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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Mcafee Cyber Report quarterly-threat-q2-2011

August 27, 2011

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FBI: U.S. Firms Targeted In Online Sabotage Plot

August 25, 2011

Wide range of U.S. businesses have been targeted in a campaign of electronic sabotage that appears to have been launched via malicious computer networks in Russia, according to the FBI.

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DARPA challenges industry for new ideas on cyber security technologies of the future

August 20, 2011

ARLINGTON, Va., 19 Aug. 2011. The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Information Innovation Office (I2O) in Arlington, Va., is asking companies and colleges for ideas on technologies to safeguard U.s. Department of Defense (DOD) computer systems in the event of a cyber attack.

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China Daily : Is China really ‘Cyberdragon’?

August 18, 2011

However, anybody with any understanding of cyberspace security and international politics willrealize

how groundless the accusations are.

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First Zeus, now SpyEye – look @ the source code now

August 16, 2011

SpyEye, the most advanced and dangerous malware kit today, has been incorporating functionality of the Zeus malware builder kit since early 2011. Today, for the first time, SpyEye builder patch source code (for release 1.3.45) was leaked by an infamous French security researcher named Xyliton, part of the Reverse Engineers Dream Crew (RED Crew)

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Android vulnerable to cyber-attacks

August 15, 2011

Google’s Android operating system is open to hacking through approximately a dozen widely-used applications, founder of boutique security firm Privateer Labs, Riley Hassell told Reuters.

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Symantec blog: The Truth Behind the Shady RAT

August 12, 2011

Upon closer inspection of the file and the Trojan code, we can see that there are commands hidden in the image using steganography. These commands are totally invisible to the human eye, since the bits representing the commands are mathematically built into the data representing the image.

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Microsoft Offers Reward of $250,000 for Information on Rustock botnet

August 12, 2011

After publishing notices in two Russian newspapers last month to notify the Rustock operators of the civil lawsuit, Microsoft decided to augment their civil discovery efforts to identify those responsible for controlling the notorious Rustock botnet by issuing a monetary reward in the amount of $250,000 for new information that results in the identification, arrest and criminal conviction of such individual(s).

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