" Targeted attacks are the trend in cyberspace. Six months ago, the world's first cyber superweapon – Stuxnet – was discovered to be targeting Iran's nuclear facilities. This week millions of e-mail …
Anonymous claims to breach Apple’s security
"The Anonymous hacker group claimed Sunday that it had stolen a small number of internal passwords and user names from an Apple server. The data was reportedly stolen from a server used for Apple’s …
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Cyber attacks outpace global response, U.S. warns
"The technical sophistication of cybercriminals is swamping the world's ability to cope, a top U.S. official warned on Friday, demanding an accelerated cross-border campaign to combat the security …
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Hackers hit Arizona law enforcement for third time
"For the third time in less than 10 days, confidential information from Arizona's law enforcement community was hacked and posted online, with the same basic group of hackers behind the effort. The …
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Latin America’s cyber gangs
"June 2011 saw some of the most significant cyber-attacks ever in Latin America. Brazil had several government and private sector websites knocked offline and their Army personnel database was hacked …
Anonymous Launches A WikiLeaks For Hackers: HackerLeaks
"Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few …
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Security Researchers Discover the Mother of All Botnets
"A new strain of the TDSS malware has been pegged as 'the most sophisticated threat' to computer security in the world today by a Kaspersky Labs researcher and is being used to slave more than 4.5 …
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DOD wants contractors to safeguard unclassified info, report breaches
"Federal contractors whose information systems contain unclassified Defense Department information would have to safeguard that information from unauthorized access and notify DOD of any breaches …
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Biggest-ever criminal botnet links computers in more than 172 countries
"Computer security experts say they have detected what appears to be the world's largest-ever computer 'botnet,' a network of millions of computers controlled clandestinely by a criminal cyber gang …
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Military personnel targeted in cyberattack
"On June 7, 2011, the Gannett Government Media family of websites suffered a cyber attack that resulted in some users being unable to access parts or all of the websites. We also discovered that the …
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