Culver City-based Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc., the television and movie studio for the Japanese electronics giant, confirmed late Friday that it been hacked and was working with the FBI to identify the attacker. In a statement, the studio’s chairman Michael Lynton and co-chairman Amy Pascal said that a « cyber-crime wave that has affected Sony companies …
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Not anonymous: attack reveals BitTorrent users on Tor network
Think that anonymizing BitTorrent tracker connections through Tor makes you harder to track? Think again. A vulnerability was used to identify over 10,000 users’ IP addresses via their BitTorrent tracker connections. But it’s not just your BitTorrent downloads that are at risk: an attacker can use your BitTorrent connections to de-anonymize other, more secure applications …
DoJ, FBI set up command-and-control servers, take down botnet
Past efforts at killing botnets – the large networks of computers running malicious software to send spam, flood websites with traffic, and steal personal data – have managed to disable the networks by taking down important servers, but they’ve always stopped short of actually killing the botnet software itself. That’s because the companies behind these …
FBI child porn raid a strong argument for locking down WiFi networks
Will it take being accused of downloading child pornography to get people to lock down their WiFi networks once and for all? Although that’s not the only reason to keep your network secure, perhaps some users will be scared into doing so after reading a number of horror stories collected by the Associated Press over …
Texas exposes addresses, SSNs of 3.5 million residents
Following last month’s massive Epsilon e-mail breach, it feels as if all of us suddenly have a little too much personal information floating around online. And now, a large group of Texans are about to have it a lot worse: the state revealed Monday that personal information for 3.5 million citizens has been exposed to …
