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Article | 6/07/2011 DDoS attack in March likely North Korean work, says McAfee
The cyber attacks that paralyzed a handful of major South Korean websites earlier this year were almost certainly carried out by North Korea or partie...
Article | 30/06/2011 Researcher: Threats from zero-day exploits overhyped
Computers lacking patches for long-known vulnerabilities potentially face more of a hacking risk than from zero-day exploits, or attacks targeting vul...
Article | 30/06/2011 Worm hits popular Chinese Twitter-like service
A popular Twitter-like service in China with <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/227714/chinaand8217s_sina_benefits_from_surge_in_m...
Article | 21/06/2011 UK police arrest teen from Lulz Security for DDOS attack
U.K. police arrested a 19-year-old on Monday for allegedly attacking a police website earlier in the day, in what is the first arrest connected with t...
Article | 21/06/2011 Researchers: AWS users are leaving security holes
Researchers in Germany have found abundant security problems within Amazon's cloud-computing services due to its customers either ignoring or forgetti...
Article | 17/06/2011 US warns of problems in Chinese SCADA software
Two vulnerabilities found in industrial control system software made in China but used worldwide could be remotely exploited by attackers, according t...
Article | 15/06/2011 EU ministers seek to ban creation of 'hacking tools'
Justice Ministers across Europe want to make the creation of "hacking tools" a criminal offense, but critics have hit back at the plans, saying that t...
Article | 11/06/2011 Siemens fixes industrial flaws found by hacker
Siemens has fixed bugs in its Simatic S7 industrial computer systems, used to control machines on factory floors, power stations and chemical plants.
Article | 7/06/2011 After delay, hacker to show flaws in Siemens industrial gear
A security researcher who says he's found serious problems with Siemens computers used in power plants and heavy industry is now expecting to go publi...
Article | 1/06/2011 Cyberattacks can justify armed response, Pentagon says
The U.S. military is prepared to use physical attacks in response to cyberattacks, the U.S. Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Article | 24/05/2011 Dimension Data finds vulnerabilities on Cisco devices
Large numbers of companies using Cisco network equipment are still vulnerable to a single security vulnerability flaw nearly two years after a patch w...
Article | 21/05/2011 Industry agrees on security vulnerability reporting format
Three years after its founding, the Industry Consortium for Advancement of Security on the Internet (ICASI) is starting to bear fruit with the launch ...
Article | 20/05/2011 Siemens says it will fix SCADA bugs
Siemens is working on a fix for some serious vulnerabilities recently discovered in its industrial control system products used to manage machines on ...
Article | 19/05/2011 Siemens SCADA hacking talk pulled over security concerns
A planned presentation on security vulnerabilities in Siemens industrial control systems was pulled Wednesday over worries that the information in the...
Article | 28/04/2011 Oracle hedging its vulnerability reports?
Oracle may be subtly misleading customers about the severity of some of the vulnerabilities found in its database software, according to researchers f...