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Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Shakes Virus Infection
The United States defense contractor community aren’t the only ones suffering under the yolk of cyberattacks—as seen now that Mitsubishi Heavy, Japan’s largest defense contractor, has discovered a multitude of their computers infected with viruses. Mitsubishi Heavy builds submarines, components for nuclear power stations, guided missiles, and rocket engines. The corporation noticed the cyberattack, and ...
Sony Dodges Behind Updated EULA to Avoid Responsibility for Future PSN Security Breaches
In what feels like a turnaround in taking responsibility, Sony has updated their click-wrap End User License Agreement (EULA, or in this case also the Terms of Service orTOS) for people who use the PlayStation Network that will force those agree into arbitration by having them waive their right to file a class action lawsuit ...
U.S., Australia Tie the Knot with Cyber Mutual Defense Treaty
The United States and Australia have been close partners for almost 60 years when it comes to warfare since the day they signed into a mutual defense alliance, which now will be extended to include cyberspace as well. The treaty from 60 years ago, known as the AZNUS military alliance treaty, describes a mutual defense ...
Windows 8 Will Bundle Native Antivirus, Symantec and McAfee Scream in Horror
It’s big news for the Microsoft Windows community that native antivirus is going to come pre-installed for out-of-the-box operating systems. Worldwide, Windows machines account for a significant portion of all machines 0wn3ed by various worms and viruses that generate zombies for botnets; rootkit viruses are on the rise, and even those people who rely on ...
An Ugly Week for Certificate Authorities: DigiNotar, GlobalSign, and ComodoHacker Collide
Certificate Authorities (CAs) make up the backbone of the web of trust for credit card transactions and secure communications between web browsers and web sites. Without this “web of trust” intact, people surfing the web cannot really trust that their credentials, confidential information, and so forth are actually secure when they access as web page. ...
Bitcoinica Adds a Little Forex Brokerage to the Bitcoin Ecology
Imagine the bustle of the crowds as traders hustle all around, jostling shoulders and elbows to get noticed by the man with the clipboard, waving their slips as they yell in the din. It’s not the 1940s on Wall Street anymore and now most of this is done by computers and often by people sitting ...
Forum User Passwords Possibly Stolen In Bitcointalk.org Bill Cosby Hack
Yesterday, Bitcoin enthusiast discussion forum Bitcointalk.org announced that an intruder compromised their forum software and may have had access to the password hashes–but the intruder seemed a lot more interested in plastering Bill Cosby all over in a forum prank. The attack happened on September 3, 2011 so if the attacker has the passwords, they ...
DigiNotar Breach and Fraudulent Certificates Investigation Reveals Incompetence
Last week, we at SiliconANGLE reported on a hack that struck at the root of the certificate authority that keeps the web safe came under significant attack. A certificate authority registrar, DigiNotar, lost control of its servers and an attacker became able to forge certificates pretending to be DigiNotar. This put numerous users in Iran ...
Anonymous Strikes Back: The Texan Sheriff HD Edition
Members of the hactivist collective, Anonymous, have been busy little chrome rats chewing on the insulation of the walls of the Internet and recently they released a data dump of law enforcement e-mails lining their nest. In a Pastebin release entitled with the hashtag #TexasTakedownThursday, which also cites #AntiSec and #FreeTopiary, the hack manifesto links ...
Wyse CEO Tarkan Maner Makes Plans to Disrupt the PC Paradigm
John Furrier and Dave Vellante brought Tarkan Maner, CEO of Wyse into theCube at VMworld 2011. and interviewed him about the direction Wyse is taking with their new products and what he sees happening with the PC and services market. Especially with an eye for the cloud and virtualization During the conversation, John brought up ...