Unlikely that Vanguard was specifically targeted. Most likely (those who hope they will remain) Anonymous found a simple vulnerability (perhaps an unencrypted home wifi link?) and can now pretend to have defeated the company's security.
http://www.databreaches.net/?p=20195
Anonymous Hackers Release FBI Contractor’s Drone Data
Alastair Stevenson reports:
The hacker collective Anonymous has released a fresh batch of data taken from Vanguard Defense Industries, a Pentagon and FBI contractor.
[...]
Anonymous later said the e-mails belong to the contractor’s senior vice president, Richard T. Garcia, and contained information regarding “internal meeting notes and contracts, schematics, non-disclosure agreements, personal information about other VDI employees, and several dozen ‘counter-terrorism’ documents classified as ‘law enforcement sensitive’ and ‘for official use only.’”
Read more on International Business Times.
Are we doomed?
Google Highlights Trouble In Detecting Malware
"Google issued a new study (PDF) on Wednesday detailing how it is becoming more difficult to identify malicious websites and attacks, with antivirus software proving to be an ineffective defense against new ones. The company's engineers analyzed four years worth of data comprising 8 million websites and 160 million web pages from its Safe Browsing service, which is an API that feeds data into Google's Chrome browser and Firefox and warns users when they hit a website loaded with malware. Google said it displays 3 million warnings of unsafe websites to 400 million users a day."
Technology giveth and technology taketh away...
A Chat With Zavilia, a Tool For Identifying Rioters
"Social media isn't just great for starting 'social unrest,' it's proving to be quite helpful for quashing it too. Not long after the bricks began to fly in London's latest kerfuffle, locals angry over raging mobs scrambled to assist the police in their attempt to identify street-fighters and free-for-all hooligans … Now with more than 1,000 people charged over the chaos, a few citizen groups continue to provide web-based rioter identification platforms, in hopes of being good subjects, maintaining the country's pursuit of order, and keeping their neighborhoods safe."
Significant change of direction?
HP Plans to Buy Autonomy, Leave PCs and Mobile Behind
Hewlett-Packard plans to fundamentally reshape its business, spinning off some or all of its personal computer and consumer hardware division, doubling down on enterprise software and solutions, and killing off its promising but underperforming line of webOS tablets and smartphones.
For all my students...
http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-default-passwords-change/
3 Default Passwords You Must Change & Why
1. Your Windows Administrator Password
2. Your Router Password
3. Your One-For-All Password
Keeping up with the times...
Oxford Dictionary Defines Sexting, Cyberbullying
“These additions are just carrying on the tradition of a dictionary that has always sought to be progressive and up to date,” Angus Stevenson, editor of the latest edition, wrote in a blog post discussing the 400 new entries to the reference guide.
The tech-infused update comes just five months after the wordsmiths behind Oxford dictionaries welcomed fun web shorthand exclamations LOL, OMG and ♥ to the lexicon, further evidence that the internet and social media are speeding the evolution (some would say the devolution) of the English language.
Another, more-somber addition to the 12th edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary is the term cyberbullying, which has become a near-constant buzzword in the news lately thanks to cases like Lori Drew’s.
The Concise Oxford English Dictionary (not to be confused with the larger Oxford English Dictionary, which added LOL, OMG and ♥) also refined some definitions of existing words to place them in a modern context. For example, follower now means “someone who is tracking a particular person, group, etc. on a social networking site.”
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