The new target that enables ransomware hackers to paralyze dozens of towns and businesses at once
Criminal hackers are zeroing in on the managed service providers that handle computer systems for local governments and medical clinics.
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Clandestine review: a creative co-op experience
Clandestine officially emerged from Steam Early Access as a fully fledged release on Thursday.
ContinueTempe web entrepreneur exposes another alarming Amazon vulnerability
Over the summer Wired magazine writer Mat Honan related his nightmare of costly identity theft through vulnerabilities in the way his Amazon, iCloud and Google accounts interacted. Now it is Chris Cardinal, an executive at Tempe-based web development firm Synapse Studios, who is sounding the alarm about a kind of fraud made possible by Amazon […]
ContinueBeyond Nerdvana: Wedding bells, hackers and gay vampire slayers
Green Lantern’s romantic leads exchange rings. (We’re pretty sure they’re boring Earth rings.) Associated Press Valley native Aidy Bryant is among the new crop of cast members on Saturday Night Live. TVLine A Florida publisher says stolen Apple device IDs came from its database, contradicting hacker collective Anonymous, who said they came from an FBI […]
ContinueUPDATED: 10 million PlayStation Network accounts may have been breached
Hacker collective Anonymous claims to have compromised Sony again, to the tune of 10 million user accounts. Kotaku quotes Sony as saying it’s just a hoax. But change your passwords. Now. Via GameTyrant
ContinueTwo-factor authentication is not an option anymore — it’s a vital tool for online security
I experimented with two-factor authentication last year. It drove me bonkers. I couldn’t turn it off fast enough. Then I, like many, read this week of Wired magazine writer Mat Honan’s recent nightmare, dealing with a cascade of compromised accounts from Amazon to iCloud to Gmail, all in a successful play for his desirable three-character Twitter handle.
ContinueStar Trek Online studio reports 2010 security breach
Security breach for Cryptic Studios’ Star Trek Online and Champions online: bit.ly/IoZX50 — Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 25, 2012
ContinueFuture engineers connect with peers across the world in Rube Goldberg exercise
What happens when students in the summer camp at ASU’s College of Technology and Innovation learning about engineering design construct a Rube Goldberg machine — and connect it with similar contraptions in Trinidad and at Purdue via Internet video conferencing? Observe: Among the campers, you may have noticed Schuyler St. Leger, the Arizona boy who […]
ContinueHackers claim ‘third knockout blow against Arizona law enforcement’
Here we go again. A third dump of data stolen by political activists hacking into Arizona law enforcement officials’ computers was released Thursday night. And now they’re just toying with officers, claiming to have been reading the emails of the state Fraternal Order of Police director even as he was discussing previous cyberattacks on the […]
ContinueArizona state police files compromised again
Seriously? This is getting embarrassing. Not even a week after the Arizona Department of Public Safety suffered a serious cyberattack that resulted in the online publication of sensitive case files and officer’s phone numbers, home addresses and ridiculously simple passwords, Gizmodo reports that the agency has been hit again. This time, the hackers in the […]
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