Siemens AG issued an advisory to customers on Tuesday warning of a weakness in its Simatic S7 programmable logic controllers that could allow a remote attacker to intercept and decipher passwords, or change the configuration of the devices.
Worried that your organization might be the victim of a targeted attack or data breach? The proof may be right out in the open: posted for the world to see on Pastebin.com, LodgeIT, Pastie.org and other sites according to security expert Lenny Zeltser.
A 10 year employee of CME Group in Chicago is alleged to have stolen trade secrets and proprietary source code used to run trading systems for the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, according to a criminal complaint filed in U.S. District Court in Illinois.
An attack against the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has forced the lab to shut off access to the Internet, and the lab’s external Web site also is inaccessible right now. The attack on the lab, which conducts national security and cybersecurity research among other things, is the latest in a series of such attacks against research facilities.
An analysis by anti malware firm McAfee says that attacks against South Korean government and U.S. military Websites most likely came from North Korea.
HED: U.S. Secret Service investigating Fox News Hack after Obama assassination messages postedDEK: The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were posted on the account. The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were posted on the account. Spokesman Max Milien told Threatpost that the Secret Service, which is charged with protecting the President and other high ranking government officials, was conducting an investigation of the hack and macabre messages, which were posted early Monday, July 4, on the account @FoxNewsPolitics. However, Milien declined to comment on the breadth of the investigation or whether the U.S. Secret Service was working in coordination with the FBI or other entities. The investigation stems from an embarassing breach of security for the @FoxNewsPolitics, an account that distills the networks political news stories and that enjoys more than 38,000 followers. (http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/fox-news-caught-sleeping-after-twitter-account-hacked-070411) As part of the attack, erroneous twitter messages (or “tweets”) were posted claiming that U.S. President Obama had been assassinated in Iowa and that Vice President Joe Biden had assumed the presidency. Those messages remained up on Twitter for more than seven hours while Fox and Twitter regained control of the account. A source with knowledge of the attack says that Fox reacted immediately to the breach, but that San Francisco based Twitter was slow to remove the offending messages. Twitter has not responded to requests for comment from Threatpost. The U.S. Secret Service investigation is likely to focus on the source, rather than the technical details of the attack. Word of the breach first spread from a Twitter account @thescriptkiddie. That account was suspended on Monday and remained offline on Tuesday. The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were posted on the account.
UPDATE: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network was caught sleeping on Independence day after unknown assailants compromised its @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account early Monday and sent a string of messages claiming U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot and killed – a macabre display on the U.S.’s Independence Day.
Customers of EMC’s RSA Security division that are worried about being the victim of an attack following the theft of sensitive data relating to that company’s SECURID tokens may not need to rush out and replace those tokens, according to security consulting firm Verizon Business.
News reports say the FBI has raided a home in Hamilton, Ohio as part of an investigation of LulzSec, the group responsible for a string of attacks on prominent targets in recent months.
The following is an exclusive Threatpost interview with Samuel Weber, Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Trustworthy Computing Program. The interview took place on Monday, June 27, 2011 at the RFIDSec 11 Conference on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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