In relationship to the security incident that the self-titled attacker "Comodohacker" caused to security providers, in particular Certificate Authorities, Globalsign didn't find any evidence of … [Read more...]
Attack disables text messaging on Windows phones
Wednesday, 14 December 2011 By
Microsoft Windows phones contain a flaw an attacker can exploit to prevent users from accessing their text messages. The bug is activated when an attacker sends a rigged text message to a Windows … [Read more...]
ENISA releases a final report about Diginotar hack
Wednesday, 7 December 2011 By
The European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) has released a report examining the hack against certificate authority (CA) Diginotar that ultimately led to company's demise. In … [Read more...]
Korea elections scandal forming with DDOS attacks
Wednesday, 7 December 2011 By
A political scandal is brewing in Korea over alleged denial of service attacks against the National Election Commission (NEC) website. Police have arrested the 27-year-old personal assistant of … [Read more...]
FBI: Three Cities Compromised via SCADA Networks
Thursday, 1 December 2011 By
Michael Welch, deputy assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, revealed that three U.S. cities recently experienced significant network intrusion events by unnamed attackers by way of poorly … [Read more...]
13 million gamer credentials exposed after hack of gaming firm Nexon
Wednesday, 30 November 2011 By
An estimated 13 million gamers have been left at greater risk of ID theft following a breach at gaming firm Nexon. Data including names, usernames, encrypted resident registration numbers and … [Read more...]
Microsoft issues security advisory for another compromised CA (Malaysian this time)
Monday, 28 November 2011 By
Microsoft is aware that DigiCert Sdn. Bhd, a Malaysian subordinate certification authority (CA) under Entrust and GTE CyberTrust, has issued 22 certificates with weak 512 bit keys. These weak … [Read more...]
Recent SCADA attacks are just the beginning
Friday, 25 November 2011 By
The recent attacks against SCADA systems should be a wake-up call to the managers of in-house process controls. According to Dominic Storey, EMEA technical director at Sourcefire, process control … [Read more...]
UK to test banks with simulated attack in cyberspace
Monday, 21 November 2011 By
Banks in London, already on high alert for how to deal with a break-up of the euro zone, will on Tuesday be tested to see how they would cope with a cyber attack on their operations. In one of the … [Read more...]
U.S. probes cyber attack on Illinois’ water system
Monday, 21 November 2011 By
Federal investigators are looking into a report that hackers managed to remotely shut down a utility's water pump in central Illinois last week, in what could be the first known foreign cyber attack … [Read more...]
Scotland Yard fends of attack on Royal website
Wednesday, 16 November 2011 By
Scotland Yard's cybercrime unit helped fend off an attack on the official website of Britain's royal wedding in April, the division's chief said Tuesday. Det. Supt. Charlie McMurdie told a London … [Read more...]
Stolen certificate saga continues; Malaysian government certificate used to sign malware
Tuesday, 15 November 2011 By
Researchers have discovered malware circulating in the wild that uses a private signing certificate belonging to the Malaysian government to bypass warnings many operating systems and security … [Read more...]
Valve says credit card information was taken in last week’s hack
Monday, 14 November 2011 By
Valve has now confirmed that the hack of its Steam forums reported last week may have included the theft of credit card numbers. The company has emailed users saying that the intruders that defaced … [Read more...]
Amazon fixes critical hole in it’s cloud services
Thursday, 10 November 2011 By
Amazon has fixed a cryptographic hole in its Elastic Compute Cloud (EC 2) and Simple Storage Service (S 3) services that could allow hackers to compromise customer accounts. The signature-wrapping … [Read more...]
DNS poisoning exposes Brazilian users
Tuesday, 8 November 2011 By
An attack on several Brazilian ISPs has exposed large numbers of their subscribers to malware attacks when they attempt to visit Hotmail, Gmail, and other trusted websites, security researchers have … [Read more...]
