HACKING

Sony to reshuffle games unit management after hacking

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Sony Corp's second-in-command, Kazuo Hirai, will relinquish day-to-day control of the company's videogames unit in September, making way for a Welsh-born Sony veteran just months after hackers launched a massive attack against the electronics giant.
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U.S. urges banks to step up online fraud protections

Bank regulators warned banks to be on guard against increasingly clever computer hacking on Tuesday, indicating heightened alert against security breaches that have plagued government and corporate institutions in recent weeks.
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Four smartphone apps that cops don't like

A pair of documents among a cache of files that the hacking group LulzSec stole from the computers of the Arizona Department of Public Safety on Thursday, revealed how smartphones are used for activities like recording interactions with police and escaping speed traps.
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LulzSec shuts down, posts final leak of data

Notorious hacking group LulzSec is no more, according to a Pastebin document purportedly posted by the group. However, the group did NOT confirm via Twitter or its website that it has shut down.
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LulzSec shuts down: purported Pastebin document

Notorious hacking group LulzSec has shut down its operations, according to this document purportedly posted by the group. However, LulzSec did not confirm via Twitter or its website that it was quitting.
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UK teenager charged with hacking attacks: police

British police said on Wednesday they had charged a teenager with launching a series of cyber attacks against a national law enforcement agency and two well-known British music industry bodies.
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Hacker hacked: LulzSec titanic'd by TeaMp0isoN, risk being exposed by other hackers

Hackers collective LulzSec, which announced a cyberwar against corrupt governments earlier this week, became the shocking victim of a hack attack itself - rival hack group TeaMp0isoN hacked into the website of an alleged LulzSec member Swen Slootweg (who goes by the handle Joepie91) and warned LulzSec to back down, telling them: you will_NEVER_represent the real hacking scene.
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Who is LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary?

The suspected LulzSec hacker 19-year-old Ryan Cleary could face up to ten years in jail in the US if he is found guilty of hacking into the CIA and US Senate websites, it has been reported.
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LulzSec denies arrest of its 'glorious leader'

After the arrest of a 19-year-old in connection with the Sony hack, LulzSec came up with yet another tweet ridiculing desperate police efforts to close in on the group. Immediately after the arrest, there had been media reports claiming that the arrested teenager was actually the leader of the hacking group.

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