Cyber Attacks
Google has detected a rising number of email-based phishing attacks in the run up to the election in Iran, which are trying, according to the tech giant, "to compromise the accounts of tens of thousands of Iranian users."
On the heels of reports from U.S. officials that Iranian hackers have gained a worrying amount of access to U.S. energy firms in an attempt to sabotage utility systems, comes new reports that Chinese cyberspies have compromised the system designs of a long list of important U.S. military assets.
Recent hacking news has been predominantly focused on security breaches at media companies, possibly coming from inside China, or influential Twitter accounts being hijacked - presenting varying levels of disruption, ranging from the trivial to the more serious- by the Syrian Electronic Army. But recent accounts from current and former U.S. officials describe even more potentially dangerous incoming cyberattacks, coming from Iran.
A man has just been arrested in Spain in connection with last month's large-scale cyber attack on the non-profit organization Spamhaus.
Attacks by hackers have breached Apple Inc. using malware specifically designed for Mac computers.
An alert went out to Montana television viewers yesterday on the CW channel using the Emergency Alert System. The message told several Montana counties to be on the alert for a zombie invasion.
After a secret legal review on the offensive use of America's cyberarsenal, President Obama has been given the power to order pre-emtive cyber attacks if the United States believes the aggressor poses a credible threat.
At the beginning of this weekend, Twitter Inc. announced that it had been hacked, in a big way. By its estimates, about 250,000 Twitter users may have had their private information such as user names, passwords, and email addresses exposed in the cyber attack.
Hackers sympathetic to the late computer prodigy Aaron Swartz claimed on Saturday to have infiltrated the website of the U.S. Justice Department's Sentencing Commission, and said they planned to release government data.
A high-level National Security Agency official is slated to lead a number of debates regarding cyber security and the threat of cyber attack on the U.S. on Friday September 7th at NYU-Poly's downtown Brooklyn Campus.
