In a bulletin sent to the Falmouth Police Department, the Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center warns of an increase in email phishing scams in the weeks leading up to the April 15 deadline for filing tax returns. According to the bullet...
via eWeek Attackers most likely used spear-phishing techniques to compromise Japanese defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries last month, security researchers said. Spear phishing techniques are increasingly being used to steal sensitive information. Mitsubishi Heavy Industries admitted Sept....
via V3.co.uk Some 21 per cent of UK computer users have been hit by cold call scammers posing as computer security engineers who try to extort cash from them to fix problems which aren’t there, according to the latest research from Microsoft. The firm interviewed 7,000 users across several reg...
via Forbes.com A cyber attack that some are attributing to the hacking group, Lulz Security, has breached the database behind the website of the Department of Energy’s Y12 National Security Complex, which is located several miles from DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory. For most of the ...
via Computerworld Google has disrupted what it believes to be a targeted phishing campaign aimed at stealing e-mail from government officials, contractors and military personnel. The criminals behind the campaign have broken into hundreds of Gmail accounts belonging to “U.S. government officia...
via CRN The FBI issued an advisory Tuesday warning that cyber criminals sent numerous illegal wire transfers gleaned from phishing attacks on U.S. organizations to trade companies based in China. In its advisory, the FBI highlighted significant spikes in wire transfers between March 2010 and April 2...
via the Daily Tech Complaint has been issued against 13 foreign nationals, but there’s no promises they won’t get away with the loot It took ten years, but the U.S. finally has killed a notorious botnet spread by an ever-evolving virus known as “Coreflood”. The botnet had bee...
via The Hill The number of attacks on federal government networks rose 40 percent last year according to a new White House report on cybersecurity. Federal agencies reported 41,776 attacks in fiscal 2010 after seeing 30,000 the previous year, according to the Office of Management and Budget’s ...