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Gawkergate Password Mess Was Two Years in the Making
Gawker was told about the flaw in the method it used to store user passwords to its commenting system more than two years before it was hacked, the Guardian’s Charles Arthur reports. A Gawker user...
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Cisco Security Survey Finds Windows Vulnerabilities And Spam Decreasing
Cyber criminals have fewer ways to attack Microsoft Windows, and sent less spam in 2010 than in 2009–a first-ever decline of spam from year to year. Those are among the findings in an annual report on...
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The List of Companies Affected by the Epsilon Breach Grows and Grows and Grows
Best Buy. J.P. Morgan Chase. Citibank. Walgreens. Disney. Barclay’s Bank. U.S. Bancorp. Marriott. Ritz Carlton. L.L. Bean. Home Shopping Network. TiVo. If you’ve ever given your email address to any of...
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U.K. Police Say This Is the Face of LulzSec Hacker Known as Topiary
According to police in the United Kingdom, the photo you are looking at depicts one of the members of the LulzSec hacking group that has been so active this summer. The photo, which appeared on the...
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Operation Shady RAT: The Biggest Hacking Attack Ever
Researchers from security software concern McAfee say they have discovered the biggest series of computer intrusions ever, covering some 72 organizations and governments around the world, including the...
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Stratfor Hack Damage Report: 50,000 Credit Cards, 44,000 Passwords
A few days after the private security think tank Stratfor disclosed that it had been the victim of a hacking attack, apparently carried out by the loosely affiliated group Anonymous, the extent of the...
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How Scary Was the Internet in 2011?
With 2011 in the books, I thought it would be interesting to revisit some predictions I made last year on the subject of computer security. In “2010 Was the Year the Internet Got Scary. Get Used to...
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Seven Questions for RSA Security Head Art Coviello
It’s been almost a year since the security company RSA disclosed that it had come under what it described as an “extremely sophisticated” cyberattack. It went on to explain some of the circumstances of...
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Researchers Show How Easy a New Stuxnet-Like Attack Can Be
One of the great residual concerns about the Stuxnet computer worm that attacked the Iranian nuclear program has been that study of its methods would lead to other attacks like it. Those fears were...
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Why a Quarter-Million People Around the World May Lose the Internet Monday
Next week, the Internet connections of about a quarter-million people will stop working because years ago their computers became infected with malware. The malware is called DNSChanger, and it was the...
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Another Bad Day for Passwords, This Time at Yahoo
Shutterstock/Péter GudellaYahoo confirmed today that a bunch of passwords — more than 450,000 of them, to be exact — have been stolen. The breach of Yahoo’s servers was supposedly the work of a group...
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Meet Gauss, the Latest Weapon in the Unfolding U.S.-Israeli Cyberwar
To the steadily growing list of digital weapons that appear to have been jointly created by the combined resources of the U.S. and Israel, we can now add another. The researchers at Russia-based...
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Execs Remain Confident on Security While All Is Not Well, Survey Shows
The people in charge of security at large companies and organizations appear to have a pretty high opinion of their abilities and their preparations for attacks by hackers and other security incidents,...
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China's Hacking of NY Times Recalls Another Attack in 1998
There’s going to be an awful lot to say about the massive hacking effort by attackers thought to reside in China that rocked the New York Times last year. And much of what can be said is already there...
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Cyberwar With China Is Here, Like It or Not
“Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults.” Benjamin Franklin wrote that. “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” The Chinese philosopher Sun Tzu wrote that. Both come...
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Mandiant's China Hacking Claims Draw Criticism
Maybe it wasn’t China. Maybe it was, but suppose it wasn’t. That’s the reaction of at least one computer security consultant to yesterday’s blockbuster report from the security firm Mandiant, which...
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How the Cloud and Big Data Might Help Win the Hacker Wars
Hewlett-Packard’s senior VP and head of its Software Enterprise Security Products, Art Gilliland, is speaking today at the RSA Security conference in San Francisco. Security is turning out to be one of...
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Reuters Social Media Editor Charged With Helping Anonymous Hackers
A social media editor for the Reuters news service today stands indicted for allegedly helping the loose affiliation of computer hackers that calls itself Anonymous carry out attacks against websites...
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Computer Security Legend Mudge Leaves DARPA for Google Job
Peter Zatko, the computer hacking expert better known by the handle Mudge, says he’s leaving his job as a program manager at DARPA to join Google. He announced the change overnight on Twitter. Zatko...
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Financial Crimes Topped State-Sponsored Hacking Incidents in 2012
2012 was a year for cyberwar. Government officials and lawmakers talked about it a lot; different countries were found to be engaging in it, some attacking, some defending, some doing a certain amount...
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