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Sony Online Entertainment and PlayStation Networks Hacked, 93,000 Accounts Compromised

"Sony chief security officer Philip Reitinger warned Sony Entertainment Online customers and PlayStation Network users on Tuesday night that their accounts may have been compromised after a hack led to 93,000 accounts being compromised." Source: Sony Online Entertainment and PlayStation Networks Hacked, 93,000 Accounts Compromised ›
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TRICARE Investigates Beneficiary Data Breach

"The TRICARE Management Activity is reviewing its data protection policies and procedures in the wake of a data breach involving personal health information of an estimated 4.9 million military clinic and hospital patients. The breach potentially affects patients who received care or filled pharmacy prescriptions in San Antonio-area military treatment faci ›
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Harvard website hacked by Syria protesters

"Harvard University has had its website hacked in what appears to be a "sophisticated" Syrian-related attack. Along with a picture of Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad, the hacked home page showed a message saying the "Syrian Electronic Army Were Here"." (Source: BBC News - Harvard website hacked by Syria protesters.) ›
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Security Expert: U.S. 'Leading Force' Behind Stuxnet

"The sophistication of the worm, plus the fact that the designer had inside intelligence on the Iranian facility, led Langner to conclude that the United States had developed Stuxnet, possibly with the help of Israeli intelligence. Langner isn't shy about naming the U.S. as the Stuxnet culprit, as he stated in a recent speech at the Brookings Institution. ›
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Code red: the cyber spy threat

"On June 1, 2009, messages with the heading ''China and Climate Change'' dropped into the email inboxes of five US State Department officers. The five officers, working in the Office of the Special Envoy for Climate Change, were involved in preparing for delicate bilateral climate change talks in Beijing in several days. The email appeared to be from a respected economic ›
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Cyber attack led to IGI shutdown

"Three months ago, a ‘technical snag’ had hit operations at the state-of-the-art T3 terminal at Indira Gandhi International Airport (IGIA). It now turns out it was caused by a ‘malicious code’ sent from a remote location to breach the security at the airport. " (Cyber attack led to IGI shutdown - Indian Express) ›
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U.S. Expresses Concern Over Cyberattacks in Japan

"The United States gave a stern warning on Wednesday over recent cyberattacks on Japan’s biggest defense contractors, the latest in a series of security breaches that have fueled concern about Tokyo’s ability to handle delicate information. " Source: U.S. Expresses Concern Over Cyberattacks in Japan - NYTimes.com ›
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Are celebs the newest target for hackers?

"The naked celebrities seem to be everywhere lately. Last week, hackers allegedly stole nude photos from actress Scarlett Johansson and then plastered them all over the Internet. Before then it was the rapper Kreayshawn, who wrote on her blog that her Twitter account was hacked in August when naked photos of her showed up there." Source: Are celebs the n ›
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Hackers take down Mitsubishi - Japan's defence industry attacked

"One of Japan's most important defence contractors has been hit by hackers. The Yomiuri newspaper said that Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' computer network was hacked. Factories that build submarines and missiles and make components for nuclear power plants were hit in what is thought to be the first serious atta ›
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Online Malware Support Shows Infected ICS Computers

"While Googling some NERC CIP research activities, I came across several forum posts regarding cyber security where details of systems, systems that had automation software installed. The posts involve HijackThis logs, which are tools that dump configuration information for posting on a support site, and it’s one of many such tools. On those support site ›
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Private information of 35 million South Korean citizens compromised in hacking attack

"SK Communications Co., the operator of South Korea's third most-visited Internet portal, said Thursday that its popular Web sites were hacked, compromising the private information of 35 million users. The incident could be the worst online security breach in South Korea since a cyber attack on the Web site o ›
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Morgan Stanley Data Breach Hits Investors

"Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. According to two letters sent to clients, and obtained by Credit.com, the information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on the investments in 2010, and⠛
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NATO server hacked, files published - Security

"A NATO server appears to have been hacked by a group that claims to have rooted the server with a private zero day exploit. A private zero day exploit is a vulnerability discovered in a system that is not disclosed publicly before being used in an attack. A 50 MB backup of 2646 files from what reportedly was NATO's Apache Tomcat servlet was posted on a cy ›