Consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton has confirmed reports of hackers attacking the firm and extracting information that was posted online. The firm said it is conducting an investigation to determine the nature and the extent of the cyber attack that involved the theft of “certain data files.” “At this time, we do not believe that [...]
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An unidentified hacker launched a cyber attack against Estonian telecom service provider Elion’s email system, attempting to gain access to 70,000 client accounts, Estonian Public Broadcasting reports. An investigation determined the intruder failed to access passwords and content. The attack, which came from outside of Estonia, was the largest cyber attack Elion has experienced, the [...]
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The government’s research and development facility, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, was forced to shut down Internet access after suffering a cyber attack, according to Reuters. “PNNL is experiencing an Internet outage due to a cyber attack,” the laboratory said in a voice mail message at the lab’s office of public affairs. PNNL spokesman Greg Koller [...]
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Ninety percent of businesses have fallen victim to at least one cybersecurity breach in the last 12 months, according to a survey sponsored by Juniper Networks. A cyber attack on businesses is becoming “a near certainty for most businesses,” the survey noted, and companies say the typical breach has cost them a least half a [...]
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Ten days after the International Monetary Fund announced it had been the victim of a “very major breach,” the organization has determined there is no evidence that indicates its financial systems were compromised, Dow Jones reports. “We have no evidence that information held in our emails, our financial systems or fund document management systems have [...]
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In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDNet reports. The two hackers, who go by the names of Idahc and Auth3ntiq, claim to have exploited an SQL flaw to get the information. The hackers posted information on Pastebin.com about their coup and a sample [...]
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China must enhance its cyberwarfare capabilities to counter a Pentagon push, the country’s top military newspaper said yesterday, following allegations that Beijing may be behind a series of cyber attacks on Lockheed Martin and other defense contractors, Reuters reports. Countering the accusations against China, a report published in the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation [...]
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The world’s largest payroll processor announced yesterday it had become the latest big financial company attacked by cyber criminals, following attacks on Citigroup and the International Monetary Fund, Reuters reports. New Jersey-based Automatic Data Processing Inc is investigating a data breach affecting one of its corporate clients and said it is “taking measures to address [...]
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Government Official: Terrorists Lack Tech Skills to Pull Off Large-scale Cyber Blitz
June 15, 2011 1 CommentA senior counterterrorism official says terrorist groups do not yet have the technical skills to launch a major cyber attack against the United States, The Associated Press reports. Daniel Benjamin, State Department counterterrorism coordinator, said while insurgents are pursuing the emerging threat of such an attack, the majority of Internet-based assaults are carried out by [...]
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