Massive, high-profile data breaches pockmarked 2014, culminating in the bizarre events surrounding the hack of Sony Picturesallegedly by North Korea in retaliation for the politically incorrect stoner comedy The Interview.…
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DDoS is still the favored tactic
Kevin G. Coleman, SilverRhino Distributed denial of service attacks have become a favorite tactic of cyber criminals, extortionists and protesters. In fact, a Ponemon Institute analysis concluded DDoS attacks accounted…
Friday beers scam up 240 percent
Quick and quiet transfers as HR bods rush to pub. Fake email supplier scams are booming and have inflicted $1.2 billion in damages to businesses globally in the past year…
Lizard Squad takes down Nat Crime Agency site
By Anthony Cuthbertson Notorious hacking collective Lizard Squad has claimed that the take down of the National Crime Agency (NCA) website was carried out by its members. The attack comes…
Linux Foundation releases infosec guide
Workstation security tips for system administrators. Darren Pauli Linux Foundation project director Konstantin Ryabitsev has publicly-released the penguinistas’ internal hardening requirements to help sysadmins and other paranoid tech bods and…
Russian-speaking hackers breach websites
The hackers don’t appear to be selling the data just yet By Jeremy Kirk Russian-speaking hackers have breached 97 websites, mostly dating-related, and stolen login credentials, putting hundreds of thousands…