Week in Review
Posted by LS on January 17th, 2012
It’s just Tuesday morning over here, and already the hacker talk and cyber security news is flowing in. Sometimes no news, is good news… so what does lots of news mean then? Ouch. Lucky for you, our product launches soon…
Amazong-owned, e-commerce firm, Zappos, has just announced that 24 million customer accounts have been hacked. Doesn’t sound like small potatoes this am, and was definitely a late Sunday evening shocker for Zappos customers.
“Though the company says that no complete credit card numbers were revealed in the breach, the intruders may have accessed customers’ names, e-mail addresses, phone numbers, addresses, the last four digits of their credit card numbers, and encrypted passwords.”
Read more: http://onforb.es/wYkHqX
What were you doing at 19 years old? Most young adults are in first year university at 19 years old: discovering the perils of beer bongs and the complexities of the opposite sex… but not young Nicholas Allegra.
“…he’s been spending his days on a hobby that periodically sends shockwaves through the computer security world: seeking out cracks in the source code of Apple’s iPhone, a device with more software restrictions than practically any computer on the market, and exploiting them to utterly obliterate its defenses against hackers.” – Forbes
Like editing an English paper, Allegra power drives through the popular device, but tries to keep a low-profile in the cyber world as, “Comex”.
To read more: http://onforb.es/oPbLlP
Top American prosecuter reaches out to companies, and urges them to come forward if they have been hacked.
“Cyber security experts say that corporations rarely acknowledge breaches, and often keep them secret from law enforcement out of fear that news of a compromise will damage their reputation, hurt stock prices and possibly lead to further attacks.”
To read more: http://reut.rs/AxUxAJ
And so this is Monday, check in again next week for the latest and greatest in the Cyber realm. Have a safe, protected, and