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.
When Kaspersky Labs revealed its analysis of the Duqu Trojan earlier this month they were stumped by a block of code that appeared to be a previously unseen programming language. With the help of the internet, Kaspersky’s identified the code, not as a new computer language but rather an old one.
Dozens of alleged Anonymous members have been arrested in a global clampdown, spanning Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Spain.
Recent attempts to separate a user from his banking credentials have employed some highly advanced methods. But this new take on the Man in the Browser attack just seems downright dastardly — we’re talking mustache-twirling levels of deviousness.
You know that free 3G connection on your Kindle that lets you download books from anywhere you are? Well a hacker named Andrew D’Angelo has found a way to tether to the ereader, giving you free internet access on another device.
Apple’s iBooks have always been protected from running on unauthorised devices thanks to the company’s FairPlay DRM. That is, until Requiem version 3.3 decided to throw a cow over iBook’s walls.
