News tagged with computer attacks

SKorea military networks under growing cyber attack

South Korea's military computer networks are under ever-growing cyber attack with 95,000 cases reported daily on average, officials said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Jun 16, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

SKorea and US forge deal to fight cyber attacks

South Korea and the United States have agreed to cooperate in fighting cyber attacks against their defence networks from countries including China and North Korea, officials said Monday.

Technology / Internet

created May 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Report: US cyber warfare needs oversight, debate

(AP) -- Shrouded in secrecy, the U.S. government's policies on how and when to wage cyber warfare are ill-formed, lack adequate oversight and require a broad public debate, a new report by the National Research Council says.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 30, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cisco offering computing cloud protection

Cisco on Tuesday unveiled tools to harden computer network defenses of businesses that use software applications as services on the Internet.

Technology / Software

created Apr 21, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Wanted: Computer hackers... to help government

(AP) -- Wanted: Computer hackers. Federal authorities aren't looking to prosecute them, but to pay them to secure the nation's networks.

Technology / Other

created Apr 19, 2009 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (4) | comments 2

Hackers grabbed more than 285M records in 2008

(AP) -- Hackers made off with at least 285 million electronic records in 2008, more than in the four previous years combined, according to a new study that shows identity thieves are getting better at exploiting careless ...

Technology / Internet

created Apr 15, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Pentagon spends $100 million to fix cyber attacks

(AP) -- The Pentagon spent more than $100 million in the last six months responding to and repairing damage from cyber attacks and other computer network problems, military leaders said Tuesday.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New research may save lives in suicide bombings

Florida Institute of Technology researchers have determined that where a person is standing in a room or other location during a suicide terrorist attack can have a great bearing on survival and injuries.

Other Sciences / Other

created Mar 23, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Low-cost strategy developed for curbing computer worms

Thanks to an ingenious new strategy devised by researchers at University of California, Davis and Intel Corporation, computer network administrators might soon be able to mount effective, low-cost defenses against self-propagating ...

Technology / Computer Sciences

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (5) | comments 5