cyberattack

IMF was hacked, World Bank terminates computer connections to the fund

June 13, 2011 - 4:43am | Fraud | News

A severe cyberattack hit the servers of the International Monetary Fund. The fund has admitted to being a victim of hackers’ hijacking. After the report the World Bank decided to temporally cut all computer connections between the two institutions.

It was not revealed what the nature of the attack was. The IMF staff was told of the hack last week in an email. However, it is widely believed that the attack had occurred some time before Dominique Strauss-Kahn was accused of the sexual assault.

cyberattack | hack | hijack | IMF | World Bank

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Hacker attacks hit large companies more than it is actually reported

January 29, 2010 - 8:35am | Fraud | News

According to a survey by security software firm McAfee every second largest infrastructure supplier has been hit by a cyberattack.

While many attacks on business users prove successful security experts note that very few of the companies hit by hackers make the information public for fear of spoilt reputation.

In the research for the McAfee the Center of Strategic and International Studies polled about the Center of Strategic and International Studies

cyberattack | data theft | hacker attack | McAfee | online fraud

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Only internal hacking attacks made China to make its Cyber Law stricter

May 12, 2009 - 4:30am | Fraud | News

As we all know a large portion of malware and other cyber attacks is coming from China. Zhao, the CEO of security consultancy Knownsec, called China "the world's malware factory," saying that the country has become a major source of online attacks and so-called zero-day attacks, which target previously undisclosed software flaws. Chinese hackers have become very famous in recent months for their widespread attacks against programs such as Internet Explorer and Adobe Flash.

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Visiting social networks from an office result in data breaches. What to do?

May 11, 2009 - 4:37am | Fraud | News

A recent research conducted by the Secure Enterprise 2.0 Forum, an industry group aimed at enabling the safe use of social media in the workplace and sponsored by WorkLight, made a conclusion that now hackers are inclined to use social networks like Facebook and Twitter to spread their malware across company networks and workstations.

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Users of Safari and Opera more vulnerable to cyberattacks

May 6, 2009 - 7:11am | Figures | News

The report, prepared by researchers at Google Switzerland and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology showed that users of Safari and Opera are much more likely to run insecure versions of those browsers.

Analysis of data pulled from anonymized Google logs showed that 24 percent of Opera users were browsing with the latest version three weeks after a new release.

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Young internet users are more frequently hit by cyberattacks

May 5, 2009 - 5:27am | Fraud | News

A recent research shows that younger Internet users are at higher risk of cybercrime, states PC Tools, a security vendor. A recent research of PC Tools revealed that the age group which was the most targeted for the cybercrime was 18- to 32-year-olds, 59 percent of which regularly use instant messaging and 67 percent frequently visit social networking sites. Apart from these activities, 57 percent of them are engaged in online banking.

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US military lacks strong cyberwar regulations

April 30, 2009 - 8:10am | News | Other themes

The United States government still has not formed a coherent policy for engaging in warfare involving attacks on a country's electrical power grids and other important infrastructure, states a non-profit group of scientists and policy advisors.

The board mentioned above added that many nuances of cyberwar, such as high degree of anonymity of those who carry out such attacks, making it hard to identify those who perpetrate them, etc., remained poorly understood, even though military actively prepares for it.

cyberattack | cyberwar | infrastructure | US military

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American hackers called upon to help U.S. to fight overseas hackers

April 20, 2009 - 7:01am | Fraud | News

General Dynamics Information Technology has announced last month that Homeland Security Department was seeking to hire people, who understand hackers' tools and tactics and are able to analyze Internet traffic and identify vulnerabilities in the federal systems. It is also known that Pentagon plans to increase the number of cyberexperts it can train each year from 80 to 250 by 2011.

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