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Sony Takes Dramatic Measures in Response to a Devastating Hacker Attack on Movie Studio
Dec 11, 2014Sony is taking dramatic measures in its response to a devastating hacker attack on its movie studio. Sony Pictures Entertainment has had a large proportion of its dirty laundry aired on the internet, with thousands of private emails ...
Tags: Sony, Consumer Electronics
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Yahoo's Service Sites Were Used by Hackers to Enslave Massive Numbers of Ordinary PCs
Jan 13, 2014Yahoo, has acknowledged that its service sites were used by hackers to enslave massive numbers of ordinary PCs who did so to generate bitcoins, and by extension, real earnings. Ads were placed on Yahoo web sites that when clicked by users, ...
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Twitter's SMS-Based Two-Factor Authentication Feature Could Be Abused to Lock Users
May 29, 2013Twitter's SMS-based, two-factor authentication feature could be abused to lock users who don't have it enabled out of their accounts if attackers gain access to their log-in credentials, according to researchers from Finnish anti-virus ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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The Customers of Name. Com Should Reset Passwords for The Security
May 13, 2013Domain registrar Name.com forced its customers to reset their account passwords on Wednesday following a security breach on the company's servers that might have resulted in customer information being compromised. Hackers might have ...
Tags: Computer Products, Passwords
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Cody Andrew Kretsinger Was Sentenced Thursday to One Year in Federal Prison for His Role
Apr 23, 2013Cody Andrew Kretsinger, a 25-year-old man from Decatur, Ill., was sentenced Thursday to one year in federal prison for his role in a May 2011 breach of a Sony Pictures website and database. At the time of the intrusion Kretsinger, who ...
Tags: Computer Products, software
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A Special Unit in The Chinese Army Is Behind Repeated Cyber Attacks on U.S. Institutions
Mar 4, 2013In a move to counter recent reports claiming that a special unit in the Chinese Army is behind repeated cyber attacks on U.S. institutions, the nation Thursday claimed its military and defence ministries websites are routinely hacked from ...
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Attackers Uses Fake Versions of a Released Report About a Chinese Cyberespionage Group
Feb 25, 2013Attackers are using fake versions of a recently released report about a Chinese cyberespionage group as bait in new spear-phishing attacks that target Japanese and Chinese users. The report was released Tuesday by security firm Mandiant ...
Tags: cyberespionage, China, cyber security
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The New File-Storage and Sharing Service Mega Claims to Have Fixed Seven Vulnerabilities
Feb 18, 2013One week after launching a security bug bounty program, the new file-storage and sharing service Mega claims to have fixed seven vulnerabilities, none of which met its highest severity classification. Since Mega was launched three weeks ...
Tags: Mega, security bug, file-storage, file-sharing
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Different Hacker Groups Claim to Have Breached Servers Belonging to ImageShack
Jan 4, 2013IDG News Service-Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack,Symantec,PayPal and other organizations. On Sunday,a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers,MySQL databases,routers ...
Tags: hackers, ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal
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Nvidia Is Investigating Claims That Hackers Have Compromised Its Online Stores
Dec 31, 2012IDG News Service-Graphics chip manufacturer Nvidia is investigating claims that hackers have compromised its online stores as part of a larger attack that affected several of its websites. On Friday,a hacker group calling itself Team ...
Tags: Nvidia Investigates, online stores, hack
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A Hacker Group Has Claimed Responsibility for What Appears to Be a Serious Hacking Attack
Dec 20, 2012A hacker group calling itself the Arab Youth Group has claimed responsibility for what appears to be a serious hacking attack on Saudi Aramco, one of the world's largest energy companies. The attack comes at the same time security firms ...
Tags: hacker group, Arab Youth Group, Saudi Aramcom, energy companies
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Different Hacker Groups Claim to Have Breached Servers of ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal,etc
Dec 18, 2012Different hacker groups claim to have breached servers belonging to ImageShack, Symantec, PayPal and other organisations. On Sunday, a hacker group called HTP claimed to have compromised Web servers, MySQL databases, routers and ...
Tags: cyber criminals, cyber security, cybercrime, hack, hackers, highlightedpost
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A Hacker Group Posts The Details of 453,000 Yahoo Customers Online,According to Reports
Dec 17, 2012A hacker group has posted the details of 453,000 Yahoo customers online, according to reports. According to a report on technology news website Ars Technica, the hackers posted login details of the user accounts they claim to have ...
Tags: A hacker group, Computer Products, D33Ds Company, Yahoo customers online
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Wells Fargo to Be Latest Victim Launched by Izz Ad-Din Al-Qassam Cyber Fighters
Sep 27, 2012A hacker group said to be connected to Hamas has claimed responsibility for distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on US banks in retaliation to the controversial video "The Innocence of Muslims" posted on Google's YouTube service. ...
Tags: DDoS, US banks, controversial video, Wells Fargo
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Nvidia Is Investigating The Release of Encrypted Passwords From Its User Forums
Jul 16, 2012Nvidia said it is investigating the release of encrypted passwords from its user forums, another significant data breach following recent compromises at Yahoo and LinkedIn. A group calling itself Team Apollo posted on Pastebin around 800 ...
Tags: Nvidia, Cybercrime, Hacking, USA