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UK LulzSec hackers sentenced to varying prison terms

UK LulzSec hackers sentenced to varying prison terms
  • Posted May 16, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • Four LulzSec hackers have been sentenced in the UK to varying prison stints. The men pleaded guilty to denial-of-service attacks on 20th Century Fox, the CIA, Nintendo, Sony and others and accepted their sentencing as part of a plea bargain.

Seven arrested in New York for alleged 'criminal flash mob' ATM cybercrime

Seven arrested in New York for alleged
  • Posted May 10, 2013, 5:00 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in Industry News
  • Authorities in New York have arrested seven people in connection with a hacking scheme in which perpetrators stole $45 million from ATMs around the world. The attackers hacked into computer systems of banking and financial institutions in two separate but…

Pentagon accuses China of trying to hack US defense networks

Pentagon accuses China of trying to hack US defense networks
  • Posted May 7, 2013, 1:30 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in IT Security
  • Accusations of cyber-attacks allegedly perpetrated by China have been floating around for years, but today, for the first time, the Pentagon is directly accusing the Chinese of trying to break into US defense computer networks.

Wiikey reverse-engineers the Wii U, mod chip coming soon

Wiikey reverse-engineers the Wii U, mod chip coming soon
  • Posted May 1, 2013, 6:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming
  • Wiikey, the company that sells mod chips for the Nintendo Wii, said in an update on their website they have successfully reverse-engineered the Wii U drive authentication, disk encryption, file system and “everything else” needed to build a mod chip…

Police arrest Dutch man believed to be responsible for massive DDoS attack

Police arrest Dutch man believed to be responsible for massive DDoS attack
  • Posted April 29, 2013, 7:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • Law enforcement officials in Spain have arrested a Dutch man they believe is linked to cyber attacks that took place last month. The man was arrested at his home in Barcelona at the request of Dutch authorities. Police seized his…

LulzSec leader arrested in Australia, authorities say

LulzSec leader arrested in Australia, authorities say
  • Posted April 24, 2013, 12:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • Australian authorities claim they have arrested the self-proclaimed leader of the hacking group LulzSec. The unnamed individual was charged with two counts of unauthorized modification of data to cause impairment and one count of unauthorized access to, or modification of,…

AP Twitter account compromised, tweets White House attack

AP Twitter account compromised, tweets White House attack
  • Posted April 23, 2013, 5:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • The Associated Press’ Twitter account was hacked earlier today and used to distribute a tweet claiming explosions at the White House had injured President Barack Obama. The account was suspended by Twitter shortly after the tweet was sent out.

Hacker demonstrates how to hijack an airplane using an Android app

Hacker demonstrates how to hijack an airplane using an Android app
  • Posted April 11, 2013, 11:00 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • A security consultant by the name of Hugo Teso claims he has created an Android app called PlaneSploit that would allow him to remotely attack and hijack commercial aircraft. He recently presented his findings at the Hack in the Box…

uPlay hacking tool grants access to Ubisoft's entire catalog

uPlay hacking tool grants access to Ubisoft
  • Posted April 9, 2013, 2:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Gaming, IT Security
  • A new hacking tool available on a Russian gaming forum allows users to circumvent security measures in place on Ubisoft’s uPlay game distribution platform. Specifically, the hack tricks the platform’s authorization tool into thinking the user has access to Ubisoft’s…

The War Z taken offline after user data compromised in server breach

The War Z taken offline after user data compromised in server breach
  • Posted April 2, 2013, 3:00 PM by Matthew DeCarlo | Filed in Gaming, IT Security
  • After disappointing many folks with a rocky debut in December, The War Z is making negative headlines again. According to a notice plastered where its game forum used to reside, hackers have gained access to the company's message board and game databases, including...

Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for breaching AT&T servers

Auernheimer sentenced to 41 months for breaching AT&T servers
  • Posted March 18, 2013, 4:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News, IT Security
  • Andrew Auernheimer will spend the next three years and five months of his life in prison. The 27-year-old was sentenced today in federal court in Newark, New Jersey, after being convicted on November 20 of breaching AT&T’s servers, stealing personal…

Reuters employee indicted for conspiring with Anonymous members

Reuters employee indicted for conspiring with Anonymous members
  • Posted March 15, 2013, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • An employee of Reuters has been indicted by the US Justice Department on the grounds that he helped members of the loose-knit hactivist group Anonymous deface the Los Angeles Times website. 26-year-old Matthew Keys of Secaucus, New Jersey, was charged…

Critical Windows USB exploit allows flash drives to grant root access, patch issued

Critical Windows USB exploit allows flash drives to grant root access, patch issued
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
  • Microsoft's Patch Tuesday yielded an interesting security fix for a glaring vulnerability in how the Windows kernel handles USB device enumeration. The critical vulnerability allowed potential hackers with physical access to a Windows PC to run arbitrary code with system…

Evernote resets all user account passwords following security breach

Evernote resets all user account passwords following security breach
  • Posted March 4, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • A recent security breach at online note-taking service Evernote forced the company to reset all of their 50 million users’ passwords as a precautionary measure. The company noted (no pun intended) that there is no evidence that any content stored…

Researcher finds flaw that grants access to any Facebook account

Researcher finds flaw that grants access to any Facebook account
  • Posted February 25, 2013, 4:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security, The Web With Video
  • A security expert recently outlined steps on his blog that allowed him to gain unprecedented access to anyone’s Facebook account. Nir Goldshlager said a flaw in Facebook’s OAuth service, which is used to by developers to solicit permission from users…

Apple, Facebook not only companies targeted by recent hack. More details surface.

Apple, Facebook not only companies targeted by recent hack. More details surface.
  • Posted February 21, 2013, 9:00 AM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • Security experts believe a sophisticated attack responsible for infiltrating computers at Twitter, Facebook and Apple wasn't isolated to just those companies. According to a report by ComputerWorld, the attack -- which targeted a previously unknown Java exploit -- gave hackers…

Google has reduced hacked Gmail accounts by 99.7 percent since 2011

Google has reduced hacked Gmail accounts by 99.7 percent since 2011
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 8:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • E-mail spam is practically a way of life in this day and age but that doesn’t mean we have to accept the way things are. That especially holds true for Google as the company recently outlined some measures they have…

Apple says they were hacked by the same group that hit Facebook

Apple says they were hacked by the same group that hit Facebook
  • Posted February 20, 2013, 7:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • In a rare admission on Tuesday, Apple announced they too have fallen victim to a sophisticated malware that targeted Twitter and Facebook in recently weeks. Just like the attack on Facebook, Apple says some of their employees’ computers were infected…

New Mac virus skirts Gatekeeper, initiates creepy reverse-shell connection

New Mac virus skirts Gatekeeper, initiates creepy reverse-shell connection
  • Posted February 19, 2013, 6:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, Apple
  • A new trojan virus is targeting computers running Mac OS X and initiating an encrypted reverse-shell connection, allowing attackers potentially unfettered access to infected machines armed with basic, inbound-only firewalls. Security firm Intego appears to be the first to report…

Report links Chinese military to majority of cyberattacks against US

Report links Chinese military to majority of cyberattacks against US
  • Posted February 19, 2013, 2:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security, The Web
  • According to the New York Times, U.S-based security research firm Mandiant claims it has traced the "overwhelming majority" of cyberattacks targeting American businesses to an innocuous 12-story office building located in Shanghai, China. The tower, American intelligence officials claim, is…

Larger-than-usual Patch Tuesday to address 57 security vulnerabilities

Larger-than-usual Patch Tuesday to address 57 security vulnerabilities
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security, Microsoft
  • Microsoft’s monthly Patch Tuesday is upon us and this time, Windows users are in store for a much larger batch of fixes than usual. A recent post on Technet highlights the fact that tomorrow’s update will address 57 different security…

Cybercriminals targeting online gamers, by the thousands

Cybercriminals targeting online gamers, by the thousands
  • Posted February 11, 2013, 10:43 AM by Julio Franco | Filed in IT Security, Gaming
  • Phishing sites and emails designed to look like official bank notifications are nothing new, but perhaps you should look closer next time you get a suspecting email for your favorite online game. Kaspersky Labs is reporting that during 2012 they…

Seven million iOS devices jailbroken using evasi0n in just four days

Seven million iOS devices jailbroken using evasi0n in just four days
  • Posted February 8, 2013, 3:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Apple, Industry News
  • Evasi0n, the first jailbreak available for iOS 6, launched earlier this week and in just 96 hours time, it’s managed to capture the title of most popular jailbreak ever. According to Jay Freeman, the person behind the jailbreak app store…

US Department of Energy confirms January cyber attack

US Department of Energy confirms January cyber attack
  • Posted February 5, 2013, 9:30 AM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • The US Department of Energy recently confirmed that computers and servers at its Washington headquarters were compromised in mid-January. An e-mail sent to employees late last week confirmed the attack, citing that the personal data of several hundred employees and…

Anonymous reveals personal information of 4,000 U.S. bank executives

Anonymous reveals personal information of 4,000 U.S. bank executives
  • Posted February 4, 2013, 6:30 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in IT Security
  • Members of the loose knit hacker collective Anonymous have published a spreadsheet that claims to contain personal information on more than 4,000 US bank executives as part of an ongoing campaign called Operation Last Resort. The group’s latest efforts are…

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