The 12th ICS Cyber Security Conference was held Oct 22-25 at the Old Dominion University's Virginia Modeling Analysis and Simulation Center – but did not quite go to plan...
As public demonstrations against austerity measures grow in Greece, and support for far-right organizations such as the Golden Dawn increases, Anonymous hacks into the Ministry of Finance and releases confidential documents just days before the government is due to vote on further cuts.
ExploitShield has been marketed as offering protection “against all known and unknown 0-day day vulnerability exploits, protecting users where traditional anti-virus and security products fail.” I found this assertion quite extraordinary and exciting! Vulnerabilities in software applications are rea...
Opening the Hacker Halted conference in Miami, Florida, 29th October 2012, Jav Bavisi, president and CEO of the EC-Council, told the audience that the post-PC era of computing requires a fundamental shift in the security industry’s tactics.
NullCrew is a hacking team that bears some similarities to the defunct LulzSec: it has sympathy with Anonymous, but is separate from Anonymous. It does, however, operate with none of the taunting flamboyance that probably led to the downfall of LulzSec.
Y-a-t’il eu des cyber-attaques sur des infrastructures critiques depuis Stuxnet ? Je parle d’attaques capable de détruire des équipements, causer des accidents industriels, voire tuer des gens… par opposition au « simple » vol ou corruption de données.
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Taxpayers in South Carolina have been told of a security breach involving the theft of millions of social security numbers and hundreds of thousands of debit and credit card numbers. None of the SSNs were encrypted and 16,000 of the bank cards were similarly unencrypted.
An analysis of conversations in one of the largest known hacker forums – with around 250,000 members – has revealed that SQL-injection and DDoS are the subjects of most interest to up-and-coming wannabe hackers.
Pourquoi pas d’article sur les assises 2012 ? (et donc en fait si, cet article court !)
Paradoxalement, alors que la cybersécurité industrielle est un sujet en plein « boum », ce n’était pas au programme des assises – ou plutôt si, [...] Lire la suite
Research on the similarities between hacktivist groups like Anonymous and real-world protest groups and the future of hacktivism has been carried out by Czech Technical University in Prague.
The ICO has hit the Stoke-on-Trent City Council with a hefty ÂŁ120,000 fine for failing to use basic encryption on email messages, and for sending a message about a child protection case to the wrong person.
There’s a row brewing in the UK after a senior security official at the Cabinet Office advises users to provide false personal information to websites such as Facebook. Opposition MPs and Facebook are not amused.
A software tool that is used to program the programmable logic controllers (PLCs) used in much of the critical infrastructure contains an unprotected backdoor that could be used by hackers to access any such device that has an internet connection.
Apparently, quite a few people feel that “Jesus” can save them from online account breaches –but the popular Spanish men’s name and savior in the Christian tradition performs no miracles as a password, coming in at 21 in a list of the top 25 most-hacked passwords of 2012.
Jester (th3j35t3r) describes himself as a patriotic cyber activist. He spends his time trying to find and take down what he considers to be enemies of the USA, ranging from Wikileaks and Anonymous to militant Islamic websites.
“Sky succeeds in its claims against Mr Freeman, Mr Sullivan and Mr Marrow and also against Mr Lee,” ruled High Court judge Sir William Blackburne, finding that Mr Lee had misused confidential Sky customer data.
With the recent attack on Saudi oil giant Aramco being credited to Iran by the US government, a new report suggests that it may have been an inside job.
In an effort to combat software piracy and the related malware vectors that it presents, Microsoft will not sell Windows 8 as a physical boxed product in China.
Barnes and Noble has revealed a data breach involving PIN pads in its 63 stores. It appears that only one pad was affected in each of the stores, but all have now been disconnected for forensic examination.
Sony’s policy of maintaining control over what software can run on its PS3 console has been undermined – some suggest permanently – by the release of the PS3 LVO decryption keys.