Security News > 2011 > February

Anonymous hack showed password re-use becoming endemic
2011-02-11 09:50

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/10/password_re_use_study/ By John Leyden The Register 10th February 2011 Computer scientists have discovered that password re-use is far more prevalent than...

Hackers Build Android Encryption Apps For Egypt
2011-02-11 09:49

http://blogs.forbes.com/andygreenberg/2011/02/10/hackers-build-android-encryption-apps-for-egypt/ By Andy Greenberg The Firewall Forbes.com Feb. 10 2011 Cellphones may be helping to connect and...

Cyber warfare threat to America cannot be 'overstated', top U.S. intelligence chief warns Congress
2011-02-11 09:47

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1355596/Al-Qaeda-Cyber-warfare-threat-overstated-warns-US-intelligence-chief.html By Daily Mail Reporter 10th February 2011 America's top intelligence chief...

EVT/WOTE '11 Call for Papers Now Available
2011-02-10 10:00

Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones On behalf of the 2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE '11) program committee, we are inviting you to submit...

Wells Fargo ATMs fail from N.Y. to Minn.
2011-02-10 09:59

http://www.startribune.com/business/115532664.html By Chris Serres Star Tribune February 8, 2011 Thousands of Wells Fargo & Co. customers were left angry and short of cash Monday after a majority...

Hackers Breach Tech Systems of Multinational Oil Companies
2011-02-10 09:59

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/10/business/global/10hack.html By John Markoff The New York Times February 10, 2011 At least five multinational oil and gas companies suffered computer network...

[HITB-Announce] HITB Magazine Issue 005 Released
2011-02-10 09:57

Forwarded from: Hafez Kamal We are proud to announce the immediate availability of HITB Magazine Issue 005 - The first HITB Magazine release for 2011! HITB Magazine =============...

Russian Convicted of $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hack Avoids Jail
2011-02-10 09:56

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/rbs-hacker-avoids-jail/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com February 9, 2011 A Russian hacker convicted of the $9 million hack of RBS WorldPay has avoided...

USENIX HealthSec '11 Call for Papers Now Available
2011-02-09 07:28

Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones On behalf of the 2nd USENIX Workshop on Health Security and Privacy (HealthSec '11) program committee, we invite you to submit innovative papers covering all...

IDF says enlisting hackers
2011-02-09 07:27

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4025751,00.html By Boaz Fyler YNews News 02.08.11 IDF Spokesman Avi Benayahu said Tuesday that the army is currently in the process of enlisting "new...