Posts Tagged ‘breach’
IN THE HEADLINES: NBC Twitter Account Hijacked (Two Days Before 9-11′s 10th Anniversary)
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 22, 2011
NBC recently admitted that a group of hackers calling themselves the Script Kiddies managed to hack into NBC’s Twitter account and post false messages claiming that an airliner had just crashed into Ground Zero in New York, the site of the World Trade Center attacks in 2001. And to add insult to injury, the posting [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: The Hacks Keep Coming
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 29, 2011
In spite of the fact that the now infamous hacker group Lulz claims to have laid down its arms and settled into some far away hacker retirement community, it doesn’t mean we’re any safer. The Anonymous hacker group, credited with spawning Lulz, claims that it just hacked into the computers of government contractor Booz Allen [...]
BREAKING NEWS: Has Sony Become Too Big for Their Breaches?
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● June 3, 2011
Seems like if it weren’t for bad luck, Sony would be out of luck. Just yesterday, we reported that after billions of dollars in losses, partially attributed to the recent tsunami devastation in Japan, but also in part to recent data breaches throughout May, the media juggernaut was taking their first huge step in getting [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Epsilon Data Breach Keeps on Giving
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● April 15, 2011
Last week the massive data breach at an email marketing firm exposing the contact information of millions of U.S. consumers to as-yet-unidentified hackers dominated the headlines. Characterized as possibly one of the worst data breaches ever, security, marketing, and media experts have been all abuzz about the long-term fallout of the breach and what we [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: The Big Mac Gets Hacked
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 22, 2010
Recently, I wrote a blog about data breaches and the fact that in the last five years alone there have been more than 2,000 reported data breaches that have exposed an estimated 500 million personal records. Well, if you’ve visited a McDonalds or Walgreens lately, you might have to add yourself to that statistic. McDonalds [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Gawker Hack Exposes Bad Security Habits
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● December 21, 2010
In case you hadn’t heard, mega media site Gawker was recently the victim of hackers who stole and exposed more than 1.3 million user accounts and passwords. The security community wasted no time analyzing this sensitive data (now very public) for patterns about Gawker user security habits and choices—the results were not surprising. Security experts [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Russian Trojans Invade Jason’s Deli in Memphis
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● September 23, 2010
It was such a new type of Trojan horse program, investigators who ran tests on it seemed to readily admit that it couldn’t be detected by any anti-virus program they tried. Seems like the ultimate weapon in the hands of the bad guys, and one that should leave security experts around the world scratching their [...]
IN THE HEADLINES: Can you Spot the Fake Facebook Page
Posted by: Neal OFarrell in: ● July 30, 2010
If the best minds in our military intelligence community can’t spot a very obvious fake Facebook page, do you think you can do any better? The Washington Times recently exposed how a security consultant created a fake Facebook page for a pretty but non-existent young woman called Robin Page, who claimed she was a “cyber [...]
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