[ad] The latest big news is that on February 6th the Kaspersky Customer Records database was hacked through a simple SQL injection flaw on the website. The hacker claimed it was possible to expose all customer data including users, activation codes, lists of bugs, admins, shot and so on. The anonymous hacker hasn’t actually posted […]
Legal Issues
Gary McKinnon Wins Right to Appeal Against Extradition
[ad] We’ve been following the case of the ‘NASA Hacker’ Gary McKinnon since it started in April 2006 when we reported the British Hacker Gary McKinnon Fears Guantanamo. So you can see the case has been going on for quite some time, the most recent news we published about it was UK Hacker Gary McKinnon […]
TJX (T.J. Maxx and Marshall’s) Hacker Jailed For 30 Years
[ad] You should be familiar with the TJX case by now (TJX Largest Breach of Customer Data in U.S. History) and we’ve been following it here for a couple of years. We reported back in August last year that the TJX Credit Card Hackers were Busted and now one of the 11 guys involved has […]
Malware Researchers Discover Rootkit HKTL-BRUDEVIC Similar to Sony CD Malware
[ad] You might remember the Sony BMG Rootkit fiasco back in 2006 when the whole Internet was up in arms about Sony installing a rootkit in the name of Digital Restriction Rights Management. Another piece of malware has been uncovered that has been linked to Sony and their Fingerprint reader. Researchers have unearthed rootkit-like functionality […]
Julie Amero Spyware Case Finally Comes To An End
[ad] It’s a sad case when someone loses their career over an incident which was outside of their control, not everyone can be expected to keep their computers free of spyware and malware. It just doesn’t happen. Unfortunately for Julie Amero, she got some porn pop-ups at the wrong time in a class full of […]