- SCADA-Insecurity: According to Eugene Kaspersky, Stuxnet might have infected the internal network of a Russian nuclear plant.
- Ransomware: CryptoLocker infections are on the rise. The Malware encrypts files it finds on a number of network resources and demands a ransom for the decryption key.
- users.tar.gz: KrebsOnSecurity reported that the latest Adobe breach impacted at least 38 million users, that’s more than 10 times the number of users initially estimated. Sophos analyzed the database dump.
- Cyber attack next tuesday in London: Thousands of staff across dozens of London financial firms will be put through a “war games” scenario to test how well they can handle a major cyber attack.
- Major Bitcoin theft: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole more than one million Australian dollars in bitcoins.
- Cryptography: Nick Sullivan wrote a (relatively easy to understand) primer on elliptic curve cryptography.
- It’s official: Computer scientists pick stronger passwords. Researchers examined the passwords of 25.000 faculty, staff, and students at Carnegie Mellon University.
German:
- MELANI, die Schweizer Melde- und Analysestelle Informationssicherung hat ihren Halbjahresbericht 2013/1 veröffentlicht und berichtet schwerpunktmässig über den grössten DDoS-Angriff in der Geschichte des Internets, E-Banking-Angriffe mit Smartphone-Trojanern und über zahlreiche gezielte Spionageangriffe.
- Sicher? Mit 38 Zeilen Code liest ein 16-Jähriger in Argentinien alle Personalausweis-Fotos aus dem Wahlregister aus.
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