Corporate Warfare on the Internet
Shanghai Daily reports:
POLICE in Shandong Province have caught three men allegedly responsible for a citywide Internet breakdown in Weifang in July, according to xinhuanet.com.
…The report did not say when the breakdown occurred but said in July police received an alert from the Weifang Branch of the China Netcom Group, which serves about 90 percent of [...]
Chinese Virus Wins the Space Race
vnunet reports:
A computer virus has made it onto the International Space Station (ISS), but Nasa says there is no danger to critical systems.
Nasa has confirmed that a computer on the ISS has been infected by the Gammima.AG. virus, which tries to steal login names and passwords to popular online games like Maple Story, HuangYi Online [...]
Go When You Can, Not When You Have To
Pacific Epoch reports:
A hacker infiltrated Tsinghua University’s online news channel on August 24 to post an article under the name of Tsinghua University president Gu Binglin criticizing Chinese universities for “pissing in the minds of students”, reports xinhuanet.com. Tsinghua announced the attack the same day, dispelling any doubts that Gu would use such “foul” language [...]
Online Validation: Making eGovernment Work for Hackers
Shanghai Daily reports:
TEN people accused of hacking into government databases to add false information were caught by police in Jiangxi Province, Legal Daily reported today.
Alleged leaders of the hacker group have been arrested, the report said. One alleged gang leader, surnamed Li, had made more than 2 million yuan (US$294,118) profit in only four months.
The [...]
Handy Advice for the Inevitable Olympic Email Scam
Mark Hofman, the handler on duty over at the Internet Storm Center (ISC), has some good advice to protect users from the expected tsunami of Olympic-related phishing attacks:
Don’t click any links when:
* the email was sent by someone you do not know.
* the email was sent by [...]
RSS
