Symantec researchers have uncovered additional clues that point to Chinese hacker involvement in attacks against a large number of Western companies, including major U.S. defense contractors.
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Angered by the move by federal authorities to shut down the popular website Megaupload on charges it illegally shared movies, TV shows and e-books, hackers said to be working on behalf of the hactivist group Anonymous late yesterday launched denial-of-service attacks against a number of websites, including that of the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).
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Millions of HP LaserJet printers contain a security weakness that could allow attackers to take control of the systems, steal data from them and issue commands that could cause them to overheat, according to two researchers from Columbia University.
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Months after Google said that Chinese hackers were targeting the Gmail accounts of senior U.S. government officials, attempts to hijack Gmail inboxes continue, a researcher said.
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EBay has deployed 100TB of SSD storage to deal with performance issues related to deploying new virtual machines in its Quality Assurance Division.
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Recent break-ins at high-profile targets like the International Monetary Fund (IMF) demonstrate just how proficient hackers have become at ‘spear phishing,’ researchers said today.
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Due to a reporting error, the Network World (US) story “UltraDNS aims to thwart ‘WikiLeaks-style’ protest attacks”, posted to the wire Monday, listed the wrong last name for a source. The story has been corrected on the wire.
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Due to a reporting error, the story, “New attacks leverage unpatched IE flaw, Microsoft warns,” published Friday confused two similar Windows flaws, both of which were disclosed in January, by two different parties. The bug being used in the new attacks was disclosed anonymously on the Full Disclosure mailing list. The story has been corrected on the wire.
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The attacks against MasterCard by WikiLeaks supporters that knocked the credit card company’s Web site offline today may have caused more problems for the card company than previously thought.
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A large Web hosting company in France is striving to protect the Web sites of its European media customers, which has meant fending off distributed denial-of-service attacks. The enduring pattern of these DDoS attacks suggests they are triggered by angry readers raging against political news that they don’t like.
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