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Famous Hacker Kevin Mitnick Joins Forces with KnowBe4
Clearwater, FL-based cybersecurity outfit KnowBe4 provides training for business and enterprise groups on what to expect when an attacker (be it malware or a person) attempts to gain access to their systems. They have joined forces with previously famous hacker Kevin Mitnick—well known for penetrating the Army and the Pentagon in 1983 when he was ...
Learning the Lesson of the Kobayashi Maru: Cybersecurity, Thinking Like the Enemy, and Big Data
Any time there is something valuable it means that multiple parties want it, be it the Maltese Falcon, state nuclear secrets, proprietary business information, or a database full of usernames and passwords for a popular forum. James Caroland, U.S. Cyber Command, and Greg Conti, Director of the Cyber Security Research Center at West Point, put ...
Gmail Accounts Hijacked by ‘State-Sponsored Attackers’ via IE Zero-Day
Both Microsoft and Google have been at the press to warn users that attackers are using a new zero-day exploit in Internet Explorer being used to hijack Gmail accounts. The flaw is currently unpatched (fitting any zero-day exploit) and enables an attacker to create a drive-by attack that could hook most users with little or ...
Zynga on the Rocks as Population Falls, Stock Price Takes a Dive
The Internet social gaming community has a love-hate relationship with Zynga in that they produced one of the most popular social gaming series ever to hit the web—that in the Farmville franchise. In fact, they were so instrumental in bringing critical mass to casual gaming on platforms such as Facebook. Yesterday, Zynga’s shares fell with ...
TheCube at Dell Storage Forum Examines VMware-Dell Partnership for Virtualization and the Cloud
Stu Miniman brought Felipe Payet and Tracy Waller from VMware into theCube at Dell Storage Forum 2012 in Boston, MA to talk about the VMWare-Dell partnership and how that affects the virtualization ecology in the technology sphere. They sat down and spoke about mission-critical virtualization, development, and their role in the partnership and how they’ve ...
Blizzard Threatens Diablo III Cheaters With Permanent Ban for Mods, Bots, or Hacks
Cheating is a prevalent problem across a multitude of online video games—and it’s well known in Blizzard’s previous titles in the Diablo series especially Diablo II. In an attempt to head off potential cheaters in their new Diablo III product, Blizzard is seeking the essential “death penalty” to players caught cheating with a permanent ban ...
10,000 Twitter Accounts Leaked by LulzSec Reborn via TweetGif
The reincarnation of LulzSec—a now disbanded hacker Internet-mayhem group who ruled the cyberseas and media for a portion of last year—has surfaced with a notable leak of Twitter authentication belonging to users who signed up for TweetGif, an animated GIF-sharing application. The group “LulzSec Reborn” published a .SQL file on Pastebin.org containing a staggering amount ...
WWDC 2012: Apple Announces 11-inch MacBook Air, 15-inch MacBook Pro, Intel Ivy Bridge, Retina Display
In a bid to expand the market of the ultra-thin laptop, Apple is preparing to release a new version of the MacBook Air, providing for two versions one $999 and one $1099—making both of them extremely economically priced for similar offerings in the market—alongside two 15-inch MacBook Pros. During the WWDC 2012 conference in San ...
Bitcoincard Puts Cryptocurrency in Your Wallet with a Mycelium Smartcard
The technological event horizon to make digital-currency possible (or at least digital-wallet transactions low impact) is coming up fast; we’re seeing it with the push for NFC and other technologies that enable secure transactions between mobile devices. However, there’s also a push for miniaturization of user interfaces, screens, and even communication devices so small that ...
The March of Password Leaks Goes On Pulling in Last.fm
Thursday, music site Last.fm joined a parade of password leaks reported this week on SiliconANGLE and elsewhere including LinkedIn and eHarmony. A message appeared on the site Thursday speaking to the leak, and urging users to change their passwords. Details are sketchy and the remark does not suggest if the leak is linked to the ...
