Neowin News Feed for: Attacks

Pentagon admits they were cyber-attacked, data stolen in March

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 06:05:06 +0100

Today, Deputy Defence Secretary William Lynn admitted that in March, foreign hackers managed to obtain thousands of files on the United States “most sensitive systems” through the Pentagon. This revelation came about as the Pentagon... Read more...

Study finds 90% of business were hacked in the last year

Tim Schiesser — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 13:03:55 +0100

According to a recent study, 90 percent of United States businesses have fallen victim to some sort of cyber security breach in the last 12 months. The study, conducted by Ponemon Institute for Juniper Networks,... Read more...

Global attacks against critical infrastructure on the rise

Piers Hausjell — Tue, 19 Apr 2011 11:12:15 +0100

McAfee, one of the worlds leading technology security companies, recently carried out a report on the attack-state of critical infrastructure systems, such as gas, power and water and found surprising results. The firm sent a... Read more...

Iranian hacker claims credit for Comodo attacks

Piers Hausjell — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 16:47:26 +0100

A post on the popular website Pastebin sheds new light on the recent Comodo SSL certificate attacks. A 21 year old Iranian hacker who goes by the name of ComodoHacker, claims full responsibility for the... Read more...

French Government advises people to stop using IE

Tom Warren — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:09:09 +0000

Following in the footsteps of Germany last week, France is now advising its population to use an alternative browser pending a patch for an Internet Explorer vulnerability. The French Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) published an... Read more...

Shocking Mumbai attacks, news courtesy of Twitter

Tom Warren — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 09:00:52 +0000

Twitter has once again shown why it could be one of the most important services for today and the future. Whilst the news outlets like CNN and the BBC struggle to grasp current information and... Read more...

White House was also victim of cyber attacks

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 22:03:58 +0000

Earlier today Neowin covered news about how Barack Obama and John McCain suffered cyber attacks during their summer campaigning, but more details have been released on how the White House was also a target. During... Read more...

Obama and McCain suffered computer attacks

Damien Reynolds — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 16:56:45 +0000

Obama is the new president we know that much but how much of his future plans in his administration could be affected by a computer attack that occurred in the Summer. It has been recently... Read more...

Attacks begin against critical Patch Tuesday bug

Steven Parker — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 11:40:29 +0100

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Only Windows XP SP3 -- that's right, SP3 -- is safe. Hackers are trying to exploit a critical Windows vulnerability just patched on Tuesday, security researchers said this afternoon -- and the only version of... Read more...

Microsoft confirms Windows-Word attacks

Steven Parker — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:03:30 +0000

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Microsoft Corp. yesterday warned of a critical vulnerability that affects users of Word running on Windows 2000, XP and Server 2003 SP1 -- several weeks after one security company first reported an exploit and a... Read more...

Attacks exploiting RealPlayer zero-day in progress

Slimy — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:49:50 +0100

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Symantec Corporation has issued an alert that rated a threat with its highest possible score after finding attackers exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in RealPlayer that infects Windows machines running Internet Explorer. An ActiveX control installed... Read more...

Firefox Vulnerable to Protocol-Handling Bug Attacks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Wed, 05 Sep 2007 11:29:55 +0100

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Firefox remains vulnerable to attacks exploiting protocol-handling bugs, even though it was patched twice in July, a pair of security researchers said this weekend. Billy Rios and Nate McFeters, who spelled out design and functionality... Read more...

ATI Driver Flaw Leaves Vista Kernel Open To Attacks

atsaunier — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 14:52:08 +0100

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An unpatched flaw in drivers from ATI creates a security hole to sneak malware past the improved security features in Windows Vista and straight to the Vista Kernel. Microsoft says that they are working with... Read more...

Russian internet attacks against UK unlikely, analyst says

Steven Parker — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:08:04 +0100

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Internet attacks originating from Russia against the UK are unlikely to occur as the row between Moscow and London continues, a security expert has said. Eugene Kaspersky, head of research and development at Moscow-based anti-virus... Read more...

After attacks, US government sending team to Estonia

Slimy — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 05:06:16 +0100

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Two months after much of Estonia's online infrastructure was targeted by an online attack, the U.S government is sending a representative from the Department of Homeland Security's U.S. Computer Emergency Response Team to help analyze... Read more...

Senior execs targeted in 'precision' malware attacks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 14:23:17 +0100

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Hackers are targeting senior managers of large firms - along with members of their families - in a new wave of highly-focused email attacks. On 26 June, net security services firm MessageLabs intercepted more than... Read more...

'Italian job' attacks spread worldwide

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:19:30 +0100

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A coordinated series of web-based attacks that began last week in Italy is quickly expanding and has now infected 10,000 websites around the world. When security researchers first noticed the threat, it has affected 1,000... Read more...

DDoS attacks 'no longer paying off'

Tom Warren — Thu, 03 May 2007 10:19:33 +0100

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Economics are playing a part in the decline of denial-of-service attacks, according to a Symantec security expert. In the second half of 2006, Symantec noted a sharp decline in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks,... Read more...

Researcher to Demonstrate Vista Attacks

Slimy — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 22:27:02 +0100

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During a training session called "Understanding Stealth Malware" at the Black Hat event in Las Vegas, Joanna Rutkowska, a security researcher known for picking apart the security mechanisms built into Windows, is to demonstrate new... Read more...

Toshiba attacks alleged infringement of DVD patents

Slimy — Mon, 09 Apr 2007 19:48:37 +0100

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Toshiba Corporation has filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission seeking to block imports of DVDs and related technology into the U.S. from 17 companies breaching its patents on DVD technology. The Tokyo-based... Read more...