Chinese hackers target US national security think tanks
The Chinese cyberattack group Deep Panda has compromised national security think tanks using sophisticated techniques designed to steal confidential data concerning US foreign policy, according...
U.S. to announce first criminal charges against China for cyberspying
The Justice Department is charging members of the Chinese military with conducting economic cyber-espionage against American companies, U.S. officials familiar with the case said Monday,...
Iran’s Cyberwarfare Chief Gunned Down
Two bullets to the heart have terminated the life of Iran’s chief of cyberwarfare, according to the Daily Telegraph. Mojtaba Ahmadi, commander of Iran’s Cyber...
Feds are Suspects in New Malware That Attacks Tor Anonymity
Security researchers tonight are poring over a piece of malware that takes advantage of a Firefox security vulnerability to identify some users of the privacy-protecting Tor...
A Hack-Proof Internet Exists, Thanks to Quantum Physics
Leave it to the quantum physicists at Los Alamos National Labs to have run for the past two years something that sounded like science fiction:...
Syria drops off the Internet
It looks like internet access into and out of Syria has been deliberately shut down. (more…)
Anonymous ‘hacks’ North Korea social network accounts
The hacker collective Anonymous has said it has been "hacking" and vandalising social networking profiles linked to North Korea. (more…)
Another wave of computer failures rings alarm bells in South Korea.
A number of government and civilian organizations experienced network and website malfunctions on Tuesday, unnerving government officials just days after computer networks at banks and...
US Teens preparing for Cyberwarfare.
Computer-savvy teens are putting down their game controllers -- at least temporarily -- for code writing and virus-sweeping. Security professionals, call it "Red Dawn: Part...
White House confirms hack came from China.
White House sources partly confirmed an alarming report that U.S. government computers -- reportedly including systems used by the military for nuclear commands -- were breached...