Exclusive: France’s Snecma targeted by hackers – researcher
French aerospace engine maker Snecma, a unit of Safran, was attacked by hackers who exploited a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp’s Internet Explorer, according to a computer security researcher.
View ArticleAsus Patches Firmware Security Vulnerability
It is not uncommon for vendors to give security advisories. This time however, it appears a hacker gave at least one victim an unexpected heads up. According to Ars Technica, a user of an Asus router...
View ArticleSecurity App of the Week: Remediate VBS Worm
Worms such as Excedow, Jenxcus and Houdini (Dinihu) can be highly problematic. If you fear your computer might be infected with Autorun worms, VBS or VBE malware, or any other threat that abuses the...
View ArticleE-Z-2-Use attack code exploits critical bug in majority of Android phones
Recently-released attack code exploiting a critical Android vulnerability gives attackers a point-and-click interface for hacking a majority of smartphones and tablets that run the Google operating...
View ArticleBelkin: Security Fixes Were Already Issued for Recent WeMo Vulnerabilities
Early Tuesday, Security firm IOActive issued a warning about multiple vulnerabilities in Belkin WeMo Home Automation devices that could give attackers the ability to remotely control WeMo Home...
View Article‘Analytics key to stopping cyber attacks’– Websense’s Alex Watson
Organisations should employ big data and analytics in the fight against cyber crime in order to remain as secure against hackers and other cyber criminals as possible, a security expert has told...
View ArticleUS Army Knowledge Online Site Inaccessible, Hackers Take Credit for the Downtime
The United States Army Knowledge Online website (us.army.mil) has been down for the past four hours. Hacktivists have taken credit for the downtime. The ones who first made the tangodown announcement...
View ArticleZHC Hacks National Portal of India
Hackers of ZCompany Hacking Crew (ZHC) have breached india.gov.in, the National Portal of India. They have posted a message to both the desktop and the mobile version of the site. ZHC was here! Owns...
View ArticleIran Is Prepared to Counter Any Cyber Threats, Says Military Commander
The commander of the ITC department at the General Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces, General Mohammad Aqakishi, says that Iran is fully prepared to handle any cyberattacks that its adversaries might...
View Article2,239 Tesco Customers’ Info Leaked Online
The company says the data was compiled using information stolen from other sites, not from Tesco itself.
View ArticleStudy Finds Use of Encryption Growing Steadily Worldwide
The primary driver for deploying encryption is to lessen the impact of data breaches, according to Thales’ 2013 Global Encryption Trends Study.
View ArticleAustralian Government Data Breach Exposes Info on 10,000 Asylum Seekers
Names, nationalities, locations, boat arrival information and arrival dates were mistakenly published online.
View ArticleSilent Circle gets its first telco distributor, as KPN prepares to offer...
The strategic partnership is important for Silent Circle, as it promises to make the encrypted Skype rival much more usable by widening its pool of users.
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland Hacked: Attackers Steal 309,000 Records of Faculty,...
The University of Maryland is the latest victim of a significant data breach after experiencing what school officials described as a “sophisticated computer security attack” that exposed records...
View ArticleUniversity of Maryland reports major computer security breach
Hackers have breached the University of Maryland computer system, putting students, faculty and staff at risk, President Wallace Loh said Wednesday.
View ArticleZeus malware-botnet variant spotted ‘crawling’ Salesforce.com
The Zeus Trojan, malware long known to steal banking credentials to siphon off victims’ funds, has been spotted being put to yet another devious use: swiping business data from Salesforce.com.
View ArticleHackers Target University of Maryland, 309,000 People Affected
Wallace D. Loh, the president of the University of Maryland, has published a letter to reveal that the educational institutions systems have been breached by hackers. A database containing 309,079...
View ArticleXSS Vulnerability Found in WikiLeaks’ Internal Search Engine
Earlier this week, WikiLeaks added an internal search engine to its website to allow users to find documents based on certain keywords. Almost immediately, security researchers noticed that the input...
View ArticlePhishing Scam: Regions Bank Alert – Contact Details Changed
Cybercriminals are sending out phishing emails designed to target the customers of Regions. The fake notifications carry the subject line Regions Bank Alert: Contact Details Changed, and they purport...
View ArticleDon’t Be A Target: Mitigating Liability From Cyber Attacks
During the holiday season, Bullseye, a big box retailer, was the victim of a cyber attack that compromised the credit and debit card information of nearly 40 million of its customers.
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