Sony is again battling hackers who are now attacking business units around the world, as the Japanese electronics giant today admitted three new attacks. Hackers have targeted Sony Ericsson’s Canadian eShop website, affecting 2,000 users, a Sony spokesman said today. And yesterday, Sony said websites in three countries had been hacked, AFP reported. One of [...]
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A Romanian hacker claims to have intruded a computer server at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and gained access to confidential satellite data, SecurityNewsDaily reports. The hacker, who goes by the name TinKode, last week boasted on Twitter about breaching the server. He also posted a screen shot on his blog, seemingly displaying a Goddard [...]
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Two U.K. teenage hackers who broke into the accounts of online companies to steal customers’ credit card details were sentenced last Friday for abusing their computer skills, according to Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit. Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, both from Brighton, hacked into web-hosting company Punkyhosting and when the company [...]
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Maybe it’s karma or maybe it’s just the nature of the hacking world, but infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous was recently hacked by one of its own, according to postings from administrators of the groups’ network. Postings on a site belonging to a subgroup called Anonops claim an insider named Ryan hijacked one of the group’s [...]
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The Central Oregon Community College’s website has been hit by what school officials say are overseas hackers, prompting technicians to replace it with a temporary version, KTVZ.com reported. COCC spokesman Ron Paradis said the only inclination to the public that the website had been compromised was its intermittent service. The hacker, who “appears to be [...]
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Sony said hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for 24.6 million customer as part of a broader attack on the company that has compromised data for more than 100 million accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported. On the heels of last month’s data breach of Sony’s PlayStation system, [...]
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Sentencing has been set for a 38-year-old South Haven, Mich., man who pleaded no contest to one felony count of using a computer to commit a crime, according to The Kalamazoo Gazette. James Cleland, 38, stood accused of hacking into a former girlfriend’s email and Facebook accounts to write messages she had HIV, entered the [...]
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Police are urging central Iowans to keep track of their bank accounts after more than a dozen patrons of a local Mexican restaurant had their bank accounts accessed by a hacker, according to The Des Moines Register. Police Lt. John Broderson said up to 18 customers who frequented Qdoba Mexican Grill on University Avenue in [...]
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Assistant director for the cyber division of the FBI, Gordon Snow, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on crime and terrorism this week to talk about how the bureau is responding to the ongoing threat of cyber crime terrorism. Snow discussed the overall cyber threat and said he couldn’t overstate the potential impact the [...]
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