Security News April 26

Hactivists change tactics from data breaches to disruption

http://www.eweek.com/security/hactivistists-change-tactics-from-data-breaches-to-disruption-verizon/

In 2011, hactivists stole almost 50% of the total records analyzed in Verizon’s DBIR, last year is was only 2%

Living Social hacked, as many as 50 million affected

http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57581718-83/livingsocial-hacked-50-million-affected/

Not much information available on this yet, no credit card data was affected

Attackers target shared Web hosting servers for mass phishing attacks

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9238712/Hackers_target_shared_Web_hosting_servers_for_mass_phishing_attacks

A cautionary tale: Nearly half of all phishing attacks in the second half of 2012 involved the use of hacked hosting servers

FSOC Report: US Banking still too vulnerable to hackers

http://www.securityweek.com/us-banking-sector-too-vulnerable-hackers-fsoc-report

In reference to the DDoS attacks against banks last year, FSOC said "the knowledge and skill of the attackers appeared to increase over time."

Google Glass hacked within days of release

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/461827/20130426/google-glass-root-hack-easy-claims-developer.htm

“….gaining root access to Google Glass ‘looks easy’ after discovering a 'debug mode' option on Glass that enables further access to the device's operating system”