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The Energy Department has been under massive cyber-attacks, as a result information of its hundreds of employees has been stolen, the officials are not positive over theft of secret information, According to report.
The FBI is now investigating the attack in which hackers penetrated into 20 workstations and about 14 computer servers in the Washington based headquarters two weeks ago.
The Energy Department is now in contact with its employees who were hacked as a result of the cyber-attack and the account information has has been reset. The Department also said that this attack could be conducted from the Chinese capital of Beijing as the accuracy of attacks indicates the involvement of a foreign government.
The department includes the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains nuclear weapons.
The people�s republic of China is under a lot of pressure these days, as the WSJ and NYT has also accused the country of hacking its computers. Recently 250,000 Twitter accounts were also compromised in similar sophisticated cyber attack.
The FBI is now investigating the attack in which hackers penetrated into 20 workstations and about 14 computer servers in the Washington based headquarters two weeks ago.
The Energy Department is now in contact with its employees who were hacked as a result of the cyber-attack and the account information has has been reset. The Department also said that this attack could be conducted from the Chinese capital of Beijing as the accuracy of attacks indicates the involvement of a foreign government.
The department includes the National Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains nuclear weapons.
�It�s a continuing story of negligence,� former Energy Department security official Ed McCallum told the Free Beacon, explaining that the department continues to have security problems despite controlling some of the most �sophisticated military and intelligence technology the country owns.�The department also puts Iran in the line by saying that Iran and China both are after our secrets.
�China continues to develop its capabilities in the cyber arena,� the U.S. China Economic and Security Review Commission said in a November 2012 report to Congress. �U.S. industry and a range of government and military targets face repeated exploitation attempts by Chinese hackers as do international organizations and nongovernmental groups including Chinese dissident groups, activists, religious organizations, rights groups, and media institutions.�
The people�s republic of China is under a lot of pressure these days, as the WSJ and NYT has also accused the country of hacking its computers. Recently 250,000 Twitter accounts were also compromised in similar sophisticated cyber attack.
Rating: 4.5
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ItemReviewed: US Enegery department under Cyber Attack
Hackers have cracked computer systems connected with a former US military base at Fort Monmouth, New Jersey, stealing the personal details of more than 36,000 people, Hackers still unidentified. According to ibtimes.
The main victims of the attack are thought to be personnel at C4ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance) and Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM).
The cyber-attackers also stole the personal information of visitors to the base. Details such as "a mix of full names, dates and places of birth, social security numbers, home addresses, and salaries" have fallen into the hackers' hands, CECOM spokeswoman Andricka Thomas told the Asbury Park Press.
The hackers are yet to be identified by the authorities, and the Army's Cyber Command is leading an investigation into the attack. The spokeswoman added that the attack was launched by "unknown" persons and for "unknown reasons".
Thomas added,
"CECOM takes this incident very seriously and we apologise to all personnel affected. We are taking urgent and decisive action to prevent this from occurring again. This does not affect anyone's ability to do their jobs, or impact entitlements,"The US Army has offered one year's free credit monitoring to all those affected by the attack.
Rating: 4.5
Reviewer: Unknown
ItemReviewed: Hackers Steal Personal Details of 36,000 People with US Army Connections
Hackers have found yet another security flaw in Internet Explorer that would allow them to install malicious software on vulnerable computers.
Security company FireEye reports that the issue was discovered after the Council on Foreign Relations website got hacked, as the page was specifically compromised to exploit the flaw.
The attacks are made via Adobe Flash on a fully-patched computer running Internet Explorer 8, the security vendor said.
Rapid7 urged IE users to ditch the browser and rely on a rival's application.
"Since Microsoft has not released a patch for this vulnerability yet, users are strongly advised to switch to other browsers, such as [Google's] Chrome or [Mozilla's] Firefox, until a security update becomes available," Rapid7 advised in a Monday post to its Metasploit blog.
HD Moore, chief security officer at Rapid7 and creator of Metasploit, said he and his team had not yet tested IE10 on Windows 8. That testing is next on his to-do list. "But I would guess 'Yes,' that it can be exploited," Moore said in an interview today.
Microsoft has already confirmed that it�s investigating the issue, but has explained that IE9 and IE10 are not affected by the flaw.
�We are actively investigating reports of a small, targeted issue affecting Internet Explorer 6-8. We will take appropriate action to help keep customers protected once our analysis is complete. People using Internet Explorer 9-10 are not impacted,� Dustin Childs, group manager for response communications at Microsoft, told KrebsonSecurity.
Rating: 4.5
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ItemReviewed: Hackers Find Zero-Day Vulnerability in Internet Explorer
