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BY LORENZO FRANCESCHI-BICCHIERAI

Hacking and cybersecurity really went mainstream in 2014, grabbing headlines almost every week.

In the year of the famous Internet vulnerability Heartbleed, the massive data breaches of Home Depot and J.P. Morgan, and the hack on Sony Pictures, President Barack Obama wants the government to get more involved in improving cybersecurity.

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Hack Friday for #BlackFridayDeals?

Black Friday cybercrime is unstoppable.

By TAL KOPAN

 

11/28/14 8:06 AM EST

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This holiday shopping season, kicking off with post-Thanksgiving deals, millions of Americans will almost certainly have their credit or debit card information stolen by overseas hackers.

Just like last year.

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Twelve months after data from 40 million cards were stolen from Target, beginning a year of escalating hacks of retailers’ payment card systems, not much has changed beyond awareness.

The absence of federal action reflects the difficulty of improving cybersecurity. Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle agree on the goal of improving the security of the nation’s networks, but disputes over even small details can sidetrack progress. Congressional action has been bogged down in side fights, and industry-led changes have been slow and narrow. Executive action, and power, on the issue is limited, and most administration efforts have been designed to encourage retailers to take extra precautions against theft, rather than apply new regulations.

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Obama Administration the Target of Hackers

Feds Arrest Alleged Operator of Silk Road Spin-off

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November 6, 2014    | 0 Comments

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SAN FRANCISCO ­— Federal agents have arrested a San Francisco man on charges that he operated the website Silk Road 2.0, an alleged hotbed for drug dealers and sellers of other illegal goods and services on the Internet.

The news comes a little more than a year after federal officials shut down the original Silk Road website and arrested its alleged operator, Ross "Dread Pirate Roberts" Ulbricht.

Blake "Defcon" Benthall, 26, was taken into custody on Wednesday and prosecutors said he admitted to operating Silk Road 2.0. The U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York filed a sealed criminal complaint against him in late October.

In the complaint, federal prosecutors claim that since the copycat site launched in November 2013, it's been used in thousands of illicit, black-market transactions. As of September 2014, prosecutors claim the site was generating sales of about $8 million per month and had about 150,000 active users. An undercover agent working for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security infiltrated the support staff of Silk Road 2.0 from its inception more than a year ago and gained access to restricted areas of the website as a "moderator," according to the complaint.

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Hackers threaten to Reveal teens Intimate Photos

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Thousands of children, some as young as 10, are facing the horror of seeing nude pictures of themselves posted on the net.

Message boards on a notorious website called 4Chan have been inundated with details of the “The Snappening”.

Hackers claim they have managed to break in to another image-saving service that allows users of Snapchat to store pictures received before they vanish.

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Jewel-Osco says customer credit card info hacked

The parent company of Jewel-Osco announced Friday that some of its customers’ credit card data may be compromised after computer hacking — the company called it an “unlawful intrusion” — involving some of its stores, including those in Illinois and Indiana.

Customers who used a credit or debit card at Jewel-Osco between June 22 and July 17 may have their data compromised, according to a statement posted on the company’s website. However, the company, AB Acquisition, said they have since contained the intrusion and have yet to determine if any cardholder data was in fact stolen.

“We know our customers are concerned about the security of their payment card data, and we work hard to protect it,” Mark Bates, senior vice president and chief information officer at AB Acquisition LLC, said in a statement posted on the site.\

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Massive Hacking Operation Further Reveals Weakness of Passwords

Russian Hackers Up the Ante on Corporate Cybersecurity

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What can a company do when it learns that a Russian hacker group called CyberVor has amassed 1.2 billion usernames with passwords, plus 500 million email addresses? Start changing passwords—now.

That was the advice from several cybersecurity experts Wednesday after The New York Times reported on what may well be the largest-known collection of stolen online credentials.

The records were discovered by Milwaukee security firm Hold Security, which also gave the gang its CyberVor nickname (vor means “thief” in Russian). The list includes many leaders in virtually all industries across the world, the company said in a statement, although it didn’t name any corporations.

“Hackers did not just target U.S. companies, they targeted any website they could get, ranging from Fortune 500 companies to very small websites,” Alex Holden, the founder and chief information security officer of Hold Security, told the Times. The company did not immediately respond to an interview request

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Russian Hackers Up the Ante on Corporate Cybersecurity

Sue Reisinger, Corporate Counsel

August 7, 2014    | 0 Comments

What can a company do when it learns that a Russian hacker group called CyberVor has amassed 1.2 billion usernames with passwords, plus 500 million email addresses? Start changing passwords—now.

That was the advice from several cybersecurity experts Wednesday after The New York Times reported on what may well be the largest-known collection of stolen online credentials.

The records were discovered by Milwaukee security firm Hold Security, which also gave the gang its CyberVor nickname (vor means “thief” in Russian). The list includes many leaders in virtually all industries across the world, the company said in a statement, although it didn’t name any corporations.

Read more: http://www.corpcounsel.com/id=1202666007096/Russian-Hackers-Up-the-Ante-on-Corporate-Cybersecurity#ixzz39uJQGlpn

Gang hacks 1.2 BIllioin User Names, Passwords

Russia gang hacks 1.2 billion usernames and passwords

The group is alleged to have stolen credentials from hundreds of thousands of websites globally

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A Russian group has hacked 1.2 billion usernames and passwords belonging to more than 500 million email addresses, according to Hold Security - a US firm specialising in discovering breaches.

Hold Security described the hack as the "largest data breach known to date".

It claimed the stolen information came from more than 420,000 websites, including "many leaders in virtually all industries across the world"

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28654613

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Canada Beefs Up Security after Cyber-Attacks

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July 31, 2014 7:23 p.m. ET

OTTAWA—The Canadian science and technology agency targeted by an alleged Chinese-backed cyberattack said Thursday it has taken additional steps to protect its internal information, although it could be weeks or months before it is able to resume normal business activities.

In a statement, the Ottawa-based National Research Council of Canada said it has beefed up internal security procedures following the cyberattack, which was disclosed on Tuesday. The council said it was forced to shut down its information-technology infrastructure, and it was in the process of building a new one to better protect the council's sensitive business information. It could take a year before the IT system is up and running, and in the meantime there will be disruptions to normal business activity, the council said.

Representatives for the council weren't immediately available for further comment

http://online.wsj.com/articles/canada-agency-beefs-up-security-after-cyberattack-1406849023?mod=Tech_newsreel_6

London Police Put Warning Ads on Piracy Websites

JULY 29, 2014

London police have started placing banner advertisements on websites offering pirated content. The messages, which will appear instead of paid-for ads, will ask users to close their web browsers.

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European Central Bank Reports Hacking Incident

By JACK EWINGJULY 24, 2014

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FRANKFURT — The European Central Bank said on Thursday that hackers had broken into one of its databases and stolen information about journalists and others, in what appeared to be part of a blackmail scheme.

The central bank said that the information stolen was from people who have registered for central bank events, which include news conferences or gatherings of people from other central banks in Europe or elsewhere. The information contained relatively harmless data like names, email addresses and telephone 

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Tunisia's voter registration disrupted by hackers

Voter registration has been low ahead of presidential and parliamentary elections

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Hackers have briefly disrupted online voter registration for elections in Tunisia later this year, the election commission has said.

Registration on the internet and by SMS was temporarily suspended following a "pirate attack", it added.

The commission, known as Isie, did not say who was behind the hacking.

The elections in October and November will be the second in Tunisia since long-serving ruler Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was ousted in 2011.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-28248523

Hacker Arrested for Attacks on Firms, Schools, Gov’t

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• June 18, 2014 7:30 PM PDT

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The US Department of Justice announced Wednesday that it has charged a man it believes to have been involved in a coordinated series of cyberattacks against corporations, universities, and government agencies.

Timothy French, 20, was arrested by the FBI in Tennessee last week. The government said French was part of a hacking group called NullCrew. This group is known for activist hacking, which aims to shame targets rather than steal money and credit card data.

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TweetDeck Hacked

By Jose Pagliery  @Jose_Pagliery June 11, 2014: 3:29 PM ET

NEW YORK (CNNMoney)

TweetDeck, a popular Twitter app for desktops, has been hacked -- because a 19-year-old computer geek in Austria wanted to use cute, little hearts.

On Wednesday, something like an Internet worm quickly spread across the Twitter(TWTR, Tech30) social media network. It came from a tweet of a "♥" symbol that was loaded with a string of code -- one that hijacked people's TweetDeck s

http://money.cnn.com/2014/06/11/technology/security/tweetdeck-hacked/

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Co-Founder of Pirate Bay Arrested in Sweden

Peter Sunde had been wanted by Interpol over an outstanding sentence for copyright violations

Peter Sunde has been arrested after being on the run for two years, and wanted by Interpol. Photograph: Richard Saker for the Guardian

One of the founders of file-sharing website Pirate Bay has been arrested in southern Sweden to serve an outstanding sentence for copyright violations after being on the run for nearly two years, Swedish police have said.

Peter Sunde had been wanted by Interpol since 2012 after being sentenced in Sweden to prison and fined for breaching copyright laws.

"We have been looking for him since 2012," said Carolina Ekeus, spokeswoman at the Swedish national police board. "He was given eight months in jail so he has to serve his sentence."

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