Today ryan cleary, uk teenager suspected of being part of group anonymous and lulzsec was charged with 5 offences in relation to the SOCA website attacks, porn website attacks. Cleary was charged by the Metropolitan police with three specific attacks, including one earlier this week on Soca. Cleary is also charged with attacks against music…
Category: Breach Incidents
Computer Security where is it going
Past, current & future of Cyber crime With the recent cyber war thats taken and still taking place can we actually be secure of any types of cyber crime at all? With botnet, sql injection, server exploits taking place will we ever have a step ahead where a networked computer can be totally safe from…
Postal Inspectors Probe Gold Coin Purchases Made With Stolen American Express Cards
A reader sent along this item from CoinWeek, noting the interesting references to tampering with AmEx security: U.S. Postal Service inspectors are investigating the fraudulent use of stolen American Express credit cards to purchase apparently tens of thousands of dollars of gold coins. “The orders are placed by phone, often for $10,000 to $20,000 worth…
Spitler pleads guilty to his part in hacking 120,000 iPad accounts
Jerry DeMarco reports: A computer hacker who helped write the malicious code behind a breach of AT&T’s computer servers admitted today that he conspired with another Internet “troll” to hack into the servers, steal information from “the most exclusive list of [iPad subscribers] on the planet,” and then boast about it online. In pleading guilty…
An Anonymous Warning to sony again
Anonymous Warns Sony again Anonymous has just released a new video on youtube stating that the sony websites are being attacked due to the lawsuit, yeah this is old news but its a new video which outlines there exact motives for doing this. Sony is suing a PSN user who hacked the ps3 and released…
Ukraine says breaks up global hacker ring, banks targeted
Olzhas Auyezov reports: Ukraine’s state security service on Thursday said it had broken up an international hacking ring that infiltrated foreign banks’ computer networks and stole $72 million. The hacker group, organised and led by Ukrainians, used a computer virus to access bank accounts abroad, the SBU security agency said. Read more from Reuters Canada.