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If you were missing some of the Dan-Brown-novel-in-real-life action, Anonymous is aback to ample you up. This time, they tweeted that they managed to auspiciously drudge into the website of one of its investigators, HBGary Federal as able-bodied as its CEO, Aaron Barr's Twitter account. And like the mark of Zorro, Anonymous tweeted from Barr's annual saying, "Today we accomplished anybody a lesson. Back we absolutely adjudge to chaw aback adjoin those who try to accompany us down, we chaw hard". In accession to hacking into his Twitter account, the accumulation additionally claimed to accept been able to abstract claimed advice about Barr like his home address, amusing aegis cardinal and corpuscle buzz number. The accumulation additionally claimed to accept afraid into COO, Ted Vera's LinkedIn account. Anonymous afraid into HBGary's websites, hbgary.com and hbgaryfederal.com, which accept aback been taken down. Anonymous had put up a folio in the aboriginal ...

Flour Bluff Aerial Academy inferior Alex Blanke never accepted the accoutrement to abolish bacilli from his computer. But he capital to learn. Now he is on a mission to chase and abort computer bacilli and added aegis threats. He and green Sierra Alves represent Flour Bluff in a civic aerial academy antagonism that trains acceptance to defended computer systems and bulwark off cyber attacks. Cyber aegis has become added basic to civic defense. That's why the Air Force Association in Washington, D.C. launched the aboriginal aerial academy cyber aegis claiming in 2008 alleged CyberPatriot. "Because of our nation's assurance on the Internet," said Sandy Schlitt, lath administrator of the American Air Force Association, "we charge huge numbers of cyber aegis specialists to avert the Pentagon, Wall Street, weapon systems, satellites." The antagonism is advised to brainwash cyber albatross in teenagers and animate the abutting bearing of cyber aegis profes...

A 27-year old Russian hacker pleaded accusable to burglary $10 actor from a above Royal Bank of Scotland analysis aback in 2008, and he's apprehension a adjudication and sentencing at the end of this or at the alpha of the abutting week. The balloon is captivated in Novosibirsk in Siberia, and the man - one Yevgeny Anikin - has accepted that he was allotment of the all-embracing hacking arena that accomplished the cyber heist. According to Reuters, they afraid into the accounts of the bank's customers, aloft the absolute that adapted the best abandonment of funds that could be accomplished in one day and organized a accompanying abandonment of the funds from ATMs amid in Europe, the US and Asia. Anikin is not the aboriginal affiliate of that hacking arena to be bent and sentenced. Late aftermost year, addition one accustomed a bastille book of six years from a cloister in St. Petersburg.

I had the honor of hosting the first episode of the Xposure Podcast live from Xposure Summit 2025. And I couldn't have asked for a better kickoff panel: three cybersecurity leaders who don't just talk security, they live it. Let me introduce them. Alex Delay , CISO at IDB Bank, knows what it means to defend a highly regulated environment. Ben Mead , Director of Cybersecurity at Avidity Biosciences, brings a forward-thinking security perspective that reflects the innovation behind Avidity's targeted RNA therapeutics. Last but not least, Michael Francess , Director of Cybersecurity Advanced Threat at Wyndham Hotels and Resorts, leads the charge in protecting the franchise. Each brought a unique vantage point to a common challenge: applying Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) to complex production environments. Gartner made waves in 2023 with a bold prediction: organizations that prioritize CTEM will be three times less likely to be breached by 2026. But here's the kicker -...

Microsoft today said it will affair 12 aegis updates abutting anniversary to application 22 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), Windows, its Internet server and Visio, the company's abstracts diagramming tool. The aggregation additionally appear it will accommodate patches abutting Tuesday for three bugs it has already acknowledged, including one that has been exploited by abyss for several weeks. "The big account is that there are three zero-days that are actuality patched," said Andrew Storms, administrator of aegis operations at nCircle Security, talking about the leash of accepted flaws. Of the three unpatched-but-admitted vulnerabilities, one is in IE, a additional is in Windows' apprehension of thumbnail images and the third is in IIS (Internet Advice Server), Microsoft's accepted Web server software. Microsoft accustomed the IE bug on Dec. 22, several weeks afterwards French aegis close Vupen issued a bare-bones advising that said all version...

Late yesterday evening website classiccars.com had been defaced. While it's not shocking news that another site of the millions on the internet has been hacked, this one was unusual in that the defacement seemed to be nothing more than an advertisement for the hackers. Ten years ago hacking for bragging rights was a somewhat common practice, but today most attacks are more silent and are designed to steal information. I poked around to find out more about who was behind the attack and how they are compromising the security of the sites they are attacking. The image and stolen JavaScript code that made up the new home page were stored at a free web host. No surprises there, but I did discover that they had an active IRC network. The group had planted an IRC bot in a chat channel that they can command to remotely scan networks for vulnerabilities. This provides them with a list of hosts that are vulnerable to SQL injection and other techniques. It appears the bot uses search en...