Saturday, March 15, 2008

BetaNews - 20 hours ago
By Tim Conneally, BetaNews A SQL injection hack this week has affected 20000 Web sites, according to tracking reports by McAfee. ...


Terrifying Computer Owners Part VIII
Wall Street Journal - Mar 14, 2008
With apologies to Harvard graduates, who found out yesterday that a hacker stole their personal information from the school and eventually made it available ...


Trend Micro site infected users with Trojan
Computerworld, MA - Mar 13, 2008
According to researchers at McAfee Inc., those hacks are script-injection attacks that reference JavaScript attack code which in turn -- and only after ...


Turkish Press
McAfee, Inc. Participates in Homeland Security Cyber Storm II Exercise
Earthtimes, UK - 16 hours ago
WASHINGTON, March 14 -- McAfee, Inc. , the world's largest dedicated security company, today announced its strategic involvement in the DHS-led Cyber Storm ...
Homeland Security 'Cyber Storm' simulates crisis CNET News.com
Cyber Storm II Exercise Underway Imperial Valley News
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McAfee Reveals Strategic Involvement In DHS-led Cyber Storm II ...
RTT News, NY - 16 hours ago
3/14/2008 6:31:24 PM McAfee, Inc. (MFE) on Friday revealed its strategic involvement in the DHS-led Cyber Storm II exercise. Cyber Storm is the nation's ...MFE


Is Trend Micro Secure?
InternetNews.com - 22 hours ago
By Sean Michael Kerner on March 14, 2008 11:09 AM Quick rhetorical question here - but if a malware security vendor doesn't have the tools/technology/people ...
Trend Micro falls victim to web attack
TechSpot - 1 hour ago
By Justin Mann, TechSpot.com A website getting compromised isn't all that surprising. But when that website is owned by a company that is dedicated to ...

Trend Micro sites hacked in global web attack
ZDNet UK, UK - 23 hours ago
Trend Micro discovered that its UK and Japanese sites were compromised on Wednesday, according to a spokesperson for the security vendor. ...
Even Trend Micro gets slashed in the attack of the killer iframes
Register, UK - Mar 13, 2008
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco → More by this author This week, researchers from the anti-virus provider uncovered at least two high-profile websites ...
More 'trusted sites' carrying iframe danger
Virus Bulletin, UK - Mar 14, 2008
Big wave of website infections could affect tens of thousands of sites, Trend Micro latest victim. Earlier this week McAfee reported a major outbreak of ...
Security software company among those hit by web attack
One Stop Click, UK - Mar 14, 2008
A security vendor was among those hit by a major web attack this week where malicious software was spread around the web. Trend Micro was one of the 20000 ...

Personal info of 500 may have been hacked at state agency
Salt Lake Tribune, United States - 7 hours ago
The personal information of nearly 500 people may have been hacked into at the Department of Administrative Services. Officials there say it is highly ...

10000 Web-Sites Hacked, Who’s Next?
CIO, MA - 19 hours ago
In the last few hours we have observed a high-profile hack in progress, which supposedly infected 10000 web-sites with a script-based attack used to launch ...

Grapevine city Web site hacked
Fort Worth Star Telegram, TX - 17 hours ago
By Bill Teeter The site was shut down at about 2:45 pm today when users who logged onto the site found a mysterious message saying, "Admin horrors of Iran," ...


Portal IT
Harvard Server Hacked, Data Leaked On Torrent Sites
Portal IT, Romania - Mar 14, 2008
As it follows, the hacked site was taken down from Feb. 17 until Feb. 21 in order to investigate the incident and to improve security. ...



eFluxMedia
Harvard Says 10000 Applicants' Files Were Hacked (Update1)
Bloomberg - Mar 13, 2008
By Brian Kladko March 13 (Bloomberg) -- Harvard University apologized for allowing computer files to be hacked by an ``outsider,'' potentially exposing ...
Harvard server hacked, school tells grad students and applicants Detroit Free Press
Harvard Security Breach Exposes Sensitive Student Data Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription)
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Mass compromise powers massive drive-by download attack
Register, UK - Mar 13, 2008
By John Leyden → More by this author More than 10000 web pages have been booby trapped with malware in one of the largest attacks of its kind to date. ...
Over 10000 websites rigged with criminal code in massive attack
IT PRO, UK - 23 hours ago
Security firm McAfee identifies more than 10000 web pages maliciously altered to redirect victims to malware ridden websites. Over 10000 web pages have been ...
Thousands of web pages hijacked by hackers in largest ever cyber ...
Daily Mail, UK - Mar 13, 2008
Cyber-criminals have rigged hundreds of thousands of web pages to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers and steal their personal details, ...
McAfee's dire internet warning
TechRadar.com, UK - Mar 13, 2008
Computer security company McAfee has warned that thousands of well known websites have been corrupted to redirect users’ onto pages laden with software that ...
Web thieves rig thousands of pages in massive attack
Manufacturing Computer Solutions, UK - Mar 13, 2008
More than10,000 web pages have been rigged by cyber-criminals in what’s said to be one of the largest attacks to date of its kind,. ...
Criminals hijack 10000 web pages
Web User, UK - Mar 13, 2008
Security firm McAfee is warning that even websites that you trust can pose a risk to your online safety. It has discovered that 10000 legitimate web pages ...
Technology News
RTE.ie, Ireland - 23 hours ago
A security firm has identified over 10000 web pages rigged by cyber-criminals to hijack the PCs of unsuspecting surfers. The web pages have been modified to ...


Defense Tech: Cyber Weapons and e-Bombs

Recently NATO's Chief of Cyber Defense stated that cyber terrorism/cyber attack poses as great a threat to national security as a missile attack.



Military.com
'Google Earth' a Potential Space Threat
Military.com - 22 hours ago
With the easy access to free online imagery services such as Google Earth and Yahoo Maps, and other paid sites, military officials are worried an enemy ..

Are new Air Force ads a political statement?
Nieman Watchdog, MA - Mar 4, 2008
By JW Anderson Made up as a mock front page, the main headline on the full-page ad read: “This Could be a Headline About a Cyber Attack Causing a Blackout,” ...

Pentagon releases report on Chinese military power
Talk Radio News Service, DC - Mar 3, 2008
He highlighted the realm of cyber military initiatives citing the report which said that cyber “intrusions’ of US computer systems where sensitive, ...
criminal ...

AFP
China says US exaggerates military threat
AFP - Mar 6, 2008
... over Beijing's development of cruise and ballistic missiles, its testing of an anti-satellite weapon last year and an apparent rise in cyber-espionage. ...

Pentagon Links China to Hacking
Wall Street Journal - Mar 11, 2008
US officials have specifically linked China to several successful cyber attacks against military networks. In the fall of 2006, hackers broke into the Naval ...

Officials not ready to say China is the source
Dark Reading, NY - Mar 10, 2008
The Pentagon issued a report expressing concerns about Chinese cyber attack capabilities just last week. (See China Makes 'Most Successful Cyber Attack ...


The Secret China-US Hacking War?
Slashdot - Mar 13, 2008
Who is behind these attacks can't be easily said, but it can be an American cyber-criminal, a Nigerian spammer or the Chinese themselves. ...


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