Author: Lee J

To celebrate the launch of the Enterprise Cyber Security & Information Assurance Summit taking place in San Jose, CA, USA, FC Business Intelligence are releasing some exclusive podcasts recorded with their host organization The Global Institute of Cyber Security & Research (GICSR) and the Industry Information Analysis and Sharing Centre. The first of these hard…

This is shaping up to the year of high-profile hacker attacks in the gaming world, as game developer Square Enix announced this week that 1.8 million user accounts were compromised as a result of a recent online security breach. The developers responsible for the Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest game franchises reported yesterday that a hacker “may have gained unauthorized access…

an online business-to-business marketplace has been hit by a hacker who has dumped a load of their users accounts on pastebin. the attack is on portalmercosur.com and done by AnonymousSynn. The leak contains 2800+ accounts all of which have clear text passwords, emails and usernames. https://pastebin.com/pbRm7FH3

A British student has pleaded guilty to charges that he breached security at Facebook earlier his year, despite arguing that his intentions were not malicious. York student Glenn Steven Mangham, 26, attempted to bypass security on the company’s internal systems, raising alarm amongst the FBI that industrial espionage was occurring, according to media reports. Mangham, who…

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Dec. 14, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — In a blow to one of the key cyber-security initiatives advanced by White House leaders, federal IT security professionals admit that efforts to adopt continuous monitoring of security performance lag far behind the Obama administration’s expectations. Advanced by the White House as a primary national cyber-security initiative, an overwhelming majority…

Back in 2008 a court case started, yahoo vs the phishers, Last week the court finally made its ruling that yahoo is to be awarded 610 million, 27 of which is for damages and the rest for copyright infringements, pretty stupid hey? Well what makes this even more funny is the statement that the judge has…