Security News

Cyber attackers try Treasury hack at least once a day
2011-05-17 05:15

http://www.csoonline.com/article/682397/cyber-attackers-try-treasury-hack-at-least-once-a-day By Anh Nguyen CSO May 16, 2011 'Hostile intelligence agencies' made hundreds of attempts to hack into...

Former Teen Stock Swindler Sentenced to Three Years on New	Hack
2011-04-01 06:28

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/dinh-2/ By Kevin Poulsen Threat Level Wired.com March 31, 2011 A former teenage hacker who once served time for an online stock-trading scheme was...

NSA to Investigate Nasdaq Hack
2011-03-31 06:09

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/03/nsa-investigates-nasdaq-hack/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com March 30, 2011 The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate...

RSA hack -- a lesson in how not to handle a PR disaster!
2011-03-23 07:10

http://eskenzi.wordpress.com/2011/03/21/rsa-hack-%E2%80%93-a-lesson-in-how-not-to-handle-a-pr-disaster/ By yvonneeskenzi March 21, 2011 I’ve been doing PR for the IT security industry for 16...

HBGary's Hoglund identifies lessons in Anonymous hack
2011-03-18 07:43

http://www.csoonline.com/article/677340/hbgary-s-hoglund-identifies-lessons-in-anonymous-hack By Robert Lemos CSO March 17, 2011 On Superbowl Sunday, HBGary CTO Greg Hoglund found himself locked...

Anonymous probed for hack threat against WikiLeaker captors
2011-03-09 11:46

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/03/08/anonymous_investigated/ By Dan Goodin in San Francisco The Register 8th March 2011 The Pentagon has asked for an investigation into threats made by the...

Anonymous hack showed password re-use becoming endemic
2011-02-11 09:50

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/02/10/password_re_use_study/ By John Leyden The Register 10th February 2011 Computer scientists have discovered that password re-use is far more prevalent than...

Russian Convicted of $9 Million RBS WorldPay Hack Avoids Jail
2011-02-10 09:56

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/02/rbs-hacker-avoids-jail/ By Kim Zetter Threat Level Wired.com February 9, 2011 A Russian hacker convicted of the $9 million hack of RBS WorldPay has avoided...

Scandinavian gamers hack NH medical center to play Call of Duty; compromise records of 230,000
2011-01-14 08:03

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?articleId=6add3fd7-0f3f-4680-aa61-232503e7eaca&headline=Scandinavian+gamers+hack+NH+medical+center+to+play+Call+of+Duty%3b+compromise+records+of+230%2c000...

United Airlines Caught in Twitter Hack
2010-02-27 08:51

http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/business/united-twitter-hack-85544162.html By BJ LUTZ NBC Chicago Feb 26, 2010 The Twitter account for United Airlines on Friday morning was among several notable...