Travelodge is investigating its IT systems to discover how customer email addresses have gone astray. Several other customers have blogged of similar experiences, here’s Shepy’s post on the apparent hack. Either LulzSec has taken a step down from hacking the US Senate and the CIA to target the motel chain, or Travelodge has been hit […]
I’ve had a few emails recently from people wanting to know more about Digital Forensic/Ethical Hacking degrees. People may be thinking I’m a little biased having invested countless thousands of pounds, man hours and sweat in to the course so far. However, isn’t everyone a little biased… The term Ethical Hacking comes under many headings, […]
Recently, hackers have been in the limelight for breaking into companies’ servers to steal users’ personal information. Yet Dropbox, which provides online storage, needed no help putting its users’ data at risk: the company has admitted that for several hours on Sunday, an update to its code caused a security glitch that allowed people to […]
With all the data breaches in the news lately, it’s hard to know whether you’ve been affected. You could just change all your passwords after every reported breach – just in case. You could insist on tokens for everything. (Of course, that might raise additional concerns) You could stop using the internet entirely. Or you […]
New Scotland Yard has confirmed that it has arrested a 19-year old suspected hacker in Essex, UK, in connection with a series of hacks and denial-of-service attacks against a number of organisations. It is being widely speculated that the arrest is in connection with the high-profile attacks by the LulzSec hacking group, which has claimed […]
The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after it appeared to be a victim of an attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service provider. Soca.gov.uk had been unavailable for much of Monday afternoon, […]
The Metropolitan Police Service is investigating the cause of a “major network issue” that has prevented staff using some IT services for almost two weeks including aspects of the Police National Computer system.. A Met spokesman confirmed the problem was first identified on 9th June, but insisted no critical systems had been downed by the […]
The endless list of usernames and passwords we have to remember certainly isn’t getting any smaller and I often impress myself with the amount of random usernames and passwords I can remember, however there’s always that ‘What if’, what if I forget them. Granted most products and services which require secure credentials offer a password […]
Given how fast paced the IT and Info Sec community is it is often difficult to keep up to date with current events as these are changing constantly minute by minute around the world. There was a time when if something occurred half way around the earth it would have little effect. Now however, with […]
The security breach that hit the website of Citigroup exposed data for more than 360,000 accounts, the bank said on Wednesday, about 80 percent more than it previously reported. Citigroup publicly disclosed the compromise last week, but said it involved about 200,000 accounts. Wednesday’s revision came amid an inquiry by the Connecticut Attorney General’s office, […]