Items Tagged with "hackers"
Why Hackers are Having a Field Day
June 20, 2011 Added by:Gurudatt Shenoy
The past few months have seen a shock and awe campaign being launched by a series of hacker organizations such as Anonymous hackers and LulzSec. The most serious of recent events is the breach of RSA's SecureID. Whew. If the guardians of security cannot protect their own, who else can?
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Sega Breach Exposes 1.3 Million Accounts
June 20, 2011 Added by:Headlines
In an odd turn of events, the most likely suspect in the attack against Sega, the hacker collective LulzSec, apparently was not involved in this latest event and has offered to help Sega track down the culprits...
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SMBs Face Growing threat from Mass Meshing Attacks
June 17, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Because they can do it at such a precise level, when they attack they don't just inject a single malicious script like in mass SQL injections. They inject a backdoor, which allows them total control of all the files on the website..."
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Citigroup Reveals More Compromised Client Accounts
June 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The customers' account information (name, account number and contact information, including email address) was viewed. However, data that is critical to commit fraud was not compromised: the customers' social security number, date of birth, card expiration date and card security code..."
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LulzSec Attacks CIA Website, Taunts The Jester
June 16, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The hacker collective known as LulzSec conducted a successful attack against a public-facing website of the CIA on Wednesday. The DDoS attack, which caused periodic outages, was announced with a Twitter message from the group stating, "Tango down - cia.gov - for the lulz..."
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Anti-Hacker Kill Switch Voodoo Containment Systems
June 15, 2011 Added by:J. Oquendo
Internet killswitches: Who needs them and why. It is rather ironic to even think about the United States attempting to carry out some form of killswitch considering that at the same time, the government is trying to build a system to bypass other countries' killswitches...
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Y-12 Nuclear Weapons Plant Targeted in Cyberattack
June 15, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"Y-12's external website has been replaced with a temporary information page. At this point, there is no evidence that any plant-wide email or internal computing services have been affected, nor has any classified or sensitive information been accessed or affected by this incident..."
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From Lulz to Global Espionage: The Age of the Cracker
June 14, 2011 Added by:Scot Terban
For groups like Lulzsec, they are passing from the nuisance category into perceived enemies of the state. Once they start attacking government and military targets, they are likely to see a more hardened response from intelligence agencies as well as the likes of the FBI...
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LulzSec Claims U.S. Senate Network Hack
June 14, 2011 Added by:Headlines
The group posted the following statement: "We don't like the US government very much. This is a small, just-for-kicks release of some internal data from Senate.gov - is this an act of war, gentlemen? Problem?"
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My Take on the IMF Hack
June 13, 2011 Added by:Luis Corrons
Even though there are no details on the attack, speculation started talking about a "foreign country" being behind the attack, many fingers pointing at China (as usual) and talking about cyberwarfare. But it also makes sense that this is not a targeted attack...
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IMF May Be Latest Victim of RSA SecurID Hack
June 13, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"There are still dozens of similar yet still undisclosed breaches that have taken place in the U.S. government and defense domain during the same time frame. My guess is that it is the same set of bad actors who are behind the attacks focused on military, government and economic intelligence...
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Fake Security Firms Will Be Exposed
June 09, 2011 Added by:Boris Sverdlik
Joe Black has built a reputation around certifications and misinformation. He has a very interesting career, that we can trace back to his days at Wright Printing in 2005 according to his LinkedIn Profile which is also about the time he was supposedly enrolled at ITT...
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Citigroup Suffers Breach of Customer Information
June 09, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Citigroup has confirmed an unauthorized network access event may have compromised the account details of as many as two hundred thousand North American banking clients. Representatives said they detected the breach of the Citi Account Online network in May through routine monitoring...
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FBI Recruits One in Four U.S. Hackers as Informants
June 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
"The FBI are always there. They are always watching, always in the chatrooms. You don't know who is an informant and who isn't, and to that extent you are vulnerable..."
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How Secure is RSA’s SecurID?
June 08, 2011 Added by:Headlines
Once installed on the authentication server, most of the cryptographic protection of the seed values could be removed by anyone with sufficient time and effort, and in fact the previous secret 64-bit algorithm was revealed about 10 years ago through such reverse engineering...
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UPDATED: LIGATT's LulzSec Investigation PR Was Fake
June 07, 2011 Added by:Headlines
UPDATE: LIGATT Security's Gregory Evans returned Infosec Island's phone call regarding an article we ran based on a press release issued at Free Press Release. Evans confirmed that the press release was fake, and was not drafted or submitted my LIGATT security staff as indicated...