FOX Business Network’s (FBN) Senior Correspondent Charlie Gasparino reports that the State Department and Treasury Department is telling the banks that the source of the cyber-attacks is “likely Iran” and that it is “part of a terrorist attack. It’s cyber-terrorism.” Gasparino discusses the increased hacking risk and notes that the banks are “under attack from hackers daily” and that the “feedback they are getting from the government” is that “they think it’s Iran. It’s...
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It shouldn’t come as a tremendous shock that yet another member of LulzSec has pleaded guilty to hacking today given the brazen nature and self-promotion that followed their attacks on both governments and privately held businesses. Ryan Ackroyd, 26, who looks quite frankly more likely to kick your teeth in at a football match then hack your security system entered a plea today that saw him finally fessing up to his involvement with the...
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The Chinese government says it is willing to enter into talk with the government of the United States about cyber terrorism and hacking. Yesterday, a White House official made a statement calling on China to stop the hacking coming from inside its borders, and asserted that the international community could not tolerate the behavior any longer. The statement was made by National Security Adviser Thomas Donilon at the Asia Society in New York. The...
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Evernote Corporation, the renowned provider of online note taking services, was hacked and is now resetting all of its nearly 50 million users’ passwords in order to avoid any further hacking incident. A hacker accessed sensitive customer’s information, according to the company, and this calls for every users’ account to be reset “in an abundance of caution.” As per an email sent by the company, the attack- “follows a similar pattern of the many high...
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Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc (FB) and several other major companies have been attacked by hackers in recent months, and today there are two major leads in the investigations. Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) announced on Tuesday that it had been targeted by the same group of hackers which went after Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB). In addition to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) and Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), some of the other major sites that have been hacked in recent...
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The twitter account of Burger King Worldwide Inc. (NYSE:BKW) is back to normal after it was hacked Monday afternoon. The hacker changed the profile of the company with the logo of McDonald’s Corporation (NYSE:MCD) with racial insults, drug use, and offensive messages. An example of the 55 offensive messages tweeted by the hacker using the Burger King account include, “if I catch you at a wendys, we’re fightin!” and “We just got sold to McDonalds!” The...
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A new iOS 6.1 hack allows hackers to view and use your iPhone without your permission. The hack lets unauthorized users access your phone application, make phone calls, and listen to your voice mails. Recently, there was a video published on YouTube that showed users how to bypass the the passcode on iOS 6.1. In order to do the hack, users must nearly turn off the phone, then make an emergency call while pressing...
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Tom Mockridge, Chief executive of Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp (NASDAQ:NWSA) (NASDAQ:NWS), will step down from his post at the end of the month. Mockridge would leave his post as an aftereffect of the Phone Hacking Scandal. The year end could also see another major top line executive James Harding- editor of Times leaving his post. News Corp said Mr. Mockridge, who took over the position in July last year, is stepping down to “pursue outside...
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FOX Business Network (FBN) reports that, “Bank of America is currently the subject of a denial-of-service attack on its website.” FBN reports that, “A group claiming to be allied with Muslims is taking responsibility for the attack and claiming anger over American ‘Zionism’ and also the recent film mocking Islam,” and that, “The group is using Pastebin, a site often used by hacking groups to publicize cyber attacks.” On Bank of America’s denial-of-service attack:...
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In London, two British citizens who were associated with the infamous Lulzsec hacking group, have plead guilty to charges against them. This is the latest government action against online hackers that attempt to expose government secrets and other classified documents. The two British members, Ryan Cleary (20) and Jake Davis (19) acknowledged their role with the Lulzsec hacking group which tried to expose government, media and other law enforcement secrets from Britain and other...
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Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB) has rubbished claims by internet hacking group Anonymous that it was the one behind the seething downtime experienced by Facebook users today. Facebook users across the globe experienced log-in difficulties for several hours yesterday as noted in our earlier post, which Anonymous claimed responsibility. The Anonymous hacker has the reputation of targeting large companies especially those that claim to have top security servers like Facebook. Today, it seemed to have succeeded in...
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