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Iran Hacks Voice of America Websites
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsThe digital arm of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard has launched a successful cyber attack on the Voice of America, hijacking dozens of sites operated by the government-funded broadcaster. The group, which calls itself the Iranian Cyber Army, placed a message on VOA's Persian-language news site, demanding an end to U.S. meddling in other nations' affairs. "Mrs. Clinton, do you want to hear the voice of oppressed nations will from heart of USA?" read the statement, which was displayed in both English and Farsi, according to CNN. "Islamic world doesn't believe USA trickery. We call on you to ...
Source: Hackers Penetrate Nasdaq Computer Network
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON - A federal government official tells The Associated Press that investigators are trying to identify computer hackers who have repeatedly broken into the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market. The official says that the hackers haven't compromised the exchange's trading platform and that investigators are looking into a range of possible motives for the cyberattacks - from financial gain to a national security threat. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the inquiry by the FBI and Secret Service is continuing. The official says the penetrations ...
'Operation Payback' Epic Fail? Visa, Sarah Palin PAC Fend Off Cyberattacks
By David Knowles - AOL News(Dec. 8) -- So this is the big payback? A shadowy network of computer hacker activists ("hacktivists," for short) pressed forth with a series of cyberattacks on Visa, MasterCard and Sarah Palin, in a show of solidarity with Julian Assange's whistle-blower website WikiLeaks. While the specter of a secret band of techno whiz-kids banding together to wreak havoc on any person or company found to have spoken harshly about WikiLeaks (such as Palin) or attempted to try to choke the site of its financial lifeblood (such as Visa/MasterCard) would seem the stuff of a very dark Hollywood movie, ...
WikiLeaks Switches to Swiss Domain After Attacks
By not in system - AOL NewsSTOCKHOLM (Dec. 3) - Wikileaks was forced Friday to switch over to a Swiss domain name, wikileaks.ch, after a new round of hacker attacks on its system prompted its American domain name provider to withdraw service. WikiLeaks' U.S. domain name system provider, EveryDNS, withdrew service to the wikileaks.org name late Thursday, saying it took the action because the new hacker attacks threatened the rest of its network. "Wikileaks.org has become the target of multiple distributed denial of service attacks. These attacks have, and future attacks would, threaten the stability of the EveryDNS.net ...
China Telecom Denies Hijacking Web Traffic
By Mara Gay - AOL News
(Nov. 18) -- A state-owned Chinese telecom company is denying accusations in a U.S. government report that it "hijacked" 15 percent of the world's Web traffic earlier this year and rerouted highly sensitive information through China. "China Telecom has never done such an act," company spokesman Wang Yongzhen told China's state-run Xinhua News today. But according to a U.S. report and Web security firms, the Chinese company rerouted 15 percent of global Web traffic -- including e-mail exchanges from the U.S. Senate and military -- through China for 18 minutes on April 8. The report, ...
Conservative Group FreedomWorks Hit by Cyber Attack
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyA planned "money bomb" thwarted by a cyber attack. No, it's not the stuff of comic books, but a page out of this year's election battles. FreedomWorks' computer server was hit by a mysterious hacker Thursday, and the conservative group said it believes it was targeted by a political foe just as it launched a major fundraising drive, sometimes also called a "money bomb," The Wall Street Journal reported. The FreedomWorks Web site went down at 9:45 a.m., just as its $200,000 money bomb was being promoted on conservative host Glenn Beck's radio show. The group estimated it lost about $80,000 in ...
Was There a Cyberattack on Iran's Nuclear Program?
By Sharon Weinberger - AOL News(Sept. 22) -- The evidence may be scant and the claims seemingly far-fetched, but a cybersecurity expert is suggesting that a sophisticated new type of malicious software called Stuxnet may have been spread in the hope of bringing down Iran's nuclear program. "At least one expert who has extensively studied the malicious software, or malware, suggests Stuxnet may have already attacked its target -- and that it may have been Iran's Bushehr nuclear power plant, which much of the world condemns as a nuclear weapons threat," The Christian Science Monitor reported today, based on comments made by ...
Watchdogs: Terrorists, Telephones and Tolls
By James Grady - Politics DailyA pack of government and private watchdogs have separately set their oversight eyes on America's telecommunications industries. They are concerned about everything from how terrorist cyber attacks might ravage the country and our post-9/11 failures to improve emergency communications to cell phone companies potentially charging excessive fees. This week, the non-governmental Bipartisan Policy Center ran a "war game" in Washington, D.C., to consider how the federal government could react to a cyber attack. In January, 2003, the "Slammer" computer worm crippled Bank of America ATMs, Continental ...
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