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Hackers attacked U.S. government satellites

Two U.S. satellites have been tampered with by hackers – possibly Chinese ones – in 2007 and 2008, claims a soon-to-be released report by the the U.S.-China …

Japanese Parliament’s computers infected, data stolen

As the investigation into the breach of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ networks discovered last month continues, internal sources have confirmed that sensitive and …

Federal Trojan has more capabilities than previously thought

Ten days ago, the Chaos Computer Club made public a set of worrisome discoveries made by their analysis of the “lawful interception” Trojan used by German law …

U.S. DHS expects Anonymous to attack infrastructure

Anonymous is eyeing industrial control systems for future attacks, says the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, but its members have yet to demonstrate a capability to …

Hardened Android kernel to be used by U.S. Army, government

The U.S. government is looking at replacing radio communication between federal, state and local law enforcement and response agencies with communication with smartphones, and …

German states say “federal trojan” used within legal boundaries

The reaction following CCC’s claims that a government-made “lawful interception” Trojan has abilities that exceed those allowed by the nation’s …

U.S. military drones hit by computer virus

An unnamed virus with a “keylogger” payload has been found in the computers used to operate U.S. Air Force’s Predator and Reaper remotely operated drones. …

Government telecommunication-spying malware opens backdoor

The Chaos Computer Club claims that a government-made “lawful interception” Trojan has abilities that exceed those allowed by the nation’s legislature and …

Law enforcement increasingly asking Internet companies to share data

The fact that one can find out a lot about a person’s interests, movements and opinions from their Facebook and Twitter accounts, Google searches and messages exchanged …

US DHS asks public to share ideas on botnet mitigation

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Department of Commerce have issued a public call for comments from “all Internet stakeholders” in order to …

Large EU IT systems to be managed by single agency

The first step towards a pan-European agency that will manage the large IT systems common to all member states has been taken, reports Computerworld. The EU’s General …

Iranian users were the ultimate target in DigiNotar compromise

If you needed a confirmation of Google’s claims that the rogue SSL issued by DigiNotar for *.google.com domains was used mainly to mount man-in-the-middle attacks …

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