Heard about any good hacks lately?
It’s high time we went over some password rules:
1. The longer the better. Six characters? No. Eight? Meh. Twelve? Yes.
2. Use a combination of uppercase, lowercase, numbers and symbols.
3. Create a different password for each site. It’s a total pain, I know, but consider one of the …
“Phishing”—or the act of following jam-band Phish across the country tricking people into handing over private data via e-mail—is a serious offense. So serious, in fact, that a 27-year-old Los Angeles man who was found guilty of running a major phishing operation just got sentenced to 13 years in prison.
To be fair, he got 11 …
Citigroup estimates that around 3,400 customers were affected by the online security breach it experienced earlier this year, costing somewhere in the region of $2.7 million when credit card information was stolen by hackers.
This is the first time that Citi is publicly acknowledging any financial losses as a result of the hack, which …
So long, LulzSec, we hardly knew ye. The infamous—and I say “‘infamous” like the term was used to describe El Guapo in Three Amigos—band of merry hackers called it quits over the weekend. And I say “called it quits” like someone goes from smoking inside their house to only smoking outside, at parties, and when all the windows are …
LulzSec claims they are retiring. The hacker group released a statement saying that they just wanted 50 days of chaos. However, like it or not, they’ve decided that they will not go quietly into the night.
(MORE: Why LulzSec’s Disbanding Doesn’t Really Mean Much at All)
As part of their grand finale, LulzSec has also dropped more …
Hacker group LulzSec has struck again, this time targeting Arizona law enforcement by releasing thousands of pages of confidential documents and communications presumably acquired in a security breach. Among those documents are several that show law enforcement’s special interest in the iPhone and other smart phones.
One document, …
Hacker collective LulzSec has just claimed to release “hundreds” of private documents belonging to Arizona law enforcement officials, saying:
“We are releasing hundreds of private intelligence bulletins, training manuals, personal email correspondence, names, phone numbers, addresses and passwords belonging to Arizona law enforcement.
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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has just issued a short statement that reads as follows:
“Police dealing with digital crimes have notified NATO of a probable data breach from a NATO-related website operated by an external company. NATO’s e-Bookshop is a separate service for the public for the release of NATO information
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It may have been the most unexpectedly sexy PowerPoint presentation about a substance abuse center’s achievements ever witnessed. But then, most PowerPoint presentations about substance abuse don’t feature pornographic images, to the best of my knowledge.
Walter Powell, a 52 year old former director of management information systems …
A survey of 583 companies in the U.S. has revealed that “90% of the respondents said their organizations’ computers had been breached at least once by hackers over the past 12 months,” according to Computerworld.
These aren’t just small businesses we’re talking about either. The study (available here as a PDF) “surveyed 583 IT and IT …
The 19-year-old arrested in the U.K. on Monday has officially been charged for violating both the Criminal Law Act and the Computer Misuse Act.
According to a report released by the Metropolitan Police, Ryan Cleary of Wickford, Essex (that’s his house in the above photo) has been charged with participating in an attack against …
LulzSec appears to have blown the whistle on two of its own members, as a document uploaded to Pastebin reads, in part:
“Hi FBI & other law enforcement clowns,
LulzSec here with some juicy gossip.
This is [redacted]… He was involved in the hacking of the game ‘Dues Ex’ and was/is involved in countless other cybercrimes.
Also, he
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