“China appears to be tightening its control of internet services that are able to burrow secretly through what is known as the ‘Great Firewall’, which prevents citizens there from reading some overseas content. Both companies and individuals are being hit by the new technology deployed by the Chinese government to

“The U.S. financial services industry has issued a warning that a Russian cyber-gangster is preparing to rob American banks and their customers of millions of dollars. In addition, the computer security firm McAfee has reported that the cyber-criminal, who calls himself ‘Thief-in-Law,’ already has infected the hundreds of computers of

“Jabhat al-Nusra, a Syrian rebel group whose name means ‘victory front’ and which the United States designates as a terrorist organization for its alleged links to al-Qaeda’s Iraq branch, is opening a new front in its war against Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. Its target: WordPress, the Web publishing platform that

“Hackers illegally accessed the Internet-connected controls of a New Jersey-based company’s internal heating and air-conditioning system by exploiting a backdoor in a widely used piece of software, according to a recently published memo issued by the FBI. The backdoor was contained in older versions of the Niagara AX Framework, which

“Investigators led by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and aided by Facebook Inc, have busted an international criminal ring that infected 11 million computers around the world and caused more than $850 million in total losses in one of the largest cybercrime hauls in history.” Source:Facebook helps FBI bust cybercriminals

“In ‘Strategic Cyber Early Warning: A Phased Adaptive Approach for NATO,’ a paper from the Smarter Alliance Initiative, Jason Healey, director of the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative, and Leendert van Bochoven, NATO and European Defense leader at IBM, formulate steps for NATO to improve its cyber warning system. Both

“A recent survey by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) reveals that about one third of companies in Brazil (32%) was victim of cyber attacks last year. The world average is lower: 23%. In Brazil, 8% of the companies attacked had losses greater than $ 5 million. In total, hackers stole $ 1 billion

“Necurs, a nearly two-year-old rootkit, has been spreading quickly recently and was found on 83,427 unique machines during the month of November, according to researchers at Microsoft. Necurs is distributed through drive-by download and and may occur anytime a user visits an infected website, says Tim Liu, a researcher at

“A password-cracking expert has unveiled a computer cluster that can cycle through as many as 350 billion guesses per second. It’s an almost unprecedented speed that can try every possible Windows passcode in the typical enterprise in less than six hours.” Source:25-GPU cluster cracks every standard Windows password in <6

“A lone hacker stole the personal details of thousands of Australian military staff during an audacious attack he conducted ‘for fun’. The raid, which breached a university database at the Australian Defence Force Academy last month, is one of the worst known cyber attacks on a government organisation in this