“A judge in Maine has ruled that a bank that allowed hackers to steal more than $300,000 from a customer’s online account isn’t responsible for the lost money, saying the customer should have done more to protect the account credentials. “ Source: Bank Not Responsible for Letting Hackers Steal $300K From Customer | Threat Level [...]
“The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released new reporting metrics for agency compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) that focus on continuous cybersecurity monitoring. The new metrics should bolster the federal government’s strategy to keep closer and more constant track of security vulnerabilities and threats as it moves forward with improvements [...]
“Sony’s share price fell more than three percent to a two-year low Monday after the latest online attack against the Japanese electronics and entertainment giant targeted its European subsidiary. Sony shares in Tokyo trade lost 3.14 percent to close at 2,062 yen, the lowest level since March 2009. No confidential data was stolen or published [...]
“Lockheed Martin said Friday that it had proof that hackers breached its network two weeks ago partly by using data stolen from a vendor that supplies coded security tokens to tens of millions of computer users. “ Source: Lockheed Says Hacker Used Stolen SecurID Data – NYTimes.com
“In a self-titled hack attack called ‘F**k FBI Friday’ the hacking group known as LulzSec has published details on users and associates of the non-profit organization known as Infragard. Infragard describes itself as a non-profit focused on being an interface between the private sector and individuals with the FBI. LulzSec published 180 usernames, hashed passwords, [...]
“In the run-up to the June 15th anniversary of the 2009 Iranian presidential election—elections met with widespread protests amidst widespread claims that the result was rigged—Anonymous has stepped up its electronic attacks on Iran. In a break from the loosely affiliated group’s more common denial-of-service attacks, the group announced that it has stolen more than [...]
“Secretive North Korea is scouring its universities for computer prodigies to send overseas for training as part of a plan to expand its cyber warfare unit, a defector said on Wednesday, underscoring the increased risk of cyber attacks. The South has accused the North of being responsible for a number of computer hacking incidents this [...]
“Hundreds of personal Gmail accounts, including those of some senior U.S. government officials, were hacked as a result of a massive phishing scheme originating from China, Google said Wednesday. The account hijackings were a result of stolen passwords, likely by malware installed on victims’ computers or through victims’ responses to e-mails from malicious hackers posing [...]
“Around March of 2011 files of the format below began appearing on Pastebin.com and Pastebin.ca. An investigation into their contents revealed them to be a simple keylog dump of window titles and content typed into the window below the title. Pastebin had been turned into the dead drop for the exfiltraiton of user data from [...]
