Four USA Treasury Web sites have been taken-offline after their cloud computing host was hacked. The attack caused users to be redirected to a malicious site in the Ukraine.
Last year (2009), hackers breached Google’s network and stole the source code for their global password system.
Spanish police have arrested three men responsible for one of the world’s biggest networks of virus-infected computers. All three men are Spanish citizens with no criminal records and limited hacking skills. The ‘Mariposa’ botnet was made up of nearly 13 million computers in 190 countries, including PCs inside more than half of Fortune 1000 companies and more than 40 major banks.
Humza Zaman, a former Barclays Bank programmer was sentenced to four years in jail for helping the ‘TJX’ hacker Albert Gonzalez launder funds he gained through cyber crimes.
