"The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency’s precise role …
Australian PM’s computer hacked: report
"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard's parliamentary computer and the foreign and defence ministers' machines are all suspected of being hacked, with China under suspicion, reports said …
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European Union under cyber attack as major summit begins
"The European Union is under cyber attack, a spokesman said Thursday, as a major international summit begins. The attack is targeting the EU Commission -- its executive arm -- and the external action …
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Hired online attackers
"One of the victims is itemBay, the nation’s largest trading site for online games. Last October, Seoul police concluded that hackers located in China’s Jilin Province waged attacks on the firm’s …
Attack Code for SCADA Vulnerabilities Released Online
"The security of critical infrastructure is in the spotlight again this week after a researcher released attack code that can exploit several vulnerabilities found in systems that are used at oil, gas …
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Adobe, Apple release urgent security updates
"It’s Patch Tuesday for the second time this month — except this week it’s Adobe and Apple, not Microsoft, products that have urgent security updates. Adobe yesterday released updates for its Acrobat …
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Feds should act against hackers targeting power grid: experts
"Hackers are penetrating the national power grid, say industry insiders who want the federal government to act. 'We certainly know from our customers that their systems have been infiltrated. It's …
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Gen.: Grim Assessment of Cyber Security
"The U.S. military does not have the trained personnel or the legal authorities it needs to respond to a computer-based attack on America or its allies, and a crisis would quickly strain the force, …
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SecurID Company Suffers Security Breach
"The RSA Security division of the EMC Corporation said Thursday that it had suffered a sophisticated data breach, potentially compromising computer security products widely used by corporations and …
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BlackBerry Cracked In Hacking Contest
"The closely held BlackBerry is no longer a relative enigma in smartphone security: A team of three researchers yesterday at the Pwn2Own contest at the CanSec West conference in Vancouver hacked the …
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