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SEC: Hacker Manipulated Stock Prices
U.S. regulators are moving to freeze the assets and trading accounts of a Russian accused of hacking into personal online portfolios and manipulating the price of dozens of stocks listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market and New York Stock Exchange. The Securities and Exchange Commission is asking a federal judge to freeze all movement of assets of Broco Investments, believed to be a one-trader operation based in St.
Continue reading »White House Cyber Czar: “There is No Cyberwar”
Howard Schmidt, the new cybersecurity czar for the Obama administration, has a short answer for the drumbeat of rhetoric claiming the U.S. is caught up in a cyberwar that it is losing. “There is no cyber war,” Schmidt told Wired.com in a sit-down interview Wednesday at the RSA Security Conference in San Francisco.
Continue reading »etc: Wyndham Hotels has revealed that hackers broke into its computer systems and made off with some credit card data.
Wyndham Hotels has revealed that hackers broke into its computer systems and made off with some credit card data. Read More: Wyndham Hotels , Wyndham FAQ
Continue reading »Record 13-Year Sentence for Hacker Max Vision
PITTSBURGH — A skilled San Francisco computer intruder was sentenced here Friday to 13 years in federal prison for stealing nearly two million credit card numbers from banks, businesses and other hackers — in what is the longest hacking sentence in U.S. history. Max Ray Vision, 37, was also ordered to pay $27.5 million in restitution, and to serve five years under court supervision following his release, during which time he’ll be allowed to use computers only for legitimate employment or education.
Continue reading »TalkTalk Rises Awareness in WiFi Safety
Honoring the invitation from Channel 4 News to participate in a broadcast, security expert Matt Roburgh, member of the team behind Internet service provider TalkTalk, seized the opportunity to educate the public on WiFi safety and the threat posed by WiFi hacking. Roburgh directed the discussion towards the limitations of today’s network safety solutions and hackers’ ability to constantly reinvent their methods of tackling existing security measures. Admitting he had also been a victim of WiFi hacking, the expert explained that although protection of WiFi connections with passwords is highly recommendable, this measure alone might not always be enough to block hacking attempts.
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