“Apple’s newest iPhone devices have been hacked with a zero-day font vulnerability in the latest iteration of the JailbreakMe.com project. The JailbreakMe.com exploit allows the automated jailbreaking of iPhone/iPad/iPod Touch devices from a specially created Web site.” Source: iPhone hacked with zero-day font vulnerability | ZDNet

“”These are well funded, very persistent individuals looking for intellectual property or national security secrets and so they’re very dedicated to trying to attack,” says Jerry Johnson the man in charge of the cyber-security effort at PNNL. A cyber-security team of about 50 people have been working non-stop since the

“Personal information belonging to 34,000 investment clients of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney has been lost, and possibly stolen, in a data breach. According to two letters sent to clients, and obtained by Credit.com, the information includes clients’ names, addresses, account and tax identification numbers, the income earned on the investments

“A NATO server appears to have been hacked by a group that claims to have rooted the server with a private zero day exploit. A private zero day exploit is a vulnerability discovered in a system that is not disclosed publicly before being used in an attack. A 50 MB

” Targeted attacks are the trend in cyberspace. Six months ago, the world’s first cyber superweapon – Stuxnet – was discovered to be targeting Iran’s nuclear facilities. This week millions of e-mail addresses were reported stolen from Epsilon, a firm that supplies e-mail marketing to BestBuy, Disney, and many others.

“The Anonymous hacker group claimed Sunday that it had stolen a small number of internal passwords and user names from an Apple server. The data was reportedly stolen from a server used for Apple’s online surveys and it did not belong to Apple’s own customers. It was publicly posted on

“The technical sophistication of cybercriminals is swamping the world’s ability to cope, a top U.S. official warned on Friday, demanding an accelerated cross-border campaign to combat the security threat. “ (Source: Cyber attacks outpace global response, U.S. warns | Reuters.)

“For the third time in less than 10 days, confidential information from Arizona’s law enforcement community was hacked and posted online, with the same basic group of hackers behind the effort. The information, posted late Thursday, was shared Friday by Anonymous, a loose collective of hackers. Some of these hackers

“June 2011 saw some of the most significant cyber-attacks ever in Latin America. Brazil had several government and private sector websites knocked offline and their Army personnel database was hacked with information posted online. Colombia’s Senate website was defaced. Peru had police information stolen. Chile was threatened for its monitoring

“Despite countless WikiLeaks copycats popping up since the secret-spilling site first dumped its cache of State Department cables last year, the new generation of leaking sites has produced few WikiLeaks-sized scoops. So instead of waiting for insider whistleblowers, the hacker movement Anonymous hopes that a few outside intruders might start