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Hackers claim new air traffic system can be hijacked  14 January 2013 
Source: RT - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The Federal Aviation Administration is in the midst of upgrading its air traffic control system at a cost of tens of billions of dollars. A big price might not fix an even bigger problem, though, as hackers suggest that system could be compromised.
 
Bank Hacking Was the Work of Iranians, Officials Say  11 January 2013 
Source: NY Times - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The attackers hit one American bank after the next. As in so many previous attacks, dozens of online banking sites slowed, hiccupped or ground to a halt before recovering several minutes later.
 
Symantec links latest Microsoft zero-day with skilled hacker gang  07 January 2013 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Symantec is crediting a hacker group with an impressive track record as responsible for finding the latest as yet unpatched vulnerability in older versions of Microsoft's Internet Explorer browser.
 
Security in 2013: The rise of mobile malware and fall of hacktivism  02 January 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
It's always fun this time of year to look back on the year we're about to leave behind, and to make some predictions about what we might expect the year ahead to look like. We already have a comprehensive look back at the biggest security stories of 2012, and now here's a look at some trends to watch for 2013.
 
Hacker Leaks 300,000 Verizon Customer Records and Claims to Have Millions More  26 December 2012 
Source: Gizmodo - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Sometimes it seems like no one's keeping your data safe; this is one of those times. A hacker just leaked 300,000 Verizon customer records, and that's only a sample of the 3 million he claims to have gotten in his little raid.
 
Security Loophole In Facebook’s Camera App Allowed Hackers To Hijack Accounts Over WiFi  26 December 2012 
Source: TechCrunch - Posted by Anthony Pell   
PSA to all Facebook Camera users on iOS: If you haven’t update you app in the past few days, update it now. The older version of the app, pre-1.1.2 and released before December 21, has a security loophole. When used over WiFi networks, malicious hackers can tap the network and hijack Camera users’ accounts, picking up information like email addresses and passwords in the process.
 
How Hackers Protect Themselves From Getting Hacked  21 December 2012 
Source: Huffington Post - Posted by Dave Wreski   
When Adrian Lamo goes online, he leaves nothing to chance. To log in to personal accounts, he uses a digital password generator -- a plastic key chain-like device that displays a new string of digits every 60 seconds.
 
Anonymous continues its hack offensive against Westboro Baptist Church  19 December 2012 
Source: arsTechnica - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Over the weekend, Anonymous was stirred to action against an old nemesis: the Westboro Baptist Church. The most recent feud came in the wake of WBC’s appalling reaction to the Sandy Hook shooting Friday in Newtown, CT.
 
Power grid operators attacked via DDoS  14 December 2012 
Source: H Security - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The internet infrastructure of 50Hertz, a power grid operator that runs 220 and 380 kilovolt transmission networks in Northern and Eastern Germany, was attacked by unidentified criminals on 20 November. The EurActiv European news portal reports that the CEO of 50Hertz, Boris Schucht, announced at an event in Brussels that a botnet had hit the high voltage power grid operator's web pages and email infrastructure with a DDoS attack.
 
DDoS attacks against US banks peaked at 60 Gbps  14 December 2012 
Source: Network World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Some of the distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that targeted the websites of U.S. financial institutions this week have peaked at 60 Gbps, according to researchers from DDoS mitigation provider Arbor Networks.
 
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