Displaying items by tag: Hacker

Kaspersky Labs' analysis of the Duqu malware shows it to be highly targeted and shows very clearly that it fits any reasonable definition of 'Advanced Persistent Threat.'

In the past few days, two separate US-based water authorities appear to have had their control systems breached - one of them has suffered physical damage.

Unlike many recent intrusions (too many to mention), the Steam online gaming network intrusion doesn't seem too bad, and we hear some good things about what Valve had done to protect data.

We continue the interview with Entrust's Jon Callas.  Here we ask how it happened that while RSA was made to look rather foolish by the hackers, Entrust was able to blithely continue on its path.

News Ltd's online food property Taste suffered a breach sometime last week exposing details of a number of members.  The breach and they way it has been handled has left a lot to be desired and the security and privacy of a lot of people in tatters.

When a kindly soul discovers a trivially simple security bug and then posts it to the organization concerned, the last thing he expects is a warning letter from the lawyers and a visit from the police.

For around 20 minutes on Sunday, the Sesame Street YouTube channel was showing a little more than usual.

Claiming the usual "it arrived in an anonymous brown paper bag," the Chaos Computer Club has announced the reverse engineering of what is claimed to be the German authorities' intercept malware, Quellen-TKÜ.

According to a statement posted yesterday, the LulzSec boat has sailed its last voyage.  Will the world ever be the same?

Combining data-centric and system-centric views of an organisation's information systems, Acronis Backup & Recovery 11 may well have saved a few organisations from the recent slew of data loss incidents (if they'd used it).

Guess who had an insecure FTP server?  Acer has gifted the hackers truck-loads of sensitive data, all nicely laid out for easy use.

This is becoming something of a broken record.  Did any part of Sony have a clue about protecting their on-line assets?

A week ago, Sony's Playstation Network and Qriocity were suddenly unavailable.  Now we know why.  Just about all of the details submitted to create the 77 million user accounts have been stolen.

Yesterday the Internet was a-buzz with tales of a hacker shutting down a US-based wind farm.  Pity it never happened.

Despite storing the personal data of its customers without informing them via its privacy statement, the Australian privacy Commissioner has no ability to impose any penalty whatsoever upon Lush Cosmetics.

Following a discussion with a representative of Lush Cosmetics, more information is available regarding Monday's web site breach.

The Australian and New Zealand shopping site of cosmetics retailer Lush has been hacked just weeks after a similar breach occurred on the UK site.  Credit card details and other intimate information of shoppers have been exposed.

Original iPhone hardware hacker, George Hotz or 'Geohot', has beaten the iPhone Dev Team to an iOS 4.1 jailbreak called Limera1n, giving users to wish to jailbreak their iPad (on iOS 3.2.2), iPhone 4, iPhone 3GS, iPod Touch 4th Gen or the iPod Touch 3rd Gen that ability again, after iOS 4.1 initially took it away, with Geohot promising the jailbreak should work with the upcoming iOS 4.2 and future iOS releases.

Too many people are finding, to their cost, that the things they said on social network sites come back to haunt them later in life.  It's bad enough when such things are self-inflicted, but there is a growing tide of Status Jacking, whereby login credentials are stolen or hacked and fake or malicious messages are posted.

Seeking to restore an unjailbroken balance to the force that is the Sony PS3, a new 3.42 firmware update has disabled the PSGroove, PSFreedom and PSJailbreak USB dongle methods to stop unauthorised access to a world of pirate and homebrew PS3 software.