Internet Threats Blog
The latest party to publicly show their discontent with the Stop Online Piracy Act is the hacker group Anonymous. Late Wednesday night the hacker group announced they would go silent on January 18th as a sign of solidarity with those groups already protesting against SOPA and Protect IP Act. Anonymous joins Reddit and possibly Wikipedia on the list of online entities that are going quiet on … [Read more...]
Banning employees from Facebook, Twitter and other sites shows a 30% increase in computer security breaches TELUS and the Rotman School of Management have published their third annual IT security study. This time, the study revealed an increase in the number of security breaches in both government entities and companies in the private sector; with government entities experiencing twice the number … [Read more...]
Need a job? The globally economy is in shambles with well-paying jobs going the way of the desktop. Young and educated now means young and unemployed. Alas, even with the economic downturn, hack and wack global security firms, national security agencies and even organized crime are on a hiring binge to add staff to their payroll: that is Hackers. Their rationale is quite simple -- find out about … [Read more...]
Hacker groups Anonymous and LulzSec have been on the spotlight for the last couple of months. The media has had a feast reporting each and every one of their attacks; going after companies like PayPal and Sony to the CIA and the FBI. These two groups have established themselves as “hactivists” (a clever wording of hackers and activists) and have been bringing down sites for “the lulz” or … [Read more...]
Privacy of online complaints a worry By: Carol Sanders (carol.sanders@freepress.mb.ca) Manitoba free Press Posted: 13/10/2010 1:00 AM Manitoba doctors are being warned their credit card information and patients' complaints could fall into the wrong hands after an online attack a month ago. A hacker accessed confidential information on the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba … [Read more...]
