In the popular American Football movie ‘Any Given Sunday’, a near burnt-out coach played by Al Pacino somehow digs out an inspirational half-time speech in a crucial game that turns his team’s fortunes and his own life around. His theme is that, in sport and in life, the gap between success and failure is measured in inches and you have… Read more »
Our legal attitudes to hacking and cyber-attack are in a mess, frankly. Often (and yes, America, I’m looking at you) they are wildly disproportionate to the damage done. And even when they’re not, the judiciary and the mainstream press seem unable to come to any settled opinion about what should be done about the hacker ‘menace’. There is a clear,… Read more »
The GhostShell hacktivist group has been at it again. It has dumped 1.6 million records – mainly database tables – which it claims it took from NASA, ESA, the FBI, Interpol, various defence and aerospace industry firms, the Credit Union National Association (CUNA) and others. You can read more details at The Register and Information Week. The data dump is accompanied… Read more »
With law enforcement officials claiming that LulzSec has been decapitated, what does this mean for Anonymous? The web is awash with hydra metaphors, but the truth is that no-one can say exactly what the effects are likely to be. Not for a while, anyway. It’s always been clear that the number of Anonymous members with real hacking skills is a… Read more »
The recent RSA Europe conference in London was unusual. Some of the high-profile security firms exhibiting and presenting have also been victims of serious breaches this year. RSA, rather notoriously, had its SecurID product compromised by what it insists were state-sponsored hackers. Raytheon admitted to a couple of breaches. And also present at the conference, both in the exhibition hall… Read more »