Nokia has suspended its developer forum website after it discovered a recent attack that resulted in members’ data being compromised. The database tapped by hackers included member e-mail addresses and, in some cases, personally identifiable information such as birthdates, homepage URLs and screen names from messaging services such as AIM, Skype and Yahoo. Before the [...]
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A Goffstown, N.H., man has pleaded guilty to repeatedly hacking into his former employer’s computer systems and using that information to solicit new business for a competing company, the Justice Department announced. Lawrence R. Marino, 41, pleaded guilty to a one-count criminal information charging him with computer intrusion. In the plea hearing, he admitted to [...]
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Another Government Contractor Falls Prey to Hackers: 90,000 Emails, Passwords Stolen from Booz Allen
July 12, 2011 No CommentMembers of hacking collective Anonymous yesterday tweeted they had broken into government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton‘s computer systems, as part of the group’s larger effort to expose government and corporate failure to secure computer networks, Reuters reports. The hackers said they deleted four gigabytes of the firm’s source code and took 90,000 military email addresses, [...]
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Japanese video game maker Sega has become the latest victim of ubiquitous cyber attacks in which information belonging to 1.3 million customers was swiped, Reuters reports. In a statement released Sunday, Sega said names, birth dates, email addresses and encrypted passwords of Sega Pass online network members had been compromised; credit card numbers appear to [...]
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LulzSec Releases Massive Data Dump, Shuts Down Thousands of Australian Sites
June 17, 2011 No CommentPrankster hacker group LulzSec has steered its Lulz Boat and quest for mischief toward “down under,” breaking into Australian domain registrar and web host Distribute.IT, and crippling access to thousands of websites, according to media reports. The Register reports that the among the Australian data dump were details from Australian universities and government departments, including [...]
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A 26-year-old Texas man has been sentenced to two years in prison after admitting to hacking into computer networks at a Minnesota business and at NASA, the FBI’s Minneapolis office announced. In his plea agreement, Jeremey Parker of Houston, Texas, admitted to breaking into computer network of SWReg, Inc., a subsidiary of the cyber-based company [...]
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Hacker collective Lulz Security has taken credit for hacking the U.S. Senate and Maryland-based gaming company Bethesda Softworks, according to media reports. “Bethesda, we broke into your site over two months ago,” the group tweeted yesterday, according to The Los Angeles Times. “We’ve had all of your Brink users for weeks. Please fix your junk, [...]
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A 26-year-old U.K. man was arrested last week after being accused of trying to hack into Facebook, IDG News reports. Few details are known about the alleged incident, but Facebook said last Friday no user information had been stolen and it is working with the FBI and Scotland Yard in an investigation. A spokesman for [...]
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Hackers have compromised official websites of 16 federal offices in Nepal this month alone, raising questions about the security of web servers used by the government, Republica reports. The main reason for the spike in cyber attacks was lack of law enforcement, said Vice President of High Level Commission of Information Technology Manohar Kumar Bhattarai. [...]
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