Archive for the ‘Net Security’ Category
LulzSec opens hack request line
The hacker group Lulz Security has opened a telephone request line so its fans can suggest potential targets. It claims to have launched denial of service attacks on several websites as a result, although it did not detail which ones. The unspecified hacks formed part of a wave of security breaches that the group called [...]
Hackers target business secrets
Social Security numbers and other personal information have been popular targets by cyber crooks. But a new report says thieves have shifted their focus to corporate data such as trade secrets and marketing plans, making it the “new currency” of the underworld economy.
Intellectual property and business secrets are fast becoming a target for cyber thieves, [...]
Is cyber-warfare a genuine threat?
Cyber attacks are already upon us but the rules of digital warfare have yet to be agreed upon. Is it time, as an influential think tank believes, for a digital Geneva Convention? Is it even possible when the internet was designed without country borders and when defining what a “cyber-war” constitutes is near-impossible? “We come [...]
Kneber botnet attacks PCs worldwide
Hackers in Europe and China successfully broke into computers at nearly 2,500 companies and government agencies over the last 18 months in a coordinated global attack that exposed vast amounts of personal and corporate secrets to theft, according to a computer-security company that discovered the breach. Starting in late 2008, hackers operating a command center [...]
