via Help Net Security Remember the phishing attack against government officials and political activists that was disrupted by Google in June? Well, it’s far from over. The goal remains the same – the attackers are still after Gmail login credentials of personal email accounts belonging t...
Every year, the Privacy Office of DHS presents a speaker series of outside experts. This year, they will focus on Cybersecurity and Privacy, with the first event kicking off today (26 July at 10AM). These events are open to all federal workers (employees and contractors) and qualify for continuing e...
via ITPro The Rustock botnet is now less than half the size it was in March, thanks to the Microsoft led takedown in that month. The giant spamming botnet was dealt a serious blow when Operation b107 severed the connection between Rustock’s command and control structure and hundreds of thousan...
via ZDNet The distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government Web sites of both South Korea and United States in 2009 and more recently in March this year could have been a “reconnaissance operation” by a cyber army launched on behalf of North Korea. This assessment was put fo...
via Extreme Tech According to a report just published by Symantec, the global volume of spam has dropped by as much as 90% over the past year – from as many as 225 billion messages per day to as few as 25 billion. While part of the drop-off has to do with a shift in […]...
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 CNN Money NEW YORK (CNNMoney) — The targeted phishing scheme that struck hundreds of top U.S. government officials’ personal Gmail accounts was neither difficult to perform nor incredibly sophisticated. The attackers were able to pose as legitimate, trusted senders from the State Dep...