Even, Every year is the year of the hacking as long as there are hackers out there ready to execute their malicious programs and attain their goals like gathering important information to the victim’s computer, stealing important identities, credit card information, etc. This year 2011 could be another generation of hacking. Since every year there are always forward advancements of the tools and programs that could use by the hackers. The most important is to avoid them if you are a computer user.
RSA Hack (3/17/2011)
Unknown attacker, although China believed to be suspect. Motive is probably espionageMethod
-Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) targeted at individuals within an organization using social engineering. Malware hidden in an Excel spreadsheet exploited a zero-day (unpatched) Flash hole.
-SecurID token deployments at financial, government and other sites were at risk.
Comodo Hack and several of its digital certificate resellers (3/23/2011)
21-year-old Iranian patriot took credit saying he was protesting US policy and retaliating against the US for its alleged involvement with last year’s Stuxnet, which experts say was designed to target Iran’s nuclear program.
Compromise of digital certificate registry authorities led to the theft of digital certificates that are used by sites to prove they are who they are legitimate.
If they had not been revoked the faked certificates could have been used to spoof sites like Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and Skype.
Sony (Indonesia, Japan , Thailand, Greece , Canada, Netherlands, Europe, Russia, Portugal) & Sony PlayStation Network Hacked (4/6/2011-6/8/2011)
LulzSec, Anonymous, Lebanese hacker Idahc and various other hackers organized the attack in retaliation for Sony attempting to identify visitors to PlayStation 3 hacker George Hotz’ blog site, as well as seeking data from his Twitter and YouTube accounts as part of a lawsuit. The case was later settled out of court.
Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS), Sql injection
Defacement of various domains of Sony and Personal information of 77 million people, including customer names, addresses, e-mail addresses, birthdays, PlayStation Network and Qriocity passwords, user names, online handles and possibly credit cards were exposed.
100’s of Gmail users (6/1/2011)
Google says attack originated in China and appeared designed to monitor communications of journalists, political activists and military personnel.
After stealing passwords with a phishing attack, perpetrators apparently used the passwords to change Gmail users’ forwarding and delegation settings.
NATO Hacked (6/23/2011)
After NATO released a report singling out Anonymous’ hacktivism as a cyber threat, the group warned NATO not to challenge it.
7ubscribers to NATO’s e-Bookshop service were urged to change their passwords after a possible compromise of usernames, passwords, addresses and e-mail addresses.
BlackBerry maker Research In Motion (RIM) Defacement (8/9/2011)
Attacker -Team Poison
RIM’s BlackBerry blog was hacked in retaliation for RIM offering to assist London police in combating rioters, many of whom are using BlackBerrys to organize.
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