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,... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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. See all stories on this topic »

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, ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »

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 ... See all stories on this topic »