28 Oct 2013

Syrian Electronic Army Targets Obama’s Campaign Accounts

The Syrian Electronic Army is at it again, this time targeting Barack Obama’s campaign social media accounts and website. It appears they did not gain complete control of the accounts, but gained limited access to them through a control panel. The initial exploit was through one of the administrator’s email

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21 Jul 2013

Apple’s Development Center Breached by Hackers

Apple’s Dev Center went down on Thursday causing issues for developers around the world. The system remained down for three days and is still currently unavailable. Many developers began suspecting a security incident after many received unauthorized password change emails on their accounts. An hour ago developers finally received a

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03 Jun 2013

Securing WordPress: Hardening Basics

WordPress has become one of the leading blog platforms, and many small to medium sized businesses even utilize it as their content management system. WordPress is available as a one-click install with most hosting providers making deployment simple. However this popularity and ease of use has come at a price,

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17 May 2013

Game of Pwns: Syrian Electronic Army and Information Warfare

The Syrian Electronic Army has claimed another victory by defacing the Financial Times website as well as several Twitter accounts run by the news organization. The group has had a run of luck recently with the compromise of the Associated Press Twitter account, where they tweeted a false story about  President Barack

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26 Apr 2013

LivingSocial Hacked – 50 Million Records Compromised

It is being reported that LivingSocial has had a substantial data breach affecting 50 million customers. The known scope of the data compromised at this time includes names, email address, birth dates and encrypted passwords (whew!). In an email to employees management made it clear that no credit card information

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