George L. Koroneos Vertical Systems Reseller Romanian Hackers Guilty in Huge U.S. Credit Card Theft A pair of Romanian hackers will serve lengthy prison terms for their part in a global point-of-sale hacking scheme that netted them approximately 146,000 credit cards with losses exceeding $10 million. Iulian Dolan and …
Read More »Apple IDs Stolen From Tech Company Not FBI
Mike DiBattista/QMI Agency Sun News Apple IDs Stolen From Tech Company Not FBI A small US tech company said the million Apple IDs released by hackers last week came from its servers, not an FBI laptop as the culprits claimed. Last week, AntiSec, a group associated with the notorious …
Read More »Anonymous Hacker Group Attacks GoDaddy.com
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer A member of the Anonymous hacker group claimed responsibility for an attack on sites hosted by GoDaddy.com early Monday morning. The hacking group claimed that the service provider was targeted because of their support for internet censorship. GoDaddy is responsible for website hosting …
Read More »Anonymous May Attack Energy Companies
Greg Quinn, Bloomber Business Insider Canadian security agencies have warned energy companies such as Imperial Oil Ltd. their computers may be attacked by the Anonymous hacker group because of the industry’s work developing Alberta’s oil sands, government documents show. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, public safety department and Communications …
Read More »6000 Aussie Users Caught in DNSChanger Shutdown
James Hutchinson Secure Business Magazine 6000 Aussie Users Caught in DNSChanger Shutdown. The Australian Communications and Media Authority estimates 6000 Australian internet users could face disconnection when US authorities shut down rogue DNS servers on Monday. Up to four million users are believed to have been infected at the …
Read More »DOJ Asks Court To Keep Google NSA Partnership Secret
LegalTimes DOJ Asks Court To Keep Google NSA Partnership Secret The Justice Department is defending the government’s refusal to discuss—or even acknowledge the existence of—any cooperative research and development agreement between Google and the National Security Agency. The Washington based advocacy group Electronic Privacy Information Center sued in federal …
Read More »Facebook Account Hacked By Spammer Selling Sneakers
David Segal New York Times Facebook Account Hacked, legitimate account holder suffers. FACEBOOK’S initial public stock offering caused a lot of well-publicized agita. But if you think investors were the only ones fuming at the company, read on. Q. In mid-April, my Facebook profile was hijacked. I could not sign …
Read More »TeaMp0isoN Hacker Hex00010 Offers AtMail Email Exploit
Darren Pauli SC Magazine AtMail email exploit found? A recent member of the prominent hacking group Team Poison (TeaMp0isoN) is hawking what they claim is an exploit for the webmail system used by several prominent blue chip companies. The former group member, known as Hex00010, said the undisclosed exploit allegedly in AtMail “allows …
Read More »Secret Document Warns of Cyber Attack on Canada
Andrew Mayeda and Hugo Miller Bloomberg News A cyber attack on Canada may be on the horizon. Cyber attacks pose a greater risk to Canada’s economic prosperity than the government previously believed and the country lacks the tools to fight hackers, officials warn in internal documents obtained by Bloomberg …
Read More »SwaggSec Hackers Leak China Telecom and Warner Brothers Data
Jeremy Kirk ComputerWorld A hacking group is claiming to have breached the networks of Warner Bros. and China Telecom, releasing documents and publishing login credentials. Swagger Security, or “SwaggSec,” announced the breach Sunday on Pastebin, providing a link to the files on The Pirate Bay. The group has been active since …
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