Hackers Break into UConn’s Husky Merchandise Website

A hacker broke into a database with the credit card information of 18,000 customers of the University of Connecticut’s Co-op’s HuskyDirect.com website, according to The Hartford Courant.

The database hosted customers’ names, addresses, emails, phone numbers and credit card information, including expiration dates and security codes, the newspaper said.

The HuskyDirect website offers Husky teams’ merchandise directly and is run by a vendor, who notified the university…

McAfee 2011 Threat Index: Sophisticated Cyber Threats Hiding in Plain Sight

2010 was a breakout year for cybersecurity: from the revelations of the attack on Google, Operation Aurora, and the controversy surrounding WikiLeaks, to the Stuxnet worm, which targeted Iran’s critical infrastructure and spawned a number of cyber conspiracy theories.

But like a block-busting, splashy Hollywood sequel, cybersecurity in 2011…

Hackers Deface Indian Committee Website

Anonymous hackers on Sunday defaced the official website of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee, a unit of the Indian National Congress, according to The Hindu.

Renjith Balan, IT adviser of the party, said he discovered the defacement at 7 p.m. The hackers posted several messages on the website, saying they were acting on the behalf of Pakistan. One of the messages said, “Kashmir…

Anonymous Shuts Down Zimbabwe Government Websites over WikiLeaks

Zimbabwe’s first lady Grace Mugabe has become the latest victim of cyber attacks by supporters of WikiLeaks, who previously targeted Visa, MasterCard and other foes of the whistle-blower.

The Guardian reported last Friday hactivists said they had brought down government websites after President Robert Mugabe’s wife sued a newspaper for publishing a WikiLeaks cable that linked her to the alleged trade…

BAE Systems Buys Danish Cyber Firm for $212M

British defense firm BAE Systems has inked a deal to buy ETI A/S, a Danish cybersecurity firm, for approximately $212 million.

ETI employs nearly 260 people and is headquartered in Denmark with operations in the U.K, United States, and the Asia and Middle East regions.

The acquisition of ETI supports BAE Systems’…

Fashionista Hacker Pays $12,5K to Settle Conde Nast Copyright Claim

An Ohio man has given the term black hat new meaning: According to The Smoking Gun reports, fashion-obsessed Ross Ulrich hacked into a Condé Nast computer system to snatch photos and pages from several upcoming issues of fashion magazines to later post them on his blog FashionZag.

The 22-year-old graphic design student said he fessed up to his crimes as agents executed a search warrant at his family’s Columbus…

Cyber Task Force Passes Mission to CYBERCOM

After spending most of the past decade defending the Department of Defense’s computer networks, the Joint Task Force Global Network Operations command cased its colors.

Air Force Gen. Kevin P. Chilton, commander of U.S. Strategic Command, presided over the ceremony. He said that although the ceremony marked the end of the task force’s tenure, its…

Cyber Crime on the Rise in Azerbaijan

Cyber crime growing in Azerbaijan as information and communication technologies develop, a representative of the Ministry of National Security, Kerim Kerimov, said at an OSCE organized workshop on cybersecurity this week.

“‘Cyber crime’ includes offenses such as money-laundering, theft of money from credit cards and the joint criminal activities of organized criminal groups from different countries, as well as illegal communication channels in the network,” Kerimov said, according to Trend…

Bids Open for New Cyber-Insider Threat Program

The military is cracking down on would-be leakers who could compromise military and government networks.

This week, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency opened bids for a new Cyber Insider Threat program.

The CINDER program arises from the military being targeted by a number of high-profile security breaches over the past few years.  Rather than targeting…

Hayden: Cyberspace is ‘Lawless’

Cyberspace has become a lawless environment without any natural technical barriers to protect information, requiring every user to assume a personal responsibility for firewalls, said Gen. Michael V. Hayden, former director of the National Security Agency and of the CIA.

In an interview with PBS, Hayden spoke about the cyber threat and his reluctance to…