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I'll give you the whole post; what this incident underlines, in my opinion, is the importance of having individual usernames in each Forum you attend, and creating passwords that are NOT names of family members or pets or such - individual passwords, too. I use Random Password Generator by...

In another bizarre turn of events regarding the leak of how Internet data is being collected and stored in aggregate form, presumably forever, a new slide released shows how Google's cloud security has been completely infiltrated by the US National Security Agency (NSA). The US has already...

Researcher uses big Facebook vulnerability to post on Mark Zuckerberg’s wall The user submitted the exploit to the Bug Bounty Program, which, apparently, refused to acknowledge it, and the user then demonstrated the exploit on Mr. Zuckerberg's Facebook profile page. Link Removed To add...

I just got an email apparently from from Google, saying that someone had tried to use an application of some kind to access my account, and that they had stopped it. They gave the IP address and a location in Morocco of where the attempt came from, and advised if it were not me, to click a link...

Toshiba website hacked – email addresses and passwords exposed | Naked Security

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Walter Powell, 52, the fire IT manager apparently used all that knowledge he had of the company's system, hacked into it, and replaced a CEO's Powerpoint presentation to the board with porn. After being fired, he accessed the site from home and placed keyloggers on the system. How he thought...

In yet another round of cyber attacks, hackers have stolen more than 177,000 emails from Sony Pictures France, ZDnet reports. The hackers say they wanted to demonstrate the sites insecurity to get them to fix their vulnerabilities. Read Full Story: Hackers Claim 177K Email Addresses from...

For several months, hackers have been having a heyday taking down Web sites and leaking data from compromised servers with victims ranging from the CIA and U.S. Senate to Sony, Citigroup and the Turkish government. A 19-year old was arrested Tuesday but they can't confirm he's part of either...

Dropbox has admitted that an erroneous code update on Sunday 19 June allowed logins without authentication and allowed users to access files held by other users of the file synchronisation service. Someone out there must have had a field day. Read Full Story: Dropbox left login door open for 4...

To find out if your e-mail address was one of the 62,000 listed by LulzSec, click the Read Full Story link and paste it in this box: Mine has been running for half an hour and still has not gotten a response. Could be that the site is being bombarded with requests, I'm not sure. Read Full...

They're at it again asking followers to test the emails on Facebook and other sites. It seems LulzSec is trying to outdo Anonymous. Read Full Story: Link Removed

Citibank was breached by URL manipulation Read Full Story: Hackers breached Citibank security using simple URL manipulation - Update - The H Security: News and Features

The notorious LulzSec hacking group has published login passwords for almost 26,000 users of an x-rated porn website Read Full Story: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/06/12/26000-sex-website-usernames-and-passwords-exposed-by-lulzsec/

Guy's check your email accounts. Today I received an email from codemasters: Keep safe!

While Sony may have gotten its Playstation Network back online this week, other divisions of the Japanese business are still feeling hack attacks. The web site Naked Security reports that a hacker found his way into a data base at Sony Europe and took out "120 usernames, passwords (plain text)...

IDG News Service - Web mail users at Yahoo and Hotmail have been hit with the same kind of targeted attacks that were disclosed earlier this week by Google, according to security software vendor Trend Micro. Trend Micro described two similar attacks against Yahoo Mail and Windows Live Hotmail...

1. Sony's hack woes have deepened--now its Canadian version of the eShop has been hacked by a self-professed grey hat Lebanese hacker, and 2,000 customer records have been acquired (evidence for around 1,000 posted online). At this point it's tempting to say the attacks have moved into a new...

Sam Spade to investigate Sony has gone all film noire and hired a bunch of private dicks to sort out its security woes. Apparently the offices of Guidance Software and Data Forte, were approached by a broad who said they worked for one of the largest hardware companies in the world...

Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack Thousands of Web Sites Hit With New Twist on Old SQL Injection Hack | Arik Hesseldahl | NewEnterprise | AllThingsD A relatively simple hack has been used to compromise at least 500,000 Web sites, and perhaps as many as 1.5...