Organizers of a U.N. conference on global telecommunications said Thursday that hackers apparently blocked their website and disrupted the talks, a gathering some critics fear could lead to greater controls over the Internet.
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Communications blackout doesn’t deter hackers targeting Syrian regime
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on November 30, 2012
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Hackers hit International Atomic Energy Agency server
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on November 28, 2012
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A group of hackers leaked email contact information of experts working with the International Atomic Energy Agency after breaking into one of the agency’s servers.
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Hackers target Israel with millions of attacks as Hamas rockets continue to fall
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on November 20, 2012
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Hackers break into two FreeBSD Project servers using stolen SSH keys
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on November 19, 2012
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Hackers have compromised two servers used by the FreeBSD Project to build third-party software packages. Anyone who has installed such packages since Sept. 19 should completely reinstall their machines, the project's security team warned.
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Hackers’ ‘Zero-Day’ Exploits Stay Secret For Ten Months On Average
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on October 17, 2012
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Sparrowvsrevolution writes “Maybe instead of zero-day vulnerabilities, we should call them -312-day vulnerabilities. That’s how long it takes, on average, for software vendors to become aware of new vulnerabilities in their software after hackers begin to exploit them, according to a study presented by Symantec at an Association of Computing Machinery conference in Raleigh, NC this week. The researchers used data collected from 11 million PCs to correlate a catalogue of zero-day attacks with malware signatures taken from those machines. Using that retrospective analysis, they found 18 attacks that represented zero-day exploits between February 2008 and March of 2010, seven of which weren’t previously known to have been zero-days. And most disturbingly, they found that those attacks continued more than 10 months on average – up to 2.5 years in some cases – before the security community became aware of them. ‘In fact, 60% of the zero-day vulnerabilities we identify in our study were not known before, which suggests that there are many more zero-day attacks than previously thought — perhaps more than twice as many,’ the researchers write.”
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Hackers steal thousands of student records from computers at Florida college
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on October 11, 2012
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An information breach at a Florida college has compromised information of about 279,000 students and employees, the Florida Department of Education said on Wednesday.
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To Keep Passwords Safe from Hackers, Just Break Them into Bits
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on October 9, 2012
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Millions of passwords have been stolen from companies such as LinkedIn and Yahoo—a new approach aims to prevent future heists.
A new way for websites and other online services to store passwords could prevent breaches like the one that resulted in 6.5 million LinkedIn users having their passwords posted online earlier this year.
Hackers strike against Swedish websites
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on October 4, 2012
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Microsoft confirms hackers exploiting critical IE bug, promises patch
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on September 18, 2012
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Microsoft on Monday issued a security advisory that confirmed in-the-wild attacks are exploiting an unpatched bug in Internet Explorer. The software maker is working on a fix.
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Update: Hackers exploit new IE zero-day vulnerability
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on September 18, 2012
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Attackers are exploiting a “zero-day” vulnerability in Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and hijacking Windows PCs that cruise to malicious or compromised websites, security experts said today.
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GoDaddy Brought Down by Hackers
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on September 10, 2012
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One of the world’s largest web hosting providers goes down for hours.
In a sign of the Internet’s continuing vulnerability to well understood attacks, GoDaddy–one of the world’s largest Web hosting providers and domain name registrars–was knocked offline around 2 p.m. EST this afternoon and was struggling to restore service as evening approached.
Phony Al-Jazeera text messages sent by pro-Syrian gov’t hackers
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on September 9, 2012
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Network’s short messaging service compromised and used to send false news reports, including a report that Qatar’s prime minister had been assassinated.
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Meet The Disrupt SF 2012 Hackathon Hackers
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on September 9, 2012
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Every Disrupt we like to walk around the hall and meet with the uber-cool hackers who have dedicated their lives to making cool stuff in less than a day. We cornered five hackers and asked them what they were working on, what their biggest problem has been so far, and who would they consider a hacker hero. Their answers appear below, uncensored, unadulterated, and completely candid.
Defining A Growth Hacker: 5 Ways Growth Hackers Changed Marketing
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on September 8, 2012
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The Internet has been the most disruptive vehicle in modern memory, from buying shoes to connecting with friends. The profession of marketing was no less transformed over the last two decades. Marketing has evolved from rules of thumb to data-driven decisions with the adoption of lean. Danielle Morrill, co-founder of Referly, says “Growth hackers are questioning and challenging marketing as we know it today.”
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Hackathon Hardware Hackers: Here’s One More Chance To Hack On A Raspberry Pi This Weekened
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on September 7, 2012
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If you are attending this weekend’s Hackathon – that is if you have tickets and are raring to go – I have some fun news. As we mentioned before, Makerbot will be in attendance with two of their 3D printers and I still have two Raspberry Pis courtesy of Adafruit Industries that will go to teams intent on building small hardware projects.
Hackers hit Swedish Web sites in support of Assange
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on September 4, 2012
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An unidentified group of hackers wages several denial-of-service attacks on Swedish government Web sites in a show of solidarity with the WikiLeaks founder.
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Hackers vow ‘hellfire’ in latest major data leak
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on August 28, 2012
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Team GhostShell says it published one million records, allegedly from banks, government agencies, consulting firms and others — and claims there’s more to come.
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Hackers Dump Millions of Records From Banks, Politicians
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on August 26, 2012
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hypnosec writes “TeamGhostShell, a team linked with the infamous group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions including major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online. The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the web by the hacking collective. The motivation behind the hack, the group claims, is to protest against banks, politicians and the hackers who have been captured by law enforcement agencies.”
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MSFT Reaches Out To Hackers: ‘Do Epic $#!+’
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on August 13, 2012
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hessian writes “Microsoft isn’t exactly known for its underground hacker culture, but a recent effort to give its employees more slack is generating some wild experiments. Last summer, Microsoft completed a redesign of one of its original buildings on campus — Building 4, where Bill Gates’ office used to be — into a laid-back workshop where staff can tinker with things. It’s open to anyone, anytime, and it’s got everything from a hardware workshop to an actual working garage door. If it doesn’t sound to you like something Microsoft would normally do , the Garage’s motto will really shock you: ‘Do epic s–t.’”
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In Defense Of The High-Frequency Hackers
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on August 11, 2012
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It’s a potential “doomsday machine.” It’s “quite literally out of control.” Hedge fund managers and Nobel winners say it should be banned. Others insist it should at least be regulated. Its practitioners are “parasites.” Mark Cuban says they are “the ultimate hackers,” who “scared the hell out of me.”
Last week they wiped out $ 440 million of Knight Capital’s capital. Earlier this year they messed up Facebook’s IPO. A couple of years ago they caused the Dow’s 1,000-point flash crash. And everyone’s horrified by that GIF making the rounds. Yes, it’s the bête noire to end all bête noires; high-frequency trading.
The only problem here is that I don’t really see the problem.
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Apple Support Allowed Hackers Access To User’s iCloud Account
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on August 5, 2012
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Robadob writes “Yesterday a hacker gained access to Mat Honans (An editor at gizmodo) apple iCloud account allowing him to reset his iPhone, iPad and Macbook. He was also able to gain access to google and twitter accounts by sending password recovery emails. At the time this was believed to be down to a brute force attack, however today it has come out that the hacker used social engineering to convince apple customer support to allow him to bypass the security questions on the account.”
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Hey, Hackers: Defense Is Sexy, Too
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on July 31, 2012
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Is the computer security community so obsessed with demonstrating scary new attacks that it has neglected to improve defenses?
Pleasing the crowd at the Black Hat and Def Con computer security conferences that took place in Las Vegas last week is relatively easy: simply hop on stage and confidently show how to compromise, or “pwn,” a system that no one has hacked into before (see “Mobile Payment Chips Could Let Hackers into Your Phone“).
Hackers accused of stealing data from 9M Korean mobile users
Posted by Gsurface
on July 30, 2012
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Two hackers have been arrested for allegedly stealing and selling customer data from Korean mobile carrier KT.
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Cell phone battery catches fire, burns hacker’s tail at Defcon
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on July 29, 2012
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Freak incident leads to cell phone battery lighting a real fire under a man’s backside. Hotel room key-card saves him.
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NSA chief asks hackers at Defcon for help securing cyberspace
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on July 29, 2012
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National Security Agency Director General Keith B. Alexander addressed the attendees of the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas on Friday and asked for their help to secure cyberspace.
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Hackers build private ‘Ninja Tel’ phone network at Defcon
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on July 29, 2012
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Network uses phones running the “Ninja OS,” which features innovative apps such as “BoozeFone,” where people can exchange beverages using what I dubbed “booze networking.”
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Facebook Invites Hackers To Attack Its Network
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on July 28, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Nearly a year ago, Facebook introduced its bug bounty program, inviting security researchers to poke around the site, discover vulnerabilities that could compromise the integrity or privacy of Facebook user data, and then responsibly disclose them to the company. Still, when the social network’s security team received a tip from a researcher about a vulnerability in the company’s own network which would allow attackers to eavesdrop on internal communications, they made an unprecedented choice by broadened the scope of the bug bounty program and inviting researchers to search for other holes in the corporate network. Nobody expects malicious attackers to have a change of heart and hand over information about a vulnerability for a few thousand dollars when they could sell the stole information for much more. It should, therefore, come as no surprise that Ryan McGeehan, the manager of Facebook’s security-incident response unit, stated that if there’s a million-dollar bug, they will pay it out.”
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NSA director finally greets Defcon hackers
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on July 28, 2012
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National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander calls Defcon the “world’s best cybersecurity community” and asks for their help.
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Hackers Release AAPT Data To Protest Aussie Policies
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on July 27, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Anonymous is releasing some of the 40GB of data it claims to have stolen from Australian internet service provider AAPT. The hack is reportedly in protest against Australia’s proposed data retention regime, which would mandate ISPs to collect and hold transmission data from its users for up to two years.”
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Fighting Hackers without Sinking to Their Level
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on July 26, 2012
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At this year’s Black Hat hacker conference in Las Vegas, attention turns from defense to offense.
With cyber attacks that steal valuable intellectual property on the rise, companies need to consider their options for striking back at attackers, attendees of the annual Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas heard yesterday.
Mobile Payment Chips Could Let Hackers into Your Phone
Posted by Gsurface
on July 26, 2012
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Near-field communication chips may let smartphones replace cash and credit cards—but they could also offer opportunities to hackers.
In a packed room at the Black Hat computer security conference in Las Vegas yesterday, an Android smartphone was tapped with a white plastic card, and within seconds it was running malicious code that allowed an attacker to remotely access the device.
NSA Chief To Address Hackers At DEF CON
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on July 24, 2012
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wiredmikey writes “Later this week, theNSA’s organizational leader and head of the U.S. Cyber Command – General Keith Alexander — will address an audience of hackers at DEF CON. News of General Alexander’s talk at Def Con broke on Friday. Up until that point, the 12:00 Track 1 slot was kept secret, leaving attendees to the world’s largest hacker conference to speculate. The buzz was that it would be something interesting – if only because this year is Def Con’s 20th anniversary.General Alexander will be giving a talk titled ‘Shared Values, Shared Responsibility,’ which is outlined as a presentation that will focus on the shared core values between the hacker community and the government’s cyber community. Namely, the vision of the Internet as a positive force, the fact that information increases value by sharing, the respect and protection of privacy and civil liberties, and the opposition to malicious and criminal behavior.”
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Hackers Steal Keyless BMW In Under 3 Minutes
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on July 10, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes with this bit from ZDNet: “It’s cool to have a keyless BMW, until you no longer have a keyless BMW. Hackers have figured out how to break into such cars with ease. BMW has acknowledged there is a problem, but is not doing enough to protect its customers (video).”
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High-Frequency Traders Are the Ultimate Hackers, Says Mark Cuban
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on June 27, 2012
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An anonymous reader writes “Billionaire Mark Cuban talks in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about how he thinks high-frequency trading can be quite damaging to stock markets. He goes so far as to call high-frequency traders the ‘ultimate hackers.’ He says, ‘They’re running software programs that have one goal, and that’s to exploit the trading systems as early and often as possible. As someone who wrote software for eight years and who keeps up very closely with the technology world, that scared the hell out of me. The only certainty in the software world is that there is no such thing as bug-free software. When software programs are trying to outsmart other software programs and hack the world’s trading platforms, that is a recipe for disaster. … How many times an hour are there failures across individual equities around the world because of software running algorithms battling each other for supremacy to make a profitable trade? We have no idea. It’s not a question of if or when we have meltdowns, it’s just a question of how big and where. It’s straight out of War Games. And that’s before we even get to the possibility of nefarious or sovereign hackers getting involved.’”
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Lulzsec hackers plead guilty at London court
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on June 26, 2012
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Pentagon Contractors Openly Post Job Listings For Offensive Hackers
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on June 15, 2012
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Sparrowvsrevolution writes “In the wake of confirmation that the U.S. government was involved in the creation of Stuxnet and likely Flame, a look over job listings on defense contractor sites shows just how explicitly the Pentagon and the firms that service it are recruiting offense-oriented hackers. Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, Lockheed Martin, SAIC, and Booz Allen have all posted job ads that require skills like ‘exploit development,’ have titles like ‘Windows Attack Developer,’ or asks them to ‘plan, execute, and assess an Offensive Cyberspace Operation.’”
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Rockstar Creates ‘Cheaters Pool’ For Game Hackers
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on June 14, 2012
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itwbennett writes “Rockstar Games announced yesterday in a newswire post that the company has created a ‘cheater’s pool’ (sort of like the populating of Australia with criminals) where players who have hacked the game to give themselves advantages will only be able to play against other cheaters. Although, Ars Technica points out that players may actually prefer the ‘special’ world.”
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Hackers claim breach of China Telecom, Warner Bros. networks
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on June 4, 2012
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SwaggSec says it lifted more than 900 login credentials from the Chinese ISP and that the company did little to defend itself after it discovered the breach.
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This City Never Sleeps, And Neither Do The Hackers
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on May 20, 2012
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It’s midnight.
The city is alive with Saturday night fever, and Pier 94 is just as awake, and perhaps a bit more drunk. Tequila shots (and plenty of beers) are flowing, along with Red Bull, Mountain Dew, and Energy Bites.
In other words, this place is like one giant vat of FourLoko, topped with a sprinkling of coders.
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Meet The Disrupt NY 2012 Hackathon Hackers
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on May 20, 2012
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It’s been about eight hours since our big Disrupt Hackathon kicked off, and all of our intrepid hackers have been busy letting the code (and the caffeine) fly ever since. I managed to tear a few of them away from their work (these folks are pretty motivated, so it took a bit of doing) to tell us a little bit about themselves and what they be trying to crank out during the wee hours of the morning.
Bitcoinica Breach Nets Hackers $87,000 In Bitcoins
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on May 12, 2012
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dynamo52 sends this quote from Ars about a breach involving a Bitcoin exchange:
“More than $ 87,000 worth of the virtual currency known as Bitcoin was stolen after online bandits penetrated servers belonging to Bitcoinica, prompting its operators to temporarily shutter the trading platform to contain the damage. Friday’s theft came after hackers accessed Bitcoinica’s production servers and depleted its online wallet of 18,547 BTC, as individual Bitcoin units are called, company officials said in a blog post published on Friday. It said the heist affected only a small fraction of Bitcoinica’s overall bitcoin deposits and that all withdrawal requests will be honored once the platform reopens.”
Reader linhares points out a forum post discussing how the attacker(s) hinted at a ‘mass leak’ in the near future. This attack comes shortly after a leak of a different sort — an FBI document (PDF) about Bitcoin found it way onto the internet. It seems they’re worried about the virtual currency’s potential use in criminal activities.
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Twitter says accounts hackers posted were mostly banned spammers
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on May 9, 2012
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This week hackers claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous posted details from about 55,000 twitter accounts. The hackers claim to have broken into twitter servers to steal the data. Twitter is now claiming that most of those 55,000 accounts are bogus. In fact, twitter says that most of those accounts that were published were for
Iran admits expanded cyberattacks, claims it’s identified hackers
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on May 1, 2012
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The Iranian government acknowledged today that authorities have found evidence of recent cyberattacks against several agencies, according to reports by state-sponsored media outlets.
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Google’s Vulnerability Program ups the ante for helpful hackers
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on April 24, 2012
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This is not your ordinary rewards program, it’s Google’s way of paying it forward… to hackers. After celebrating the one year anniversary of its unique initiative this past November — in which the coding-inclined are compensated for exposing critical flaws across its suite of web services — the folks over at Mountain View have updated the program’s policies with a bigger chunk of cash. Previously, the search giant had set a max payout of $ 3,133.7 for any discovered vulnerabilities (a bizarre sum, we know), but that cap has now seen an increase up to $ 20,000 depending on the severity of the reported bug. For a company with billion dollar coffers, the move appears to be none other than a good faith investment in the security research community. But if you lean a bit closer to the paranoiac line, it could also be viewed as a countermeasure to other, higher-paying firms with less than honorable intentions. Whether your rose-colored glasses are on or off, it’s still nice work if you can get paid for it. And who knows? You might even make it to the Security Hall of Fame.
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Hackers turn MIT building into giant Tetris game
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on April 24, 2012
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When the brainiacs at MIT get bored, they light up the place by turning the tallest building on campus into an iconic video game.
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UK’s Home Office under attack from Anonymous hackers
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on April 8, 2012
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Hackers Can Easily Lift Credit Card Info From a Used Xbox
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on March 31, 2012
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zacharye writes “Using nothing more than a few common tools, hackers can reportedly recover credit card numbers and other personal information from used Xbox 360 consoles even after they have been restored to factory settings. Researchers at Drexel University say they have successfully recovered sensitive personal data from a used Xbox console, and they claim Microsoft is doing a disservice to users by not taking precautions to secure their data. ‘Microsoft does a great job of protecting their proprietary information,’ researcher Ashley Podhradsky said.”
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Get Notified When Hackers Get Your Data
Posted by Gsurface
on March 14, 2012
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A new service lets the FBI or other investigators alert you if your data is found in the wrong hands.
A new iPhone app launched today will add a serious – but hopefully infrequent – note to the notifications that set your handset buzzing. AllClear ID will let you know when the FBI or other investigators have found your data in the hands of cyber criminals.
Hackers attack Vatican website 2nd time in days
Posted by Gsurface
on March 13, 2012
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