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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 759 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: it security controls partly blamed socgen debacle comments Discuss  
Traders face biometrics tabsWeak security controls have been partly blamed for the rogue trader scandal at Société Générale that cost the bank €4.9bn ($7.2bn).… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 712 days ago
Via: http://www.infoworld.com | Tags: outsourcing blamed rising security woes comments Discuss  
The world has a new culprit to blame for the rising tide of software vulnerabilities -- code outsourcing. read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 654 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: chinese crackers blamed power blackouts comments Discuss  
Lights go out, firewalls come tumbling downChinese hackers have been blamed for two sets of cyber attacks that left US homes without electricity in recent years.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 653 days ago
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060501958.htmlBy Brian Krebswashingtonpost.com Staff WriterJune 5, 2008A nuclear power plant in Georgia was recently forced into an emergency shutdown for 48 hours after a software update was installed on a single computer.The incident occurred on March 7 at Unit 2 of the Hatch nuclear power plant near Baxley, Georgia. The trouble started after an engineer from Southern Company, which manages the technology operations for the plant, inst read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 643 days ago
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Replacement PC was 'ticking time bomb'A Department of Industrial Accidents investigator has been cleared of child porn possession charges after a forensic investigation revealed that malware was to blame for depraved smut on his company laptop.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 640 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn citibank hack blamed alleged atm crime spree comments Discuss  
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/06/citibank-atm-se.htmlBy Kevin Poulsen Threat LevelWired.comJune 18, 2008A computer intrusion into a Citibank server that processes ATM withdrawals led to two Brooklyn men making hundreds of fraudulent withdrawals from New York City cash machines in February, pocketing at least $750,000 in cash, according to federal prosecutors.The ATM crime spree is apparently the first to be publicly linked to the breach of a major U.S. bank's systems, experts say."We've never read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 600 days ago
Via: http://lists.jammed.com | Tags: isn china blamed cyberterrorism comments Discuss  
From: InfoSec News <alerts_at_private>Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 01:07:52 -0500 (CDT)http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2222622/china-blamed-hack-attacksby Robert Blincoevnunet.com28 July 2008China has been accused of sponsoring cyber-terrorism at a conference organised by the UK Home Office.Professor John Walker, managing director of forensics consultancy Secure-Bastion, said at the International Crime Science Conference in London last week that the Chinese government was behind the 'Titan Rain' attacks read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 464 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: brazilian hackers blamed aiding amazon deforestation comments Discuss  
Computer cracking carbon footprintMalicious hackers have been charged with all manner of misdeeds, from mounting the biggest military hack ever to sending Viagra to Bill Gates to crashing sewerage systems. On Friday, Greenpeace accused cybercrooks of conspiring to allow actions that threaten the balance of nature by helping to destroy the Amazon rainforest.… read more »
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Category: news | Posted by Avatar Staff 437 days ago
Via: http://go.theregister.com | Tags: hackers insiders blamed data breach growth comments Discuss  
Taking a leakUS organisations lost even more sensitive data in a greater number of information security screw-ups last year, according to a new survey.… read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 332 days ago
Via: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: earthlink outage blamed earth day power failure comments Discuss  
Atlanta based Internet service provider Earthlink had an outage for several hours on Wednesday, temporarily interrupting e-mail service. It also knocked offline many of the 87,000 Web sites it hosts, including the company's own homepage. Several readers have written Security Fix asking what's up, and some have speculated that the fact that Earthlink was felled on Earth Day was just too perfect to be caused by anything but an attack on the company. The reality is far more ironic: A spokeswoman for Earthlink read more »
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Category: blogs | Posted by Avatar Staff 311 days ago
Via: http://feeds.voices.washingtonpost.com | Tags: heartland breach blamed failed membership renewals comments Discuss  
In February, Bill Oesterle began seeing nearly twice the normal number of transactions being declined for customers who had set up auto-billing on their accounts. The co-founder of Angie's List -- a service that aggregates consumer reviews of local contractors and physicians -- said he originally assumed more customers were simply having trouble making ends meet in a down economy. But as that trend continued into March and April, the company shifted its suspicions to another probable culprit: credit card p read more »
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