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Anonymous targets Montreal Grand Prix to back students
29 May 2012 at 6:55pm
The global group of computer hackers known as Anonymous threw its support behind Quebec students protesting hikes in tuition fees by threatening to disrupt the Montreal Grand Prix.
Iran, other Mideast states hit by computer virus
29 May 2012 at 4:09pm
Iran and other Middle East countries have been hit with a cunning computer virus that can eavesdrop on computer users and their co-workers and filch information from nearby cellphones, cybersecurity experts said Tuesday. And suspicion immediately fell on Israel as the culprit.
UN agency plans major warning on Flame virus risk
29 May 2012 at 2:21pm
BOSTON (Reuters) - A United Nations agency charged with helping member nations secure their national infrastructures plans to issue a sharp warning about the risk of the Flame computer virus that was recently discovered in Iran and other parts of the Middle East. "This is the most serious (cyber) warning we have ever put out," said Marco Obiso, cyber security coordinator for the U.N.'s Geneva-based International Telecommunications Union. ...
New cyberweapon discovered; Iranian computers hit
29 May 2012 at 10:39am
A massive, data-slurping cyberweapon is circulating in the Middle East, and computers in Iran appear to have been particularly affected, according to a Russian Internet security firm.
News Summary: Iranian computers hit by virus
29 May 2012 at 9:08am
NEW THREAT: A Russian Internet security firm says a massive data-slurping cyberweapon is circulating in the Middle East, with computers in Iran appearing to have been particularly affected.
Flame virus 'much bigger than Stuxnet'
29 May 2012 at 6:30am
A Russian computer firm has discovered a new computer virus with unprecedented destructive potential that chiefly targets Iran and could be used as a "cyberweapon" by the West and Israel.
Russian firm: Iran victim of another cyberattack
29 May 2012 at 2:34am
A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful spyware virus with unprecedented data-snatching capabilities has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Russian firm: Iran victim of powerful new cyberattack
29 May 2012 at 12:22am
JERUSALEM - A Russian-based internet security firm says a powerful spyware virus has attacked computers in Iran and elsewhere in the Middle East.
Powerful "Flame" cyber weapon found in Iran
28 May 2012 at 3:17pm
BOSTON (Reuters) - Security experts said on Monday a highly sophisticated computer virus is infecting computers in Iran and other Middle East countries and may have been deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Evidence suggest that the virus, dubbed Flame, may have been built on behalf of the same nation or nations that commissioned the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran's nuclear program in 2010, according to Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker that took credit for discovering the infections. ...
Computer hackers access U.S. Justice Department website: spokeswoman
21 May 2012 at 4:25pm
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - One or more unauthorized users gained access to the inner workings of a website run by the U.S. Justice Department, a department spokeswoman said on Monday after the hacker group Anonymous said they were behind the incident. The hackers accessed a server that operates the Bureau of Justice Statistics' website, the spokeswoman said. The bureau is responsible for collecting and analyzing data about crime ? including computer security incidents ? from throughout the United States. ...
Hackers break into Azerbaijan Eurovision websites
17 May 2012 at 9:26am
BAKU (Reuters) - A group of hackers calling themselves Cyberwarriors for Freedom attacked the official websites of the Eurovision song contest on Thursday, demanding that the host nation, Azerbaijan, cancel next week's competition. Azerbaijan, a mainly Muslim ex-Soviet republic, won the right to host the contest by winning last year's event in Germany, and sees the competition as a chance to showcase the country. The grand finale is scheduled for May 26. ...
UK agency approves BlackBerry 7 OS for government
17 May 2012 at 3:47am
(Reuters) - Research In Motion Ltd said the UK agency responsible for setting standards for computer security has approved the BlackBerry 7 operating system for government use. This will allow the government employees to use six models of the smart phone including BlackBerry Bold 9900, BlackBerry Torch 9810 and BlackBerry Torch 9860, RIM said. Ministry of defence, central government employees and more than half of the country's police force use BlackBerry smart phones, the company said. (Reporting by Aftab Ahmed in Bangalore; Editing by Joyjeet Das)
Hackers booby-trap foreign policy group websites
15 May 2012 at 7:42pm
Internet security researchers warned that foreign policy and human rights websites are being booby-trapped by hackers in what appears to be cyber espionage.
Utah tech director resigns in wake of data theft
15 May 2012 at 4:34pm
Utah's chief technology officer has resigned following the theft of hundreds of thousands of online medical records from state computers by unknown hackers.
Cyberattacks Target Russian Broadcasters, Ustream CEO Responds
10 May 2012 at 3:39am
Popular online video broadcasting and streaming service Ustream has gone down only three times in its five-year history, but on Wednesday it was hit with the most complex Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack it's ever seen.
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