Robert Lemos

NBC.com got its 15 minutes of infamy on Feb. 21, when the company’s news portal and sites for other shows hosted a malicious script that attempted to infect visitors’ systems with the ZeroAccess and Citadel botnet software. Attackers inserted malicious Javascript into pages on NBC.com as well as the main pages for the Late Night […]

For the first time, cyber security experts have publicly identified an ongoing campaign of information-stealing Internet attacks with a group linked to China’s military. In a report released on Feb. 19, incident-response firm Mandiant argued that a group within the People’s Liberation Army known as Unit 61398 is responsible for more than 140 attacks investigated […]

A wide variety of North American consumers, from everyday Windows users to mobile workers and Mac users, have a hitchhiker on their computer systems when they go online, according to the latest malware report by security-service provider Kindsight. One in every eight households harbors malicious software on one of their computer systems, the company stated […]

Hotels, restaurants and shops may get five-star ratings from tourists, but many will likely only receive a single star for security. An analysis of breach data for 2012 found that retailers and the hospitality industry continued to command the most interest from cyber-criminals, accounting for 78 percent of the breaches documented by security services firm […]

Following a classified National Intelligence Estimate that reportedly blames China for the majority of cyber-espionage attacks targeting U.S. agencies and businesses, security experts called for the government to take a harder policy line to deter such attacks. The classified intelligence report, released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, aims to identify threats […]

Unknown attackers compromised systems at security provider Bit9, stealing a critical digital certificate that allowed the intruders to infect systems of the company’s customers, the firm said in statements posted over the weekend. Bit9 gave scant details about the intrusion, stating that due to its own error “a handful of computers within our network” were […]

The number of software vulnerabilities tracked by the National Vulnerability Database in 2012 reversed a five-year decline, with software made by Adobe, Mozilla and Oracle containing the most critical flaws, according to a report released last week by NSS Labs, a technology and security research firm. The report found that the number of vulnerabilities grew […]

Federal marshals and representatives of Microsoft and Symantec raided two data centers Feb. 6, shutting down a botnet that the companies estimated attacked at least 8 million computers in the last two years, rerouting search queries and robbing search engine firms of potential revenue. Known as the Bamital botnet, the network of compromised computers hijacked […]

Two federal agencies acknowledged this week that hackers had breached their systems and stole the personal and account information of workers. On Feb. 3, a group claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous stated on Pastebin that they had compromised a server at the Federal Reserve, which oversees the banking system in the United States and […]

A team of attackers with a penchant for Shakespearian verse has used the popular cyber-crime program known as Citadel to infiltrate government offices in Poland and Japan as well as a number of companies in Denmark and Sweden, according to a report published by security firm McAfee. The string of espionage campaigns marks a significant […]