So let’s see, can we even count the major hacks recently?
Well, Sony, as Bloomberg Businessweek suggests, is “the company that kicked the hornet’s nest” by suing and prosecuting hackers (http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/11_21/b4229035889849.htm). From a security standpoint, Sony deserved the b*tch-slapping they got for leaving an Apache 1.1 web server on their production website, through which they got hacked … and hacked … and hacked a third time. Uh, unplug the network cable if nothing else, boys. Chalk up one for idealistic hacking.
Not that they are done, though: “Sony Europe hacked by Lebanese grey hat hacker” on June 6, 2011 (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/security/sony-europe-hacked-by-lebanese-grey-hat-hacker/8725?tag=mantle_skin;content)
Then, who could ever forget “Hackers attack Citi, access data of over 200,000 bank accounts” (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/hackers-attack-citi-access-data-of-over-200000-bank-accounts/50267?tag=nl.e589), especially since that number has about doubled since that article. Makes you feel right safe, leavin’ your money in their bank. Score one for criminal hacking.
What about them Nintendo boys? See “Nintendo becomes latest server hack victim of Lulz Security” (http://www.zdnet.com/blog/btl/nintendo-becomes-latest-server-hack-victim-of-lulz-security/50008?tag=mantle_skin;content).
And of course Granddaddy RSA, vendors of SecureID and arguably people who should know about such things, got hacked as well. See some of the fallout at http://www.channelinsider.com/c/a/Security/RSA-SecurID-Replacement-VARs-Respond-840870/.
The International Business Times reports just today, “Operation Anti-Security begins: LulzSec and Anonymous fire opening-shots in new cyber-war against world’s banks and governments,” at http://uk.ibtimes.com/articles/166634/20110621/lulzsec-lulz-security-anonymous-operation-anti-hack-hackers-hacked-government-bank.htm.
They seem to be having some success: “CIA website hacked by Lulz Security”, at http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/8578704/CIA-website-hacked-by-Lulz-Security.html.
Meanwhile Anonymous is taking aim at Malaysia’s internet censorship: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/06/15/cyber-malaysia-idUSL3E7HF08E20110615.
Well, if nothing else we can laugh at this video of a kid hacking the teleprompter of the evening news (or, as my source put it, “Little hacker shit at work”): http://www.wimp.com/hacksnews/