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The hack attacks perpetrated by the Syrian Electronic Army this week weren't exactly on the cutting edge. Rather, they relied primarily upon phishing and social engineering to gain access to The Washington Post,Time and CNN. "As far as I can tell, the only thing exploited was human nature -- that's not something that is easily patched," said security researcher Craig Young.
Given multiple waves of denial of service attacks against U.S. banks by an Islamic group, the disabling Wednesday of the New York Times website had the cybersecurity community on alert.
Trend Micro's Tom Kellerman discusses cybersecurity concerns in Egypt with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "Money Moves." (Source: Bloomberg)
Middle Eastern hackers infiltrated a popular Internet news delivery service, giving them possible access to some of the largest U.S. news sites on Thursday.
A very thorough phishing campaign is targeting customers of JPMorgan Chase Bank who use their mobile phones to do their online banking, warn Trend Micro researchers.