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Adidas websites go offline after security breach SPORTS EQUIPMENT MAKER Adidas took some of its websites offline after a security breach. Adidas said it became aware of a "sophisticated, criminal cyber-attack" on its various web sites on 3 November but the firm claimed it found no evidence that customers' data had been stolen. Instead, Adidas said it took the web sites offline to protect its users. Adidas issued a statement saying that it took the websites affected - adidas.com, reebok.com, micoach.com, adidas-group.com and various Ecommerce shops - offline as it undertakes a "thorough forensic review". Since Adidas uncovered the attack, it claims to have put in place additional security measures. While Adidas said that its preliminary investigation did not find any evidence of a data breach, that still leaves open the possibility that the attackers were simply better than average at covering their tracks. Adidas has since started to bring its various websites back online. µ

Internship Programme Welcome to the website of the United Nations Headquarters Internship Programme The United Nations provides opportunities for students enrolled in a graduate programme to undertake an internship at its Headquarters in New York , Geneva , Vienna , Nairobi , Addis Ababa , Bangkok , Beirut and Santiago . This Internship Programme is for the United Nations Secretariat in New York only. Eligible candidates interested in participating in an internship at the United Nations Headquarters in New York can apply by visiting the United Nations Career Portal, at careers.un.org . The purpose of the United Nations Internship Programme is to: to provide a framework by which graduate and post-graduate students from diverse academic backgrounds may be assigned to United Nations Offices where their educational experience can be enhanced through practical work assignments.

Borough Scavenger Hunt The 15 worst data security breaches of the 21st Century Data security breaches happen daily in too many places at once to keep count. But what constitutes a huge breach versus a small one? For some perspective, we take a look at 15 of the biggest incidents in recent memory. Helping us out are security practitioners from a variety of industries, including more than a dozen members of LinkedIn's Information Security Community, who provided nominations for the list. A federal grand jury indicted Albert Gonzalez and two unnamed Russian accomplices in 2009. 2. There are conflicting accounts about how this happened. 3. The source of the breach is still undetermined, but tech experts say it could lead to numerous phishing scams and countless identity theft claims. 4. The impact of the cyber attack that stole information on the company's SecurID authentication tokens is still being debated. 5. 6. The breach pointed once again to the human element being the weakest link in the security chain. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15.

Internships The District of Columbia Office of Planning (OP) offers a number of exciting internships in Washington DC. The internship program is designed to offer students interested in the field of Planning, including Neighborhood and Citywide Planning, Development Review/Zoning, Urban Design, Geographic Information System/IT, State Data Center, Transportation Planning, Sustainability Planning and Historic Preservation. To learn more about the agency’s division and initiatives review OP’s website. Students who participate in OP’s College Internship Program may receive academic credit in accordance with the criteria developed by their college or university. Interns will not, however, receive monetary compensation for their participation. Eligibilty: A candidate must be a graduate student; an undergraduate student; (must be a sophomore, junior or senior) or have graduated from college within the 12 months of beginning the internship.

1 million YouPorn users exposed; data breach required no security penetration February 22, 2012, 2:35 PM — Some stories make you want to wash your hands afterward. With others it's simpler to just wear vinyl gloves while you type. This is one of the latter. A hack that penetrated the user database at YouPorn, one of the largest free porn sites on the web, became public knowledge this week when some user data, including email addresses and were posted on Swedish web forum Flashback.org. The sample that was published there is a subset of the data that was stolen – more than a million user names and passwords from YouPorn's chat section at chat.youporn.com. The hack didn't need to probe the most secure dataspace on the YouPorn site, according to EuroSecure, a Swedish security distributor that analyzed the breach. Sometime around November, 2007, a "careless programmer" left the debug logging function turned on on the main YouPorn server farm, according to Anders Nilsson, CTO at EuroSecure.

Stage USA How Hacktivism Affects Us All In December 2010, a group of nearly 3000 activists under the name “Operation Payback” launched online attacksagainst PayPal, MasterCard, and Visa, briefly knocking the three financial services’ sites offline and attempting to prevent consumers from accessing their online banking services. The activists retaliated against the three companies for severing ties with WikiLeaks, an online repository for whistleblower data that had recently included thousands of secret communications from the U.S. State Department and other world governmental agencies. Nine months later more than a dozen people--most between the ages of 19 and 24--were arrested in connection with these denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, even as new attacks were hitting corporate, military, and government sites worldwide. A combination of hacking and social activism, hacktivism is defined as the use of digital tools in pursuit of political ends. Online Vigilantes Collateral Damage Political Impact No Upside to Hacktivism?