Australian carriers and ISPs will be forced to retain customer’s private data such as email and text messages by police and authorities, without a warrant, if it is required for investigations into cybercrime. The requirements are part of legislation introduced to strengthen cyber security laws and enhance Australia’s ability to combat international cybercrime. Attorney General …
I.M.F. reports cyber-attack
The International Monetary Fund, still struggling to find a new leader after the arrest of its managing director last month in New York, was hit recently by what computer experts describe as a large and sophisticated cyber-attack whose dimensions are still unknown. The fund, which manages financial crises around the world and is the repository …
Australia : Hackers now a top security menace
Australians will be warned today of a serious risk to national security as foreign hackers intensify their efforts to bring down computer networks operated by the Government, banks and phone companies. Federal Attorney-General Robert McClelland will paint the sombre scenario when he presents a threat analysis developed by Australia’s most secret spy organisations. »These attacks …
FFFjacking – File From Frame hiJacking
Description of new hacking technique, which allows data hijacking from victim’s local disks or upload and run files to victim’s computer (depending on used OS and web browser). What everything attacker can? Attacker can reach the following (depending on used OS and web browser): read directory index of user’s computer disks (a lot of web …
Sony Pictures confirms LulzSec hacker attack, FBI probe
Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., the television and movie studio for the Japanese electronics giant, confirmed late Friday that it been hacked and was working with the FBI to identify the attacker. In a statement, the studio’s chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal said that a « cyber-crime wave that has affected Sony companies …
