“The credit card company’s website could not be accessed for large parts of the day, security experts said. Twitter user called ‘Ibom Hacktivist’ boasted the attack was for its refusal to process donations for the whistleblowing site WikiLeaks. ‘A grouMasterCard.com DOWN!!!, thats what you get when you mess with @wikileaks @Anon_Central and the enter community [...]
“The U.S. Department of Homeland Security ran a test this year to see how hard it was for hackers to corrupt workers and gain access to computer systems. Not very, it turned out. Staff secretly dropped computer discs and USB thumb drives in the parking lots of government buildings and private contractors. Of those who [...]
“The hacker group Anonymous on Monday declared war against the city of Orlando, Florida, over the arrest of people handing out food to homeless people, according to a report in The Washington Post. In a press release, the group announced the creation of “Operation Orlando” over the city’s treatment of the Food Not Bombs group. [...]
“Richmond-based T & T Supermarket Inc. said today that its website was hit by a cyberattack that may have compromised the personal data of 58,000 people. Hackers may have accessed databases of customer information, including names, passwords, ages, genders, email addresses, street addresses and phone numbers. T & T does not collect credit card information, [...]
“Sony Corp laid off employees in a unit responsible for network security two weeks before a massive data breach, according to a lawsuit filed this week. Sony also spent lavishly on security to protect its own corporate information, while failing to do the same for its customers’ data, the proposed class action lawsuit alleges.” Source: [...]
“Computer hackers who previously broke into a U.S. Senate server and brought down the CIA web site struck an Arizona police web site on Thursday, releasing dozens of internal documents over the Internet. Lulz Security, saying it opposed a tough anti-immigration law in Arizona, said it was releasing documents that related to border control and [...]
“Bitcoin, an online currency beloved of libertarians and technophiles, which had been threatening to break into the mainstream, was facing the worst crisis of its two-year existence last night after hackers brought down its biggest exchange. The attack, an apparent attempt to steal the contents of users’ online accounts and convert them into real money, [...]
“At a time when hackers are on a tear looting information willy-nilly from insecure sites on the Web, Dropbox did the unthinkable Sunday — it allowed anyone in the world to access any one of its 25 million customers’ online storage lockers — simply by typing in any password.” (Dropbox Left User Accounts Unlocked for [...]
“Maybe we have seen just the tip of the iceberg. Leaving behind some rather bitter moments between other hacker groups, including Anonymous, LulzSec announced its decision to team up with Anonymous. ‘To increase efforts, we are now teaming up with the Anonymous collective and all affiliated battleships.’ The hacker group wrecking havoc across corporations and [...]
“Hackers have stolen personal information from over 1.2 million customers of the Japanese gaming company SEGA, according to a company statement. The breach occurred Friday and targeted user data from subsidiary “SEGA Pass”, which is operated by Britain-based SEGA Europe Limited (SEL).” Source: Customer’s personal information stolen from Sega database – This Just In – [...]
