Defense Secretary Panetta warns of dire threat of cyberattack on U.S.–equivalent of “cyber Pearl Harbor”

United States Defense Secretary Leon Panetta painted a dire picture of cyberattack on the United States yesterday saying “an aggressor nation or extremist group could use these kinds of cyber tools to gain control of critical switches. They could derail passenger trains, or even more dangerous, derail passenger trains loaded with lethal chemicals.”

Researchers at the University of California San Diego have monitored a botnet that they believe scanned the entire IPv4 address space, possibly in less than two weeks. Using a network block called the UCSD Network Telescope, also known as the UCSD darknet, researchers noticed the illicit activity in February 2011.

For many years, Iran has proposed a parallel, but private, Internet for its citizens. This private Internet is referred to as “halal”. Halal would provide Iranians a secure, and controlled Internet experience, one that promotes good Islamic moral values, while restricting access to the outside world. Collin Anderson, independent security analyst, has found evidence that…

RSA has announced that another wave of attacks on major banks is coming and rather than a DDoS style attack, this one is organized by a cyber-gang intent on pilfering money through a Trojan attack they have dubbed “Gozi Prinimalka”.

Nanex, the top tracker of high frequency trading activity on Wall Street, reported today that a single mysterious computer program made up 4% of all quote traffic on the stock market last week. It also accounted for 10% of the allowed trading for the day. The program placed orders in batches of 200, then 400,…

The folks at RSA have proposed a new method of securing user passwords obtained from database hacks – break the password into separate pieces and store them at separate locations. If the database were compromised and the password stolen, all the hacker would have would be half of the password hash which would make it…

Reminiscent of the 2005 WOW “plague”, yesterday World of Warcraft (WOW) players found the cities of Draenor, Orgrimmar, Stormwind, Ragnaros, Tarren Mill, and Twisting Nether full of dead bodies. Players and NPC characters were affected by a hack that sucked the life out of everyone.

Kaspersky Lab reported this week, that 4.5 million DSL modems in Brazil were hacked last year via a vulnerability in their ADSL modems that allowed hackers to steal passwords using scripting and then remote control the devices in order to change the modem’s configuration parameters. At some Brazilian ISPs, more than half of their customers…

How important is a strong password on Twitter? Depends on how much you value your Twitter handle. If a hacker can spoof their IP address, they can hack away at your Twitter password all day without repercussions. They do this because good Twitter handles can be sold for a pretty penny, up to $1,000 in…

Telvent, makers of critical electrical grid software, discovered on September 10, 2012 that it had suffered a breach into its network – a sophisticated hacker attack spanning its operations in the United States, Canada, and Spain. Project files were stolen and malware installed by the attackers. Digital fingerprints suggest the attacks are related to Comment…

Category: Hacking and Security

Defense Secretary Panetta warns of dire threat of cyberattack on U.S.–equivalent of “cyber Pearl Harbor”

Botnet discovered that scanned the entire IPv4 address space in less than two weeks

Halal – Iran’s parallel and private walled-off Internet may already be online and in use

RSA warns of another round of cyber-gang controlled bank attacks coming – Project Blitzkrieg on the horizon

Mysterious bot generated 4% of all Wall Street traffic and 10% of allowable trades last week

RSA proposes ingenious security mechanism that would store passwords across multiple locations

Mass Murder in World of Warcraft game – hackers take down entire cities [VIDEO]

4.5 million DSL modems hacked in Brazil then users pointed to malicious websites

Beware: Good Twitter handles are being stolen and sold for gold

Makers of critical Smart-Grid energy sector software hacked – digital footprints point to Chinese hacker group

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