Four people have been detained by police and eight others punished after they were found guilty of fabricating a massive leak of online personal data by hackers over the past month in China, the country’s Internet watchdog announced Tuesday.
China’s le…
Xinhua Insight: Web security questioned after hackers leak personal…
BEIJING, Dec 23, 2011 — Xinhua Insight: Web security questioned after hackers leak personal data of over 6 million Internet users The personal information of more than 6 million Internet users on CSDN, or China Software Developer Network, the country’…
‘Self-aware’ bank account robbing code unleashed by hacker
‘XSS on steroids’ crafted to highlight web security holes
A hacker has published code for potent cross-site scripting attacks that he claims go beyond the usual cookie stealing and phishing for users’ private details.…
Private investor pays $1.3bn to don Blue Coat
Suits you, sir
Web security and WAN optimisation appliance firm Blue Coat Systems has been acquired by private equity investment outfit Thoma Bravo in a deal valued at about $1.3 billion.…
Free DNSCrypt tool enhances Mac Web security
The OpenDNS organization has released a tool for OS X that encrypts DNS connections, which enhances Internet security on OS X (for now).
WikiLeaks IT security concerns delay whistleblower system launch
IT security woes at WikiLeaks have led to the organisation delaying the launch of a system intended to protect whistleblowers submitting sensitive information.
A month after WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said the organisation was facing critical fin…
China’s Cyber Threat A High-Stakes Spy Game
Cyber attacks on companies are part of a shadowy campaign in cyberspace being waged by China and other nations which goes largely undetected, according to Web security experts and analysts.
Hackers Faked Security Guarantees For CIA Website
The Dutch government says hackers who broke into a web security firm in the Netherlands last month issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for websites including the CIA and Israel’s Mossad, as well as Internet giants such as Google, Microsoft a…
Transocean’s deepwater.com hosts malware exploits
Transocean, the offshore drilling contractor at the center of the world’s biggest marine oil spill in the history of petroleum production, has been caught spewing a virtual sort of toxic sludge, according to a report released Thursday.
Researchers at w…
BC-Hacking-US Sheriffs,130
Web security experts say the cyberattack on 70 mostly rural law enforcement websites for emails and credit card numbers shows that no site is too small to avoid the interest of hackers.
