CYBERCRIME

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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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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Hackers attack Electronic Arts website

Cyber hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Inc website and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said on its website on Friday.
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IMF says identified files copied in cyber attack

The IMF said on Thursday it had identified computer files that were copied during a recent cyberattack and has no evidence information in emails or the fund's financial systems was compromised.
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FBI targets two scareware rings in U.S., Europe

Police in the United States and seven other countries seized computers and servers used to run a scareware scheme that has netted more than $72 million from victims tricked into buying fake anti-virus software.
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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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