The world has embarked on a new cold war – but instead of military posturing, this conflict is taking place in cyberspace.
The Middle East is increasingly on the receiving end of cyber-warfare strikes, more so than any other region in the world, experts estimate.
SIBU: The war against underground cyber gambling continues as the police here stormed into a den in Teng Kung Suk Road in a raid on Tuesday.
Seven men whom the police suspected to be gamblers and a woman manning the centre were arrested.
What does a young Chinese hacker do once he’s achieved legendary status for developing Microsoft Office zero-day exploits and using them to hoover up piles of sensitive data from U.S. Defense Department contractors? Would you believe: Start an antivirus firm?
Tse Man-lai has been sentenced to nine months in jail.
Tse Man-lai was recently jailed for nine months for launching cyber attacks on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange’s HKExnews Web site.
“Tse launched denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on HKExnews, a website providing price-sensitive information of listed companies, on August 12 and 13 last year,” writes The South China Morning Post’s Jennifer Cheng.
by Thomas Rid
Some of you may know Gary McGraw, Chief Technology Officer of Cigital, Inc, a software security consultancy, and author of eight books on that subject. To some geeks — I guess I’m one of them — Gary is quite literally a familiar voice because he has been running Silver Bullet, a podcast series with security gurus, for more than six years.
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Ryan Linn’s hacks into corporate networks have become almost a matter of routine. On one recent morning, he woke up at his home near the Research Triangle in eastern North Carolina and walked down to an extra bedroom that he uses as an office.
A popular TV broadcasting network MeTV (http://metvnetwork.com/) has been hacked by a hacker we follow often @DARWINARE who recently has attacked and leaked data from UNSW, Amazon.uk and other high profile sites. View full post on Cyber War News
Hacker collective Gsec aka Grey Security has been absent from the scene over the past few weeks only to return with a dump of information from Syria Virtual University (https://www.svuonline.org). View full post on Cyber War News
A pastebin user using the handle Syst3mswt has posted a a dump of server information which appears to come from the well known and popular web hosting service Dream Host (http://www.dreamhost.com). View full post on Cyber War News
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