I have been meaning to write about this for a week now, but a conversation I had last night with a security-geek friend (thanks, Tim!) allows me to combine two posts. Happy Friday! First, the subject line. Lizard Squad, the group that claimed responsibility for shutting down the Microsoft xBox and Sony Playstation networks on […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]How many times have you seen computer experts telling you that they have the secret solution to making your computers secure? I don’t know how many I have seen, but it is a lot. There is, no doubt, some truth in each of these lists, but for everyone, the solution is a little different. The […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Michael Lynton, Sony Pictures CEO, gave the AP the most extensive interview since the attack. Among other things, Lynton said that the hackers “They came in the house, stole everything, then burned down the house.” He said “They destroyed servers, computers, wiped them clean of all the data and took all the data.” More importantly, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Swiss Bank BCGE was hacked, according to Network World, by a group of hackers who miscalculated a bit. The hacking group, Rex Mundi, has an M.O. of hacking businesses and then demanding a small ransom from the company in exchange for not publishing what they took. In this case, they hacked their way into […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]According to an article at Cult Of Mac, one of Apple’s suppliers, Quanta, posted Powerpoint documents with instructions on how to log in to a database containing confidential Apple documents on new, yet to be announced products. Apparently, the document contains default credentials, which it says, the business partner should change after they log in […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]U.S. Central Command, responsible for the military’s activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Syria and a number of other countries in that region was the victim of a hack earlier today. Centcom’s Twitter feed and You Tube channel were compromised and defaced. Twitter quickly disabled the feed but not before some charts and contact information for […]
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