Some mobile trojans are part of commercial spying services: Cyber Highlights August 23rd
Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011Security researchers from Trend Micro identified a commercial service offered by a Chinese Web site that allows people to distribute a mobile trojan and receive the data stolen by it. The service’s customers have the ability to customize the trojan and input the victim’s phone number. This will lead to a malicious MMS being sent [...]
Boeing says under ‘continuous’ cyber attack: Cyber Highlights June 9th
Thursday, June 9th, 2011U.S. aerospace giant Boeing is under “continuous” cyber attack but there has been no breach of its databases, the chief executive of Boeing Defense, Space and Security said June 3. “We, as are other global enterprises, are under a continuous state of cyber attack and cyber probing,” he said. “We recognize the reality of global [...]
Anonymous suspends attacks against PlayStation Network: Cyber Highlights April 11th
Monday, April 11th, 2011The Anonymous collective has suspended the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against the PlayStation Network and other Sony online properties whose downtime might inconvenience gamers, Softpedia reported April 8. Anonymous launched a DDoS campaign against Sony in response to the company’s recent actions that involved suing two PlayStation 3 hackers. After an initial warning that slammed [...]
FBI to conduct joint cyber investigations with China: Cyber Highlights April 5th
Tuesday, April 5th, 2011Chinese hackers are suspected of perpetrating a number of cyber attacks on U.S. networks. The FBI is hoping that by working alongside cybersecurity experts in China, it can begin to gather useful intelligence about network intruders in that nation and elsewhere. The bureau recently dispatched a cybersecurity expert to China, in an effort to work [...]
How to slay a cellphone with a single text: Cyber Highlights March 22nd
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2011Attacks that crash most older cellphones are frequently compounded by carrier networks that send text messages to the target handset over and over. In other cases, they are aided by a “watchdog” feature embedded in the phone, which takes it offline after receiving just three of the malformed messages. The so-called SMS of death attacks [...]
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