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Cyber attack targets unpatched Excel flaw
News A new, yet-to-be-patched security vulnerability in Microsoft's Excel has been exploited in at least one targeted cyber attack, experts warned on Friday. In addition, the monthly set of patches Microsoft released on Tuesday included a fix for a Word...
[June 19, 2006, 9:40]
Nato: Cyber-terrorism danger equal to missile attack
News Nato's cyber-defence chief has warned that computer-based terrorism poses the same threat to national security as a missile attack. Anil said the cyberattacks on Estonia last year, which brought down key financial and state systems, had...
[March 10, 2008, 8:06]
Cyber attack takes blogs offine
News About 10 million LiveJournal and TypePad blogs were offline or barely reachable for several hours Tuesday as the result of a massive denial-of-service attack. The attack started around 1600 PDT (Pacific time -- 8 hours behind the UK), targeting the...
[May 4, 2006, 9:55]
Experts warn of new-style cyber attack
News Over the past six weeks, network servers have come under assault by a fundamentally new style of computer attack, said experts at the National Information Systems Security Conference in the US. It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very...
[October 20, 1999, 10:45]
FBI says cyber-attack tools available
News There are plenty of tools available to help Web sites prevent or control Denial of Service attacks such as those that have made headlines this week, but it is up to the sites themselves to use them. The key to this is prevention," said FBI...
[February 10, 2000, 8:05]
New cyber attack method surfaces
News It's possible to detect the attack, but it is very hard to block it" using current software, said Thomas Longstaff, senior technical researcher for Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University, during a panel presentation Tuesday.
[October 20, 1999, 8:20]
Blue Security attack linked to blog crashes
News A cyber attack that shut down anti-spam site Blue Security also felled thousands of blogs when the spam campaigner deflected the malicious hits onto its journal at blog host Six Apart, analysts said. We fight for our freedom from spammers and cyber...
[May 4, 2006, 18:00]
US Report: Iraqi cyber-counterattack not a worry
News While acknowledging the potential for a cyber attack, "you could say that about anything," said William Orvis, security analyst with the Department of Energy's Computer Incident Advisory Capability (CIAC).
[December 17, 1998, 9:19]
How the cyber vandals zapped Yahoo!
News A denial of service attack is a form of cyber attack that blocks Internet traffic from reaching a particular company or Internet service. offline Monday was gaining in popularity among cyber vandals. The National Institute of Standards and...
[February 8, 2000, 8:14]
EU calls for 'Mister Cyber Security'
Blog Europe needs a 'Mister Cyber Security' as we have a 'Mister Foreign Affairs', a security tsar with authority to act immediately if a cyber attack is underway, a Cyber Cop in charge of the coordination of our forces and of developing tactical plans...
[April 27, 2009, 15:46]
BAA bolsters its cyber defences
News British Airports Authority (BAA) is investing £23m in a top-secret programme to combat the threat of cyber-terrorism. We all know that cyber-crime is on the increase but it is the potential for cyber-terrorism that keeps me awake," he said.
[June 10, 2005, 15:25]
Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News While many may support protests against GM foods in Britain, the suggestion that a cyber attack is akin to a street protest and, therefore, an appropriate means of demonstration, has been questioned by some conventional hackers.
[March 16, 2000, 16:27]
A Year Ago: Denial of Service attacks loom in GM food protest
News While many may support protests against GM foods in Britain, the suggestion that a cyber attack is akin to a street protest and, therefore, an appropriate means of demonstration, has been questioned by some conventional hackers.
[March 16, 2001, 6:03]
US Dept of Defense lists top 20 security controls
News Federal cyber attack and defence experts, including penetration testing teams, began to pool their knowledge of the attack techniques being used against the government and defence industrial base. Called Twenty Most Important Controls and Metrics...
[February 23, 2009, 14:20]
Hackers face life sentence
News A committee report accompanying the legislation predicts: "A terrorist or criminal cyber attack could further harm our economy and critical infrastructure. The Bush administration had asked Congress to approve the Cyber Security Enhancement Act...
[July 16, 2002, 12:48]
Government hacker warning is a sign of the times
News Most people think that a real cyber-terrorism attack is still some way off because there’s still a level of diversity in the systems that people use, although this shows that it’s moving in that direction,” he explained.
[June 16, 2005, 16:45]
High-tech vigilantes face legal threat
News There is no clear line between cyber defence and attack," he said. Bob Ayers, vice president of Para-Protect Europe, said, "Police can't cope with the volume of cybercrime, prosecution can't match the rate of offences, and penalties are out of...
[May 8, 2001, 14:41]
Schneier: Cyber-extortion on the rise
News Security expert Bruce Schneier has warned that cyber-extortion is on the rise, but gave the caveat that it mainly affects "fringe" industries, such as online gambling, rather than critical national infrastructure organisations.
[January 23, 2008, 16:28]
Cyberwarfare 'a reality in 12 months'
News Although an actual act of cyber-warfare or cyber-terrorism has never been recorded, the potential exists and is being facilitated by an increasingly connected world, according to a report released on Wednesday by market-research firm Gartner.
[January 15, 2004, 11:50]
International cyberattack drill tests nations' responses
News Details have emerged about "Cyber Storm II", a large-scale exercise carried out to test how governments and critical-infrastructure organisations respond to cyberattacks. McKitrick said that in any simulation there was "always an element of fudging...
[April 10, 2008, 11:22]
