On Wednesday, a hacker accessed 130 prominent Twitter accounts including that of Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and the most followed Twitter account on the planet – Barack Obama – to promote a bitcoin scam. This force Twitter to shut down verified Twitter users’ accounts for…
The Emerging Law of Cyber Defense Listen At the 2017 Privacy + Security Forum at George Washington University, former Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property prosecutor and Assistant U.S. Attorney Allen O’Rourke led a panel on the issue of “active defense” techniques in responding to cyber attacks. “Active defense” techniques may include honeypots, web beacons, “dark web” research, rescue…
China Deemed Most Threatening Actor in Cyberspace China is “the most threatening actor in cyberspace” as its intelligence agencies and hackers use increasingly sophisticated techniques to gain access to U.S. military computers and defense contractors, according to the annual report of the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission mandated by Congress. The report added that Chinese hackers have…
FEATURED GUEST ERIC WILSON – ENGAGE.DC In February of 2007, Eric started on Capitol Hill as a Policy Analyst for the House Republican Policy Committee. While working for the Chairman of the HRPC — an elected leadership post — he was introduced to the emerging realm of social media, which House Republicans lead the way…
TEXT BELOW Operation Facebook DATE: November 5, 2011. TARGET: https://facebook.com Press: Twitter : https://twitter.com/OP_Facebook http://piratepad.net/YCPcpwrl09 Irc.Anonops.Li #OpFaceBook Message: Attention citizens of the world, We wish to get your attention, hoping you heed the warnings as follows: Your medium of communication you all so dearly adore will be destroyed. If you are…
The Wild Wiki West In the last few months, we have seen a dizzying number of reports of politically motivated hacking and website attacks, often involving groups such as Wiki-Leaks or Anonymous. Now comes HBGary-Gate, which revealed that hacking has gone from the coffee house to the board room as HB Gary Federal documents…
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