Open Season on Open Source
A flurry of attacks on open source servers, operating systems and software also permeated the headlines this year, with a compromise of the repository for the Linux source code leading the way.
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"Distrust and caution are the parents of security" - Benjamin Franklin
Data Breaches for All
Sony’s online gaming platform, The PlayStation Network (PSN), disappeared for more than a month starting in April, and no amount of double X and O-ing or right joysticking could save it. The reason? A massive attack on PSN’s network knocked the gaming giant offline and exposed the data of more than million users worldwide.
Hackers Take Center Stage
After a decade of flourishing unseen in the shadows of the Internet, Anonymous, LulzSec and other like-minded groups expanded their activities from obscure attacks and protests to full fledged hacking and DDoS campaigns against governments, The Church of Scientology, Visa, Paypal, Sony and a wide range of other private and public organizations perceived as hostile to the hackers’ ever shifting li
Stuxnet debuted with a frenzy in 2010 after researchers exposed the malware already busily disrupting Iran’s nuclear enrichment program. That was followed this past year by continued speculation, finger pointing and even some dismissive attitudes about the worm, which targets Siemens-made industrial control devices.
We’ve compiled our list of the Top Security Stories of 2011, presented here in no particular order. These are the issues that shook the world’s markets and kept us awake at night. If there’s a lesson here, it’s that cybersecurity challenges aren’t going away anytime soon. In fact, as we look forward to 2012, about the only thing that could quell the continuing battle to secure the technology system is if the Mayans turn out to be right.
Executives for some of the world’s largest oil companies stressed that cyber attacks against their companies are becoming more strategic and happening more frequently at a conference last week, according to a report today from the BBC.
The Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) released a new report yesterday that details plans to complement the nation’s existing cybersecurity policy, according to a blog entry on the office’s site co-authored by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra and Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt.
Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet (UB) are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend.
A cybersecurity bill approved by the House of Representatives’ Intelligence Committee on Thursday will allow the government and private companies to share information about electronic threats and attacks going forward.
Join Dennis Fisher, Threatpost editor-in-chief, and his guests, Josh Corman, Director Security Intelligence Akamai, and Gene Kim, Founder / Former CTO Tripwire, and Author, “Visible Ops,” as they discuss the changing threat landscape and how technology plays a pivotal role in the security challenges facing businesses today.
