HACKERS in China rifled the computers of DuPont at least twice in 2009 and 2010, hunting for the secrets that made the company one of the world’s most successful chemical makers.
But investors would have learned nothing on the subject from DuPont’s reg…
Victims of hacking stay silent on espionage
Stratfor Back Online; CEO Decries Hacking As Censorship
Intelligence analysis publisher Stratfor is back online (though their servers seem somewhat taxed at the moment), following a hack over Christmas which resulted in the theft of personal information, including credit card information, of some of the com…
UK Cyber Security Challenge Moves To Next Phase But One Competitor Disqualified
The online competitions for The Cyber Security Challenge UK (CSC) came to a close in December and for one of the winning contestants it has brought a new job in IT security which eliminates him from the competition.
CSC does not promise the competitors…
ICANN to Open Domains, Web Address Extensions
ICANN, the organization responsible for managing and coordinating the Domain Name System (DNS) to ensure that every address is unique and that all users of the Internet can find all valid addresses, announced its continued intent to open up the DNS wit…
Is Your SCADA Vulnerable to a Cyber Attack? Call 1-800-USA-0DAY
“You can’t change a password or your lights will go out!” yelled out a woman sitting in the audience of a workshop on how to secure a SCADA system. The woman identified herself as an engineer at a New York electric company.
“It would take us 5 years an…
What does 2012 have in store for Anonymous?
Anonymous had a busy year in 2011 pushing its hacker-activist agenda on companies around the Web, to the point where just the sound of the hacker group’s name can send shivers down the spine of many a CIO.
Anonymous in 2011 took on everything from HB G…
Anonymous hackers attack anti-piracy groups
Cyber-activists attacked the websites of Finnish anti-piracy groups after a local internet service provider was forced to block access to a popular file-sharing website, officials said.
Antti Kotilainen, a spokesman for the Copyright Information and An…
Why Security Does Not Concern Generation Y
Cisco’s third and final installment of its 2011 Connected World Technology Report features a survey of 1,400 18-to-24 year olds with results that are challenging, if not frightening, for the IT department.
Of those surveyed, four in five think their co…
Could crypto-currency change how we pay?
Although we feel we know cash intimately, let’s take a deeper look at some of its attributes. First of all, it’s represented by a physical object: either a banknote or a coin.
If you buy something, you hand over that physical thing to the seller. It le…
Acer unveils thinnest ever Ultrabook alongside new HD tablet
At CES today, Acer introduced a new Ultrabook model that it’s calling the thinnest Ultrabook yet, along with a high-definition Iconia Tab tablet. The company also announced a new cloud storage service named AcerCloud to sync data across computers and…
