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FBI Warns of Illegal Wire Transfers to China from Compromised Computers
Published on 28 Apr, 2011 at 11:15 in Cyber | Viewed 55 times | No Comments
The FBI is warning the public about a growing trend in which cyber criminals use exploited online banking credentials of U.S. businesses to send unauthorized wire transfers to Chinese companies.
Between March 2010 and April 2011, the FBI identified 20 incidents in which the online banking credentials of small- to medium-sized U.S. businesses were compromised and used to initiate wire transfers to Chinese economic and trade companies near the…
Hackers Deface European News Agency Website
Hackers have defaced the website of Latvian news agency LETA, which today remains inaccessible, an agency official told reporters.
RIA Novosti reported that visitors to LETA’s website encountered a message saying, “Dear colleagues, before publishing questionable specialists’ opinion about small hosting companies and discussing competence matters, we advise you to revise the content of these articles and stop publishing offensive texts.”
The unknown cyber assailant…
Report: FBI’s Cyber Agents Lack Tech Skills to Handle National Security Intrusions
Published on 27 Apr, 2011 at 16:17 in GovCon Industry | Viewed 152 times | 1 Comment
The FBI has trouble investigating cyber attacks involving national security because agents lack the required technical expertise or are often transferred or diverted to other cases, according to a government report released today.
Some cyber agents complained they did not have the proper experience to investigate cases dealing with national security…
Social Justice Website Cyber Attacked for Supporting Chinese Dissident
Published on 27 Apr, 2011 at 15:25 in Cyber | Viewed 36 times | No Comments
A San Francisco-based website promoting social justice has been targeted by hackers for its support of a Chinese dissident, the San Francisco Examiner reported.
Change.org founder Ben Rattray asked the U.S. State Department to condemn the “highly sophisticated” attacks, which he said began after the website’s petitioned to free Ai WeiWei, an artist and outspoken critic of the Chinese government.
The site was hit by an…
Senate Passes Anti-Cyber-Bullying Bill for Texas Schools
Published on 27 Apr, 2011 at 14:11 in Cyber | Viewed 102 times | No Comments
The Senate yesterday passed a bill on a 30-1 vote that would allow schools in Texas to ban bullying, both in person and online, The Associated Press reported.
Houston state Sen. John Whitmire‘s bill SB205 requires schools to develop a policy to prohibit, prevent and punish students who bully others. In…
Man Accused of Facebook Hack, STD False-Alarm to be Sentenced in June
Published on 26 Apr, 2011 at 15:09 in Cyber | Viewed 88 times | No Comments
Sentencing has been set for a 38-year-old South Haven, Mich., man who pleaded no contest to one felony count of using a computer to commit a crime, according to The Kalamazoo Gazette.
James Cleland, 38, stood accused of hacking into a former girlfriend’s email and Facebook accounts to write messages she had HIV, entered the plea in Kalamazoo County Circuit Court last week . He was also charged…
Pentagon Official: WikiLeaks Demonstrates Technology has Outpaced Policy, Law
The WikiLeaks incident highlights the need for laws and policies that address the unintended consequences of “technology at the intersection of national security,” the Pentagon’s lead communicator said last week.
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs Douglas B. Wilson told “This Week in Defense News” he is not…
Gen. Alexander: Cybersecurity Needs More than Just Defense
Published on 26 Apr, 2011 at 13:47 in Cyber | Viewed 109 times | No Comments
With at least 5,000 new pieces of malware show up online a day, simply deploying a firewall and fixing things when they break isn’t good enough, according to U.S. Cyber Command and National Security Agency head Gen. Keith B. Alexander.
“We can no longer depend on a static defense,” said Alexander,…
Iran Claims ‘Stars’ Virus Hit Gov’t Computers
Published on 26 Apr, 2011 at 12:01 in Cyber | Viewed 33 times | No Comments
Iran claims to have discovered a new espionage virus targeting its government computers, BBC News reported.
The malware — dubbed Stars — has been able to inflict minor damage, according to the head of Iran’s civil defense organization.
If the reports are correct, it would be the second major cyber attack in a year, after the Stuxnet worm attacked the uranium enrichment facility at Natanz.
Gholam Reza Jalali, military…
New Bill Aims to Enhance Public’s Cybersecurity Awareness
Published on 25 Apr, 2011 at 16:16 in Cyber | Viewed 129 times | No Comments
A new bill aiming at raising greater public awareness on cybersecurity has been introduced to the U.S. Senate by Sen. Jon Kyl and Sheldon Whitehouse.
Cyberattacks are estimated to grow and are known to produce disastrous results when sensitive information is stolen. These attacks have a huge…
