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The internal IT & server system of US Navy is facing 110,000 cyber attacks every hour, 1,833 attacks a minute. According to a report published by HP during an event in Frankfurt, the software and IT security providing company confirms that US Navy is under constant cyber attacks by the hackers from different countries. The official blog post from the US Navy Seals […]
Mc Connell (the former director of US national security agency) has broke a shocking news for Americans that US could be facing a massive cyber attack in some time which could be equally harmful to 9/11 incident. According to Connell, the attack could down all the significant U.S. sites at once and an economic downturn […]
With the cyber crime increasing day by day with advancement in technique, governments have been urged to combat it and save precious information online. It is the Indian government, who have begin to plan strategies for combating cyber crime and tracking it at the same time. The have planned to bring a new version of […]
Australia has recently faced probably one of the largest criminal activity online. A group of 16 Romanians were involved in this massive theft. The theft was done by the stole of the information of some 500,000 Australians, who has bought goods from 100 different business through their credit cards. It is confirmed that at least 30,000 credit cards were […]
The controversial death of a 35-year old Iranian blogger has shocked everyone around the world and has put questions over the Iran’s cyber crime unit. Recently, Iran’s cyber crime laws were made stronger in order to remove violating or abusive content with precision. Since then there were many popular bloggers were arrested but a death was quite […]
Protecting your organization against cyber criminals and digital scammers is not easy, and it’s certainly not cheap. A vital part of building and maintaining effective defenses is access to security knowledge and expertise, which may not even be a budget item if your organization happens to be an SMB, local government agency, or non-profit. One
With the world progressing each day, the reliance upon technology is one of the notable turnarounds. In which outlasts all other technological accessories or systems. Internet these days is not only a place to entertainment, but it has exploded to a huge industry where massive business is done on daily basis. With this industry progressing […]
With the progression of cyber crimes in world of Internet, the most badly affected of the sectors is the financial sector where there has been most cyber attacks. As it is the most cashing sector online these days to be hacked and the most easiest one too. Most hackers find vulnerabilities in the fund transfer […]
Israel Cops Insp.-Gen. Yohanan Danino on Thursday declared the development of a 60-person device to deal with online criminal activity that will be financed with support from the Treasury. Discussing at the yearly Worldwide Meeting on Country Protection in Tel Aviv, Danino said that he attended an Interpol conference in the capital a week ago […]
Cyber crime during current year 2012 has surpassed the previous year record and this is quite clear indication of how cyber crime in the current year has exploded worldwide. Not only the cyber crime has increased in number but it has also gotten far more sophisticated as it was previously. Due to this firms are […]
The 2012 holiday shopping season is fast approaching and digital devices are sure to play a bigger role in the holiday shopping process than ever before, from pre-purchase research on the home or office computer, to in-store price checking on the smartphone. And of course, online holiday shopping is available 7×24, from before Black Friday,
UAE’s President Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan has enforced amendment in the Federal Legal Decree no. 5, which combats the cyber crimes. This amendment was made Federal Legal Decree no.2 furnished in 2006. This new decree states the privacy of all the matter published online that involves Bank account number, credit card numbers and […]
Iranian cyber police has arrested a hacker suspected of hacking more then 1,000 Israeli and United States based websites. According to a report in Trend, the Iranian hacker earlier claimed to bypass all the securities set against the sites and had not only accessed the server but also gained access to the sensitive data stored, the […]
Chinese law enforcement agencies have started a crack down on cyber crime gangs by storming over 700 cyber criminal bases and arresting nearly 9,000 alleged cyber criminals. The Chinese Ministry of Public Security announced in a statement that the police have cracked over 4400 criminal cases, arrested over 8900 suspected cyber thugs for illegal activities […]
Barrett Brown, the member of online activism group and the the founder of Project PM, a “distributed think-tank” that also engages in online activism, been arrested on September 12, 2012 has a message for all his and anonymous supporters. According to WikiPedia article, On September 24, 2012, a Pastebin post appeared titled “Barrett Brown – Communiqué […]
On Thursday, September 12, Duo Security, a young-but-respected vendor of two-factor authentication devices, announced the preliminary results of a study of over 20,000 Android devices from a two month old study they performed. Based on the results, they calculated that over half of Android devices on the market have security vulnerabilities that are, as yet,
Win32/Quervar (a.k.a Dorifel, XDocCrypt) is a virus family that has been in the news recently, especially in the Netherlands. It has been reported to be causing havoc on computers of several notable Dutch institutions. In our analysis, we provide additional technical details about the workings of the virus and compare it to another virus, the
Blackhat keynote speaker Shawn Henry, the former executive assistant director of the FBI’s Criminal, Cyber, Response and Service Branch, started off the day after opening remarks from Jeff Moss, founder of Blackhat. Moss wondered if now was the time for the cyber-security sector to take a more aggressive/offensive approach. Jeff mentioned working for a former
World renowned hackavist group TeaMp0isoN has announces to finish its hackavist journey and shutdown the group forever. The announcement was made by one of the member of TeaMp0isoN on their official Twitter account and later a good bye message was also posted on pastebin. TeaMp0isoN has appreciated people’s support all the way, no matter if the times were good or hard. However it […]
Evidence that criminals are targeting the computer systems of small businesses continues to mount. The Wall Street Journal recently drew attention to the way cybercriminals are sniffing out vulnerable firms. The article highlighted the fact that about 72% of the 855 data breaches world-wide last year that were analyzed in Verizon’s Data Breach Investigation Report
New Zealand’s High Court judge Justice Helen Winkelmann has declared that The search warrants which were used to raid and arrest the home of MegaUpload owner Kim Dotcom were invalid. FBI’s action of copying data from Megaupload owner Kim Dotcom’s server and taking at back to US was also considered unlawful. MegaUpload owner who is currently on bail was arrested in January 2011, along […]