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Back to School: 10 Privacy Tips for the Connected Student (Mashable)
Mashable - Fran Maier is the president and executive chair of TRUSTe, the leading online privacy solutions provider. She speaks widely on issues of online privacy and trust and is active in mentoring women in technology. She serves on a number of Internet and trust-related boards, including the Online Trust Alliance.
With each new school year, students have even more reason to spend academic time online. My nephews cheerily informed me that they won’t be needing paper planners this year; instead, they’ll track assignments, grades and events using their school’s new online system. My son in high school is prepping for the SATs using online tutorials, and my college-age son will begin an internship programming mobile apps.
Global cybercrimes cost $114 billion annually: Symantec (Reuters)
Reuters - A study by Symantec Corp, the maker of Norton computer security software, estimates the cost of global cybercrimes at $114 billion annually.
Sony Hires Homeland Security Veteran as Security Chief (Mashable)
Mashable - More than four months after hackers brought down its PlayStation Network, accessing the personal information of more than 100 million users, Sony has hired a veteran of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as its security chief.
Philip Reitinger, the former deputy under secretary at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has been named senior vice president and chief information security officer at Sony, the company announced Tuesday. Reitinger will oversee information security, privacy and Internet safety across the company. In addition to serving at the Department of Homeland Security, Reitinger also worked at Microsoft, the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Department of Justice.
Fake DigiNotar certificates targeting Iranians? (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - Computer security firm Trend Micro says fake digital certificates from compromised Dutch certification authority DigiNotar were part of a broad-scale man-in-the-middle attack targeting Iranian Internet users—and may have left political dissidents, activists, and others trying to bypass Iran’s online censorship regime vulnerable to eavesdropping.
Experts suspect Iran involvement in Dutch hacking (AP)
AP - Hackers who broke into a Dutch web security firm have issued hundreds of bogus security certificates for spy agency websites including the CIA as well as for Internet giants like Google, Microsoft and Twitter, the government said Monday.
Man sentenced to six years for antagonizing women through digital 'sextortion' (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - 32-year-old Luis Mijangos was sentenced to six year in prison this week by a U.S. District Court judge in California after pleading guilty to one count of computer hacking and one count of wiretapping in March 2011. Mijangos, a resident of Santa Ana, California, worked as a freelance web designer and developer earning about $52,000 a year, but also spent his days using malware to gain access to people’s computers and extorting up to $3,000 a day from his victims. FBI experts in computer forensics estimated that Mijangos infected more than 100 computers used by over 230 people, 20 percent which were juveniles.Â
Scotland Yard nabs two hackers who posed as 16 year-old 'Kayla' (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - More hackers have been caught this week thanks to an international police effort to crackdown on hacktivism. Scotland Yard has apprehended two men they believe are connected to the notorious hactivist groups LulzSec and Anonymous. The two are suspected of committing offenses under the Computer Misuse Act 1990; it’s believed the men committed these offenses under the codename ‘Kayla’.
UK arrests 2 suspected computer hackers (AP)
AP - British police on Thursday arrested two men as part of a trans-Atlantic investigation into attacks carried out by the hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security.
Oracle, other companies "punkd" in hacking contest (Reuters)
Reuters - A weekend contest at the world's largest hacking convention in Las Vegas showed one reason why big corporations seem to be such easy prey for cyber criminals: their workers are poorly trained in security.
Hackers don't need movie magic to wreak havoc (Reuters)
Reuters - Evil hackers with state-of-the-art computers gain remote control of a power plant and blow it up, killing many people and threatening more mayhem if a huge ransom is not paid.
Hacker group declares cyber war on US police (AFP)
AFP - A hacker group on Saturday claimed it has "defaced and destroyed" websites at scores of US police agencies in retaliation for the arrest of suspected peers accused of hacking into the CIA, British crime agency SOCA, and Sony.
AntiSec hackers release data from over 50 law enforcement agencies (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - In a massive 10GB data cache titled ‘Shooting Sherrifs Saturday’, the AntiSec organization released the contents of over 300 email accounts across 56 law enforcement agencies, police training videos and identities of persons submitting tips though an anonymous tip system. Email correspondence contains private information including social security numbers for police officers as well as credit card numbers, email addresses, home addresses and personal exchanges between officers. In addition, members of AntiSec claim to have used the stolen credit card numbers to place donations to the Bradley Manning Support Network, ACLU, Electronic Frontier Foundation and other organizations.Â
Hackers Break Into 70 Law Enforcement Websites (Mashable)
Mashable - Those hackers calling themselves Anonymous are at it again, this time breaking into 70 law enforcement websites and spreading 10GB of email addresses and confidential credit card data.
Members of the group said they were hacking into the law enforcement websites, most located in the Southern and Central portions of the U.S., in retaliation for arrests of its members in the U.S. and Europe last month. According to the Associated Press, the group said in a statement:
Las Vegas man accused of mass spamming on Facebook (AP)
AP - A Las Vegas man accused of sending more than 27 million spam messages to Facebook users faces federal fraud and computer tampering charges that could send him to prison for more than 40 years, according to a grand jury indictment.
'Spam King' surrenders to FBI, indicted on hacking charges (Digital Trends)
Digital Trends - One more of the Internet’s bad guys, or spam guys, is in the hands of the law. Sanford Wallace, a known spammer of over 27 million Facebook messages has surrendered on hacking charges. Wallace was actually indicted on July 6th but the announcement wasn’t released until yesterday.
Insulin pump hack exposes medical device danger (AFP)
AFP - A computer threat analyst on Saturday will show a gathering of hackers how easy it is to wirelessly take control of an insulin pump on which a diabetic's life could hinge.
Insulin pumps, monitors vulnerable to hacking (AP)
AP - Even the human bloodstream isn't safe from computer hackers.
China says cyber hacking claims 'irresponsible' (AFP)
AFP - Chinese state media condemned as "irresponsible" suggestions the country was behind a massive global cyber spying campaign uncovered this week by a US computer security firm.
'Pwnie' awards mark hacking highlights (AFP)
AFP - Japanese entertainment titan Sony had the dubious honor of winning a "Most Epic Fail" award at a prestigious Black Hat gathering of computer security professions in Las Vegas.
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