PhysOrg.com
February 18, 2012 By VANESSA GERA , AP An internet activist wearing the "anonymous" mask is interviewed by the media during a protest against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, or ACTA, in Zagreb, Croatia, Saturday, Feb. 11, 2012.
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Mac OS X Mountain Lion's Gatekeeper Not Enough to Fight Malware
eWeek
Apple's latest attempt to combat Mac malware with Gatekeeper in the upcoming Mac OS X 10.8 “Mountain Lion” doesn't go far enough to protect users, security experts said. Apple and Microsoft have added security features to the next versions of their ...
Hackers claim attack on American tear gas company
Las Vegas Sun
AP A US security company whose tear gas has been used against Egyptian demonstrators has become the latest victim of the Anonymous movement, hackers claimed Tuesday. In a statement posted to the Internet, hackers claimed to have broken into Combined ...
Cybersecurity Act Gives Feds Power to Protect Infrastructure
PCWorld
By Wayne Rash, CSO The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 would give the Department of Homeland Security power to regulate the kind of company security protections government deems necessary to protect critical infrastructure -- such as power and phone ...
Hackers target Putin's vote-monitoring system
The News International
NOVOSIBIRSK, Russia: Hackers have tried to crash a vast network of Web cameras which Vladimir Putin has ordered to allay fears of vote-rigging in the March presidential election, a deputy minister said on Friday. Putin, facing the biggest protests of ...
The News International
Hackers put damper on paying for items with smartphone
Jackson Clarion Ledger
Just as I was beginning to get a little excited about the possibility of using my smartphone to pay for my stuff when checking out, hackers showed up to put the brakes on the idea. Now I'm having second thoughts and wondering what the future holds for ...
Hackers move in for the kill
News24
Johannesburg - The Auditor-General (AG) says lax government information technology system security must be tightened up to make it less vulnerable to hackers. A top IT researcher has warned that “hackers and criminals are having a picnic in government ...
Shylock Malware Returns, Refreshed
PCWorld
By Taylor Armerding, CSO Trusteer, a Boston-based in-browser web security vendor, issued a warning this week about the return "with a vengeance" of "Shylock," a polymorphic financialmalware variant the company discovered last September that is now ...
Hackers taking aim at brokerage accounts now
News & Observer
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority recently issued an investor alert to guard your account against hackers after it said it received "an increasing number of reports" of stolen customer funds. FINRA, the self-regulatory organization of the ...
Kay Bailey Hutchison seeks to slow down Senate cybersecurity bill
Houston Chronicle (blog)
A cyber security analyst looks at code in the Malware Laboratory during the first tour of the government's secretive cyber defense lab intended to protect the nation's power, water and chemical plants, electrical grid and other facilities, Thursday, ...
Houston Chronicle (blog)
Parts of Internet Could Go Dark on March 8
Patch.com
FBI advises businesses and individual users to take steps to make sure computers are not infected with DNSChanger malware. By Dacula Patch On March 8, computers infected with the DNSchangermalware may no longer be able to access the Internet.
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AllAfrica.com
This week, a group of computer hackers claiming to be from Rwanda boasted of having gained access to websites belonging to three commercial banks in Kenya. This came hardly a month after an Indonesian trainee hacker embarrassed the country by defacing ...
Anonymous: LulzFinancial punishes pedophile website - drops dox
Examiner.com
Anonymous strikes Dutch website promoting pedophilia, releases names and personal information belonging to website users. This week LulzFinancial, a hacktivist crew associated with the international Internet collective known as Anonymous, hacked into a ...
Cyber experts show vulnerability of GSM networks
Zee News
Explaining the weaknesses of the GSM service providers at Nullcon, a conference ofcyber security experts, defence and intelligence officials and ethical hackers, the group claimed that most of the telecom networks were not encrypting signals, ...
Zee News
Israel's largest bank website attacked, Iranian hackers suspected
PanARMENIAN.Net
With attacks continuing to take place by both Israeli and Saudi hackers, Iranian hackers are now believed to have been involved in the latest attack. Since January 3, Saudi and Israeli hackers have continued to exchange blows, attacking governmental ...
Eastern Europeans fuelfight for Internet freedoms
Malta Independent Online
Szymielewicz said they got word out on Twitter and other social forums, and soon Internet activists in Poland and abroad – some with the group “Anonymous” – waged attacks on government websites, including those of the Prime Minister and Parliament, ...
Twitter site attacking Toews shut down as Tories accuse NDP of 'dirty, sleazy ...
Globe and Mail
The Conservatives charged Friday that the New Democrats were behind a nasty and anonymous personal attack on Public Safety Minister Vic Toews, the sponsor of a bill criticized as a major invasion of privacy. Starting on Feb. 14, an unidentified user ...
Globe and Mail
Lawmakers Undecided on Gas Tax Hike
KGAN
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Cybersecurity experts have told Congress to close loopholes in legislation to give the government more power to force critical industries to make their computer networks more secure. KGAN-TV files and maintains quarterly Children's ...
Security teams wrap up anti-cyber attack drill
Sunday Observer
The drill created a virtual world with a defence contractor as the target of the cyber attack. One of the employees of this establishment, which deals with highly classified and sensitive data, receives a physhing e-mail (a mail that can steal ...
Sunday Observer
ADVICE: Beware of tax season scams
Press-Enterprise
1 to April 15 is just tax season, but for hackers its “prime hunting season” to steal personal and financial information from unsuspecting taxpayers and businesses. Each year, hackers roll out new phishing scams -- fake emails used to acquire sensitive ...
AnonOps Communications: #Anonymous Takes Out the #FTC site in ...
By Anonops
#Anonymous Takes Out the #FTC site in Protest Over #ACTA. Anonymous has struck government websites again, this time the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the National Consumer Protection Week websites. According to the ...
AnonOps Communications
The Yeshiva World Israel: Bank Hapoalim Data Cops Beats Hackers ...
By Spira
Israel: Bank Hapoalim Data Cops Beats Hackers. (Sunday, February 19th, 2012). Bank Hapoalim computer experts report they succeeded in defending the bank's system against a cyber attack, apparently from Iran. The cyber attack occurred ...
Yeshiva World News
By Spira
Israel: Bank Hapoalim Data Cops Beats Hackers. (Sunday, February 19th, 2012). Bank Hapoalim computer experts report they succeeded in defending the bank's system against a cyber attack, apparently from Iran. The cyber attack occurred ...
Yeshiva World News
Android Malware Increased By 3000 Percent in 2011 ...
By Fahmida Y Rashid eWEEK USA 2012. Ziff Davis Enterprise Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Google's Android was targeted with malware more than any other mobile operating system in 2011.... “Hackers are incented to target Android, because there are simply more Android devices as compared to the competition,” said Hoffman.
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McCain: Cybersecurity Bill Ineffective Without NSA Monitoring the Net
By Kip Hooker
McCain: Cybersecurity Bill Ineffective Without NSA Monitoring the Net. What is there to say about a man who fought for the freedoms of the Vietnamese almost as hard as he is fighting against the freedoms of his own countrymen?
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More U.S. government websites hacked by Anonymous ...
The hacking group known as Anonymous has claimed a new series of hacks against the U.S. Federal Trade Commission and consumer rights websites.
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Hackers target CIA, Mexican, Alabama websites - CNN
Websites affiliated with the CIA, Mexico's mining ministry and the state of Alabama were down Friday, allegedly done in by hackers, government officials and a ...
articles.cnn.com/.../us_government-websites-hacked_1_hackin...
Critics seek to stall Senate cybersecurity bill | Reuters
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican critics of a Senate cybersecurity bill want to slow down consideration of the measure, saying it could give government too ...
www.reuters.com/.../us-cybersecurity-congress-idUSTRE81F2...
Determine PHP memory usage for anonymous users | Brian K ...
Determine PHP memory usage for anonymous users. Submitted by Brian on Wed , 02/15/2012 - 23:01. In case you've been living under a rock for the past two ...
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Errata Security: No, #Anonymous can't DDoS the root DNS servers
Errata Security is a high-end cyber security consulting company. ... #Anonymous hackers have announced "Operation Global Blackout", promising to cause an ...
erratasec.blogspot.com/.../no-anonymous-cant-ddos-root-dns-s...
Sincerely, Anonymous | UWIRE
While Internet giants such as Wikipedia, Google and Tumblr played a major role in bringing down the bill, members of Anonymous were working furiously ...
uwire.com/2012/02/14/sincerely-anonymous/
TaoSecurity: Practical Malware Analysis Book Promotion
If the malware authors are ready to provide the samples, the authors of the book ... PracticalMalware Analysis is the sort of book I think every malware analyst ...
taosecurity.blogspot.com/.../practical-malware-analysis-book.h...
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