security breach

A group of hackers reported a new successful hijacking of another Sony Corp’s computer networks to show that the electronic company lacks proper security in all its systems. LulzSec hackers broke into U.S. PBS television and Fox.com and accessed the information of more than 1 million customers. It published the names, birth dates, addresses, emails, phone numbers and passwords of thousands of people who had entered contests promoted by Sony.

Microsoft has issued a warning against phishing scam practiced by perpetrators over the company’s Xbox Live network. Meantime, Sony is struggling the consequences of a massive security breach reported this week.

The warning posted on the Xbox Live support page says that the phishing scam appears to be directed at those people playing "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2" online:

US major website operators like Amazon and Twitter were called upon to switch to more secure protocol than HTTP to thwart identity theft and many other security breaches in such places as coffee shops. The monition was made by the US Senator Charles Schumer at a news conference held at a Manhattan coffee shop.

He said that growing WiFi access at such shops, restaurants and other businesses was helping hackers gain user information like credit card numbers and account passwords.

As AT&T announced Wednesday some Apple's iPad users have suffered from security breach, two months after the tablet was introduced and smashed sales expectations with over 2 million units sold worldwide.

 SSL, or the Secure Sockets Layer system that is widely used to protect Web traffic against data theft was found vulnerable to hacking attacks. The system that is mainly used for online banking, shopping, and any other https connection appears to have a flaw that allows an attacker to break into any theoretically secured connection and add malicious commands.

All of us used to think that programmers and security software developers have discovered all the possible vulnerabilities that could be exploited by hacker on malicious purposes. It is hard to imagine what else could be breached today as all the systems that could be hacked have been already hacked. But this turned to be not quite the case…

Last week at the Black Hat Security Conference security experts warned companies against hidden vulnerabilities of cloud computing that is getting increasingly popular among businesses who want to save more costs in a current recession environment. Startups and small firms are using virtual machines on the Internet while larger companies are pushing applications such as customer relationship management to the likes of Salesforce.com.