Current Cyber Security Threats
Cyber Security Threats in 2009
Cyber Security Threats in 2008
- 07/08/10 USA. A former senior database administrator at a Houston electricity provider was sentenced Tuesday to one year in prison for hacking into his former employer's computer network, the U.S. Department of Justice said. Read more.
- 07/07/10 USA. A study released this year by SpiderLabs, a part of the data-security consulting company Trustwave, found that 38 percent of the credit card hacking cases last year involved the hotel industry. The sector was well ahead of the financial services industry (19 percent), retailing (14.2 percent), and restaurants and bars (13 percent). Read more.
- 07/01/10 USA. An unknown hacker broke into Maine’s online database of legislative activity www.mainelegislature.org and attempted to manipulate the code of the website, according to The Portland Press Herald. Read more.
- 03/15/10 USA. IC3 2009 Annual Report on Internet Crime Released, in 2009: 336,655 Complaints Received and $559.7 million Dollars in losses. Read more from FBI.
- 03/01/10 NEWARK, N.J. — Federal prosecutors in New Jersey say four California men made more than $25 million reselling tickets to concerts and sporting events they acquired by hacking into Ticketmaster.com and other Web sites. Read more from AP.
- 02/19/10 Global Botnet Attack Hits Enterprise, Government PCs. Operating undetected for about a year, the criminals behind the cyberattack had control of more than 74,000 computers, read more from IW.
- 02/08/10 CHINA. Biggest hacker training site shut down. What is believed to be the country's biggest hacker training site has been shut down by police in Central China's Hubei province. Read more from cd.
- 02/02/10 CHINA. Chinese spies use cyber hacking and sexual blackmail... Was sexual blackmail an issue in the recent Google Chinese spying incident? This also involved some 30 other US companies. Read more from zdnet.
- 01/18/10 CHINA. The code that was used to hack Gmail accounts in China is now publicly available on the Internet, and security experts are urging computer users throughout the world to be highly vigilant until a patch can be developed. Read more from FOX and see hacking code here and here.
- 01/07/10 U.S. Online thieves made a series of unauthorized funds transfers from the school district's NBT Bank account to an overseas bank between December 18 and 22, 2009. Read more from iw.
Cyber Security Threats in 2009
Cyber Security Threats in 2008
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