The Boston Police Department seems to be taking the recent hacking of its community news website in stride; a video uploaded to YouTube pokes fun at the hack with several tongue-in-cheek interviews of Boston-area police officers.
Hackers claim to have breached the computer systems at Foxconn, the controversial electronics manufacturer headquartered in Taiwan that makes products for companies such as Apple, HP and several other large consumer electronics companies.
At a rare open hearing of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence last week, FBI Director Robert Mueller testified that threats from cyber-espionage and cyber-attacks will surpass terrorism as the number one threat facing the United States. Not three days later, hackers released a recording of an intercepted call between FBI agents and their U.K. counterparts investigating the Anonymous and LulzSec collectives.
A sensitive conference call between FBI and British police’s cybercrime investigators was recorded by the very people they were trying to catch, officials and hackers said Friday.
A group of Internet hackers said Tuesday it took down the website of Brazil’s second largest private sector bank, one day after it did the same with the country’s largest private bank.
Apple’s iPhone 4S and iPad 2 proved particularly difficult to jailbreak, but the hackers have finally prevailed. The so-called Corona A5 jailbreak is the first “untethered” hack for the iPhone 4S and iPad 2.
By the time East Coasters were finishing dinner last night, 10 websites had fallen to what hacktivist group Anonymous calls its “low orbit ion cannon,” or LOIC — a public domain software tool named after a weapon in a popular sci-fi real-time strategy game that’s designed to stress test whether a network can handle a distributed denial of service attack.
From sleeping dog to full-on Internet terror, it appears Anonymous may be exacting revenge on several federal and private groups after the Justice Department shuttered popular download site Megaupload this afternoon, charging it violated copyright laws.
Zappos.com has taken pains to assure customers that their credit card information is safe after a data breach, which was reported over the weekend, compromised information of up to 24 million customers, including names, mailing and billing addresses, phone numbers, truncated credit card numbers and “cryptographically scrambled” passwords. But one cybersecurity expert says consumers shouldn’t be complacent when it comes to how their online data is encrypted, stored and sometimes left vulnerable.
A hacker network that claims to be based in Saudi Arabia paralyzed the websites of Israel’s stock exchange and national airline on Monday, escalating an international cyber war that has jolted this security-obsessed country.
Online shoe seller Zappos.com says a hacker may have accessed the personal information of up to 24 million customers.
