Yahoo's mass account hacking shows 'users' carelessness with passwords'

A security breach at the offices of internet search giant Yahoo, which led to over 450,000 login details being leaked online, highlights how careless Internet users are while choosing their passwords. Last month, a hacking collective posted account information belonging to thousands of Yahoo users on a public website in what they described as 'a wake-up call'.
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The incident showed that the company that holds user details in question has poor user security, which allows the hackers to grab this important data.

But most importantly, it tells how blind Internet users are when it comes to password security.

According to the report, out of 442,837 passwords that were published, the top ten passwords were "123456," "password," "welcome," "ninja," "abc123," "123456789," "princess," "sunshine," "12345678," and "0".

The word "'qwerty"' (the first six letters appearing on the top left letter row of a U.S. keyboard when read left to right, came in at number 11..............

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Sajid Khan files complaint against hacker

Aspiring female actors have been allegedly receiving emails from Sajid Khan asking them to send him their nude pictures. 

A lewd joke played by an imposter who obviously hacked into the filmmaker's email account, has failed to impress Sajid.............


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Beware: Frauds take cyber path to crime in state

If you thought cyber crime is only about misuse of personal accounts in social networking sites or posting obscene materials on the virtual world, then think again. Out of the total number of cyber crimes registered in the state, most were found to be related to frauds and illegal gains. Other cases relates to revenge or of personal score settlement, or of pranks and greed too.

Cyber crime has now increased its reach — from mere posting of obscene material and hacking of email accounts it now involves illegal transfer of funds. A total of 67 cases of cyber crimes have been registered in the state in 2011 but only 36 people have been arrested for these crimes so far...........

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Did Anonymous hack TN police databases?

First it was a high-profile hack attack last Christmas against Stratfor, a Texas-based security firm; next they brought down the website of a much larger prey — the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

While these sophisticated cyber intrusions carried out by Anonymous, the angry rebel “hacktivist” group speaking for the disenchanted American left, may have seemed faraway, they have apparently now struck much closer to home — the confidential databases of the Tamil Nadu police...........

If the database exposed is in fact confirmed to belong to the Tamil Nadu police, the incident may well be an embarrassment of epic proportions for the State government in terms of lax cyber security standards....

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