Chinese Search Engine Files Lawsuit Following Hack

Following the cyber attack by the ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ on Chinese search engine Baidu, the company has filed a lawsuit against the domain registrar in a New York court. The DNS record attack redirected web users to a defaced web page instead of the search engine site.

According to the lawsuit, the attack occurred because of “gross negligence” on the part of the domain registrar. The attack disrupted traffic…

China Claims to be Biggest Victim of Cyber Attacks

The past few weeks have seen a number of large scale cyber attacks, including attacks emanating from China which targeted Internet search giant Google. China has now entered the fray, not only deflecting charges that the Chinese hacked government offices in India, but also claiming to be the biggest victim of cyber attacks.

Foreign ministry spokesman Ma Zhaoxu, citing the recent hack of Chinese search giant Bandu, said “China…

Obama Administration Backs Off Net Neutrality

The Internet has now been around for approximately two decades and serves as a useful tool for millions of users throughout the world. We use the Internet to conduct business, communicate and acquire news. Our phones are even connected to the Internet and in some countries, like China, the majority of Internet users access the Internet via their ‘smart…

Penn State Hit in Cyber Attack

Three separate attacks on the Penn State computer system have prompted the universtity to begin notifying 30,000 indivuduals that their Social Security numbers may be compromised. The three attacks are apparently unrelated occurred before Christmas where computer systems from the two main campuses and one branch campus were infected with malware.

The areas of the records involved include the Eberly College of Science with 7,758 records; the College of Health…

Iranian Cyber Army Launches Attack

A group calling itself the Iranian Cyber Army have carried out cyber attacks against Twitter, and the website of a group who claims the recent elections in Iran were fraudulent. The group hacked the two websites and replaced them with anti-American slogans.

Service to Twitter was disrupted for more than an hour. The website of the opposition group was down for two days. Following the recent allegedly fraudulent…

US Employs Cyber Attacks Too

A number of foreign countries have been implicated in conducting cyber attacks in the past few years, including China and Russia (though it is unclear if it is government entities or individuals).

In a recent article in The National Journal, Shane Harris reports the United States has also conducted offensive cyber attacks against insurgents in Iraq.

According to Harris, in 2007 the Bush administration authorized the National Security Agency…

Safety in the Cloud?

Researchers at MIT and the University of California, San Diego, have found that attacks can target specific data held within the cloud. The report claims that operating in the cloud brings new security risks that organizations should consider.

The researchers conducted a fake attack against a well known cloud service provider. The researchers were able to locate, target and monitor a series of computers…