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Gang stole $45m from cash machines across globe in hours, say prosecutors
‘Virtual criminal flash mob’ used bogus swipe cards loaded with data from hacked bank databases to commit thousands of thefts Associated Press in New York guardian.co.uk, Friday 10 May 2013 05.38 EDT Seven people are being held in connection with a case US prosecutors describe as a ‘massive 21st-century bank heist’. Photograph: Gene J Puskar/AP […]
Are all telephone calls recorded and accessible to the US government?
May 5, 2013
A former FBI counterterrorism agent claims on CNN that this is the case Glenn Greenwald guardian.co.uk, Saturday 4 May 2013 08.22 EDT Former FBI counterterrorism agent Tim Clemente, on CNN, discussing government’s surveillance capabilities Photograph: CNN screegrab The real capabilities and behavior of the US surveillance state are almost entirely unknown to the American public […]
‘Chinese’ attack sucks secrets from US defence contractor
May 2, 2013
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Comment Crew blamed for three-year attack on QinetiQ By Phil Muncaster Posted in Security, 2nd May 2013 04:54 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Just when it looked like US-China relations couldn’t get any more frosty, news has emerged that defence contractor QinetiQ suffered a massive breach of […]
Red faces as Pentagon leases Chinese satellite
May 1, 2013
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It’s ok, we’ve added ‘additional transmission security’ By Phil Muncaster Posted in Government, 1st May 2013 04:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement US lawmakers are up in arms after it emerged that the Pentagon has leased a Chinese commercial satellite to support non-classified communications with its African bases. […]
Pentagon leaning on Chinese satellite for Africa Command communications : ” sparked outcry by disclosing its lease of bandwidth from a Chinese satellite “
April 30, 2013
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On the heels of a new presidential resolution for US government agencies to avoid Chinese IT hardware over security concerns, the Pentagon has sparked outcry by disclosing its lease of bandwidth from a Chinese satellite. According to Pentagon spokeswoman Lieutenant Colonel Monica Matoush, the US Africa Command has decided to lease space on […]
Smart Meters Easily Hacked and can shut down whole neighbourhoods
April 30, 2013
Crap computers in a crap box: Smart-meter blackouts risk to UK Sniff a device’s wireless, pwn a power plant, warns Brit biz By John Leyden Posted in Security, 30th April 2013 09:06 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Analysis You’d be forgiven for thinking this is the plot […]
Serial killer hack threat to gas pipes, traffic lights, power plants
April 29, 2013
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‘You could shut down the electricity grid’ warns security biz By John Leyden Posted in Security, 29th April 2013 09:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Analysis Medical systems to traffic light boxes are apparently wide open to hackers thanks to a lack of authentication checks in equipment exposed […]
Your phone may not be spying on you now – BUT it soon will be
April 24, 2013
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Smash it with a hammer now, it’s the only way to be sure By John Leyden Posted in Security, 24th April 2013 10:04 GMT Free whitepaper – Hands on with Hyper-V 3.0 and virtual machine movement Infosec 2013 Tibetan political campaigners targeted by mysterious smartphone-spying software. Eastern European governments’ mobiles allegedly snooped on by state-sponsored […]
Massive Brute-force attack Targets WordPress sites worldwide
April 16, 2013
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A large distributed brute force attack against WordPress sites is understood to be occurring. A large botnet with more than 90,000 servers is attempting to log in by cycling through different usernames and passwords. According to a blog update on IXWebHosting, they are currently experiencing issues where there is a brute force attack on the default WordPress login […]
Researcher hacks aircraft controls with Android smartphone
April 10, 2013
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This may give the TSA some ideas By Iain Thomson in San Francisco Posted in Security, 11th April 2013 01:12 GMT Free whitepaper – EMA advanced performance analytics report A presentation at the Hack In The Box security summit in Amsterdam has demonstrated that it’s possible to take control of aircraft flight systems and communications […]
So that’s what Assange has been doing inside the embassy! WikiLeaks releases 1.7m US diplomatic and intelligence reports covering every country in the world
April 7, 2013
Wikileaks releases database of U.S. diplomatic records from 1973 to 1976 Henry Kissinger was U.S. Secretary of State and National Security Adviser Julian Assange worked on project inside Ecuadorian Embassy in London Australian Wikileaks founder, 41, sought refuge at the embassy last June By Mark Duell PUBLISHED: 20:00 EST, 7 April 2013 | UPDATED: 20:00 […]
North Korea readies missile launch as fears of a covert cyberwar grow
April 6, 2013
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As Pyongyang moves ballistic weapons to the coast, it may also be planning to disable computer networks in the US Justin McCurry in Seoul The Observer, Saturday 6 April 2013 17.18 EDT A South Korean soldier patrols at the crossing to the jointly managed Kaesong industrial complex on the border. Photograph: Lee Jae-Won/Reuters South Korea […]
North Korea ready for cyberwar
April 5, 2013
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Posted By Josh Peterson On 1:10 PM 04/05/2013 In Tech Despite the popular impression that North Korea is technologically inept, the regime boasts a significant and effective cyber arsenal, in addition to what is currently known about its nuclear arsenal. Not only has the country been able to jam GPS signals, it has also reportedly […]
Hacking group Anonymous_Korea takes down N.Korea’s official websites
March 30, 2013
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© Collage “The Voice of Russia” Hacking group Anonymous_Korea claimed they have taken down five of North Korea’s official websites, including the country’s official web portal and the foreign relations committee’s site. The hacktivist group Anonymous_Korea published a list of the five government websites they claimed to have put out of action on their Twitter […]
Biological computer that ‘lives’ inside the body comes one step closer as scientists make transistor out of DNA and RNA
March 28, 2013
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Finding could lead to new biodegradable devices based on living cells that are capable of detecting changes in the environment Steve Connor Thursday, 28 March 2013 Scientists believe they are close to building the first truly biological computer made from the organic molecules of life and capable of working within the living cells of organisms […]
‘Biggest cyber-attack in history’ slows down global internet after quarrel between web-hosting company and anti-spam group
March 27, 2013
Internet services across the world have been disrupted and widespread congestion risks jamming crucial online infrastructure say experts Rob Williams Wednesday, 27 March 2013 A row between an anti-spam group and a web-hosting company has caused a slowdown in the global internet after what experts are calling the biggest cyber-attack in history. Internet services across […]
Guccifer emails link Tony Blair to top-secret Bohemian Grove gathering
March 25, 2013
Published time: March 25, 2013 17:28 Former British prime minister Tony Blair (AFP Photo / Carl Court) Attending the elusive Bohemian Grove retreat should be a priority for former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair, News Corp executive Andrew Knight allegedly writes in an email to US Gen. Colin Powell obtained by RT. The mysterious […]
Guccifer releases second trove of Clinton emails
March 22, 2013
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Published time: March 22, 2013 18:17 Hillary Clinton.(AFP Photo / Mandel Ngan) The hacker that has targeted Hillary Clinton and the Presidents Bush has leaked a new trove of classified emails to RT that discuss in detail the Algerian hostage crisis and the relationship between the United States and Egyptian governments. An elusive hacker […]
May 10, 2013
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