Germany launched a national cyber defense center whose primary task will be to protect critical computer infrastructure from cyber attacks. The Nationale Cyber-Abwehrzentrum (National Cyber-Defense Center) is based in Bonn in the same building as the Federal Office for Information Security (BSI). For now, it has ten permanent employees and represents a joint effort between …
Monthly Archive: June 2011
Jun
21
Bank machine that sniffs out credit fraud
MOSCOW – Russia’s biggest retail bank is testing something that the old K.G.B. might have loved, an automated teller machine with a built-in lie detector intended to prevent consumer credit fraud. New customers could talk to the machine to apply for a credit card, with no human intervention required on the bank’s end. The machine …
Jun
18
LulzSec discloses 62,000+ random login credentials
LulzSec rampages on. They claimed they took out cia.gov for a couple of hours tonight, but its difficult to say whether they really did it or whether the site was made unavailable because of a large number of people trying to access it after seeing the “Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz” message on …