In the realm of IT security, when organisations have their very business on the line, the instinct for most companies is to simply throw money and technology at the problem, upgrading technical systems at every opportunity to keep pace with emerging threats.
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The four-star general who headed the reported cyber-attack by American and Israeli hackers on an Iranian nuclear site is under a DoJ investigation over leaking the details of the operation to the press, reports NBC News.
The notorious RedHack collective has breached another major website of the Turkish government, the one of the Istanbul Special Provincial Administration (ioi.gov.tr).
Lord Leveson was yesterday called to appear before MPs – amid growing anger at his failure to reveal widespread phone-hacking by big business.
Hackers say they have leaked personal details of tens of thousands of U.S. troops to websites, South Korean news reports and online security officials said on Wednesday, a day after cyber attacks disabled access to government and news sites.
“How GCHQ watches your every move” is the Guardian’s front page headline.
Despite a high level of headline-grabbing hacks and the fact that criminal hackers run huge markets of information for sale upon request, most businesses whose confidential information has been hijacked don’t realize how much damage can be caused.
Small business websites have overtaken porn and gambling sites as cyber criminals’ malware distribution tools of choice, according to Sophos director of technology James Lyne, who said the lack of skilled professionals to tackle this issue is leaving the UK wide open to attack.
The energy sector is threaten with increasing frequency by hacktivists, state-sponsored hackers and cybercriminals…
For the past few years, British authorities have been trying to get to the bottom of the phone hacking scandal that revolves around the now defunct News of the World (NOTW).