“After all, the United States government has spent years complaining that Chinese intelligence operations could find ways of poking holes in Huawei networking gear, urging both American businesses and foreign allies to sidestep the company’s hardware. The complaints grew so loud that, at one poi...
Monthly Archives: December 2013
“The TAO hacker team also worked in rather traditional ways – by exploiting vulnerabilities. It looks like one of their methods involves working their way through Microsoft’s bugs. Specifically, they would go through the crash reports sent by targeted Windows users when an internal problem wo...
“According to a new report from Der Spiegel based on internal NSA documents, the signals intelligence agency’s elite hacking unit (TAO) is able to conduct sophisticated wiretaps in ways that make Hollywood fantasy look more like reality. The report indicates that the NSA, in collaboration with ...
“NatWest was hit by a cyber attack that left customers unable to garner access to their online bank accounts. The United Kingdom bank was reportedly the target of a distributed denial of servie (DOS) attack, according to the Mirror. A statement released by the bank maintains that the cyber warfare...
“Target has confirmed that encrypted debit card PIN data was stolen as part of the massive hack carried out against the retailer between late November and early December. The company previously admitted that card numbers, expiration dates, and security codes were compromised in the attack that aff...
“The threat of cyber terrorism poses a major risk to aircrafts’ systems every time they enter an airport, a senior Boeing (NYSE: BA – news) executive has said. Nervous fliers may worry more about terrorists smuggling explosives into the cabin, but cyber attacks are becoming one of the most sig...