Late last month, we reported on an astonishing data breach in internet-crazy South Korea. SK Communications, owners of popular search portal Nate and its web cousin Cyworld, a Sims-like social networking site, suffered an intrusion in which the personal information of 35,000,000 Korean users was compromised. There are only 49,000,000 people in South Korea. It […]
LulzSec? Hackers? Here’s a real challenge…
As fellow Naked Security commentator Graham Cluley already reported, the latest news from media-savvy “fun-hacking” crew LulzSec is that it organised a Distributed Denial of Service attack (DDoS) against the cia.gov website, sporadically making it slow, unresponsive or inaccessible. This is the latest in a slew of “hacks” mounted by the group, whose recent targets […]
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