“Russian hacker Viktor Pleshchuk, who broke into the security system of the Royal Bank of Scotland’s RBS WorldPay service, has paid 10 million rubles ($330,000) in compensation to the lender, local news portal Fontanka.ru quoted an official of a local auction house, which sold Pleshchuk’s property, as saying on Monday.” Source: Russian hacker pays 10 [...]
“William Hague, the Foreign Secretary, said the agency had joined forces with the Serious and Organised Crime Agency to obtain the information as part of the ongoing cyber war against foreign states and criminals. A team of experts at GCHQ is understood to be working with the military to develop internet tools to strike back [...]
“Scotland Yard has arrested two men who together used the online pseudonym “Kalya” and were central figures in the notorious hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec.” Source: Scotland Yard Arrests LulzSec Hacker ‘Kayla’ | FoxNews.com
“China’s Supreme People’s Court (SPC) and Supreme People’s Procuratorate (SPP) on Monday jointly issued a legal interpretation that aims to fight hacking and other Internet crimes more aggressively. According to a statement released jointly by the SPC and SPP, a crime endangering information network security poses a threat not only to network security but also [...]
“A yearlong probe into computer fraud at an immigration application processing center uncovered multiple incidents of internal hacking where staff accessed management-level emails and other confidential files, according to Homeland Security Department interviews, network analyses and internal emails obtained by Nextgov. The investigation began in January 2008, when officials at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, [...]
“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, [...]
“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 – [...]
“In a sure sign that the virtual currency Bitcoin has hit the mainstream, a new Trojan horse program discovered in the wild Thursday seeks out and steals victims’ Bitcoin wallets, the same way other malware goes for their banking passwords or credit card numbers. The malware, Infostealer.Coinbit, is fairly simple: it targets Windows machines and [...]
“Officials in Turkey have arrested 32 members of clandestine Web group Anonymous for their alleged involvement in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks on Turkish government Web sites. Suspects were arrested in a dozen Turkish cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, according to state-run news agency, Anatolia. Anonymous announced Friday that it had “launched a successful [...]
” Sony was told by the Japanese government on Friday to strengthen its data security as the electronics and entertainment giant reels from a series of attacks by hackers. The industry ministry officially instructed Sony to implement its own plan to improve management and protection of key information. ‘This is a serious case, considering the [...]
