Security firm releases screen capture video of alleged Chinese military hackers at work

Security firm Mandiant has released a damning report offering unprecedented evidence, including screen capture video, of the actions of an alleged Chinese military-backed hacking group. The report, titled “APT1: Exposing One of China’s Cyber Espionage Units“, tracks the cyber espionage group dubbed Advanced Persistent Threat 1 as far back as 2006. “Our analysis has led us to conclude that APT1 is likely government-sponsored and one of the most persistent of China’s cyber threat actors,” Mandiant wrote. More specifically, the group...

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This Is the Site Likely Responsible for the Recent Major Tech Company Hacks

Apple, Facebook, Twitter — all hacked. And there’s probably more to come. In the spate of large companies hacked in recent weeks, it seems that many of them have one thing in common. Many have visited one compromised Web site specifically devoted to sharing information related to mobile development — and it’s not just tech companies visiting the site. The site is called iPhoneDevSdk, according to sources close to the Facebook hacking investigation. It’s a hub for many companies concentrated on the mobile space. After Facebook employees...

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Exclusive: Apple, Macs hit by hackers who targeted Facebook

(Reuters) - Apple Inc was recently attacked by hackers who infected Macintosh computers of some employees, the company said Tuesday in an unprecedented disclosure describing the widest known cyber attacks targeting Apple computers used by corporations. Unknown hackers infected the computers of some Apple workers when they visited a website for software developers that had been infected with malicious software. The malware had been designed to attack Mac computers. The same software, which infected Macs by exploiting a flaw in a version...

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Don't open that PDF: There's an Adobe Reader zero-day on the loose

Summary: After Java and Flash, now PDF Reader is under attack, with one security firm warning Reader users to avoid PDFs. Security researchers are warning users not to open PDFs from unknown sources in Adobe Reader after finding a PDF zero-day being exploited in the wild. Researchers at security firm FireEye claimed on Tuesday they had seen the attack PDFs successfully exploit the latest versions of Adobe's PDF Reader for Mac, Linux and Windows. "Today, we identified that a PDF zero-day is being exploited...

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Apple Said to Have Team Developing Wristwatch Computer

Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images   Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook is facing pressure from shareholders who have seen the stock slump more than 30 percent since a September high.    Apple Inc. has a team of about 100 product designers working on a wristwatch-like device that may perform some of the tasks now handled by the iPhone and iPad, two people familiar with the company’s plans said. ...

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Latest Java update patches 50 holes, including critical zero-day flaw

Oracle was convinced to issue an update for its Java plugin two weeks early this month in order to squash a few critical bugs that resulted in a torrent of bad press. Everyone from security bloggers to the federal government had warned the general public against using Java after it was discovered that the exploit was being targeted in the wild. Apple blocked Java via OS X’s Xprotect, and Mozilla and Google both flipped the switch on their...

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