Fox has found itself the target of a hacking campaign once again after attackers managed to compromise theFox News Politics Twitter accountand used it to spread misinformation that the US President had been shot and killed. Hacking group the “Scriptkiddies” claimed responsibility for the hack, immediately tweeting the following message: Fox news politics hacked by the scriptkiddies!http://t.co/6yZDcTSmore embarrassment for FoxNews is imitate. Whilst the group doesn’t affiliate itself with the loose online collective Anonymous, or the now disbanded LulzSec, Scriptkiddies reached out to the former to extend its support, offering help with the now infamous “AntiSec” campaign....

News broke out last week that the Playstation Network has beencompromisedand user information including names, passwords, addresses have been stolen. While Sony doesn’t believe that any credit card information was stolen, hackers claim they have it. According toThe New York Times, security researchers said that they had seen discussions and comments on underground Internet forums that suggest the hackers have a database that included customer names, addresses, usernames, passwords and as many as 2....

We have developed and tested asecure new computer processorthat thwarts hackers by randomly changing its underlying structure, thus making it virtually impossible to hack. Last summer, 525 security researchers spent three months trying to hack our Morpheus processor as well as others.All attempts against Morpheus failed. This study was part of a program sponsored by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Program Agency todesign a secure processorthat could protect vulnerable software. DARPAreleased the results on the program to the publicfor the first time in January 2021....

Attacks on electronic customer databases have been dominating the news over the past couple of months, particularly theEpsilon breachwhich saw data belonging to some of the most established businesses and banks in the US compromised. Early on Monday,news of an attackon company servers belonging to music executive and former American Idol judge Simon Cowell came to light, highlighting that details of more than 250,000 US X Factor entrants had reportedly been stolen, an attack that is under investigation by the FBI....

So, the old band got back together for one last gig – or something like that. As we have already reported, hacker group LulzSecre-emergedearlier, attacking the websites of Rupert Murdoch’s UK newspaper business, News International. Within a few hours, the company hadtaken down its entire Web presenceas a precaution, amidhintsthat the hackers may have stolen emails from its servers for later release. While this was all a pretty big story in and of itself, what struck me most was the public reaction on Twitter....