Ubisoft, the French game company that asked Kaspersky Lab to make sure hacking in its upcoming Watch Dogs game looks real, got hacked for real with names, emails and passwords stolen.
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Computer networks can be threatened by a host of potentially unexpected sources. Some of these start with ‘wardriving.’ Naturally, this begs a few questions…
With all the stories currently making the rounds about NSA Hacking, the PRISM program, GCHQ setting up web cafes, Phine chargers that hack your phones and even Manchester City gettign hacked, you’d be forgiven for being a little sceptical as to why your comapny should move to the cloud.
Britain is seeing about 70 sophisticated cyber espionage operations a month against government or industry networks, British intelligence has told the BBC.
In the realm of IT security, when organisations have their very business on the line, the instinct for most companies is to simply throw money and technology at the problem, upgrading technical systems at every opportunity to keep pace with emerging threats.
The four-star general who headed the reported cyber-attack by American and Israeli hackers on an Iranian nuclear site is under a DoJ investigation over leaking the details of the operation to the press, reports NBC News.
The notorious RedHack collective has breached another major website of the Turkish government, the one of the Istanbul Special Provincial Administration (ioi.gov.tr).
Lord Leveson was yesterday called to appear before MPs – amid growing anger at his failure to reveal widespread phone-hacking by big business.
Hackers say they have leaked personal details of tens of thousands of U.S. troops to websites, South Korean news reports and online security officials said on Wednesday, a day after cyber attacks disabled access to government and news sites.
“How GCHQ watches your every move” is the Guardian’s front page headline.
