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The Register, Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic and others got hacked
Vodafone, Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, Ups, Betfair and The Register (famous British technology news and opinion website) got hacked by Turkguvenligi. Turkguvenligi is also know with the name "TG Hacker'.
What is peculiar in these attacks (started last Sunday evening at 10pm) consists in that they apparently have been carried out by means of Domain Name System (DNS) Hijacking.
Intel® to include pseudo-random number generator in future CPUs
Security is a matter of numbers: encryption, signature and authentication protocols are all based on numbers and normally the keys used for these protocols are generated on the basis of a seed that must be random. If someone could guess the seed of your crypto schema, it would be really easier to reconstruct the related keys. So what? It's only a random number, choose one randomly and that's all. Unfortunately, despite what one could argue, the identification of a true randomly generated number is not an easy task for a computer.
Data breach and electronic crime: the Sony's case
Begin of April: Sony is in the processing of suing George "GeoHot" Hotz, a 21-year-old hacker who uncovered (and subsequently shared online) the PlayStation 3's root key.
As a payback the Anonymous, an online community, launched a series of DDoS (Distributed Denial of Service) and LOIC (Low Orbit Ion Cannon) attacks against the company. The two attacks went under the names #OpSony and #SonyRecon.
Italy leader in mobile attacks
According to the last "State of the Internet Report, 2nd Quarter 2010" [1] released by Akamai Technologies, Inc., Italy represents the chief source of mobile internet cyber attacks, emerging on countries such as Brazil, Chile, China and Russia.
