Channel 4 News: Twitter hack hits cabinet and bank
Friday, 26 February 2010, 17:25
"The Twitter accounts of two cabinet ministers, an online bank and the press complaints commission are among those falling victim to a hack promoting sex aids."
Guardian: Guardian Jobs website hacked
Sunday, 25 October 2009, 14:13
"The Guardian has contacted some users of its UK Jobs site to say that a "sophisticated and deliberate hack" means personal data may have been accessed. Not all users are affected, and the hack does not affect the separate US site"
Guardian: Charlie’s Angles: The micropayments argument: do we want to turn the web into Zimbabwe?
Friday, 13 February 2009, 18:23
Charles Arthur: "[H]ere's another micropayments problem. Assume for a moment that you did get a micropayment system up and running. Malware writers would target it in a heartbeat."
Telegraph: BBC customers deluged by spam after hackers break into mailing list
Tuesday, 23 September 2008, 08:14
"Names and e-mail addresses on a BBC mailing list were exploited by hackers to send "spam", or unwanted e-mail…"
The Industry Standard: Wikileaks posts Bill O’Reilly Web site data
Saturday, 20 September 2008, 13:59
"Hackers were able to obtain a list of Billoreilly.com premium members, including email addresses, site passwords and the city and state where they live."
The Register: Scotland’s oldest newspaper exposes readers’ smalls in public
Wednesday, 3 September 2008, 08:42
"Scottish newspaper The Aberdeen Press and Journal inadvertently made it easy to harvest sensitive information about registered users from its site as a result of a basic information security mistake. … The paper got its developers to fix the problem promptly, only hours after we relayed the concerns of Reg readers on Monday."
Wired.com: Danger Room: Estonia, Google Help ‘Cyberlocked’ Georgia
Tuesday, 12 August 2008, 14:31
"Civil.ge, the Georgian news site, is "under permanent [cyber] attack." So they've switched their operations to one of Google's Blogspot domains."
Monday, 9 June 2008, 12:47
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"For years, Deutsche Telekom hired outside companies to spy on journalists and members of its own supervisory board, hoping to uncover internal leaks."
Thursday, 31 January 2008, 18:22
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"[A]ccording to hundreds of pages of heavily censored files obtained by The Associated Press[,] the Homeland Security Department ran [a war game] to test the nation’s hacker defenses, with help from the State Department, Pentagon, Justice Department, CIA,
Saturday, 17 November 2007, 08:44
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"[M]alware-spiked ads have been spotted on various legitimate websites, ranging from the British magazine The Economist to baseball’s MLB.com to the Canada.com news portal. Hackers are using deceptive practices and tricky Flash programming to get their ad
Wednesday, 19 September 2007, 15:15
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"Office 2.0 attendees say IT workers reluctant to change traditional processes" So very, very true.
Friday, 7 September 2007, 17:59
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Chris Anderson has a bloody good idea: Two ethernet cables on his work computer. One to the restrictive office network, one to a DSL line. "These two cables are a handy metaphor for the two worlds of corporate computing: end users and the IT department."
Monday, 30 July 2007, 15:44
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"Some 70% of central government departments do not check that data has been wiped from IT equipment they are disposing of, exposing them to potential security breaches, a report released yesterday by the National Audit Office has found."
Tuesday, 22 May 2007, 07:58
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Telegraph.co.uk was disrupted by a DDOS attack for much of Monday.
