Hackers in China have stolen secrets on South Korea‘s defense and foreign affairs by using fake emails claiming to come from Seoul officials and diplomats, a spokesman for the South Korean National Intelligence Service told AFP. Hackers sent emails purporting to be from South Korean diplomats, presidential aides and other people familiar to Seoul officials. [...]
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Two of Gene Simmons’ official sites were shut down after members of Anonymous responded to his comments about how the music industry should have been tougher with illegal downloaders and file sharers, according to Guardian. Both SimmonsRecords.com and GeneSimmons.com were taken offline briefly due to the attacks. Prior to the cyber attacks, the Kiss frontman [...]
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The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation is developing a proprietary operating system to protect its sensitive data from cyber attacks and hackers, according to Indo-Asian News Service. “We initiated the indigenous computing project in September and a road map is being drawn to implement the programme,” DRDO Director General V.K. Saraswat told reporters last [...]
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The shadowy hacker coalition Anonymous’ most recent DDoS attacks against 11 organizations across the world have caused more than 550 hours of downtime and 742 service interruptions since the web assaults began Sept. 17, PandaLabs reports. The latest attacks that began Oct. 6 on the Spanish Copyright Protection Society, the Spanish Culture Ministry and Promusicae websites [...]
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PandaLabs has discovered that iTunes has become a major target for hackers looking to steal credit-card data from the millions of users. Victims receive an email informing them they have made an expensive purchase on iTunes. The user, who has never made the purchase, is concerned by the email and tries to solve the problem [...]
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Inviting a hacker into your home may seem like the last thing you want to do, but members of the New York City tech scene are doing just that in an effort to connect entrepreneurial minds with talented techies outside the Big Apple. The brainchild of Jonathan Wegener and Ben Fisher, the recently launched Adopt [...]
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A whistle-blower site was hacked this past weekend, possibly exposing the identities of confidential sources, according to a hacker who took responsibility for the intrusion. The hacker, who contacted Wired.com, said two members from Kryogeniks hacked the site that publishes documents prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use [...]
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After recently cyber assaulting anti-piracy advocates and threatening to attack until it “stops being angry,” hacker collective Anonymous has struck again. The target this time: the Spanish copyright protection society. PandaLabs reported how Anonymous yesterday launched a DDoS attack against the Spanish copyright protection society. As of 2:30 p.m. EDT yesterday, PandaLabs had witnessed more [...]
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Hackers managed to steal $600,000 from a Jersey Shore town’s bank account, and $200,000 is still missing, Philadelphia Inquirer reports. TD Bank notified Brigantine, N.J., last week that multiple wire transfers had come from the town’s account. Authorities said someone got access to a user name and password and possibly used a virus or spoofed [...]
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