The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has launched a new feature called Recovery Explorer, which enables Recovery.gov users to build their own charts and graphs for spending and jobs at the state, congressional, county and city levels. Smartronix, Inc., the prime contractor on Recovery.gov, worked with the Recovery Board to develop the visualization feature. The [...]
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A hacker claiming to be associated with Anonymous tweeted that the group had taken down MasterCard’s site with a denial-of-service attack earlier today, The Washington Post reports. “MasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community of lulz loving individuals,” tweeted the hacker who calls himself “Ibom Hacktivist.” [...]
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Symantec’s Healthcare Expert: Substantial Risk for Cyber Attack on Medical Devices
June 28, 2011 No CommentAlthough there has not yet been a planned cyber attack on medical devices, the “collateral damage” of viruses has infected the medical community, according to Axel Wirth, healthcare solutions architect at Symantec. During his June 25 presentation at the Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation Conference & Expo, Wirth highlighted the growing concern of [...]
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Image: Wayne Ruston After the recent onslaught of cyber attacks hitting corporate and public-sector websites, the federal government has devised a plan to protect small businesses from hackers, SCMagazineUS.com reports. Released yesterday, the Common Weakness Risk Analysis Framework, developed by the Department of Homeland Security, MITRE Corp and SANS Institute, will help the business owners [...]
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Dutch hacker group TeaMp0isoN has leaked a trove of private emails and information about former U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair, CNN reports. A Blair spokesman told CNN the information appears to be from the personal email account of a former member of staff from a few years ago, not Blair’s email account. The leaked information [...]
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A new survey has revealed that fewer than half of U.S. workers comply with social media policies, compared with 48 percent in 2010. Conducted by nCircle, the survey polled 550 respondents in the IT security industry, including senior management, IT operations, security professionals, and risk and audit managers. Some of survey findings include 32 percent [...]
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In a test to evaluate how easy it would be for hackers to social-engineer employees and gain access to computer systems, the Department of Homeland Security found the human factor to be the weakest link in cybersecurity, Bloomberg reports. DHS staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB drives in the parking lots of government buildings [...]
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Arizona state police said they are checking the security of the agency’s computer system after hackers infiltrated the networks and published online information concerning homeland security, The Associated Press reports. Lulz Security claimed last Thursday it successfully accessed the Arizona Department of Public Safety computer system and took data including sensitive case files and the [...]
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A currently spreading Facebook scam is exploiting the morbid curiousness of some, enticing the social networking crowd into clicking on a virally spreading fake video link, ZDNet reports. Users who clicked on the “Photographer commited SUICIDE 3 days after shooting THIS video” link were redirected to a fake Facebook screen, where they were asked to [...]
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