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Microsoft: Hackers obtained high-profile Xbox Live accounts  20 March 2013 
Source: Network World - Posted by Alex   
Several high-profile Xbox Live accounts for former and current Microsoft employees were compromised by attackers using social engineering techniques, the company said late Tuesday.
 
LA Times Hack: Security Breach or Harmless Prank?  19 March 2013 
Source: LA Times - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Federal prosecutors say Reuters' deputy social media editor conspired with a notorious hacker network to cause an online security breach that should be punished by decades in federal prison.
 
China hacker's angst opens a window onto cyber-espionage  13 March 2013 
Source: LA Times - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Young man's blog provides a rare glimpse of the secretive hacking establishment of the Chinese military, whose efforts have become a growing concern to the U.S.
 
Hackers Pull Off $12,000 Bitcoin Heist  08 March 2013 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A Bitcoin transaction services company says that hackers broke into one of its brokerage accounts last week, nabbing more than $12,000 worth of the digital currency.
 
Security Experts Warn State Governments Face Losing Battle With Hackers  07 March 2013 
Source: Forbes - Posted by Anthony Pell   
The email sent to several thousand of state employees in early February looked official. It featured the state logo and a familiar warning that email access was about to be cut off because the employee’s inbox was too full. The email invited employees to click on a link to solve the problem.
 
60 Days of Hacker Assaults  06 March 2013 
Source: Huffington Post - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Within the first 60 days of 2013, an alarming number of international corporations and government agencies faced serious security violations from Internet hacking. Beyond the Twitter, Apple and Facebook invasions, a more ominous threat attacked the State Department, Federal Reserve, Department of Energy and some of the largest U.S.-based news organizations.
 
Evernote Hack Results in 50 Million Password Resets  06 March 2013 
Source: Talkikn' Cloud - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Evernote and its 50 million-user population are having a bad week. The productivity software-as-a-service issued a systemwide password reset for all of its users on Saturday after a hacker or group of hackers broke into its user database and swiped various bits of user information, including usernames, emails and passwords.
 
Banged-up Brit hacker hacks into his OWN PRISON'S 'MAINFRAME'  05 March 2013 
Source: The Register UK - Posted by Alex   
A UK hacker behind bars for computer fraud hacked into his prison's computer system during an IT lesson. Nicholas Webber, 21, of Southsea, Hampshire, was able to access the network after being allowed to join the jail's technology classes.
 
Hacking victim Bit9 blames SQL injection flaw  28 February 2013 
Source: InfoWorld - Posted by Anthony Pell   
Bit9 said a common Web application vulnerability was responsible for allowing hackers to ironically use the security vendor's systems as a launch pad for attacks on other organizations.
 
Second iPhone passcode hack vulnerability discovered  27 February 2013 
Source: Sophos - Posted by Alex   
Researchers are having a fun time with iOS 6.1 passcode locks this month, with Vulnerability Lab having discovered a second version of a vulnerability that lets a hacker slip past a lock screen to access a user's contact list, voicemails and more.
 
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