CSET '11 Call for Papers Now Available

CSET '11 Call for Papers Now Available


CSET '11 Call for Papers Now Available

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InfoSec News: CSET '11 Call for Papers Now Available: Forwarded from: Lionel Garth Jones <lgj (at) usenix.org>
On behalf of the 4th Workshop on Cyber Security Experimentation and Test (CSET '11) program committee, we would like to invite you to submit papers on the science, design, architecture, construction, operation, [...]

Under Growing Pressure, Security Pros May Be Ready To Crack, Study Says

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InfoSec News: Under Growing Pressure, Security Pros May Be Ready To Crack, Study Says: http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/security-management/229219084/under-growing-pressure-security-pros-may-be-ready-to-crack-study-says.html
By Tim Wilson Darkreading Feb 23, 2011
Faced with an attack surface that seems to be growing at an overwhelming [...]

Exxon, Shell Said to Have Been Hacked Via Chinese Servers

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InfoSec News: Exxon, Shell Said to Have Been Hacked Via Chinese Servers: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-24/exxon-shell-bp-said-to-have-been-hacked-through-chinese-internet-servers.html
By Michael Riley Bloomberg Feb 23, 2011
Computer hackers working through Internet servers in China broke into and stole proprietary information from the networks of six U.S. [...]

DDoS attack forces Dutch bank offline

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InfoSec News: DDoS attack forces Dutch bank offline: http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=3F6822FF-1A64-6A71-CE67724BB606D61C
By Jasper Bakker Webwereld Netherlands 23.02.2011
The outage of Dutch bank Rabobank last weekend was caused by a massive DDoS attack. The perpetrators are still unknown. The bank reports the attack to the police. [...]

Man admits hacking into NASA, e-commerce servers

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InfoSec News: Man admits hacking into NASA, e-commerce servers: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/24/nasa_hacker_guilty/
By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 24th February 2011
A Texas man has admitted hacking into servers owned by an e-commerce company and making off with about $275,000.
Jeremey Parker of Houston also copped to charges of breaking into servers maintained by NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland and causing some $43,000 of damage. Click here to find out more!
The hacking spree spanned a 10-month stretch starting in December 2008 with the breach of systems owned by SWReg. A subsidiary of Digital River of Minnesota, the company manages royalties for independent software developers. “Parker hacked into SWReg's system, created the money by crediting the SWReg accounts, and then caused that money to be wire transferred to his bank account instead of the accounts of several developers,” a press release issued by the US Attorney's office in Minnesota said.
The NASA servers Parker hacked gave paying members of the scientific community access to oceanic data being sent to Earth from satellites. Eventually, the data was made available to everyone.
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