Citigroup software includes a mechanism intended to prevent the same “cash advance kiosk” withdrawal from being posted twice to an account. If near identical, near simultaneous transactions are submitted, the system is programmed to ignore all but one of the transactions. Thieves in California and Nevada discovered the flaw and took advantage of it.
The FBI has announced that they have put in place an initiative to uncover and investigate web-based intrusion attacks using a crew of specially trained computer scientists who are able to extract hackers’ digital signatures from the mountains of malicious code they have released on the world. The Next Generation Cyber Initiative’s key aim is…
It’s strange enough that Barnes and Noble did not notify customers about the data breach that leaked the customers’ credit card numbers; but the hack itself appears to be an insider job or a coordinated remote or wireless attack against Barnes and Noble credit card pin devices in stores across the United States. 63 stores…
Photo by Unknown via Wired Magazine The heavily fortified, 925,000 square foot Utah Data Center (UDC), also known as the Community Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative Data Center, is being constructed on the grounds of Camp Williams in Bluffdale, Utah at a cost of $2 billion, by the National Security Agency (NSA). According to the NSA,…
We’re not sure who GitHub pissed off but they are having one hell of a week with four outages in five days and two separate Denial of Service attacks. Currently they are being hit with another DDoS attack, the second one in two days. The site is currently hobbled but not down and out.
According to security experts, the electronic voting process is ripe for attack in 2012. Nation-state attacks have increased, voter databases are increasingly interconnected, and electronic voting systems are plagued with vulnerabilities creating a situation where the 2012 election process is a prime target for a hacker attack.
The Center for Copyright Information has revealed more details in a blog post today about its “six strikes” system, which it calls the Copyright Alert System (CAS). They noted that the process will use a system run by MarkMonitor to identify infringing activity and that the mitigation stages (strikes five and six) will be administered…
Researchers at Symantec anti-virus have examined data from over 11 million PCs and correlating the malware signatures to public reports of the zero-day exploits that the malware exploited, they found that the average time a zero-day exploit was held secret was over 10 months.
China’s National Computer Network Emergency Response Tactical Team officials told Forbes that about 7.8 million Chinese computers were affected in 27,900 IP attacks. They claimed that the majority of the attacks originated in the United States (24%) followed by Japan (17.2%) and South Korea (11.4%).
According to sources, the Department of Homeland Security was advised last week, to create a “cyber skills task force” that would act as a reserve army of cyber specialists in order to mold top-notch cybersecurity talent to address U.S. cybersecurity emergencies. Called the “CyberReserve” and similar to the National Guard program, CyberReserve would ensure professional…
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