Tag: CYBERATTACK

If you happen to be a fan of the Taliban, you may now have another thing to worry about besides your psychological well-being: hackers. As Wired reports, a Taliban-endorsed, online jihadi forum has apparently come under cyber-siege from people who, shock of shocks, disagree with what the radical Islamic organization espouses. Abu al-Aina'a al-Khorasani, the administrator of the belligerent forum ...

The iPad has only been in circulation for a couple of months, but the device has already fallen prey to a major cyber attack, thanks to a gap in AT&T's security system. According to Gawker, a group of hackers recently succeeded in exploiting a security hole in AT&T's website, and walked away with the e-mails and ID numbers of over 114,000 iPad users. The list of those targeted by the ...

DARPA, the U.S. military's awesomely terrifying Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, possesses an uncanny proficiency for constructing both devastating weaponry and catchy acronyms. The organization, which has previously spawned the GUARD-DOG (Analysis for Rapid Detection - Deployed on the Ground) and RATS (Robust Automatic Transcription of Speech), is reportedly now developing a SMITE ...

The U.S. government has recently made protecting its computers against cyber-attacks a top priority. Now, according to an Associated Press report, the U.S. Air Force will incorporate basics of cyberwarfare into its training regimen for new recruits. In addition, beginning in June, the Air Force will offer a cyberwarfare undergraduate-level training program for officers. Four-star General Robert ...

A new survey of government IT administrators reveals that almost three-quarters of them (74-percent, to be exact) expect the U.S. to be targeted by a foreign power in a cyber-attack this year. More alarmingly, 42-percent of those surveyed rated the government's ability to respond to or protect against such an attack as only "fair" or "poor." The threats to our cybersecurity are seen as coming ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... The United Arab Emirates has received positive recognition for its growing acceptance of women's rights, but the nation is still maintaining a hard-line stance in regard to simulated skin. The UAE has reportedly banned the sale of the video game 'Heavy Rain' because of virtual "blood and nudity." Blood? Really? [From: Joystiq] ...

In the wake of Chinese cyber-attacks on Google and 30 other companies, there's been plenty of finger-pointing between the U.S. and China. Now, security experts claim they've traced the hack back to its original source. The results aren't going to smooth things over, either. According to an Associated Press report on Huffington Post, unnamed investigators followed the digital trail back to ...

The U.S. government is fighting an uphill battle against cyber-attacks. There's no way to completely stop them, so the best course of action is to be prepared. With that in mind, the Bipartisan Policy Center, a Washington D.C. think tank, staged a massive cyber-attack Tuesday to gauge how well our government can react in a moment of crisis. According to the Wall Street Journal, participants ...

Highlights from this morning's other big tech headlines.... 'Avatar' may have been the most hyped 3-D movie of all time, but the visual experience for moviegoers in the United States actually paled in comparison to the interactive ride South Koreans can enjoy. The nation has established several 4-D theatres which provide "moving seats, smells of explosives, sprinkling water, laser lights, and ...

As Chinese citizens continue to shower Google's Beijing headquarters with flowers and "Thank You Google" cards, a group of researchers reportedly identified the source behind the cyber attacks that spurred Google's recent decision to stand up to the People's Republic. According to a report from VeriSign iDefense Labs, the Chinese government was indeed behind the December attack on Google and 30 ...

With old-fashioned, barbaric crusades having gone the way of the Pet Rock, it seems people have started to take their religious beefs from the war-grounds to the Web. The most recent cyber-attack, though, might be the most confusing yet. As the Huffington Post reports, Dmitriy Guzner, a 19-year-old from New Jersey, has been sentenced to a 366-day term in federal prison for participating in a ...

Months before the Global Atheists Convention is held in Melbourne this March, a couple of major atheist Web sites have been forced to shut down due to coordinated, denial-of-service attacks. The Sydney Morning Herald reports that the Atheist Foundation of Australia (AFA) and the Global Atheist Convention both had their sites paralyzed by the attack, which overloaded both sites with traffic. At ...

How exactly this slipped through without getting picked up by the media we're not exactly sure, but it appears that southern San Jose, California and the surrounding area recently fell victim to a cyber-attack that crippled some of the city's infrastructure. Just after midnight on April 9th, someone (or a small group of someones) climbed down four manholes and cut fiber-optic lines serving the ...

Traditionally, modern warfare has been thought about in terms of bombs and bullets. Ladies and gentlemen, that is an antiquated concept of international conflict. According to CBS News, the Pentagon has spent over $100 million in the last six months defending the United States against repeated attacks on the Pentagon and military bases around the country. You don't often hear about these ...

Last year, the federal government's computer systems saw a 40-percent increase in cyberattacks, reports USA Today. From 2007 to 2008, reported incidents of attacks on governmental computer systems rose from 3,928 to 5,488, according to a report by the U.S. Computer Emergency Readiness Team. While these numbers could conceivably be a result of more thorough tracking techniques, Joel Brenner of ...