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UK’s ITV News hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

, May 25th 2013 Discuss [0]

It has been a week to the dot since the Syrian Electronic Army has last commandeered an unsuspecting Twitter account, this time going after the United Kingdom's ITV News media company, which owns the UK's largest TV station. Earlier this evening, half a dozen unusual tweets were sent out via the account, with a couple of them referencing the SEA hacking collective. Read The Full Story

Anonymous operation sends Guantanamo’s wifi into shutdown

, May 21st 2013 Discuss [0]

Reports have been surfacing for awhile now regarding hunger strikes at Guantanamo Bay by prisoners over indefinite imprisonment - without trial - which has resulted in force feeding. To show their support for the cause behind the hunger strikes, hacking collective Anonymous threatened to take Guantanamo down, prompting a shutdown of its wireless Internet network. Read The Full Story

Syrian Electronic Army cyberattacks The Financial Times

, May 17th 2013 Discuss [0]

Another day, another cyberattack by the Syrian Electronic Army. This time the hacktivist collective targeted The Financial Times, making a nuisance of itself by taking over several of the company's Twitter accounts, as well as changing the titles of posts on The Financial Times' blog posts to "Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army." While the actions themselves are annoying, one message in particular crossed the line when it sent readers to a video of an execution. Read The Full Story

LulzSec hackers sentenced in London court

, May 16th 2013 Discuss [0]

In April, LulzSec members Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, and Mustafa al-Bassam plead guilty to various charges in London for their roles in cyberattacks against Sony, the NHS, News International, and more. Today the three of them - plus Ryan Cleary - were sentenced in the same court, with all but one getting prison sentences. This follows other members who have already been sentenced, including Cody Kretsinger, who was known as Recursion. Read The Full Story

Security expert details how he nabbed millions of dollars from a bank

, May 15th 2013 Discuss [0]

Bank heists - they're the subject of movies, books, and, in some cases, real-world news. While not every mission goes as planned, many have managed to gain ill-gotten wealth from lax security systems, prompting banks to step up their game and stay on top of ever-changing technologies. The best ways to find out you have a security vulnerability is to have someone exploit it, which is what one bank hired a security expert to do. Having successfully accomplished his mission, Nisha Bhalla has detailed how he managed to "steal" $14 million. Read The Full Story

The Onion pegs Syrian Electronic Army hacks on phishing schemes

, May 10th 2013 Discuss [0]

Over the last several weeks the Syrian Electronic Army has made a nuisance of itself (again), serving as a sort of annoying prankster who is repeatedly ordered to go stand in the corner. The organization is reportedly responsible for quite a number of hacks, with The Onion having been one of its unlucky victims. The humor website pinpointed the source of its infiltration and has revealed precisely how it happened, adding in a few pieces of advice for other media outlets to help combat the attacks. Read The Full Story

Anonymous OpUSA cyberattack plan goes out with a fizzle

, May 8th 2013 Discuss [0]

On Monday, Anonymous and various extremist Islamic hacking collectives announced their OpUSA mission, which was a planned cyberattack against nine big-name US agencies/institutions that the hackers wanted to take down. The attack was announced in a manifesto of sorts on Pastebin, which you can read here if poor grammar is of no bother to you. Not surprisingly, the attack appears to have fizzled out with little effect. Read The Full Story

Syrian Electronic Army takes over E! Online’s Twitter Account

, May 4th 2013 Discuss [0]

The Syrian Electronic Army strikes again, and this time, their target was both E! Online and Justin Bieber. In a series of tweets, the SEA stated that Justin Bieber was coming out of the closet and admitting to his homosexuality in an E! Online exclusive. The group provided links following those tweets, presumably to malware infested sites. The SEA finished up their practical joke with the tweet, "The Syrian Electronic Army was here! Fans of @justinbieber, you have been trolled." Read The Full Story

LivingSocial breach leaves 50 million customers vulnerable

, Apr 26th 2013 Discuss [0]

LivingSocial, a website that provides users with deals on a daily basis, has been hacked, it revealed in a memo to employees and later on with a public statement to users. According to a spokesperson, hackers breached the system and pulled quite a bit of user data, including usernames, encrypted passwords, birth dates, and email addresses of potentially 50 million users. Fortunately, financial information was not accessed. Read The Full Story

AP Twitter account hacked with fake White House explosion claim

, Apr 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

The Associated Press's Twitter account was hacked today after a tweet was sent out from the account that read, "Breaking: Two Explosions in the White House and Barack Obama is injured." The Associated Press responded shortly after saying that its Twitter account had been compromised, and now the account has been suspended, but it should be back up shortly after Twitter and the AP resolve the issue. Read The Full Story

Twitter and Syrian Electronic Army go to battle

, Apr 23rd 2013 Discuss [0]

After the Syrian Electronic Army took over several of CBS's Twitter accounts recently, Twitter has focused its priorities on taking the hackers down, well at least their Twitter accounts. Twitter proceeded to shut down the SEA's official Twitter account, and the hackers responded by creating another Twitter account named @Official_SEA. This quickly led to a back-and-forth ban/account-creation battle between the two entities. Read The Full Story

Verizon security report itemizes annual data breaches

, Apr 22nd 2013 Discuss [0]

Verizon has published its latest Data Breach Investigations Report, which is released annually and looks at the instances of data breaches that happened over the course of a year. According to the report, 2012 saw 621 data breaches - those that were confirmed, that is - in addition to a much higher approximately 47,000 so-called security incidents. The numbers give us a look at what kind of threats are present, and who is most affected. Read The Full Story
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