Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 12th Sept 6 PM

Cosmo, the Hacker 'God' Who Fell to Earth
Wired (blog)
I met Cosmo by accident and opportunity, after hackers used
social-engineering techniques to circumvent Apple's and Amazon's
security mechanisms and break into my accounts. They wrought
enormous damage, wiping my computer, phone and tablet,...

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Gottfrid Warg, Pirate Bay Founder, Hit With Hacking Allegations
In Sweden

Huffington Post
STOCKHOLM (AP) — A Swedish man repatriated by Cambodia to serve a
prison sentence for his involvement with file-sharing site The Pirate Bay was
arrested in a new hacking investigation as he returned home Tuesday.
Prosecutors said Gottfrid Svartholm ...
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The NSA Wants Hackers, And It Wants Them On Its Side
Fast Company
Hey, hackers: The NSA is out to get you. If you're an American who can
code malware to infiltrate a network, or snoop on SMS messages, or stop
a distributed denial-of-service attack in your sleep, you're a person of interest.
Age is of little consequence.
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Hacker Who Brought Down DC.gov Is Fifteen Years Old
DCist.com
In April, a group of hackers known as the UGNazi collective brought down a
number of D.C. government websites and posted private information about
Mayor Vince Gray—including his Social Security number—online. One
of the hackers behind the effort, ...

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Go Daddy denies hack, blames internal problems for outage
Washington Post
Go Daddy, the world's largest registrar of domain names, denied Tuesday
that an hours-long outage at the company Monday was caused by a hack
or denial of service attack. Instead, the company said, its own internal
systems — not an
attack — were to ...
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Anonymous stands its ground - claims it definitely did hack the FBI
TechRadar UK
Hacking collective Anonymous has responded to claims that the Apple UDIDs
it leaked earlier this month didn't actually belong to the FBI, insisting its data
purge did originate from the feds. In a spirited statement, Anonymous has hit
back at the news ...
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Two held in hacking investigation
The Independent
Another man, aged 28, was arrested under Operation Tuleta, which is looking
at computer hacking, the alleged illegal accessing of stolen mobile phones
and other privacy breaches. He attended a south London police station by
appointment this afternoon ...
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How hacking the human brain can save civilization
Lewiston Sun Journal
Climate scientist Will Steffen of the Australian National University makes a
powerful case about the uniqueness of our time: A few hundred years ago,
more or less in sync with the Industrial Revolution, various indicators such as
global population ...
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GoDaddy says it was not hacked
CBS News
Twitter accounts thought to be associated with the hacking group
Anonymous claimed responsibility for the attack. Anonymous claimed
it took GoDaddy-hosted sites down by using a distributed denial-of-service
(DDoS) attack and bots. Anonymous says the...
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Iran: “Soldiers of Islam” Hack Cartoonist's Facebook Page
Global Voices Online
The Facebook page of a leading Iranian leading cartoonist, Mana
Nayestani, washacked on Tuesday, 11 September 2012, by pro-regime
hackers who call themselves “Soldiers of Islam”. The hackers celebrated
their action on their own Facebook page (now ...
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GoDaddy: Service Outage Was Our Fault, Not Hacking
Wall Street Journal (blog)
By Devlin Barrett. Monday's meltdown of websites hosted by GoDaddy.com
was due not to Anonymous-linked hackers but to failures of the company's
own systems, the company said Tuesday. A statement posted online by interim
CEO Scott Wagner, said the ...
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Turkish Terrorists Hack Town Of Yanceyville's Website
WFMY News 2
Yanceyville, NC-- Yes, you read correctly, Turkish terrorists hacked into
a Triad town's website. Why? Aparently, because they can. Yanceyville
Town Manager Haynes Brigman says he noticed something was wrong
with the town website on August 24th when ...
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GoDaddy Says Outage Was Malfunction
CIO Today
The "hacktivist" group Anonymous earlier took credit for the hack, which
serves as a reminder to organizations that multiple layers of protection are
important. "The service outage was not caused by external influences.
It was not a 'hack' and it was ...
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Are you a defense contractor? Beware the Elderwood Project!
BetaNews
The Hydraq (Aurora) Trojan horse is in the spotlight, courtesy of a hacking
group that uses it to wreak havoc with the security of numerous renowned
industries. While thesehacking maneuvers were pretty high profile and as
a result got a lot of ...
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