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2014: The Year of the Hack - 12/30/14 A story from The Fiscal Times highlights many of the security breaches that occurred this year 2014: The Year of the Hack
2014: The Year of the Hack - Part 2 - 12/30/14 Another story from WNCT TV in North Carolina highlights several other security breaches that occurred this year 2014: The Year of the Hack - Part 2
ICANN HACKED: Intruders poke around global DNS innards - 12/17/14 A story from The Register about ICANN being hit with a spear phishing attack. The hackers managed to access a number of systems within ICANN, including the Centralized Zone Data System (CZDS) Domain-name overseer ICANN has been hacked and its DNS zone database compromised ICANN has warned that "the attacker obtained administrative access to all files in the CZDS including copies of the zone files in the system ..."
U.S. Said to Find North Korea Ordered Cyberattack on Sony - 12/17/14 Here's a story from the New York Times about the cyberattack on Sony Pictures. An attack that began by wiping out data on corporate computers had turned "into a threat to the safety of Americans" American officials have concluded that North Korea was "centrally involved" in the hacking of Sony Pictures computers even as Sony cancels the release.
Sony Pictures computer systems hacked - 12/02/14 Here's a story from the LA Times about Sony Pictures computers being hacked. Computer systems and email didn't work, and it's possible some DVD releases were stolen. Employees had to work with pens, paper and fax machines Sony Pictures returning to normal after crippling computer attack. Here's a followup story at Mashable that the FBI is warning companies after the Sony hack.FBI warns companies of cyberattack after Sony hack.
Wow! 97% of all companies are being hacked - 11/30/14 What happens when you swipe your card? 60 Minutes story about cybersecurity and how insecure your credit card information is. Bill Whitaker talks with FireEye's CEO Dave DeWalt and Brian Krebs of krebsonsecurity. Watch the story or read the transcript.
Security firms uncover sophisticated Regin Spyware - 11/24/14 BBC Techinical News has this story that an "extremely complex" and "stealthy" spying program has been stealing data from ISPs, energy companies, airlines and research-and-development labs with a "degree of technical competence rarely seen", Regin had probably taken years to develop, Symantec says.
China suspected of breaching U.S. Postal Service computer networks - 11/10/14 Washington Post has this story that Chinese government hackers are suspected of breaching the computer networks of the United States Postal Service compromising the data of more than 800,000 emmployees.
Home Depot hack also exposes 53 million email addresses - 11/7/14 Consumer Affairs reporter Jennifer Abel has the story. "It keeps getting worse. Two months ago, Home Depot revealed that hackers had stolen 56 million credit- and debit-card numbers. And now, the company says the thieves also made off with at least 53 million customer email addresses." It was already the largest data theft on record; now that record will be even harder to break.
WireLurker iOS Malware drags Apple into the mobile security more - 11/7/14 V3 the latest in UK technology news reports on what some are calling the most significant malware threat to iOS ever uncovered, WireLurker malware had been injected into 467 OS X applications.
JP Morgan data breach affected 76 million - 10/2/14 USA Today story that the cyberattack on JPMorgan Chase & Co., first announced in July, compromised information from 76 million households and 7 million small businesses.
Home Depot breach reached 56 million - 9/19/14 USA Today story that the Home Depot data breach reported earlier this month put 56 million cards at risk.
Gmail accounts and passwords leaked. Not so scary? - 9/10/14 Here's a story about 5 million Google Gmail account names and passwords being listed on the net. Should you change your password? password dump. Although Google says it's not as scary as it sounds, here's Google's security blog post. .
Home Depot Security Breach - 9/8/14 Reuters story about Home Depot confirming a security breach. Apparently hit by variant of the same malware that hit Target last year.
Russian hackers steal a billion passwords - 8/6/14 Washington Post story about Russian hackers stealing over a billion passwords. Scary stuff, here's another story about it from ABC News Channel 7 in Chicago.
Zeus Gameover Botnet disrupted - 6/2/14 CRN has a story about the disruption of the Zeus Gaemover Botnet which was tied to the CryptoLocker. Here's the alert from US-CERT Computer Emergency Rediness Team, complete with links to detection and cleaning tools.
eBay advising users to change their passwords - 5/21/14 Apparently eBay experienced a security breach in February and March. Here's a story from Tech Crunch eBay Advises Users To Change Passwords
Update 5/1/14 - Miscrosoft patches IE Zero-Day Flaw - even for XP users Microsoft has issued patches for all versions of Internet Explorer and extended this to Windows XP. Here's a story from Tech Crunch Microsoft patches Internet Explorer flaw. This extended to Windows XP versions although support ended April 8, 2014.
New Zero Day flaw found in all versions of Internet Explorer, April 25, 2014. Read this story at CNet about the flaw. It's already being exploited in the wild.
Further information on the Internet Explorer flaw. In this story from Yahoo, the US Government recommends not using Internet Explorer. Security experts suggest using Mozilla Firefox or Google Chrome. Mirosoft is reportedly working on a fix.