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WordPress DDoS Attack Adds to Growing Cyber Wars

Popular open source content management system WordPress was targeted by a massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack today, TechCrunch reports. It wasn't easy for TechCrunch to post that information, as TechCrunch runs on WordPress. (The site, and many other WordPress sites, are working again.) WordPress founder...

Oil Companies Hit With Cyberattack, Likely From China

At least five major oil and gas companies were the victims of a cyberattack that aimed to steal valuable commercial information, according to a report by software security company McAfee. The attack, which apparently originated in Beijing, focused on oil and gas field production systems and information related to field...

Fake White House Holiday E-Mail Contained Dangerous Malware

An e-mailed Christmas greeting purportedly from the White House actually contained dangerous malware aimed at extracting sensitive financial data and documents from government employees. The bogus e-mail, discovered last week, was a ruse by cybercriminals who may have been primarily interested in accessing documents by...

'Operation Payback' Epic Fail? Visa, Sarah Palin PAC Fend Off Cyberattacks

(Dec. 8) -- So this is the big payback? A shadowy network of computer hacker activists ("hacktivists," for short) pressed forth with a series of cyberattacks on Visa, MasterCard and Sarah Palin, in a show of solidarity with Julian Assange's whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. While the specter of a secret band of techno...

China Telecom Denies Hijacking Web Traffic

(Nov. 18) -- A state-owned Chinese telecom company is denying accusations in a U.S. government report that it "hijacked" 15 percent of the world's Web traffic earlier this year and rerouted highly sensitive information through China. "China Telecom has never done such an act," company spokesman Wang Yongzhen told China's...

Background on CyberAttack

Computer insecurity refers to the concept that a computer system is always vulnerable to attack, and that this fact creates a constant battle between those looking to improve security, and those looking to circumvent security.

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