Chinese Hack Into US Chamber of Commerce, Authorities Say. <br/><a href=" US News</a> | <a href=" Business News</a> Copy For more than a year, hackers with ties to the Chinese military have been eavesdropping on U.S.
Chamber of Commerce officials involved in Asia affairs, authorities say. The hackers had access to everything in Chamber computers, including, potentially, the entire U.S. trade policy playbook. "The Chinese have attacked every major U.S. company, every government agency, and NGO's. Hackers target intelligence agency contractors - Technology & science - Security. Hackers break into US Senate website - Americas. The US Senate's website was hacked over the weekend, leading to a review of all of its websites, in the latest embarrassing breach of security to hit a major US-based institution.
Lulz Security, a loosely organised hacker group, broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms, said on Monday. Despite the breach, the sergeant at arms office, which provides security for the Senate, said that the breach had not compromised any individual senator's information. Lulz Security announced the hack on Monday. "We were responding to their allegations. Basically what we're saying that the server they got into is for public access and is in the public side," Bradford said. Absolute Sownage. A concise history of recent Sony hacks Sat Jun 4 04:17:33 CDT 2011 Security Curmudgeon Over the last two months, the multi-national Sony Corporation has come under a wide range of attacks from an even wider range of attackers. The backstory about what event prompted who to attack and why will make a mediocre made-for-TV movie someday.
This article is not going to cover the brief history of hacks; readers can find details elsewhere. Twitter website struck by ‘Iranian Cyber Army’ hackers. A hacking group calling itself the "Iranian Cyber Army" pulled off a coup for about an hour earlier today, redirecting visitors to the Twitter website to a page containing a green flag and Arabic writing: Fortunately there is no indication at this point that the page was carrying malicious code, and this attack appears to have had political motivations rather than being designed to steal confidential information from users.
Of course, just because a message saying This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army has beeen posted on a webpage does not necessarily mean that hackers from Iran are responsible for the defacement. Another part of the message read: The USA thinks they control and manage internet access, but they don't. Security firm RSA warns that its servers have been hacked. Hackers have broken into the servers of RSA, the security division of EMC, and stolen information related to the company's SecurID two-factor authentication products.
That's the astonishing announcement made by Art Coviello, RSA's executive chairman, in an open letter published for the firm's thousands of corporate and government customers around the world. Many companies and organizations use RSA's SecurID tokens - which display a sequence of numbers that change every 30 seconds or so - as an additional level of security when staff log in to their networks. You may also have been given something similar by your online bank, as a means to authenticate that you are who you say you are when you try to access your account. RSA says it will be providing its security customers with "immediate steps for them to take to strengthen their SecurID implementations.
" US military contractors hacked – possible link with RSA SecurID breach. Hackers have broken into the network of Lockheed Martin and several other US military contractors, according to media reports.
Lockheed Martin, has described the attack as "significant and tenacious". Blogger Robert Cringely claimed that Lockheed Martin first detected the security breach last weekend (a fact later confirmed by the weapons maker in a press statement). In response to the attack the firm is said to have promptly blocked all remote VPN access to their internal network, and informed over 100,000 users that they would have to change their passwords. In addition, it's claimed that all Lockheed personnel with RSA SecurID tokens will be given new tokens. From the sound of things, Lockheed Martin took swift and sensible action. The mention of RSA SecurID tokens, though, is interesting. You may have used something similar when accessing your online bank account - for instance, a keyfob that displays a sequence of numbers that changes every 30 seconds or so.
L-3 defense supplier targeted in RSA SecurID hack attack, report claims. Over 170,000 people are part of the Sophos community on Facebook.
Why not join us on Facebook to find out about the latest security threats. Hi fellow Twitter user! Follow our team of security experts on Twitter for the latest news about internet security threats. Strike three: Speculation rises that another US military contractor has been hit by hackers. Fox News is reporting that US military contractor Northrop Grumman may have suffered a hacking attack on its networks.
If true, the defense giant will be joining the likes of L-3 Communications and Lockheed Martin who have both been targeted in recent weeks by cyber attacks. According to Fox News, Northrop Grumman unexpectedly shut down remote access to its network on May 26th, just five days after Lockheed Martin detected that unauthorised persons had infiltrated its systems. A anonymous source at Northrop Grumman, which is the US's second-largest defense contractor, told Fox News that the sudden lockdown was a shock to staff: "We went through a domain name and password reset across the entire organization.
This caught even my executive management off guard and caused chaos. In March, RSA admitted that it had been hacked, and some of the information stolen was specifically related to their SecurID two-factor authentication products. Hackers broke into Lockheed Martin networks & U.S. defense contractors ! ~ THN : The Hackers News. Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told Reuters. They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys from EMC Corp's RSA security division, said the person who was not authorized to publicly discuss the matter.
It was not immediately clear what kind of data, if any, was stolen by the hackers.