David E. Sanger and Nicole Perlroth report: American officials have concluded that North Korea ordered the attacks on Sony Pictures’s computers, a determination reached as the studio decided Wednesday to cancel the release of a comedy movie about the assassination of Kim Jong-un that is believed to have led to the hacking. Senior administration officials, who would…
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Banks Sue Kmart Over Credit Card Data Breach
Jack Bouboushian reports: Kmart’s failure to protect customer information with “elementary” security measures left banks liable for the resulting fraud, a federal class action claims. First NBC Bank filed the class action Tuesday against Kmart Corp. and parent company Sears Holding Corp, regarding an announcement that hackers had breached Kmart’s payment-data systems in early September….
ICANN hackers sniff around global DNS root zone system
Kieren McCarthy reports: Domain-name overseer ICANN has been hacked and its root zone administration system compromised, the organization has said. Attackers sent staff spoofed emails appearing to coming from icann.org. The organization notes it was a “spear phishing” attack, suggesting employees clicked on a link in the messages, and then typed their usernames and passwords…
The Evidence That North Korea Hacked Sony Is Flimsy (updated)
Kim Zetter reports: Today Sony canceled the premier of “The Interview” and its entire Christmas-Day release of the movie because of fears that terrorists might attack the theater showing the film. The actions show just how much power the attackers behind the Sony hack have amassed in a short time. But who exactly are the…
Ars was briefly hacked – change your passwords and carry on
Ars Staff report: At 20:00 CT on December 14, an Internet intruder gained access to one of the Ars Web servers and spent the next hour attempting to get from the Web server to a more central machine. At 20:52, the attempt was successful thanks to information gleaned from a poorly located backup file. The next…
Guardians of Peace issue first “Christmas Gift” and a warning
DataBreaches.net received links to the GOP’s newest paste and message. In a somewhat chilling message, they write: Notice We have already promised a Christmas gift to you. This is the beginning of the gift. Warning We will clearly show it to you at the very time and places “The Interview” be shown, including the premiere,…