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Drupal.org, home to one of the Web’s most popular Content Management System (CMS) platforms, has issued an alert to community members and reset all account passwords after their infrastructure and security teams discovered malicious files on a server.

An Ohio man was sentenced to one year and a day in prison this week, plus two years of supervised release, after he attempted to extort the University of Pittsburgh. Adding a unique twist to this story, according to court documents, is the fact the man used the moniker of Anonymous in order to make his threats seem more credible.

TAIPEI - Taiwan is preparing to launch a fourth cyberwar unit, a local newspaper reported Wednesday, in response to what it claims is a growing security threat from Chinese hackers. The new unit is scheduled to open on July 1 and will work to counter cyber attacks on government websites, said the Taipei-based newspaper United Evening News.

The problem of tackling Unknown Threats at Scale and the Gulf Between the Proof of Concept and the Real World are Not Unsolvable Problems...

SYDNEY - Using the Internet to spy and steal sensitive data is standard practice by all countries, according to the security chief of controversial Chinese telecoms giant Huawei.

BEIJING - President Barack Obama appears to be a regular customer of a Chinese Internet cafe, reports said, after the manager forged an identity card in the US leader's name to help surfers avoid China's web rules.

SecurityWeek has learned that Secunia, a Danish vulnerability management firm, disclosed an unpatched vulnerability within an image viewing application used by organizations in both the private and the defense sectors to a public mailing list. Now, thanks to an email error, a vulnerability once sheltered by a coordinated disclosure program has been exposed.

Chinese hackers have intercepted designs for sensitive weapons systems, according to a report prepared for government and defense officials, the Washington Post reported.

NEW YORK - The United States on Tuesday unveiled the world's "largest" money laundering probe targeting the digital currency operator Liberty Reserve, striking a major blow against what a prosecutor termed the "Wild West" of virtual banking.

NEW YORK - A member of a loosely organized group of hackers accused of breaching computer networks of the FBI and a global intelligence firm pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy charges, officials said.

Hackers are being accused of accessing design plans for more than two dozen sensitive U.S. weapons systems in a report by the Pentagon's Defense Science Board [DSB], the Washington Post reports.

JERUSALEM - An organization calling itself the "Syrian Electronic Army" has launched a cyber attack against the water distribution system of Haifa, Israel's third largest city, an expert said on Saturday.

RIYADH - Cyber hackers attacked several official Saudi websites on Saturday, posting an Algerian flag on their homepages that later vanished, local media reported. The website of the information ministry was among the hacked sites, according to state news broadcaster Al-Ekhbariya and newspapers.

Security firm Trend Micro has observed a massive spike in attempted malware infections coming from the Zeus family of Trojans. This spike, the company says, further affirms their warnings from their 2013 predictions that what was old will once again become new.

On Tuesday, the FBI arrested Edwin Vargas, a detective with the New York City Police Department (NYPD), for allegedly hiring hackers to invade the privacy of other detectives for personal reasons.