One Year Of Lulz (Part II)

Christmas has just gone and here it is my personal way to wish you a Happy New Year: the second part of my personal chart (first part here) of Main 2011 Cyber Attacks covering the time window from August to November 2011 (December is not yet finished, and featuring remarkable events, so expect an update very soon). This memorable year is nearly over and is time, if you feel nostalgic, to scroll down the second part of the list to review the main Cyber Events that contributed, in my opinion, to change the landscape and the rules of the (information security) game. Many events in this period among whom, IMHO, the most noticeable is the one carried on against Diginotar. Since then our trust in conventional authentication models is not (and will not be) the same anymore.

Of course this is my personal selection. Suggestions are well accepted and if you need more details about the cyber events in 2011, feel free to consult my 2011 Cyber Attacks Master Index. As usual after the page break you find all the references…

1. http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/08/another-government-contractor-pcs.html
   
2. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/08/03/five-years-of-hacking/
   
3. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/08/06/i-shot-the-sheriff/
   
4. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/08/10/riot-in-motion/
   
5. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/12/hong-kong-stock-exchange-attacked-for-second-day-in-a-row/
   
6. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/23/suspect-arrested-over-hong-kong-stock-exchange-web-attack/
   
7. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/22/epson-korea-hack-impacts-350000-customers/
   
8. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/08/29/falsely-issued-google-ssl-certificate-in-the-wild-for-more-than-5-weeks/
   
9. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/04/dns-hack-hits-popular-websites-telegraph-register-ups-etc/
   
10. http://www.globalsign.com/company/press/090611-security-response.html
    
11. http://www.globalsign.com/company/press/121311-security-incident-report.html
    
12. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/04/dns-hack-hits-popular-websites-telegraph-register-ups-etc/
    
13. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/09/26/pepper-spray-officer-named-by-occupy-wall-street-activists/
    
14. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15065931
    
15. http://www.nachrichten.at/ratgeber/digital/art122,723604
    
16. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/10/08/oops-my-drone-was-infected/
    
17. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/10/10/german-government-r2d2-trojan-faq/
    
18. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/10/12/sony-under-attack-again/
    
19. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/10/19/back-to-the-future-of-stuxnet/
    
20. http://paulsparrows.wordpress.com/2011/10/25/phoning-home-to-china/
    
21. http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/nov/01/palestinians-hit-cyber-attack-unesco
    
22. http://thehackernews.com/2011/11/anonymous-attack-on-israeli-government.html
    
23. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/07/adidas_hack_attack/
    
24. http://thehackernews.com/2011/11/possible-credit-card-theft-in-steam.html
    
25. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2396611,00.asp
    
26. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/25/13-million-maplestory-players-at-risk-after-hack-casting-a-cloud-over-nexons-ipo/
    
27. http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2011/11/29/united-nations-hacked-email-addresses-and-passwords-leaked/
    
28. http://threatpost.com/en_us/blogs/un-says-old-server-old-data-exposed-teamp0ison-hack-113011
    
29. http://www.databreaches.net/?p=21359
    
30. http://news.softpedia.com/news/16-000-Finns-Affected-by-Data-Breach-232851.shtml
    
31. http://www.helsinkitimes.fi/htimes/domestic-news/general/17323-another-data-breach-revealed-in-finland-.html
    
32. http://www.poliklinikka.fi/?page=7874754&id=7782940