News tagged with cyber terrorism

Deal finally struck on stress tests for Europe's reactors

European nations Tuesday finally struck a deal on stress tests to be carried out from next month on the continent's reactors, EU diplomats and European Commission sources said.

Technology / Energy & Green Tech

created May 24, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Compromise found in EU nuclear safety testing row

European nations split over whether to include the threat of terror attacks in stress tests to be carried out on the continent's reactors have reached a key compromise, diplomats said Friday. ...

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created May 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

How do we fight the war against cyber terrorism?

The Internet has no borders, no universal legislation, and although highly social and distributed is not represented by cooperation across the globe. Given those characteristics how might nations make their plans for counter ...

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created Apr 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Sri Lanka army website hacked: defence ministry

The Sri Lankan army's website has been targeted in a "cyber terrorism" attack by Tamil rebels, the defence ministry said Friday, and replaced with gruesome photos of apparent victims of the civil war.

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High-tech devices leave users vulnerable to spies

"You could now listen in 100 percent completely undetected" - that's the promise one company makes on its website to anyone who wants to eavesdrop on someone else's cellphone.

Technology / Telecom

created Jan 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Helping businesses defend against cyber threats

Analysts with the National Security Agency see the threats coming at corporate America: viruses, worms and other malware targeting the computer networks that serve the nation's banks, utilities and businesses.

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created Dec 06, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 1

FBI, DHS dismiss report of water plant hack

US investigators have dismissed a report that computer hackers were behind the failure of a water pump at a plant in the midwestern US state of Illinois.

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created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Foreign cyber attack hits US infrastructure: expert

A cyber strike launched from outside the United States hit a public water system in the Midwestern state of Illinois, an infrastructure control systems expert said on Friday.

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created Nov 19, 2011 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 33

Putting a face -- and a fingerprint -- to a name

Bill Conner runs a defense company whose customers are threatened by new forms of global attack every day.

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created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Buildings house secret servers that keep the Internet running

From the outside, the Gothic brick and limestone building a few blocks south of downtown almost looks abandoned.

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created Oct 03, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 10

2,700 hacking attempts on S.Korea military in year

South Korea's military has seen more than 2,700 attempts to hack into its websites over the past year, a lawmaker said Wednesday, amid growing concern over North Korea's cyber warfare capability.

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created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Hackers hijack Twitter accounts of Chavez critics

(AP) -- Over months, Venezuelan TV soap opera writer Leonardo Padron built a Twitter following of about 250,000 people by posting more than a dozen messages a day, many of them skewering President Hugo Chavez.

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created Sep 27, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Hacker gets 6-year sentence for 'sextortion' case

(AP) -- A Southern California man was sentenced to six years in prison Thursday for infiltrating computers belonging to women and teenage girls where he found sexually explicit photos and threatening to put ...

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created Sep 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Hacker drone launches airborne cyber attacks

Computer security specialists showed off a homemade drone aircraft Friday capable of launching airborne cyber attacks, hijacking mobile phone calls, or even delivering a dirty bomb.

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created Aug 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 3


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