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A former Goldman Sachs software developer has been sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing proprietary code used in the firm's high-speed trading platform.
RSA warned its customers yesterday that its network had been breached and data had been stolen that could affect customers using its popular SecurID token authentication technology. Although details are scarce, here's what we know so far.
Hackers obtained data related to SecurID, RSA Security says. Professional hackers using an Advanced Persistent Threat obtained unspecified information that RSA Security said cannot enable a direct attack on customers. RSA Security said it is helping customers strengthen SecurID. An analyst likened the attack to "breaking into Fort Knox."
Top security firm RSA Security revealed on Thursday that it
The Battlestar Galactica had no networked computers for the simple reason that they might allow the Cylons to take control of the ship. You might want to think about that next time you pop in a burned CD into your car's stereo system.
Criminals are reportedly using a new phishing technique that allows them to bypass the fraud warnings issued by modern browsers such as Firefox and Chrome. On its blog, security firm M86Security reports that the trick involves attaching an HTML document instead of sending a link. It remains unclear how many users have become victims so far.
Computer servers are constantly fending off attempts by hackers to infiltrate their systems. Now an IT security expert has illustrated just how dramatic cyber attacks can be.
It's not just your computer that's at risk of malware - dodgy MP3s can now take over your car. Last year, a team of researchers at the US Center for Automotive Embedded Systems Security revealed how automobile computer systems could be hacked via the On-Board Diagnostics (OBD-II) port, an access point typically used by engineers to download data on the vehicle's health.
Adobe issued a security bulletin about a critical vulnerability that could compromise user systems and promised a fix next week. An exploit already exists as an Excel spreadsheet with Flash embedded.
They make the news on a regular basis: incidents in which a company or government agency's security is breached, leading to a loss of information, personal records, or other data. There are many ways to measure the size or cost of a security breach.
Shiny toy maker Apple has had its Ipad 2 jailbroken within days of its release, despite Apple having updated IOS.
Security researchers have discovered a rare strain of router-rooting malware that targets network devices running either Linux or Unix.
A distributed denial-of-service attack that affected thousands of customers at Codero and other hosting providers appeared to come from within China and to be launched at a Chinese site that is critical of communism or its Domain Name System provider, Codero said today.
Hackers have compromised a private e-mail list used by Linux and BSD distributors to share information on embargoed security vulnerabilities and used a backdoor to sniff e-mail traffic, according to the moderator of the list.
Hackers have infiltrated French government computers in search of information about France's leadership of the Group of 20 leading economies, the country's budget minister said Monday.
The infrastructure of the members-only security mailing list "Vendor-Sec" for open source vendors has been severely damaged according to a post published by Markus Meissner at the OSS Security mailing list. At Vendor-Sec, Linux and BSD distributors discussed undisclosed vulnerabilities in the kernel and open source software. Some of the information was embargoed to give vendors time to close their holes.
Readers of Financial Post or National Post blogs might have found them difficult, if not impossible, to access Thursday morning. That is because WordPress, the platform through which every FP and NP blog has been published for the past 10 months, has been under attack by hackers for the past several hours.
Ashton Kutcher's Twitter profile was hacked on Wedesday to spout pro-SSL graffiti. Instead of the usual updates of the life of Mr Demi Moore, the aplusk account regaled its 6.4 million followers with security warnings, such as the one below.
Graf_Chokolo's residence may have been recently raided by the police, but the hacker refuses to be intimidated by Sony's rather draconian crackdown against PS3 jailbreakers and modders.
The federal government's list of emergency network security personnel has not been updated in 15 years, putting national security at high risk if a shutdown takes place on March 4. The possible government shutdown scheduled for March 4, 2011 could trigger a cyberwar emergency.
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