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Cybersecurity and citizens’ privacy won’t be mutually exclusive terms for the federal government, vows NSA Director Gen. Keith Alexander. “As the director of NSA and the commander of U.S. Cyber Command, I have an obligation to the law and to the American people to ensure that everything we do in cyberspace preserves and protects our [...]
According to a three month long study carried out by PandaLabs – the research arm of Panda Security – each week, hackers are creating 57 000 new fake web addresses to trick or infect users. Panda says that in an average week, hackers use some 375 different high-profile names and company brands to lure users. [...]
Adobe today warned users that attacks have begun exploiting an unpatched bug in its popular Reader and Acrobat PDF viewing and creation software. The company issued an advisory on short notice today, saying that it had learned of in-the-wild attacks only on Tuesday. “A critical vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader 9.3.4 and earlier versions for [...]
The mastermind behind one of the biggest hacking paydays in history has been sentenced to four years’ probation and an US$8.9 million fine, according to the reports. Victor Pleshchuk, 28, was sentenced to four years’ probation on Wednesday, according to the reports. He is considered the leader of a group of criminals who organized a [...]
Sony is apparently taking its fight against PS3 jailbreaks a step beyond court injunctions with a new firmware update that blocks hacks meant to let users play pirated games on the system. System software update 3.42, made available for download, contains features that PS3 owners report patches the exploit used for PS JailBreak, a USB [...]
About two-thirds of Internet users globally and nearly three-quarters of Web surfers in the U.S. have been victims of online crime, according to a study to be released on Wednesday. The top countries as far as reported victims are China, Brazil and India tied for second, and then the U.S., according to the findings of [...]
An influential committee of MPs will conduct a new inquiry into the unauthorised hacking of mobile phones. It comes amid fresh allegations that journalists at the News of the World hacked into voicemail messages of public figures. The Home Affairs Select Committee will examine the laws on phone hacking and how police respond to complaints. [...]
The University of Nebraska is reviewing the security of one of its computer systems after a Lincoln student allegedly hacked into his former girlfriend’s account. Police suspect UNL graduate student Mauricio Martinez Eusso, 24, guessed the answers to the former girlfriend’s password questions and got access to her online account, allowing him to change her [...]
TechCrunch Europe has been compromised and its code changed to redirect visitors to a server serving up malicious PDFs. Once downloaded and run, the PDF files exploit a vulnerability and make the system download a version of the ever-so-popular ZeuS Trojan. According to Trend Micro’s Rik Ferguson, the server in question is located in Germany [...]
Research from the University of California San Diego and the University of Washington – and which concludes that modern cars are susceptible to wireless hacking – is the result of a security issues being ignored at the car electronics software design stage, say Fortify Software. With the latest cars now coming with as many as [...]
