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Security news about something other than LulzSec: FBI nails bank-account hackers

Posted June 23, 2011 - 11:01 am

It took cooperation from cops in U.S., Ukraine, Latvia and eight other countries to investigate and nail one 16-geek bank-robbing hacker gang. Good result; process does not scale.
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More intrigue: LulzSec lives; 'mastermind' might be rogue dimed out by Anon

Posted June 21, 2011 - 11:16 am

Ryan Cleary, the 19-year-old arrested as mastermind of LulzSec may be an Anonymous turncoat turned in by former colleagues, a real LulzSec troll, or may not exist at all, Lulz sez.
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LulzSec's BS manifesto: Hacking companies is fun; destroying people is hilarious

Posted June 17, 2011 - 2:29 pm

After "entertaining you" with Tweets describing its ballsy attacks on everyone and everything LulzSec issues manifesto defending abuse of individuals as entertaining for the 'net gen.
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LulzSec hacks expand to damage ordinary people, not just governments and corporations

Posted June 17, 2011 - 1:53 pm

LulzSec has topped off its string of high-profile hacks over the last weeks with the gratuitous post of data on private citizens, which is already implicated in incidents of fraud. Lulz, bro. Lulz.
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LulzSec offers to take down any site you choose

Posted June 15, 2011 - 1:39 pm

Approaching cyberwar as anarchic entertainment, LolzSec helps push the 'net further into a state of fluid power politics based on personal loyalties rather than national or corporate affiliation.
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Sony is only No. 2 in all-time-largest data breach, despite bad security, weak passwords

Posted June 14, 2011 - 12:12 pm

As at other breached sites, Sony customers used short, simple passwords that could be cracked easily; if Sony hadn't stored them as plain text that could be read without even that much effort.
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Hacking Senate.gov: Boss lulz or famous last words?

Posted June 13, 2011 - 4:22 pm

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What you're saying

"There is zero benefit to having people know what you're up to as a black hat. That's like leaving riddles inside the bank safe."
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IMF gets flamed without help from Anonymous

Posted June 13, 2011 - 2:00 pm

No one knows yet where the IMF data breach came from, but Anonymous, the first source blamed and the one whose IMF's girded its defenses against, didn't have to do a thing.
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Citi failure is greater than just letting its data be breached

Posted June 13, 2011 - 12:34 pm

By waiting weeks before warning customers of a data breach, Citi highlighted another reason we need better customer-data regulation, even for companies with good security
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Acer says names, emails hacked in Europe

Posted June 12, 2011 - 11:49 pm

Taiwanese PC maker Acer is investigating the hacker attack that stole customer data from its Packard Bell unit in Europe, according to a statement from the company.
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Citigroup data breach shows why we need fed rules to protect personal data online

Posted June 9, 2011 - 12:02 pm

Breached despite good security, Citigroup hack drives home how great the need has become for consistent requirements on how to store personal data securely.
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RSA offer to replace tokens is weak if defense-industry attackers can make their own

Posted June 7, 2011 - 11:19 am

Replacing 45,000 tokens from a population of 260 million, to lock out attackers who may already be able to reverse-engineer your security, is too shallow a "solution" to do much good.
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Insider's view into Web application abuse: 5 phases of an attack

Posted June 6, 2011 - 5:40 pm

With congressional hearings on data theft following the Sony PlayStation data breach of 100 million records, and news from companies such as Epsilon, HB Gary, RSA and Barracuda Networks about recent cyberattacks, security of data in an online, interconnected world has become a mainstream topic.
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At EEE, will Sony admit 'Crack my Network' has become its most popular game?

Posted June 6, 2011 - 10:48 am

Nintendo admits it was also hacked, but the list of Sony breaches keeps getting longer; what do you think it will talk about at EEE, the annual videogame-fest in LA this week?
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Hacks make Internet look lawless, but security just hasn't caught up to spear-phishers yet

Posted June 3, 2011 - 12:09 pm

Data breaches shake confidence in the cloud, blaming it for security gaps between new technology, old security policies and a human tendency toward trust. Fix that and you're golden.
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New pwnage shows Sony broke promises to fix its security

Posted June 3, 2011 - 10:58 am

LulzSec hits Sony with the same simple SQL injections that cracked it the last time(s); Sony didn't even encrypt usernames or passwords, which are now safely posted on a public site.
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Are You a Data Breach Victim? Here's What to Do

Posted June 3, 2011 - 9:48 am

Alas, another day, another data breach. Late Thursday, word broke that the hacker group LulzSec broke into SonyPictures.com and gained access to 1 million user accounts (the group apparently posted details for 50,000 accounts online). If you have a Sony Pictures account, the bad news is that your personal information may be out there. You can't change that fact, but you can take a few steps to limit the potential for damage.
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Playstation store is back, but won't say what it learned from the Big Hack

Posted June 3, 2011 - 12:00 am

Sony's Playstation Store is back online and attracting hordes of traffic from Playstation users frustrated at weeks without updates. Crowding the site doesn't mean they trust Sony, though.
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Caution CFOs: Breach Ahead

Posted June 2, 2011 - 8:38 pm

On Saturday, May 21, Lockheed Martin detected a significant and tenacious attack on its information systems network. The company's information security team ... took aggressive actions to protect all systems and data. As a result of the swift and deliberate actions... our systems remain secure; no customer, program or employee personal data has been compromised.
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Sony Pictures falls victim to major data breach

Posted June 2, 2011 - 7:34 pm

LulzSec, a hacking group that recently made news for hacking into PBS, claimed today that it has broken into several Sony Pictures websites and accessed unencrypted personal information on over 1 million people.
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Lawmakers question Sony, Epsilon on data breaches

Posted June 2, 2011 - 3:27 pm

U.S. lawmakers question Sony and Epsilon about recent data breaches.
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Pentagon finds another way to chase its tail: bombs in response to cyberattacks

Posted May 31, 2011 - 10:17 am

The Pentagon prepares report declaring acts of cyberwarfare to be equivalent to real war, which clears the way to bomb attackers' homelands, but doesn't defend against the hacks themselves.
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Bad software analysis causes release of 450 dangerous Calif. inmates

Posted May 31, 2011 - 8:30 am

Under orders to reduce prison overcrowding, California released 10,000 inmates using a program to rate their risk of violence, using a database missing most of the relevant data.
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Honda Canada warns customers of data breach

Posted May 26, 2011 - 3:46 pm

Honda Canada has warned its customers that their personal data may have been exposed in a breach of its systems.
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Sony managers could have stopped security disasters by talking to each other

Posted May 26, 2011 - 1:54 pm

Governance, risk assessment and compliance are boring; they're also the processes that let companies deal with the fall of one domino before it brings the whole chain down.
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