Report: For Hackers, Is Android The New Windows?
Collaborators: Brian Donohue Mobile malware is on track to double again in 2011, as it has every year since 2007, according to a report from Kaspersky Lab.
View ArticleBarr Unbowed Part II: Setting the Record Straight on HBGary Federal
This is the second in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary FederalIn the second half of his exclusive interview with Threatpost, former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr - speaking before...
View ArticleAlleged Anonymous Member Topiary Appears in London Court
ED: Alleged Anonymous Leader Topiary Arraigned in LondonDEK: The authorities have charged Jake Davis, a UK resident from the remote Sheltand islands with five criminal counts. The 18 year old is...
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Five Questions About Aaron Barr’s DEFCON (by Aaron Barr)
Editor's note: Finding Aaron Barr at this year's DEFCON hacker conference in Las Vegas was like a giant game of "Where's Waldo." Given the events of the past year, you can hardly blame him for keeping...
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In UK Analytics Software Provides Enhanced (Online) Interrogation For Fraud...
A recent report by the UK's Serious Organized Crime Agency (SOCA) shows that the Agency is full speed ahead with plans to use powerful data analytics tools to help find and prosecute everything from...
View ArticleUPDATE: Wikileaks Dumps First of 5 Million Stratfor E-Mails
The whistle-blower Web site Wikileaks has published what it claims are the first of millions of internal e-mails taken from the Texas based strategic intelligence firm Stratfor. read more
View ArticleIndictments Reveal Anonymous’s Mix Of Greed, Ideology
As information filtered out about the arrests of senior members of the group Anonymous and LulzSec on Tuesday, a portrait emerged of a group of mostly teenaged and 20 something hackers who blended...
View ArticleChats, Car Crushes and Cut ‘N Paste Sowed Seeds Of LulzSec’s Demise
The seeds of LulzSec's downfall were sown long before the FBI and Scotland Yard went knocking on doors this week. In fact, the group owes its downfall to a series of small, internal skirmishes,...
View ArticleNYT Profiles LulzSec’s Sabu As Talented Hacker With Star-Crossed Life
Hector Xavier Monsegur or "Sabu," de facto ringleader of the notorious Anonymous Internet Collective, was not merely a talented hacker. He was also something of a Robin Hood of the East Side projects...
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HBGary’s Greg Hoglund: The Art Of RAT Hunting In the Enterprise
Threatpost spent much of the last year chasing after Greg Hoglund, the founder and CEO of HB Gary. First, it was to get his reaction to the bruising encounter his firm had with the hacking group...
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