "Hacking Google ChromeOS". Google's netbook operating system has been touted as the first platform that (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - I get a lot of press enquiries currently about hacktivism, usually in the context of certain groups who have had more than enough publicity already. While discussing some related issues with my colleagues at ESET UK, it occurred to me that (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - The media are in a frenzy today, excitedly reporting the "biggest ever cyber-attack". The reason? A report published today by McAfee called "Revealed: Operation Shady RAT", explains (continue reading...) Read more
August 3, 2011 - The Metropolitan Police have taken the unusual step of using Twitter to send a message to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments. A message (continue reading...) Read more
August 2, 2011 - Britain's best-selling newspaper, The Sun, has warned that thousands of people who participated in competitions on its website might have had their personal information stolen. Names, postal addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth (continue reading...) Read more
August 1, 2011 - Scotland Yard is expanding its investigation into the now defunct The News of the World, and its parent company News International, by investigating possible cases of computer hacking (continue reading...) Read more
July 29, 2011 - In the last few days, in the light of a teenager being arrested by British police in the Shetland Islands, there has been a lot of speculation as to whether the cops apprehended (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2011 - Since the British police arrested a teenager yesterday in connection with the hacktivist activities of LulzSec and Anonymous, I've been asked, time and time again, the same question: Have the cops got (continue reading...) Read more
July 28, 2011 - Hackers have broken into the popular South Korean websites Nate and Cyworld earlier this week, and stolen information about 35 million social networking users. Names, email addresses, phone numbers and resident registration numbers of (continue reading...) Read more
July 27, 2011 - An 18-year old man has been arrested by British police in Shetland, UK, under suspicion of launching hacking attacks against a number of websites. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Service's Police (continue reading...) Read more
July 26, 2011 - Well, really there are far more, but the latest study from Imperva of 10 million attacks against 30 large organizations from January to May of 2011 cites a cocktail of techniques used by would-be hackers to spot the weaknesses and (continue reading...) Read more
July 25, 2011 - Or so the latest report from DEBKAfile states, claiming the Stuxnet worm broke numerous Iranian centrifuges by forcing them to overspeed, causing damage and prompting the replacement of some 5,000-6,000 units. They cite “intelligence sources” as the source of (continue reading...) Read more