Neowin News Feed for: Attacks

IoT devices remain highly vulnerable as a billion 'Smart' electronics were attacked in 2021

Alap Naik Desai — Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:36:01 +0000

A billion "Smart" IoT devices were attacked or recorded suspicious network traffic in 2021. Poor awareness, improper defenses, rare updates, and incorrect configuration are some reasons. Read more...

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

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 05:05:06 +0000

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 12:03:55 +0000

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 10:12:15 +0000

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 15:47:26 +0000

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...

Age of the cyber rifle

Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:58:54 +0000

Perhaps a little too much of a reminder of the film Die Hard 4 for many readers - the BBC Technology page is reporting that the age of Cyber Warfare may be nearly upon us,... 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 10:40:29 +0000

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

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

Fri, 19 Oct 2007 18:49:50 +0000

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 10:29:55 +0000

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

Mon, 13 Aug 2007 13:52:08 +0000

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 14:08:04 +0000

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

Wed, 04 Jul 2007 04:06:16 +0000

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 13:23:17 +0000

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 13:19:30 +0000

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 09:19:33 +0000

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

Mon, 30 Apr 2007 21:27:02 +0000

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

Mon, 09 Apr 2007 18:48:37 +0000

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...

Attacks Escalate As Microsoft Announces Emergency .ANI Patch

Mon, 02 Apr 2007 23:34:16 +0000

Microsoft is releasing an off-cycle patch Tuesday for the .ANI vulnerability that saw an escalating number of threats appearing over the weekend. F-Secure noted that the first worm using the exploit was discovered roaming the... Read more...

EU attacks Apple over iTunes

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 12 Mar 2007 11:38:31 +0000

THE European Union's consumer chief has hit out at Apple's bundling of its iPod music players and its iTunes online music store. "Do you think it's fine that a CD plays in all CD players... Read more...

Japanese Trojan attacks P2P file-sharing pirates

Steven Parker — Thu, 01 Mar 2007 11:38:53 +0000

n a case of a malware purveyor attacking pirate file-sharers, security vendor Sophos has warned of a bizarre Trojan horse which has been distributed on Japanese peer-to-peer file-sharing networks. The Troj/Pirlames-A Trojan horse has been... Read more...

One Hacker Kit Accounts For 71% Of Attacks

Tue, 23 Jan 2007 20:20:44 +0000

According to Atlanta, Gerogia-based Exploit Prevention Labs, a multi-exploit hack pack was behind 70.9% of all Web-based attacks throughout December 2006. The kit includes up to a dozen different exploits, including several derived from the... Read more...

Symantec Unveils SONAR to Find Zero-Day Attacks

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 13:39:48 +0000

The Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR) is a new security software that will analyze the behaviour of programs running on the computer and decide whether they are malicious. Although other software applications offer... Read more...

Google, British Military Discuss Google Earth Use in Attacks

Wed, 17 Jan 2007 03:08:07 +0000

Google is talking with military agencies after learning that terrorists attacking British bases in Basra, Iraq, appear to have been using aerial footage from Google Earth. It appears that among documents seized in raids on... Read more...

Attacks Launched Against Unpatched Windows Bug

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 13:33:54 +0000

For the second time in less than a week, Microsoft has acknowledged that attackers are exploiting a critical, unpatched flaw in Windows to snatch PCs from their owners. The new bug, which is in an... Read more...

Zero-day attacks continue to hit Microsoft

Steven Parker — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 11:05:03 +0000

Microsoft issued a rare, out-of-cycle Windows patch on Tuesday that fixed one flaw, but attacks through other known, yet-to-be-plugged holes continue. Microsoft on Wednesday warned of "limited zero-day attacks" that exploit a new flaw in... Read more...

Security Experts Warn of Increased SQL Injection Attacks

Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:56:15 +0000

Managed IT security services provider SecureWorks announced Tuesday that they have seen a significant rise in the number of attempted SQL injection hacks aimed at some of its financial and utility company clients over the... Read more...

'Image Spam' and VoIP Scam Attacks on Rise

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 16:38:51 +0000

So-called "image spam" is on the rise once again -- as clever hackers try to sneak by spam screening software that tests messages for spam based on keywords. After declining steadily throughout 2005 -- from... Read more...

Symantec warn of phishing, DoS attacks rise

Thu, 09 Mar 2006 14:53:32 +0000

Security firm Symantec have released a bi-annual report claiming two of the web's most illicit activities are on the increase. Phishing attacks, where scammers send fake emails in a... Read more...

BlackBerrys at Risk from Newly Discovered Hack Attacks

Thu, 05 Jan 2006 19:40:54 +0000

A security Relevant Products/Services from Microsoft flaw in the ubiquitous BlackBerry devices might make some users think twice before opening attachments. The newly revealed vulnerability could allow an attacker to gain access to the device... Read more...

Hackers Admit to Wave of Attacks

Fri, 09 Sep 2005 11:08:37 +0000

An Ohio computer hacker who served as a digital button man for a shady internet hosting company faces prison time after admitting he carried out one of a series of crippling denial-of-service attacks ordered by... Read more...

London in midst of terrorist attacks

Daniel Fleshbourne — Thu, 07 Jul 2005 11:15:37 +0000

A number of people have been killed and dozens injured in a large-scale terrorist attack on London. At least six bomb blasts have been reported in locations across the city on buses and Tube stations.... Read more...

Microsoft backs Eidos after senator attacks publisher

Tue, 21 Jun 2005 20:11:09 +0000

Microsoft has backed Eidos after a US senator declared that its gang warfare title 25 to Life "lowers common decency", while the British publisher has reacted by saying that it believes videogame are a creative... Read more...

Windows XP SP2 Still Vulnerable To Memory Attacks

Tom Warren — Sun, 30 Jan 2005 16:37:19 +0000

Russian security outfit, Maxpatrol, have discovered a way to defeat Microsoft® Windows® XP SP2 Heap protection and Data Execution Prevention mechanism. Data execution prevention (DEP) is a set of hardware and software technologies... Read more...

Java flaw could lead to Windows, Linux attacks

Tue, 23 Nov 2004 22:34:45 +0000

A flaw in Sun Microsystems's plug-in for running Java on a variety of browsers and operating systems could allow a virus to spread through Microsoft Windows and Linux PCs. The vulnerability, found by Finnish... Read more...

Serious IE Hole Opens Pre XP SP2 PCs Up to Attacks

Thu, 04 Nov 2004 15:21:23 +0000

US-CERT on Wednesday warned of a fresh hole in Internet Explorer that could allow attackers to take control of a PC via an HTML e-mail message or a malicious Web page. The flaw is all... Read more...