Diginotar (a Dutch Certificate Authority) Hacked by Black.Spook and Iranian Hackers

September 1, 2011

Somehow, somebody managed to get a rogue SSL certificate from them on July 10th, 2011. This certificate was issued for domain name.google.com.

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South Korea believes that the North Korean regime is behind an act of cyber sabotage against a major bank

September 1, 2011

The attack on Nonghyup Bank came through the infected laptop of a contractor. The hackers were able to use the laptop to disseminate viruses throughout the bank’s computer networks, and on April 12, half of its servers suddenly crashed. About 30 million people were unable to make online financial transactions or use the bank’s ATMs, and the bank lost important information

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