The road from Washington to St. Petersburg apparently passes through Arizona, according to the Mueller report, which said Russian intelligence officers used a leased computer in Arizona to help funnel information stolen from hacked Democratic Party computers.
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Cybersecurity: Michael Chertoff, who served as U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security from 2005 to 2009, said there’s a new story about hacking every day.
ContinueOver 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 […]
ContinueHacker 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
ContinueI 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.
ContinueSecurity breach for Cryptic Studios’ Star Trek Online and Champions online: bit.ly/IoZX50 — Nerdvana (@nerdvana) April 25, 2012
ContinueWhat 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 […]
ContinueHere 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 […]
ContinueSeriously? 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 […]
ContinueHeatsync Labs, the nonprofit tech innovation “hackerspace” at Chandler’s Gangplank, has outgrown its current home and is looking for a new one. At least part of that search is using Mesa’s new social networking iMesa initiative to feel out a possible move to that city’s downtown area. Mesa Mayor Scott Smith recently launched the program, […]
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