A day after Iran announced the establishment of a Cyber Command, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Wednesday announced the establishment of a national cybernetic taskforce to encourage and develop the field of cybernetics and turn the State of Israel into a global center of knowledge, in cooperation with academia, industry, the security establishment and other [...]
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Israel builds Cybernetic taskforce to defend against cyberwar
Posted: 20th May 2011 by infosecindia in NewsTags: Benjamin Netanyahu, Cybernetics taskforce, cyberwar, hackers, Iran, Israel, Tel Aviv-Jaffa Municipality
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North Korean hackers shut down South Korean bank via DDoS attack
Posted: 3rd May 2011 by infosecindia in DDoS, Law & OrderTags: DDoS, hackers, Kim Jong II, National Intelligence Service, Nonghyup, North Korea, South Korea
North Korea was responsible for paralyzing the National Agricultural Cooperative Federation’s computer network in April in a second online attack in two months linked to the Kim Jong II regime, South Korean prosecutors said. According to a Bloomberg report, “Hackers used similar techniques employed in cyber assaults that targeted websites in South Korea and the [...]
Another 25 million users’ data stolen in the second Sony hack
Posted: 3rd May 2011 by infosecindia in Data Loss, Data PrivacyTags: hackers, PlayStation, PSN, Sony, user data
Sony has disclosed that hackers stole the names, addresses and passwords of nearly 25 million more users than previously known less than a day after the Japanese company apologized for one of the worst break-ins in Internet history. On Sunday, Sony apologized to its users for the incident that was initially thought to have impacted [...]