Anne Saita

Developer Warns Millions of Virgin Mobile Subscribers About Authentication Flaw

An Alamo, Texas developer on Monday warned Virgin Mobile U.S. subscribers that their accounts can be hacked after the company failed to respond with a fix.”I reported the issue to Virgin Mobile a month ago and they have not taken any action, nor informed me of any concrete steps to fix the problem, so I am disclosing this issue publicly,” Kevin Burke said in a blog post.

Go Daddy CEO Denies Hackers Behind Major Outage

The CEO of Go Daddy said Tuesday internal issues, not a denial of service attack, left millions of hosted sites offline for several hours yesterday.

In a statement, interim chief executive Scott Wagner said an internal investigation into the outage concluded no outside attack took place.


A group claiming to have stolen tax returns belonging to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney say they want $1 million in Bitcoins by September 28 or they’ll publicly release the records worldwide.

News agencies report the U.S. Secret Service is investigating the alleged data theft at the Franklin, Tenn., offices of Romney’s accounting firm, PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

The founder of the largest U.S.-based BitCoin exchange has suspended operations after attackers broke into a server and stole $250,000 worth of the virtual currency.BitFloor founder Roman Shtylman announced yesterday that he had halted operations while evaluating future steps following the breach that amounted to some 24,000 stolen Bitcoins, which amounted to the vast majority of coins BitFloor had on hand. The heist happened while Shtylman was doing a backup that left a copy of wallet keys in an unencrypted area of the server’s hard drive.

More security researchers are recommending users disable the current version of Java after zero-day exploits gained traction in the Web world.Patrick Runald, director of security research for Websense, told PC World today that his team had uncovered more than 100 infected domains – a figure expected to rise sharply after the exploit code for the Java vulnerabilities was added in recent days to the popular hacker tool Blackhole.

A Tempe, Arizona man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking part in the June 2011 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s network, in which passwords and other personal data was stolen from one million user accounts.Raynaldo Rivera, 20, was charged with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer, which could earn him up to 15 years in prison if he is found guilty. He was ordered to appear in a Los Angeles courtroom Sept. 14.

A Nigerian woman this week was sentenced to 2 years, six months in a U.S. prison for taking part in “one of the most sophisticated and organized computer hacking and ATM cashout schemes ever perpetrated,” according to the FBI.

Sonya Martin, 45, was part of a hacking cell that used sophisticated techniques to break the encryption used by payment processor WorldPay US to protect some 1.5 million worldwide customers’ payroll debit card accounts. Employers used the debit cards to pay workers instead of issuing paper checks.