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Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Nokia apologises for 'significantly large' security breach

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Developer forum brought down by hackers who exploited a bulletin board software. Finnish phonemaker Nokia has shut down an online forum for developers after hackers brought it down over the weekend. The company has suspended its developers fourms and replaced with a company statement warning developers that the "signifcantly large" hack attack could have compromised personal details of the registered deveopers including dates of birth and email addresses. The company also said that...

WikiLeaks crashes temporarily after cyberattack: report

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Whistleblower had published over 125,000 secret US State Department documents in the past week. A spate of cyberattacks reportedly crashed the whistleblower website WikiLeaks on Tuesday. An Associated Press report said that the cyberattack took place after the "accelerated publication" of tens of thousands of sensitive US State Department cables. The report said that WikiLeaks had published over 125,000 secret documents in the past week, which was far more than it had earlier published....

Hackers used 'Job offer' email to breach RSA's security: F-Secure

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'Very sophisticated attack', as RSA had called the March hack attack, turned out to be a targeted email to EMC employees, says computer security firm. Hackers working for a "nation state" used a targeted 'job offer' email to EMC employees to breach the security of RSA to steal military secrets from US arms supplier Lockheed-Martin, according to F-Secure. F-Secure said on its website, "As far as we know, a nation-state wanted to break in to Lockheed-Martin and Northrop-Grumman to...

Staff Pay leaked after RBS email security policy breach

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The pay rates of around 3,000 contract staff of RBS were leaked after an email accidently got sent to employees of RBS. Some of the employees are paid £2,000 a day, according to a report by SearchSecurity. According to the report, a staff member of employment agency Hays sent the email containing day rates paid to contractors to 800 RBS employees. Hays has a contract with RBS to supply temporary staff. RBS has said that no customer details had been breached. It has not commented on...

10-year-old ARMY-labelled hacking software revealed by China's state broadcaster !!

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Six-second clip could be a proof that China has been involved in cyber warfare for over 10 years US security analysts have said that a video allegedly showing army-labelled software designed to attack websites in the US was screened on China's state broadcaster CCTV. CCTV, which has shown misleading and bogus footage in the past, has not commented on the matter so far. The US security experts say that if the six-second clip is genuine, it could be a proof that China has been involved...