8 August, 2012
Hacking Cost News Corp. $224m – Daily Beast
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Hacking Cost News Corp. $224m
Daily Beast News Corp. revealed a net loss of close to $1.6 billion today after months of losses due to the company's phone hacking scandals. This year, the corporation spent $224 million just on investigations into the hacking. The media conglomerate also … |
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Infamous hacker's grim warning
Sydney Morning Herald Notorious hacker Kevin Mitnick went to jail for five years for breaking into US companies, and he says Australian government inaction means scores of privacy disasters are going under the radar. Sony took seven days to inform its 77 million customers … and more » |
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Canadian hacker dupes Wal-Mart to win Def Con prize
Toronto Star That's all from the script written by Canadian Shane MacDougall, a hacker/security consultant, for a social engineering contest at the Def Con Hacking Conference held each summer in Las Vegas. From his glass booth in front of chuckling onlookers, … and more » |
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How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking
Wired (blog) And worst of all, my AppleID account was broken into, and my hackers used it to remotely erase all of the data on my iPhone, iPad, and MacBook. In many ways, this was all my fault. My accounts were daisy-chained together. Getting into Amazon let my … Have You Been Hacked? Tell Us About ItWall Street Journal (blog) As hacking victim's story spreads, Apple and Amazon tighten securityChristian Science Monitor Scary Apple, Twitter account hacks: How to protect your accountsComputerworld (blog) InformationWeek -Huffington Post -Wired News all 670 news articles » |
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Phone hacking cost News Corp. $224 M; company crack-up on schedule
Capital New York News Corp. is "on course" to separate its publishing and entertainment holdings into two distinct, publicly-traded companies, according to president and chief operating officer Chase Carey. But when he addressed Wall Street analysts and the press on a … News Corporation posts $1.6bn loss as phone-hacking legal fees stack upThe Guardian News Corp posts US$1.5b loss in Q4Channel News Asia News Corp. posts $1.6 billion lossVariety Los Angeles Times -Huffington Post -Telegraph.co.uk all 198 news articles » |
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News Corp. Takes $224 Million Charge on Phone Hacking Scandal
Wall Street Journal (blog) The scandal, which smoldered for years before catching fire last July, led to the closure of a flagship tabloid in the U.K. and several concurrent investigations into phone-hacking, computer hacking, bribery of officials by journalists for scoops and … |
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Hackers Take Down WikiLeaks Website
Complex.com (blog) WikiLeaks, the organization that came to fame by publishing confidential government and financial reports, has been the victim of a hacking that's left its website offline. The denial of service attacks happened over the course of the week, and at … and more » |
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Little-known Glenn Burkett accuses Nelson of website hacking
MiamiHerald.com (blog) Little-known Glenn Burkett, who is running for the Democratic nomination against incumbent U.S. Senator Bill Nelson, is accusing Nelson of hacking his website. Nelson's campaign did not immediately respond to reporter questions. Here's the statement … Dem US Senate candidate Glenn Burkett says campaign web site hacked …Orlando Sentinel (blog) all 2 news articles » |
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Church of England divests from Murdoch's News Corp. after phone hacking
Washington Post (blog) The Church of England has sold its $3 million worth of shares in Rupert Murdoch's News Corp due to concerns about the company's ethics. Eight News Corp. journalists have been charged by British authorities in connection with a phone-hacking scandal. Church of England Sells News Corp. Stake Over HackingNew York Times Church of England shuns News Corp. over phone hackingLos Angeles Times Anglicans Dump News Corp. Shares Over Hack ScandalABC News Reuters all 232 news articles » |
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Facebook takes its hackathon tour around the world
VentureBeat Given the world's rabid interest in events like f8, the company's developer conference, and its Mobile HACK Roadshow earlier this spring, bringing more Facebook hackathons to more developers makes a ton of sense. Since demand for these events is so … and more » |
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Scary Apple, Twitter account hacks: how to protect your accounts
Computerworld (blog) Wonder what it's like to have malicious hackers get into every corner of your digital life — not only your Twitter account, broadcasting embarrassing tweets in your name, but also seizing control of your Apple account and remote wiping your laptop … The Honan Hack Is The Alamo For Two Factor AuthenticationNetwork World CLOUD COVER: Tips on secure cloud computingHindustan Times Booting Up: Mat Honan, Privacy HeroBetabeat all 31 news articles » |
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Mat Honan's Devastating Hack Offers Lessons in Security
Huffington Post Hackers hijacked his Google account and deleted his emails, broadcast racist and homophobic slurs from his Twitter account, and erased data from his Apple devices, including photos of his infant daughter, he said in a first-person account published on … |
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Have You Been Hacked? Tell Us About It
Wall Street Journal (blog) What is it like to be hacked? Over the weekend, technology writer Mat Honan found out when attackers took over his computer, phone and online accounts – deleting photos of his young daughter and posting racist statements to his Twitter feed. On Monday … As hacking victim's story spreads, Apple and Amazon tighten securityChristian Science Monitor After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password ResetsWired News 8 Ways To Avoid Getting Your Life HackedInformationWeek Huffington Post -ABC News -San Francisco Chronicle all 645 news articles » |
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Apple ID Password Reset Policy Changes After Journalist Hack
Huffington Post In a lengthy narrative on Wired, Honan revealed that the hackers were able to gain access to his accounts and hardware by impersonating him on a phone call with Apple customer service and, using personal information about Honan they had found online … |
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Google exec urges two-factor authentication in wake of tech reporter hack job
Computerworld Cutts was reacting to the well-publicized hack of Wired reporter Mat Honan last week. The hackers found an alternate email address by scouting Gmail, used that address — an Apple-issued one that ended in me.com — and along with a valid billing … |
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The Honan Hack Is The Alamo For Two-Factor Authentication
Network World By now I hope you have read about the devastating hack of Wired writer Mat Honan. It serves as a chilling example of how much of our lives are entrenched in the digital sphere today and what can happen if the keys to that sphere fall into the wrong hands. Turn on Gmail's 2-Step Verification – NowMashable CLOUD COVER: Tips on secure cloud computingHindustan Times Booting Up: Mat Honan, Privacy HeroBetabeat all 34 news articles » |
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The Honan Hack Is The Alamo For Two Factor Authentication
Network World By now I hope you have read about the devastating hack of Wired writer Mat Honan. It serves as a chilling example of how much of our lives are in the digital sphere today and what can happen if they keys to that sphere fall into the wrong hands … CLOUD COVER: Tips on secure cloud computingHindustan Times Booting Up: Mat Honan, Privacy HeroBetabeat all 24 news articles » |
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8 Ways To Avoid Getting Your Life Hacked
InformationWeek But as Honan detailed Monday in "How Apple and Amazon Security Flaws Led to My Epic Hacking," the attack led to the loss of a year's data, including personal photos, as well as the deletion of his Google account and eight years' worth of emails. |
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Prenda Law Inc. Sues AT&T And Comcast For Aiding Hackers
Sacramento Bee BELLEVILLE , Ill., Aug. 7, 2012 — /PRNewswire/ — On August 3rd, 2012, Prenda Law Inc. filed an amended complaint in Saint Clair County, Illinois, naming AT&T, Comcast Cable Communications and their corporate executives as defendants for their role in … Lightspeed Media Adds AT&T, Comcast to LawsuitXBIZ all 2 news articles » |
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As hacking victim's story spreads, Apple and Amazon tighten security
Christian Science Monitor A tech journalist's online life was erased over the weekend – and the hackers used nothing more than easily-obtainable pieces of personal information to trick Apple and Amazon into letting them gain control of his accounts. By Jeff Ward-Bailey / August … After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password ResetsWired News 8 Ways To Avoid Getting Your Life HackedInformationWeek A Persistent Hacker and the Destruction of an Online LifeABC News San Francisco Chronicle -Discovery News -CNNMoney all 619 news articles » |
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Hacker-smasher: White hats join forces to build bot-beating weapon
Register From Lulzsec to Chaos Computer Club, hackers increasingly band together to spring sophisticated attacks on websites, mobile applications, and more, while the white hats have mostly failed to coordinate a robust defence. In a sign that the white hats … and more » |
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Hacking Nightmare Comes True: Mat Honan's Story
Discovery News Hackers can do a lot worse than steal your data and identity. They can wipe your digital life almost entirely so you'll never get it back. Just ask Mat Honan, a writer for Wired who suffered this attack. Friday evening, the San Francisco-based … After Epic Hack, Apple Suspends Over-the-Phone AppleID Password ResetsWired News A Persistent Hacker and the Destruction of an Online LifeABC News Hacking nightmare a cautionary taleSan Francisco Chronicle TIME -PBS -CNNMoney all 560 news articles » |
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A Persistent Hacker and the Destruction of an Online Life
ABC News Mat Honan, a senior writer at Wired and a former senior reporter for Gizmodo.com, learned the hard way on Friday evening that hackers had taken over his entire online life. They took over his Twitter account. They cleaned out his entire Google account … |
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'Computer networks of Eastern command probably hacked'
Times of India NEW DELHI: Computer networks of the Eastern Naval Command were "probably compromised" after hacking attempts in 2011 and appropriate steps have been taken since then to strengthen it, Defence Minister A K Antony today said. "There were … and more » |
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Twitter Suffers another Hacking Incident: this Time it's Reuters
Industry Leaders Magazine According to Reuters News, one of its Twitter profiles suffered a hacking episode on Sunday and subsequently, was responsible for posting misleading tweets related primarily to the armed uprising taking place in Syria at the moment. Thomson Reuters … Reuters Twitter account hacked, false tweets about Syria sentReuters Hackers post false updates about Syria on Reuters Twitter accountWireUpdate Reuters hacked again: Twitter account sends pro-Syrian government tweetsVentureBeat Hindustan Times all 84 news articles » |
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