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Hacked and mangled -- yet again

Posted April 5, 2012 - 1:56 pm

For the second time in two years my WordPress site was hacked, this time by Viagra spammers. Here are a few of the hard lessons I learned.
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Symantec record: Two major hacks, two major delays admitting fault, risk to customers

Posted January 26, 2012 - 3:16 pm

If your company were hacked in a way that could directly hurt customers, would you announce the worst-case scenario so they could prep while you develop a solution? Or dribble out the news slowly? Symantec dribbled, first with SSL tokens, then source code, leaving customers at risk.
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Time to change your Amazon password (and everything else)

Posted January 17, 2012 - 5:05 pm

Hackers have gained access to 24 million customer records at Zappos (including mine). Will Amazon and your bank be next?
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Drink on the job, boost your enterprise's WiFi signal?

Posted October 19, 2011 - 11:38 am

Attaching a clean, empty beer can to your WiFi router supposedly can improve wireless signal strength.
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RSA refuses to name China as culprit behind SecureID attack

Posted October 12, 2011 - 11:40 am

After six months of investigation and what it says is plenty of evidence of who is to blame for the data breach that undermined 40 million SecureID token users, RSA announced only that it can say only that the culprit was a hacker and a "nation state." Why so coy, RSA?
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Fired VMware admin admits virtual rampage launched from a McDonald's

Posted August 17, 2011 - 3:17 pm

There is always the potential for drama and tragedy when sysadmins are expendable an even your IT systems are lying to each other.
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Suit charges Sony laid off security before big hack, spent only protect itself afterward

Posted July 1, 2011 - 2:41 pm

One of 19 lawsuits filed following the Sony hacks charged Sony shored up security only on the internal network used by employees.
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Sony's new security plan: so many flaws hackers tire before hitting them all

Posted May 23, 2011 - 7:52 am

Remember when Sony's firewall seemed more like a revolving door? It was actually more like a People Mover.
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Night Dragon hack attacks make cyberwar commercial

Posted February 11, 2011 - 4:56 pm

Workmanlike pool of hackers spend years extracting data from utilities in highly commercial version of Stuxnet worm attack on civil infrastructure.
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Windows: New, improved & more insecure than ever

Posted March 4, 2010 - 3:02 pm

Data execution prevention, a major Windows security feature, has just been busted.
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Cheap WPA Wireless Cracking

Posted December 7, 2009 - 8:31 pm

Pay your money, and a cracker will break open a WPA-protected Wi-Fi network for you using an automated cloud-based hacking tool.
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