A “distributed denial of service” attack – or what security gurus call a DDoS attack – is a little like what happens to Groundhog.org on Groundhog Day. For 364 days out of the year, nobody cares about groundhog fun facts. And then on Groundhog Day-BOOM! Third-graders, Bill Mu...
via CIO.com.au It’s unlikely 2011 will go down in history as a great year for information security. The year is barely half over but already we have witnessed some of the largest hacking attacks since the advent of computing. So far, media organisations, game companies, banks and governments h...
via Reuters U.S. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urged Republican leaders on Wednesday to resume work on a massive cybersecurity bill aimed at combating breaches and theft from U.S. companies and government networks, and Republicans agreed. Reid, a Democrat, said in a letter to Senate Republican l...
via AFP Hackers infected computers, derailed websites, and plundered networks in a memorably miserable quarter, according to a report released Wednesday by Internet security firm PandaLabs. Hacking groups Lulz Security and Anonymous caused “widespread mayhem” during the three months endi...
via Forbes As old-fashioned exchanges have given way to high-tech trading systems, it wasn’t shocking earlier this year to learn that hackers had broken into Nasdaq. But there have been several more high-profile hacks, including one targeting Citigroup and today’s hack attack on the CIA....
via International Business Times The security breach at Citigroup Inc., which lost personal information of 210,000 credit card customers to hackers, is just the latest of a string of cyber attacks on high-profile companies. The successful targets of hackers the past two months include data storage f...
via Security News Daily Sony, the data-security firm RSA, Lockheed Martin, the email wholesaler Epsilon, the Fox broadcast network, NASA, PBS, the European Space Agency, the FBI, the British and French treasuries — and, just this morning, the banking and insurance giant Citigroup. What do all ...