King of Hacks? Sony Breach May Have Yielded Thousands of Michael Jackson Songs

Parts of pop icon Michael Jackson’s discography, possibly his entire back catalog, have allegedly been stolen from Sony Music by hackers, according to a report from BBC this morning. It’s uncertain exactly how many songs were stolen. According to a report from The Guardian, hackers pilfered more...

Ubuntu 'ubuntuone-couch'包SSL证书校验信息泄露漏洞

Ubuntu是一款基于linux内核的操作系统 ubuntuone-couch使用python-httplib2，但是0.7.0之前的python-httplib2没有对服务器证书进行校验，可导致中间人攻击获得或更改敏感数据 0 Ubuntu ubuntuone-couch Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 11.10 i386 Ubuntu Ubuntu Linux 11.10 amd64 厂商解决方案 用户可参考如下供应商提供的安全公告获得补丁信息：...

RSA: Chaos In the Security World, And the Situation Is Perfect

Right on cue this week, the anarchic hacking collective Anonymous stepped up and grabbed the story line away from the lions of the IT security industry. With the annual RSA Conference set to begin, the whistle blowing site Wikileaks released the first of some five million e-mail messages stolen...

Philips, Police Looking Into Breach, 200K Email Addresses Leaked

Add electronics giant Philips to the list of companies that have suffered data breaches over the last year. The company had a server containing a variety of information, including 200,000 e-mail addresses, compromised earlier this month, according to a report from the UK’s V3. The report cites a...

Facebook Hacker Gets 8 Months in Jail

A 26-year-old Briton was sentenced to eight months for hacking Facebook in 2011. Glenn Mangham was sentenced to jail Feb. 17 by a British Court. According to the Daily Mail, Mangham impersonated a Facebook employee and hacked into three of the company’s servers. He was then able to obtain...

Stratfor Subscribers Experience Phishing Attempts

Cybercriminals continue targeting customers of Stratfor, the well-known, Texas-based security and policy think-tank hacked by Anonymous on Christmas, according to a TechNet report. Social engineers have been sending malicious and fraudulent emails to Strafor subscribers since their customer...

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers

Al Jazeera news network hacked by Syrian Hackers Arabic-language news network Al Jazeera's website was hacked last week by a Syrian hacktivist group in support of the government's actions in the country. Aljazeera is broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and...

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed

United States Census Bureau Hacked and Vulnerability Exposed A Group of Hackers from r00tw0rm found SQL injection Vulnerability on United States Census Bureau,0x3a,user\,0x3a,database\,4,5,groupconcat\tablename+from+informationschema.tables--+ and Hackers successfully exploit the Database and...

After Damaging Reports, Electronics Manufacturing Giant Foxconn Is Hacked

Members of an online hacking group that calls itself SwaggSec say they hacked systems belonging to Chinese electronics manufacturing giant Foxconn and made off with login credentials belonging to some of the company’s biggest clients. Foxconn has declined to comment. The incident comes in the wak...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call

Anonymous Hacks FBI and Records Conference Call Earlier today, Anonymous released a confidential conference call between the FBI and law enforcement officers in the UK. The 16-minute call discusses ongoing investigations into hackers associated with Anonymous, AntiSec, and LulzSec. From all...

Update: Verisign Admits To Security Breaches in 2010

Verisign, the Internet security company responsible for management of the .COM domain, told federal regulators that it was the victim of several successful attacks in 2010, but that those incidents were not reported to the company’s management until September, 2011. The news was first reported by...

PlayStation Network Chief Leaves Sony After 17-Year Run

Susan Panico, the head of Sony’s PlayStation Network PSN, has left that company, according to a report from Venture Beat. Panico’s tenure as head of the PSN was reportedly marked by vast growth, but was marred in the last year by a series of missteps, including the May, 2011 data breach affecting...

Data Breach Affects Two Million NY Customers, State Commission to Investigate

The New York State Public Service Commission announced yesterday they’ll be looking into a data breach that may have exposed the personal information of almost two million customers to unknown attackers. An employee from a software consulting firm contracted by New York State Electric & Gas NYSEG...

EU to Propose New Data Breach, Privacy Regulations

The European Union EU is preparing to propose new rules that will require companies to disclose data breaches within 24 hours, according to reports. The new rules are aimed at protecting customers and reducing bureaucracy, EU Justice Commissioner Viviane Reding explained in a speech at a conferen...

Update: Zappos Says 24 Million Customers Affected By Data Breach

UPDATE: Online retailer Zappos said that its network has been compromised and attackers were able to access personal information belonging to more than 24 million of its customers. Zappos said that its database that contains customers’ credit card numbers was not compromised, however. “We were...

Stratfor Website Back Online After Hack, CEO Apologizes

The website of Texas-based security and intelligence think tank, Stratfor, is back online with a newly designed site today after being hacked by the Anonymous Internet collective on December 25. Stratfor suspended access to the company’s site, servers, and emails after acknowledging the attack. I...

New SEC Guidance May Impact Corporate Disclosure

As companies begin submitting their regulatory filings and financial reports from 2011, the SEC is pushing for more comprehensive data breach, cyber attack, and general risk-assessment disclosures. As it stands, companies not only downplay the severity of hacking and other Internet-borne threats ...

Anonymous Leaks Info Following California Police Union Website Hack

The website for California’s Statewide Law Enforcement Association CSLEA union remained offline Tuesday following the announcement of a hack by well-known hacktivist group Anonymous over the holiday weekend. In part of what the group has deemed “pr0j3ct m4hy3m,” project mayhem Anonymous released...

Hackers Release More Stratfor Breach Data

The hackers behind the attack on Stratfor released more data swiped from the firm on the Internet, including credit card data and e-mail addresses. The disclosure of more information Dec. 29 came less than a week after the initial news broke about the hack. On Pastebin, links were posted to...