We have seen a lot of activity by hackers lately. The Sony affair is still unfolding, as Sony says that personally identifiable information might have been stolen, but worldwide daily new examples of successful hacking are revealed.
LulzSec hacks US Senate’s web site
Hacker group LulzSec says that it has recently hacked the US Senate’s servers. According to a report by the Wall Street Journal, a US Senate spokeswoman has acknowledged that the web site was hacked, but said that the intruder didn’t gain access to the Senate’s computer network. The H has more.
But to add a grain of salt to the whole LulzSec thing, just recently ESET’s David Harley wrote about LulzSec as well:
LulzSec lulls the NHS: not such bad lads?
While LulzSec’s PR has more in common with Malcolm McLaren and the Sex Pistols than it does with the Red Cross or Marks & Spencer, it undoubtedly is a publicity drive. “Still, I have no reason at present not to accept the possibility that someone at LulzSec is combining another publicity stunt with a genuine wish to promote the British Bone Marrow Registry” says David Harley.
FBI Investigating Cyber Theft of $139,000 from Pittsford, NY
Krebs on Security examines how computer crooks stole at least $139,000 from the town coffers of Pittsford, New York this week. The theft is the latest reminder of the widening gap between the sophistication of organized cyber thieves and the increasingly ineffective security measures employed by many financial institutions across the United States.
Seems EU has stirred too in an effort to combat the increasing level of cyber-threats.
EU starts building cyber-response team
The institutions that run the European Union have begun work on setting up a single security team to co-ordinate their response to cyberattacks. The organisations have established a preliminary 10-strong group to oversee the effort to set up the EU Computer Emergency Response Team (EU-Cert), the European Commission said on Friday. ZD Net has full story.
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