Tag Archive for: Serious

Norway’s military computers targeted in serious attack – The Register

said only one computer containing non-classified information was compromised. Among the recipients were high-ranking military personnel. “The army is regularly the target of cyber and virus attacks, but not as extensive as this,” AFP quoted INI spokeswoman …
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Adobe Fixes Serious Security Flaws in Acrobat, Reader – msnbc.com

you also let in the corrupt — and hidden — Flash file that grants the criminals entry into your computer. The Adobe Flash flaw first came to light last month, and was patched April 15. But the same serious security bug was also found to exist in Adobe …
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Serious security gaps found in NASA’s computer network – msnbc.com

NASA’s internal computer network is full of holes and is extremely vulnerable to an external cyberattack, an audit by the agency’s Office of the Inspector General has found. Even worse, it appears that several of the vulnerabilities were known about for …
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Hedge Funds Unprepared for Serious Cyber Attack – PR Inside

With details trickling in about how the sophisticated Stuxnet computer worm derailed years of work on Iran … Another way to derail destructive attacks like the Stuxnet worm would be to better secure the very desktops that attackers could use as nodes.
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