Iran may or may not be decoding American drone data right now, but one thing’s for sure: someone cyber-punched the crap out of its oil infrastructure. Internet war!
Last week, Higinio O. Ochoa III was charged by the FBI with hacking into US law enforcement agencies and releasing phone numbers and home addresses of police officers. You’re looking at the evidence the FBI used to nail him.
When Google officially announced the lofty-sounding “Project Glass” last week it neglected to give us one crucial piece of information: When in the hell are we going to actually get cool augmented reality glasses? Maybe never! So why wait for a multibillion dollar corporation to make the glasses when you can make them yourself?
According to Richard Clarke — who warned everyone about a ‘spectacular’ Al Qaeda attack before 9/11 — all electronics made in China could contain back doors that would allow Chinese hackers to spy and attack anyone they want.
LulzSec is dead — everyone in it was betrayed and arrested. But that’s still one hell of a brand name, and one enterprising group isn’t letting it go to waste: 170,000+ dating profiles just got leaked in the name of LulzSec Reborn.
This is dirty. Hackers are uploading malicious Chrome extensions to the official Google Chrome Web Store in hopes of tricking people to download them. Once downloaded, the extensions have the ability to completely hijack Facebook accounts.
US carrier Verizon just put out its annual Data Breach Investigations Report, and you can probably guess what it says: 2011 was a banner year for hackers and represented a huge statistical comeback. They compromised a total of 174 million records, 100 million of those in activism/for-the-lulz ops by Anon, Lulzsec, and friends.
Forbes has an interesting look at French security firm Vupen, which claims to sell its zero-day exploits of popular software and operating systems (including iOS) to government agencies for six-figure sums. But it raised several questions for me.
