Tag Archives: hacking

Hackers have compromised official websites of 16 federal offices in Nepal this month alone, raising questions about the security of web servers used by the government, Republica reports. The main reason for the spike in cyber attacks was lack of law enforcement, said Vice President of High Level Commission of …

Sony is again battling hackers who are now attacking business units around the world, as the Japanese electronics giant today admitted three new attacks. Hackers have targeted Sony Ericsson’s Canadian eShop website, affecting 2,000 users, a Sony spokesman said today. And yesterday, Sony said websites in three countries had been …

A Romanian hacker claims to have intruded a computer server at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and gained access to confidential satellite data, SecurityNewsDaily reports. The hacker, who goes by the name TinKode, last week boasted on Twitter about breaching the server. He also posted a screen shot on his …

Two U.K. teenage hackers who broke into the accounts of online companies to steal customers’ credit card details were sentenced last Friday for abusing their computer skills, according to Metropolitan Police Service’s Police Central e-Crime Unit. Zachary Woodham, 19, and Louis Tobenhouse, 18, both from Brighton, hacked into web-hosting company …

Maybe it's karma or maybe it's just the nature of the hacking world, but infamous hacktivist collective Anonymous was recently hacked by one of its own, according to postings from administrators of the groups' network. Postings on a site belonging to a subgroup called Anonops claim an insider named Ryan …

The Central Oregon Community College's website has been hit by what school officials say are overseas hackers, prompting technicians to replace it with a temporary version, KTVZ.com reported. COCC spokesman Ron Paradis said the only inclination to the public that the website had been compromised was its  intermittent service. The …

Sony said hackers breached security for a second online service, gaining access to personal information for 24.6 million customer as part of a broader attack on the company that has compromised data for more than 100 million accounts, The Wall Street Journal reported. On the heels of last month’s data …

Sentencing has been set for a 38-year-old South Haven, Mich., man who pleaded no contest to one felony count of using a computer to commit a crime, according to The Kalamazoo Gazette. James Cleland, 38, stood accused of hacking into a former girlfriend’s email and Facebook accounts to write messages …

A Blaine, Minn., man in jail for hacking into his neighbor's Wi-Fi network is accusing his neighbor of framing him for the crime. Barry Ardolf originally admitted to using his neighbor's online identity to email death threats and child pornography, but now says his guilty plea was coerced and is …

Police are urging central Iowans to keep track of their bank accounts after more than a dozen patrons of a local Mexican restaurant had their bank accounts accessed by a hacker, according to The Des Moines Register. Police Lt. John Broderson said up to 18 customers who frequented Qdoba Mexican …

Assistant director for the cyber division of the FBI, Gordon Snow, testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee's subcommittee on crime and terrorism this week to talk about how the bureau is responding to the ongoing threat of cyber crime terrorism. Snow discussed the overall cyber threat and said he couldn't …

A hacker broke into a Barracuda Networks database and obtained names and email addresses of some of the company’s employees, channel partners and sales leads. The hacker, who called himself Fdf, yesterday posted online evidence of his hacks, showing email addresses of company employees and names, company affiliations and phone …

IT company EMC today announced its acquisition of NetWitness, a security analysis corporation based in Reston, Va. NetWitness will become part of RSA, a security division of EMC. Combining the two enterprises will give security teams a deeper insight into the security outline of their organizations. NetWitness provides security teams …

The Home Shopping Network is warning its customers of a recent incident that could have exposed their names and emails to an unknown hacker. In an email to customers obtained by The New New Internet, Gregg Stallwood, senior vice president of customer care at HSN, said the company had learned …

NASA’s inspector general has warned that computer servers used by the space agency to control spacecraft are vulnerable to cyber attacks, according to AFP. An audit of NASA‘s network security found that six computer servers associated with IT assets that control spacecraft and contain critical data had vulnerabilities that could …