The Washington Post is reporting that the designs for many of the U.S.’s “most sensitive advanced weapons systems have been compromised by Chinese hackers.” While the U.S. has started to increase its pressure on China, it is a dollar short and a day late. Rather than allow state-sponsored hackers to continue to harm U.S. national and economic security, [...]
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Carly Rae Jepsen Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nude Photos
May 30th, 2013 
National Cyber Security “Call Me, Maybe?” Well, perhaps via a prison phone for Christopher David Long. Long is the 25-year-old Canadian who pleaded guilty yesterday to hacking Carly Rae Jepsen’s computer in an attempt to snatch and release her nude photos. He was arrested last year on mischief and possession of stolen property charges, according to The Hollywood Reporter. Reports came [...]
Federal prosecutors in NY: Costa Rica money transfer company a hub for ‘fraudsters, hackers’
May 29th, 2013 National Cyber Security NEW YORK — When an undercover agent posing as a new client sought to register at the currency transfer firm Liberty Reserve as “Joe Bogus” from “123 Fake Main Street” in “Completely Made Up City,” no one at the company based in Costa Rica objected. The same client recording digital currency transactions as “ATM skimming [...]
Elite ‘Anonymous’ hacker king faces up to 10 years in prison
May 29th, 2013 National Cyber Security He couldn’t write a computer program that would get him out of this. An elite member of the computer-hacking group known as Anonymous admitted yesterday in Manhattan federal court that he broke into private intelligence, FBI and state public-safety Web sites — and now faces up to 10 years in the slammer. Computer whiz Jeremy [...]
Hackers ‘publish EDL contacts’
May 29th, 2013 National Cyber Security Campaigners claiming to be part of the hacking protest group Anonymous have published contact details of senior English Defence League members online, after posting a video vowing to bring down the organisation, it has been reported. In a video posted on YouTube the group condemns the EDL for using the death of Drummer Lee Rigby as an [...]
Chinese hackers ‘access sensitive US weapons systems’
May 28th, 2013 National Cyber Security Designs for some of the United States’ most important and sensitive weapons systems have been “compromised” by Chinese hackers according to a confidential report. The document, which was provided to the Pentagon by the Defence Science Board, an influential advisory body, said that more than two-dozen key weapons systems had been affected, including missile [...]
Chinese hackers steal ASIO building plans: report
May 27th, 2013 National Cyber Security Chinese hackers stole the blueprints of the $630?million building that will house the Australia Security Intelligence Organisation, according to an ABC Four Corners report. The report also alleges Australian government and business networks are under much heavier cyber attacks than the government has admitted. Separately, spy agencies expressed concern budget savings could impair their ability to do [...]
Hackers attack Saudi official websites: reports
May 25th, 2013 National Cyber Security RIYADH — Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. The website of the information ministry was among the hacked sites, according to state news broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya and newspapers. The websites of Al-Ekhbariya itself, along with sports channel Al-Riyadiyah, Channel One [...]
US electric grid under ‘constant state of attack’ from hackers
May 24th, 2013 National Cyber Security American utility providers are under constant assaults from hackers, a new Congressional report reveals, with one electricity firm reporting 10,000 attempted cyber attacks in one month. Congressmen Edward Markey and Henry Waxman surveyed over 100 utility firms across the US, with results published in the Electric Grid Vulnerability report suggesting they’re under constant threat from computer hackers. [...]
New York Police Officer Is Accused of Hacking
May 22nd, 2013 National Cyber Security A New York Police Department detective has been charged with illegally obtaining the personal email login information for at least 43 people, including 20 current and former officers, federal officials said Tuesday. Edwin Vargas, a 42-year-old detective assigned to the 40th Precinct in the Bronx, is also accused of accessing a federal database without authorization. [...]
Google: US counterintelligence service was targeted by Chinese hackers
May 22nd, 2013 National Cyber Security Quoting current and former government officials, the Washington Post reports that the aim of the extensive hacker attacks on Googlein late 2009 was to spy on US counterintelligence information. According to the newspaper, the hackers gained access to a database which contained information about Google Gmail accounts that had surveillance orders on them. Apparently, the thousands of orders included [...]
Chinese hackers resume attacks on US systems
May 20th, 2013 National Cyber Security The New York Times is reporting that state-sponsored hackers in China have resumed attacks on American companies and federal agencies. The Chinese government was blamed for attacks earlier in the year after traces in February revealed hackers were operating from a Chinese military unit based in Shanghai. The Chinese government subsequently denied involvement, and has [...]
Hackers eager to exploit ‘black holes’ in Thai cyberspace security
May 19th, 2013 National Cyber Security The recent hacking of the prime minister’s website set off alarm bells among the government’s security watchdogs, but there are hundreds of well-trained hackers lurking in cyberspace ready to strike ill-prepared local networks. And while Yingluck Shinawatra suffered little more than a few derogatory comments being posted about her, professional hackers are reaping huge financial [...]
Hacking: A growing threat to Indian IT
May 18th, 2013 National Cyber Security NEW DELHI: The recent data theft by hackers from two Indian companies processing prepaid cards for several overseas banks, which led to a global fraud of 45 million dollars, has made India’s 100 billion dollar IT industry a primary target of spam, phishing and viruses. The security breach has reopened the debate on IT security norms followed by Indian firms and the [...]
Indians are hacking into Pakistani computers with promises of defense secrets
May 18th, 2013 National Cyber Security While the Syrian Electronic Army gets all the publicity and the US-China hacking campaigns are now well known, India and Pakistan quietly have their own thing going on. According to two anti-virus firms, ESET and Symantec, Pakistani government agencies have been targeted by spear-phishing attacks—fraudulent emails that trick people into giving up sensitive information—from India for at least two and as [...]
