Duqu hackers scrub evidence from command servers, shut down spying op
The hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their snooping operation, a security researcher said today.
The hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their snooping operation, a security researcher said today.
Security experts today warned consumers of a rapidly mutating spam campaign using bogus messages from United Parcel Service (UPS) claiming that a package could not be delivered.
Three Republican presidential candidates at Tuesday's CNN-sponsored GOP debate said that cyberattacks pose an emerging national security threat to the United States.
The U.S. can expect more aggressive cyberespionage efforts from China, Russia and other countries looking to collect information in areas such as pharmaceuticals, defense and manufacturing, according to a new government report.
The recent spam attack that planted pornographic images on Facebook was not the work of Anonymous, a security researcher said today.
The attacks against Facebook that planted pornography on users' news feeds relied on the same trickery as a campaign last spring that touted the death of Osama Bin Laden, a security researcher said today.
An Iranian government official yesterday acknowledged that the Duqu attacks had infected computers in the country but claimed that the Trojan was "under control," according to a report by a state-run news agency.
The hacker group behind Duqu may have been working on its attack code for more than four years, new analysis of the Trojan revealed Friday.
Whistleblower site WikiLeaks has temporarily suspended operations because of financial constraints.
Whistleblower Web site Wikileaks today announced that it has temporarily suspended operations due to financial constraints.
Researchers at the Argonne National Laboratory this week showed how an electronic voting machine model that's expected to be widely used to tally votes in the 2012 elections can be easily hacked using inexpensive, widely-available electronic components.
Microsoft on Thursday wrapped up its civil case against the still-unnamed controllers of the Rustock botnet and handed off the information gleaned during its investigation to the FBI.
The Dutch company that was hacked earlier this summer by certificate thieves has gone bust and shut down, its U.S.-based owner said Tuesday.
Vacationland Vendors, a company that supplies vending machines and games to entertainment venues, has disclosed a data breach affecting about 40,000 people who visited waterpark resorts in Wisconsin and Tennessee between December 2008 and May 2011.
Apple today released an update to Mac OS X that blocks Safari users from reaching sites secured with certificates stolen from a Dutch company last summer.