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The official website of South Korean Air Force (airforce.mil.kr) was shut down for two weeks after a massive cyber attack hit its server. On 12th May 2016, the air force website was found infected with a malicious code forcing the authorities to shut down the site from public view while running a temporary site for public information. The same day the military were informed that some suspicious emails were sent to local defence contractors by a supposed Defence...

The security expert Chilik Tamir from Mi3 Security has devised some new attack methods that can be exploited by threat actors to install malicious apps on non-jailbroken iOS devices. Tamir presented his attack methods at the recent Black Hat Asia conference, he explained how to exploit a developer feature, the Xcode 7, recently introduced by Apple to install malware on devices. Among the novelties introduced with the Xcode 7, there is the possibility for developers to create iOS...

A group of hackers, suspected to be Chinese, allegedly stole information from the computers of various bureaucrats and Indian embassies earlier this month, claims Kaspersky Lab, a cyber security company. It said the attackers, which the company has named "Danti," targeted Indian missions in Denmark, Hungry and Colombia in February this year. The hackers also targeted the email addresses, [email protected], the Foreign Service Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and [email protected], possibly related to the Chumar...

The banking watchdog revealed on Thursday that it had received ­reports from banks about unauthorised stock trading activities in at least 22 online bank accounts in at least four banks. The sum ­involved was HK$45.97 million. Although the Hong Kong Monetary Authority said in a press statement on Thursday that none of the cases reported resulted in any fund transfers to unregistered third parties thanks to a double authentication process, the authority said there were...

In an effort to make its iPhone surveillance-and-hack proof, Apple has rehired security expert and cryptographer Jon Callas, who co-founded the widely-used email encryption software PGP and the secure-messaging system Silent Circle that sells the Blackphone. This is not Apple’s first effort over its iPhone security. Just a few months back, the company hired Frederic Jacobs, one of the key developers of Signal — World's most secure, open source and encrypted messaging app. Now Apple...

A new survey study showing how federal agencies and their IT contractors still do not have a firm grasp of proper cyber-security practices was ironically released just days after the third-party contractor hired to fortify the US Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) systems suddenly quit partway through the job. The joint study, conducted in March by cyber-security education and certification institution (ISC)2 and the professional services firm KPMG, sought the opinions of 54 cyber executives in the...

Organised cyber crime is top of the list of cyber security incidents that CIOs are required to deal with, according to a survey by recruiter Harvey Nash and professional services firm KPMG. The Harvey Nash/KPMG 2016 CIO Survey found that nearly 70 per cent of IT leaders believe that organised cyber crime is the biggest threat to business operations. Amateur hackers came a distant second at 48 per cent, followed by malicious insiders (40 per...

Senior executives at retail banks are motivated to begin offerings available, but are held back by cyber security concerns, according to a new study. Cisco's report Roadmap to Digital Value in the Retail Banking Industry report pegged the value that retail banks could gain by launching digital services similar to those services offered by fintech competitors at $405.3 billion between 2015 and 2018. Another Cisco report, Cybersecurity as a Growth Advantage, found that 71 percent...

A report by the US State Department's Office of the Inspector General (OIG) has found presidential wannabe Hillary Clinton did breach record-keeping laws – by using a personal server for work emails. The watchdog added she was not alone in the practice. The 89-page dossier found that three senior State Department figures had broken the rules by using personal email accounts for departmental business: Colin Powell, Hilary Clinton, and Scott Gration, the US ambassador to...

In the span of two weeks, hackers have broken into more than 2,500 Twitter accounts with large followings, including those of electro-funk duo Chromeo, comedian Azeem Banatwala, football star Cecil Shorts III, and late New York Times journalist David Carr, according to new research by security firm Symantec. The hacked accounts were then replaced with porn and sexbots, and used to tweet links to adult dating sites. The victims had their display names changed, with their profile pictures swapped for pictures...