Cyber attack hits Pentagon
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The Defense Department took as many as 1,500 computers off line because of a cyber attack, Pentagon officials said Thursday.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  - A rocket carrying an intelligence-gathering payload for the Pentagon suffered a technical problem after its launch, officials said.
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A distributed denial-of-service attack that disrupted Web-based systems at credit card payment processing firm Authorize.NetÂ earlier this week is indicative of a sharp increase in the number of cyberattacks being targeted at specific companies and driven by profit motives on the part of the hackers who launch them.
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On this morning five years ago, Steven M. Carter Sr. was at work as the assistant building manager for the Pentagon when terrorists slammed a jetliner into the nation's military headquarters. As others sought safety, he stayed in the building to help contain damaged power and water systems.
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Globalization and increased reliance on the Internet continue to raise the risk of cyberattacks, a U.S. security official warns.
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Targeted spyware, network break-ins, and other digital crime pushes cyber espionage to a new level of concern.
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Credit-card transaction processing firm Authorize.Net has been hit by a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks that have caused temporary disruptions in service to some of its customers.
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Fallout from a military data breach allegedly triggered by porn and peer-to-peer file sharing in Japan continues, with the homes of several members of the country's Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) as well as a destroyer raided in the investigation. The breach comes at a bad time for U.S.-Japan relations.
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The Pentagon on Tuesday said  computer hackers gained access to an unclassified e-mail system  in the office of Defense Secretary Robert Gates, but declined  comment on a report that the Chinese army was responsible.
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By JUAN A. LOZANO    HOUSTON  -- Businesses and government agencies must re-examine the growing threat of cyberterrorism to automated computer systems running power grids, dams and other industrial facilities, security experts said Tuesday...
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By Ted Bridis  WASHINGTON - Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic Tuesday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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Hackers briefly overwhelmed at least three of the 13 computers that help manage global computer traffic yesterday in one of the most significant attacks against the Internet since 2002.
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CastleCops.com and similar good-guy sites are hard hit by distributed denial-of-service attacks.
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New details have emerged about the attack over the weekend; some speculate it was automated.
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A new report says that external attackers have overtaken insiders as the most likely cyber threat to remote-controlled factory equipment.
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Post Sept. 11 cyberterrorism predictions haven't materialized. But U.S. power plants, trains and oil pipelines are nonetheless more vulnerable than ever before.
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Weaknesses in the Energy Departmentâs cybersecurity allowed hackers to successfully penetrate its systems 199 times last year in intrusions that affected 3,531 systems, the departmentâs inspector general said.