Boston: The Internet vigilante group Anonymous denied responsibility for a cyber-attack on Sony Corp's networks that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million video gamers. "Let's be clear, we are legion, but it wasn't us. You are incompetent Sony," Anonymous said on its Blog (anonops.blogspot.com) on Thursday. Anonymous is a grass-roots cyber-vigilante group that launched attacks in December that temporarily shut down the sites of MasterCard Inc and...
07:13 AM, May 06, 2011
New York: Online thieves and spammers are using the killing of Osama bin Laden to send out malicious software and spam to unwitting Internet users. In what's become common practice among the Internet's less savory citizens, these scammers are sending out emails and spreading Facebook posts that purport to be videos or photos of the dead bin Laden. They are not. But by clicking the links, users can download computer...
07:21 AM, May 05, 2011
Washington: Sony Corp blamed Internet vigilante group Anonymous for indirectly allowing a hacker to gain access to personal data of more than 100 million video game users. The accusation came in a letter to Congress and prompted renewed complaints that the Japanese electronics giant's disclosure had been inadequate and tardy. The company said it waited two days after first discovering data was stolen from its PlayStation video game network before...
07:08 AM, May 05, 2011
Boston: With the internet abuzz with stories related to Osama bin Laden's death, the FBI is warning people not to open unsolicited links that "purport" to show photos or videos of the al-Qaeda leader's killing, saying these could be computer virus. Asking computer users to exercise caution, the FBI said people should not open unsolicited spam e-mails that claim to show photos or download software to view videos of bin...
12:39 PM, May 04, 2011
New York: Sony has hired outside investigators to help clean its networks and catch the people behind a massive breach that exposed the personal data of more than 100 million video game users. The Japanese electronics giant has retained a team from privately held Data Forte that is led by a former special agent with the US Naval Criminal Investigative Service to work alongside the FBI agents, who are also...
07:35 AM, May 04, 2011
New York: Sony disclosed on Monday hackers had stolen the names, addresses and passwords of nearly 25 million more users than previously known less than a day after the Japanese company apologised for one of the worst break-ins in Internet history. Sony's latest revelation comes after Sony No. 2 Kazuo Hirai announced measures had been put in place to avert another Playstation-type cyberattack, hoping to repair its tarnished image and...
08:34 AM, May 03, 2011
Boston: The hacking of Sony Corp's PlayStation Network has earned a place in the annals of Internet crime. That's partly because of the massive size of the data breach - information about 77 million customer accounts was stolen. It is also because Sony bothered to disclose the attack at all. The bulk of attacks on corporate and governmental computer networks go unreported because victims want to avoid the embarrassment and...
11:06 AM, Apr 30, 2011
London/New York: Loyal PlayStation gamers are threatening to ditch Sony Corp after it disclosed that personal information for some 77 million user accounts was stolen from its computer systems in one of the biggest-ever data breaches. "People care very deeply about a data breach. More so than with other issues," said Larry Ponemon, chairman and founder of the Ponemon Institute. "When you get a letter telling you that your data...
07:29 AM, Apr 29, 2011
New York/Tokyo:: Sony Corp suffered a massive breach in its video game online network that led to the theft of names, addresses and possibly credit card data belonging to 77 million user accounts in what is one of the largest-ever Internet security break-ins. Sony said it learned of the breach in its PlayStation Network on April 19, prompting it to shut down the network immediately. Sony did not tell the...
07:30 AM, Apr 27, 2011
Boston: Tens of millions of customers and employees of major banks, hotels and retailers are now at risk of "spear-phishing" attacks after hackers stole their email addresses in what may become one of the biggest data breaches ever, security experts warned. The massive breach, involving online marketer Epsilon, a unit of Alliance Data Systems Corp, looks like it will mainly put individuals at risk if they respond to camouflaged emails...
12:18 PM, Apr 05, 2011
San Francisco: The world's biggest maker of data storage computers on Thursday said that its security division has been hacked, and that the intruders compromised a widely used technology for preventing computer break-ins. The breach is an embarrassment for EMC Corp., also a premier security vendor, and potentially threatens highly sensitive computer systems. The incident is a rare public acknowledgement by a security company that its internal anti-hacking technologies have...
01:15 PM, Mar 18, 2011
Bangkok: A Thailand-based news website critical of Myanmar's military government says it has been hacked by unknown attackers who posted fake articles on it. The Irrawaddy website is run by exiled Myanmar journalists. It said on its home page Sunday that it was trying to fix the problem and prevent further attacks. The Irrawaddy's coverage of Myanmar has included exclusive photos of secret military missions to North Korea. It has...
10:42 AM, Mar 14, 2011
Brussels: As Europeans cough and sniffle their way through another flu season, new data shows their computers are also quite likely to catch a bug. Despite widespread use of antivirus software, nearly one-third of Internet users in the European Union were infected by a computer virus last year, according to official figures. The highest rate of infection occurred in Bulgaria, where 58 per cent of those surveyed reported a computer...
12:25 PM, Feb 08, 2011
Srinagar: Hackers owing allegiance to protesters in Kashmir have hacked a website of Sikkim government and posted a message and pictures of the agitators on the page. The hacked website - www.sikkim-culture.gov.in - belongs to the Cultural Affairs and Heritage Department of the Sikkim government, which promotes art and culture of the north-eastern state. The group, which claims to have hacked the website, identified itself as Z-Company and in the...
10:21 AM, Feb 07, 2011
New York: Computer hackers repeatedly entered the network of the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market in the past year, but the trading platform was not compromised, the Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. The report cited people familiar with the matter as saying law enforcement investigators were considering a range of motives for the hacking, from financial gain to theft of trade secrets to a national security threat...
11:18 AM, Feb 05, 2011
Hoshiarpur: In an incident that left school teachers in Punjab's Hoshiarpur district red-faced, the official e-mail address of the education office here was hacked Thursday and pornographic content was circulated to all the 400 government schools in the district. "We were using this e-mail address to send notices and important information to the schools in Hoshiarpur. This is a case of cyber attack as someone has sent pornographic material to...
06:18 PM, Jan 21, 2011
New York: US prosecutors have charged two men with stealing and distributing email addresses for about 120,000 users of Apple Inc's popular iPad. Investigators accused Daniel Spitler and Andrew Auernheimer of using an "account slurper" to conduct a "brute force" attack over five days last June, to extract data about iPad users who accessed the Internet through AT&T Inc's 3G network. Among the possible victims were celebrities, businesses executives and...
11:43 AM, Jan 19, 2011
London: Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report on Monday. The study, part of a wider OECD project examining possible "Future Global Shocks" such as a failure of the world's financial system or a large-scale pandemic, said there were very few single "cyber events" that could...
11:52 AM, Jan 17, 2011
San Francisco: The fallout from a hacking attack on Gawker Media Inc. a week ago underscores a basic security risk of living more of our lives online: Using the same username and password for multiple sites is convenient, but costly. After the attack on the publisher of such blogs as Gawker, Gizmodo and Jezebel exposed account information on as many as 1.4 million people, several unrelated companies had to freeze...
11:12 AM, Dec 20, 2010
Los Angeles: McDonald's Corp said on Monday hackers gained access to a database containing information such as the email addresses and birth dates of people who voluntarily signed up for its websites and promotions. The world's biggest hamburger chain said the security breach did not include any Social Security numbers, credit card accounts or sensitive financial information. The hacked data was on computer systems operated by an email database management...
11:03 AM, Dec 14, 2010
