North Korea Has Some 600 Computer Hackers, South Korea Says
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Report warns of cyberattacks against the U.S., saying the communist country has developed advanced intelligence warfare capabilities
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Some of the worst flooding to hit North Korea in decades has killed at least 600 people, double the previous known toll, the official news agency said at the weekend.
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North Korea test-fired several missiles Thursday, but it is unclear what kind or how many, South Korea's defense minister told CNN.
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The laptop with personal information on about 600,000 people was stolen from an officer in the Royal Navy.
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Hackers took advantage of a known vulnerability on an unpatched computer to potentially gain access to some 1.4 million names, Social Security numbers, telephone numbers, addresses and dates of birth at University of California at Berkeley, officials said
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Criminals have been able to hack into computer systems via the Internet and cut power to several cities, a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency analyst said this week.
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The rate at which personal computers are being hijacked by hackers rocketed in the first half of 2004, reveals a new report. An average of 30,000 computers per day were turned into enslaved âzombiesâ, compared with just 2000 per day in 2003.
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A laptop containing the personal details of 600,000 new and prospective military recruits has been stolen, the Ministry of Defense said Friday, the latest in a series of government blunders over data.
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The FBI lost 160 laptop computers in less than four years, including at least 10 that contained highly sensitive classified information and one that held "personal identifying information on FBI personnel," according to a new report released today.
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China says 58 percent of computer networks in the country&#39;s offices have fallen victim to Internet security problems this year.
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The South Korean kidnapping brings to 60 the number of people taken in one Afghan province since April.
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(InfoWorld) - Phishers have been using compromised MySpace.com accounts to attack unsuspecting Web surfers, security experts said Thursday. The attack is thought to have infected several thousand PCs according to reports from ISPs, said Johannes Ullrich, chief research officer for the SANS Institute. Ullrich has documented the issue on the SANS Internet Storm Center blog. Lawrence Baldwin, chief forensics officer with security vendor MyNetWatchman, discovered the threat Tuesday, and The Washington Post reported on it late Wednesday. Criminals have managed to install fake navigation bars on the top of MySpace.com user profile pages that, when clicked, lead to malicious computers that attempt to infect the victim's computer. The attack uses several known Internet Explorer flaws that have been fixed, so users who have installed the latest Microsoft patches are not at risk, security experts said. The code was installed on "maybe a few dozen," MySpace.com pages, most of which have been removed by administrators at the social-networking site, Ullrich said. MySpace.com representatives did not respond to requests for comment on Thursday. Two components comprise the attack. It attempts to install malicious botnet software on victims' computers, and it uses these infected computers to try to steal MySpace credentials in a phishing attack. Computers that are compromised by the attack become infected with malicious botnet software known as "flux bot," which makes them unwitting participants in the phishing scam. After the malicious Web site attempts to install the flux bot code, it then presents victims with a fake MySpace.com login page, which tries to extract their MySpace.com user name and password. Baldwin allowed one of his test computers to be infected with flux bot and found that attackers were remarkably successful at stealing passwords. "I operated as a flux node for about 12 hours and did a full audit of all the traffic coming into my machine. I was probably getting close to 60 MySpace users an hour surfing to my flux node. And at least a quarter of those actually gave up their credentials." Baldwin estimates that the attackers were using another 200 compromised flux bot machines in their attack. Because MySpace.com allows users to install their own HTML code and isÂ visited by such a large number of technically unsophisticated users, it has becomeÂ an attractive target for these types of attacks. Last December, hackers created a worm that quickly spread across MySpace.com, stealing user names and passwords. That worm exploited a flaw in Apple's QuickTime media player.
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Chinese police are reported to have arrested 60 North Korean refugees in raids on safe houses in Beijing.
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Its latest Internet Security Threat Report says that infected computers - or bots - which hackers can control remotely, have grown in twelve months from less than 2,000 in the first half of 2003 to more than 30,000.
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Chinese authorities are reported to have detained at least 60 people, believed to be North Korean asylum seekers, who tried to enter the South Korean consulate in Beijing.
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Mysterious holes found in a wire fence along the tense border with North Korea were most likely used not by communist infiltrators but by a South Korean defector to the North, South Korea&#39;s military said Tuesday.
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South Korea has conducted secret nuclear experiments that violated international nuclear safeguards on a scale wider than what Seoul had declared previously.