Jeep joins Burger King in Twitter hack club
A new article from NBC News technology section on twitter accounts being hack: Just a day after Burger King's Twitter account was hacked and renamed McDonalds, Jeep is suffering the same fate — but the takeover hoax isn't credited to the fast food empire this time. Jeep's hacked account says it's been bought by […]
Spearphishing: The dirty email trick favored by the nastiest hackers
Interesting article in NBC NEWS technology section: A new report says that the Chinese military is secretly obtaining sensitive data from U.S. companies. A key technique is "spearphishing," an approach that tricks a targeted individual to reveal information that can be used to infiltrate the company or government agency that person works for. Security companies […]
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
Interesting article for the New York Times technology section: On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story white office tower, sits a People’s Liberation Army base for China’s growing corps of cyberwarriors. The building off Datong Road, surrounded by restaurants, massage parlors and a wine importer, is the headquarters of P.L.A. […]
Media Companies are Under Attack by Chinese Hackers
On Friday, February 1, Twitter has reported and confirmed that is has become the latest victim of sophisticated cyber attacks against media companies in recent weeks. Other companies include The Washington Post, The New York Times, Bloomberg News and The Wall Street Journal. All fingers point to Chinese hackers penetrating their computer systems.
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Is the US government helping cyber crooks?
As the U.S. government defends our interests and technology in the escalating global cyberwar, could it inadvertently be handing cyberweapons to criminals?
Hackers leak 1 million Apple device IDs
To cap off a summer of devastating corporate data breaches, hackers yesterday posted online what might be the crown jewel of 2012 data dumps: 1 million identification numbers for Apple iPhones, iPads and iPod Touch's, all purportedly stolen from the FBI.
Dropbox confirms it was hacked, offers users help
After a two-week investigation, the online file storage service confirms that usernames and passwords were stolen from third party Web sites and then used to access Dropbox accounts.
Security Bulletin: MS12-020 high-risk vulnerability in the RDP (Remote Desktop)
On March 14, 2012, Microsoft released a critical software patch that fixes a very high-risk vulnerability in the RDP (Remote Desktop) service installed on most Windows-based systems. The vulnerability may allow the execution of malicious code by sending a malformed packet to an RDP enabled system.
Security Bulletin: MS12-020