Items Tagged with "China"
Google Says Microsoft MHTML Bug Exploited by China
March 21, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Google has blamed the Chinese government for problems accessing Gmail. Google "noticed some highly targeted and apparently politically motivated attacks against our users. We believe activists may have been a specific target. We’ve also seen attacks against users of another popular social site..."
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Chinese Officials Deny Role in Attacks on South Korea
March 10, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"You can never judge the origin of attackers from the computer's IP address. A professional hacker can launch cyber attacks from everywhere and disguise himself to be any country's citizens," an anonymous Chinese hacker told the Global Times...
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WordPress DDoS Attacks Traced to China
March 07, 2011 Added by:Headlines
“Right now there are huge asymmetric risks on the internet because any bad actor, for a few tens of thousands of dollars, has the online equivalent of a dirty nuke and can bring even the largest sites to their knees and silence millions of voices..."
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Canadian Treasury and Finance Systems Hacked
February 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Attackers used targeted spear-phishing methods to gain access to executive's computers,then produced fraudulent emails that were sent out to numerous department staff. The emails contained attachments infected with malware that would harvest data and transmit the information to the attackers...
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Strategic Industries Should Go On High Alert
February 11, 2011 Added by:Richard Stiennon
Adversaries using pernicious methodologies are targeting the data of globally strategic industries. Business as usual based on risk based methodologies have to be supplanted by an urgent revamping of security deployments to counter a frightening new level of threat...
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Energy Companies Hit by Chinese "Night Dragon" Attacks
February 10, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Targeted attacks such as Night Dragon, orchestrated by a growing group of malicious attackers committed to their targets, are rapidly on the rise. These targets have now moved beyond the defense industrial base, government, and military computers to include global corporate and commercial targets..."
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Chinese Cyber Spies Target Government Systems
February 05, 2011 Added by:Headlines
British foreign secretary William Hague has issued statements confirming that government systems have been targeted by state-sponsored cyber espionage operations. Similar attempts to infiltrate government systems in the United States have also come to light...
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Chinese Spies May Have Spear-fished U.S. Diplomats
February 02, 2011 Added by:Headlines
A series of emails were sent to five State Department officials who were engaged in sensitive negotiations with the Chinese government on greenhouse-gas emissions, and contained attachments infested with malware that would have allowed the attackers access to the recipient's computers...
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Stuxnet Evidence Points to Joint US-Israeli Development
January 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Though American and Israeli officials refuse to talk publicly about what goes on at Dimona, the operations there, as well as related efforts in the United States, are among the newest and strongest clues suggesting that the virus was designed as an American-Israeli project to sabotage the Iranian program...
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China is Vulnerable to Widespread SCADA Exploit
January 11, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"I'm not sure whats worse, a 0day for the most popular SCADA software in China floating around in the wild or a team of security professionals from China's CERT sleeping behind the wheel..."
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Top Ten Breaches By Infamous Insiders
January 07, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The insider threat to information security is an ever present and ever growing problem for the private and public sectors. Protecting against sensitive data loss events perpetrated by the very people entrusted with protecting the information is nearly a Sisyphean task...
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Hacked Apple iTunes Accounts Offered for Sale
January 06, 2011 Added by:Headlines
China's biggest online retail website is offering hacked Apple iTunes store accounts for sale. The accounts contain detailed information including credit card numbers of the registered account owners, enabling purchasers of the breached accounts to buy music, movies, games and other products...
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Top Ten Security Events of 2010
December 27, 2010 Added by:Headlines
2010 has proved to be a most eventful year for the information security field. From the WikiLeaks "Cablegate" disclosures to Chinese state-sponsored hacking, the Stuxnet virus to Google's WIFI intrusions, 2010 will certainly be remembered as a benchmark year.
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Stuxnet Virus Runs Rampant at Iranian Nuclear Facilities
December 15, 2010 Added by:Headlines
The highly sophisticated Stuxnet virus is running rampant at Iranian nuclear facilities. Researchers are basing their assessment of the level of infestation on the sharp and continued increase in internet traffic from Iran to websites dedicated to eradicating the virus...
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Researcher: Stuxnet Virus Probably "Made In China"
December 14, 2010 Added by:Headlines
Security expert Jeffrey Carr of Taia Global, who had previously proposed alternatives to the notion that the United States or Israel created the Stuxnet virus to target Iranian centrifuges, now strongly believes her has uncovered data that indicates the malware originated in China...
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Chinese Hackers Lift Microsoft Windows Source Code
December 06, 2010 Added by:Headlines
A diplomatic memo from June of 2009 reveals that the Chinese security firm TOPSEC had access to the source code for Microsoft Windows and allowed the Chinese government to provided it to hackers in order to develop targeted attacks to exploit weaknesses in the operating system...
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