"It comes down to what type of security a bank has in place to detect fraud and what the small business did for the hackers to be able to access its accounts, " Mr. Tubin said.
And earlier this month, the Twitter account of news parody site The Onion became another target for the Syrian hackers.
It aims to federate the next generation of hackers for the New York innovation community.
FORBES: What Students Really Need to Learn to Get a Startup Job
Ouzounis points out the potential for hackers to interfere with sensitive travel information and the smooth running of airport systems.
It is useful to start with the nineteenth century steel industry where a similar emergence of a labor class from an entrepreneurial class happened, with different outcomes for the hustlers and hackers.
It is easy to imagine how this information could be abused -- for instance, the hackers could send out spam emails to those users claiming to come from Evernote, and trick them into visiting a malicious website.
The San Francisco-based criminal defense attorney has been quietly making a name for herself as the one hackers turn to when they find themselves on the wrong side of the law.
Perhaps the entrepreneur most responsible for hacking the standard definition of hackers is Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.
Developers of the Metasploit framework for hackers and penetration testers have released a module that should exploit the vulnerability on machines running Windows, Apple OS X, and Linux regardless of the browser they're using.
For Black Hat's audience of hackers, the tactics for pulling sensitive data were almost disappointingly easy.
Small businesses are no longer on the periphery for hackers, but are increasingly a major focus for them.
FORBES: How Information Security Drives SMB Growth Partnerships
Thanks to reporting from Anthony Freed of InfoSecIsland we have learned over the past few days that a group of Indian hackers that align themselves with Anonymous (the catch all movement for hackers these days) have breached several Indian government servers and uncovered gold.
It is true that copy protection schemes have, for the most part, been no match for hackers.
Alan Paller, the director of the SANS Institute, for instance, made this argument to us when he explained to us why offensive hacking should be included in the Cyber Challenge program for finding and training young hackers, despite the risk of fostering young cybercriminals.
Much like the often-relevant William Gibson line, the street found its own use for it, with hackers and DIYers taking the technology far beyond the applications Microsoft had in mind -- a spirit that the company itself would ultimately embrace.
ENGADGET: Minority Report at 10: a look at technology from today to 2054
Security researchers say it's not difficult for hackers to mask the source of "phishing" emails, which directed Gmail users to spoof websites that tricked them into giving up their usernames and passwords.
Yet despite companies recognizing the need for IT security professionals to combat the increased threat of hackers and external cyberattacks, they are finding a job market almost devoid of talent.
As my colleague Andy Greenberg reported in February, the Anonymous-linked hackers also took down the website for Americans for Prosperity, a right-wing special interests group founded by David Koch.
FORBES: FBI Hunting Hackers Who Took Down Koch Brothers' Websites
Two unnamed "people familiar with the matter" told Bloomberg that the hackers appeared to be looking for research, intellectual property or other private information that they can sell on the underground market.
While the techniques used by hackers could be hard for non-IT professionals to detect, the best defenses against data loss are surprisingly common sense.
They found the hackers began working for the most part at 08:00 Beijing time.
The day after it was announced that Sabu was an FBI informant, Keys wrote a story for Reuters about "infiltrating" the hackers' chat room.
Internet security firm Mandiant, which was hired by the Times to trace the attack, followed the hackers' movements for four months, to try to establish a pattern and block them.
We also do research, trying to find new ways to track down hackers for organisations like the Department of Defense which we have a few research contracts through which will again assist in future investigations.
Gregg Housh, a spokesman for the loosely-knit group Anonymous that is taking credit for the attacks, says a group of several hundred hackers had gone after moneybookers.com this morning.
FORBES: Moneybookers Knocked By Hackers Supporting WikiLeaks
Adobe, for instance, has increasingly been seen over the last year as a common entry point for malicious hackers.
FORBES: Researcher Will Expose 20 Hackable Apple Security Flaws
This was the nebulous community of hackers, activists and pranksters that had been evolving for the last six years or more, united in carrying out anonymous online attacks.
FORBES: Hackers Suspected For Months That LulzSec Leader Had Turned Informant
Once they were in his Gmail, the hackers could reset passwords for all the key accounts that used Gmail, including Twitter accounts.
Hackers could be responsible for the outage that has continued for hours now, said Simon Hania, spokesman for Dutch Internet service provider XS4ALL Internet BV.
应用推荐