A report from Symantec Corp. details a roving campaign of intellectual property theft controlled by a 20 year-old hacker for hire that relied on phishing e-mail, some old malware and command and control operations based in China.
It was another year, another “F” for the top, U.S. firms targeted in the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag (CTF) Contest at the DEFCON hacking conference, according to a report released on Monday.
As Facebook’s population has grown from thousands to millions to hundreds of millions, security has come to be an even greater concern. In recent years, the company has had to respond to threats ranging from spam to Facebook-specific malware like Koobface, all the while keeping scammers and identity thieves at bay.
Social networking giant Facebook said on Thursday that it is testing a feature that will allow users to designate certain friends as ‘guardian angels’ entrusted with helping the user to recover a locked or hijacked account.
With more and more victims of identity theft minted every day, figuring out if you’re one of the unlucky masses with a leaked email password is yeoman’s work. Now one security researcher is trying to make it easy with PwnedList.com, a Web site that collects leaked and stolen data, then tells Internet users whether their information is in it.
Barnaby Jack, famous for getting ATMs to disgorge an avalanche of cash on stage at the Black Hat Briefings, says he has developed an attack that could be used to deliver a lethal dose of insulin to diabetics using the embedded pumps.
A new analysis of the recently discovered Duqu Trojan raises questions about the origin of the malware and its links to the earlier Stuxnet worm.
The fallout from a targeted attack on computers belonging to members of the Japanese House of Representatives continued on Tuesday, with claims that both servers and PCs on the House network were infected with a password stealing Trojan, and reports that House members had taken to storing sensitive government documents on personal PCs to avoid leaking sensitive information to the attackers.
A report claims the recent hack of Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries may have led to the theft of sensitive data related to weapons systems and nuclear reactors.
The head of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Cyber Security Program says that targeted attacks have already caused the premature demise of a UK wind turbine maker, and has cost the country $43 billion in lost economic growth already.
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