Yes, journalists: even you can get hacked. On Friday morning, a spokesperson for CBS News announced that veteran reporter Sharyl Attkisson's computer had been "accessed by an unauthorized, external, unknown party on multiple occasions late in 2012."
After three months of headlines from China to the White House and every geek haven in between, this week introduced the world to the cyber attack that may or may not be slowing down the entire Internet, followed by the digital assault on American Express. Yes, 2013 is already the year there were too many hacking incidents to keep track of, and, no, they're not all the same.
The largest known hack attack of its kind brought the Internet to a crawl for users all over the world, but don't blame the hackers — the outage all stems from an increasingly vulnerable, decade-old problem with the "Internet's basic plumbing" that can be easily fixed.
Following a string of disclosures from big companies that could point to a larger Chinese threat, Apple on Tuesday became the latest to admit that its internal computers had been hacked — and by the same malware malfeasance that got inside Facebook.
Facebook announced in a blog post on Friday afternoon that its "systems had been targeted in a sophisticated attack" and that "Facebook was not alone," which immediately raised the cyber-espionage question of the moment: Was China behind this one, too?
You may not have heard, but roughly 250,000 Twitter accounts may have been compromised by hackers. And there's a small theory that -- if you read between the lines -- Twitter is implying the Chinese are to blame for compromising their security.
The movement to kill the password is already underway, with the brains at Google experimenting with new authentication technologies for email, reports Wired's Robert McMillian. But what about beyond our Google lives?
Think Progress is having a no good, very bad Tuesday. The liberal media-watching site got hit with Google's Red Screen of Doom, aka a malware warning, and they've taken their whole operation offline until it's fixed.
This morning AntiSec released a list of 1 million out of 12 million Apple UDID's that it said it got from the FBI, which has raised many questions, most prominently perhaps: Just what was the FBI doing with that data in the first place?
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