Aaron Barr's Strange Trip To (Occupy) Wall Street

It was an “Elvis Meets Nixon” kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York’s Zuccotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It’s complicated. In an interview with...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO 's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street dem...

Steve Jobs' Death Saddens World, Inspires Spammers

It was one of those odd moments where the entire online community was briefly unified in its mourning of the tech visionary, Apple co-founder, and former CEO whose life-work has demanded nearly universal respect. But as with everything else on the Internet, it didn’t last long. The dregs of the W...

Steve Jobs Dead At 56

Outpourings of grief came from all corners of the technology world on Wednesday after Apple Computer announced that its co-founder and former CEO Steve Jobs had died of cancer at the age of 56. Apple’s Web page paid tribute to Jobs on Wednesday, as tributes poured in from across the world. Of not...

Стив Джобс умер

Средства массовой информации сообщают о смерти Стива Джобса, бывшего CEO Apple. Можно по-разному относиться к Apple и Стиву, но отрицать то, что это знаковая фигура в IT-индустрии, создавшая множество трендов. Requiescat in pace, Стив. Приведу перевод сообщения на официальном сайте Apple: Apple...

Pizza Delivery For Mr. Blankfein? Group Outs Goldman Sachs CEO In Occupy Wall Street Protest

The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests spilled into the digital realm, as a group linked to the Anonymous hacking collective spilled information about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with e-mail addresses for much of the investment bank’s senior leadership. The ongoing Occupy Wall Stree...

PlayStation Network Stronger Than Ever, Says Sony Exec

In the wake of what will likely go down as the biggest gaming failure since Virtual Boy, Sony chief executive, Howard Stringer claims the PlayStation Network is more secure than ever, according to a report from CNET. “I’m pleased to tell you that the PSN is more secure and better than ever,”...

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer of Apple AAPL. The company has promoted chief operating officer Tim Cook to the position of CEO and said that Cook will join the company's board of directors. Jobs will become Apple's chairman. Here is a copy of...

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO

Steve Jobs Resigns as Apple CEO Steve Jobs has resigned as chief executive officer of Apple AAPL. The company has promoted chief operating officer Tim Cook to the position of CEO and said that Cook will join the company's board of directors. Jobs will become Apple's chairman. Here is a copy of...

Sony CEO Warns "Bad New World" Will See More High Profile Hacks

In the aftermath following April’s mammoth Sony PlayStation Network breach, the company’s Chief Executive warns of a “bad new world” of cyber crime in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Howard Stringer of Sony Corp. spoke with the newspaper on security, hackers and how the atta...

Fox Sitcom Will Depict Pen Testing Firm

Hollywood is taking another crack at hacker culture – this time with a decidedly contemporary twist: a sitcom that will depict the zany doings of a group of security geeks who work as corporate penetration testers. The new show, breakingin, is scheduled to debut on April 6 and will star Christian...

HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr Steps Down

Embattled CEO Aaron Barr says he is stepping down from his post at HBGary Federal to allow the company to move on after an embarassing data breach. The announcement comes three weeks after Barr became the target of a coordinated attack by members of the online mischief making group Anonymous, whi...

Hacked security firm backs out of security conference !

It has really got to hurt when you run a computer security company and an outlaw hacker group manages to steal and post on the Internet embarrassing emails connecting you to much-publicized plans for crushing the enemies of large corporations through unsavory means like disinformation and...

HOLD — HBGary Federal News…

HBGary Federal, the beleagured security startup that has been the target of the online mischief making group Anonymous for the last week said on Monday that it was ceasing operations | its CEO Aaron Barr was stepping down. The consulting firm, a wholly owned subsidiary of HBGary Inc., had been...

Maruti CEO's email hacked, two Nigerians detained for hacking !

The Gurgaon badge accept bedfast two Nigerians for hacking into the email of auto above Maruti Suzuki's managing administrator and arch controlling administrator CEO Shinzo Nakanishi and sending affected job offers to aspirants. According to sources, the badge accept asked the suspects to accoute...

LifeLock CEO A Frequent Victim of ID Theft

A CEO who publicly posted his Social Security number on billboards and TV commercials as part of a campaign to promote his company’s credit monitoring services was the victim of identity theft at least 13 times, a news report says. Read the full article. Wired...

Google Is 'Paranoid' on Security Following Aurora

Google learned some hard security lessons after it was attacked late last year by hackers, said CEO Eric Schmidt. “Google is now particularly paranoid about that,” Schmidt said during a question-and-answer session following Google’s Atmosphere 2010 conference before about 400 CIOs. Read the full...

Heartland CEO Talks Lessons Learned

A Cyber Forensics panel at the U.S Spy Museum discussed data breaches and the effects one bad hacking event can have; The panel discussion included the CEO of Heartland Payment Systems, whose company was the victim of a very large, very publicized data breach in 2008. Read the full article. Dark...

An Open Letter to Heartland CEO Robert Carr

Mr. Carr, I read your interview with Bill Brenner in CSO magazine today, and I sympathize with your situation. I completely agree that the current system of standards and audits contained in the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is flawed and unreliable as a breach-prevention mechanism...