Jan 22
Vital control systems used by energy, water, and transportation are ill-prepared to cope with online terrorism and hacking threats, the EU’s cyber security agency has warned, blaming patchy and inconsistent … Continue reading
Jan 21
To have an organization or service hacked is no longer an extremely rare occurrence. No sir, it seems that this scourge happens all too frequently – making security of digital assets a paramount importance regardless of the organization that you happen to be working in, or helming. The German government recently announced that it had managed to discover criminals who relied on malware to obtain not only the email addresses but passwords of as many as 16 million of its citizens.
16 Million Email Accounts Hacked In Germany original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 21
SplashData, makers of the SplashID Safe password management software, has just published its list of 25 worst passwords of 2013. Climbing up the list from second to first is “123456”, … Continue reading
Jan 21
Microsoft seems to be on the receiving end of the wrath of the Syrian Electronic Army recently, where their news Twitter accounts fell victim to. Apart from that, Microsoft’s Office Blog has been caught out by the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) – and although the blog was defaced, it was quickly recovered by Microsoft. The screenshot above pointed to SEA putting out a bunch of posts that depicted how they have gained access to the blog, although many would not claim it to be a hack.
Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft’s Office Blog original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 17
The Internet of Things is something that has been around for a number of years now. The Internet of Things takes many of the items we all have around the … Continue reading
Jan 17
Most of the talk of retailers being hacked over the last several months has been of the massive data breach that included credit card details at Target. We mentioned last … Continue reading
Jan 15
Microsoft Confirms Employee Emails Hacked, SEA States That It Is Not Over Yet
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It seems that when it comes to Microsoft, there is no love lost between the company and the Syrian Electronic Army. The hacker group has targeted Microsoft’s Twitter accounts not too long ago, and they were back at it again just a couple of days ago. Now according to Microsoft, the company has confirmed that the Syrian Electronic Army has somehow managed to gain access to employee email accounts whereby they posted three internal emails sent from employees at Microsoft. Microsoft reassures users that no customer information has been compromised and we certainly hope so too, for everyone’s sake. (more…)
Microsoft Confirms Employee Emails Hacked, SEA States That It Is Not Over Yet original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Jan 15
Yesterday, news surfaced of an annoying and somewhat unanticipated so-called hijacking of hotel links within Google+ Local accounts by yet-unknown spammers. When clicked, the compromised links took prospective customers to … Continue reading
Jan 13
We’ve know for a while now that retailer Target was the target of an attack that resulted in the loss of shopper credit card data. Target noted from the start … Continue reading
Jan 12
Getting hacked is no fun at all, especially when you are a corporate bigwig with plenty of user details in your database, as you have to answer to your customers as well. Having said that, the likes of Neiman Marcus was hacked recently over the holiday season, and here we are with word that Microsoft’s official Xbox support Twitter as well as the official Microsoft news Twitter accounts have been hacked by none other than the Syrian Electronic Army.
Microsoft News Twitter Accounts Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army original content from Ubergizmo. 
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