Tag Archives: lulzsec

Start the week #18: ITD CEO at London 2012

Another busy week at IT Decisions, and varied too. Not only did we talk to business leaders such as Paul Smith from Harvey Nash, but we documented a Digital Divide case study and highlighted the international success of Brazilian video … Continue reading

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Brazilian government remains under hacker siege

The personal email of Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff has been hacked as well as the Twitter account of the former governor of the state of São Paulo, José Serra, in the latest development of what is Brazil’s most severe wave … Continue reading

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Does Brazil have the IT security it needs?

Just eleven days ago, IT Decisions spoke with William Beer, director of OneSecurity at PricewaterhouseCoopers, and asked him about the risks of a cyber attack on Brazil. How prescient was that conversation?

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LulzSec boat sails into the sunset

After causing chaos in Brazil last week with a serious of hacking attacks, it seems the LulzSec security group has disbanded and sailed their ‘boat’ off into the sunset unchallenged.

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Start the Week #17: Lulzsec strikes again

It’s raining in São Paulo and the city sweepers are cleaning up after four million people hit the streets for the annual gay pride party yesterday. We had expected last week to be fairly quiet, because of the holiday, but … Continue reading

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Census bureau is latest victim of Brazil hacking wave

The Brazilian census bureau was the latest victim of cyber attacks which brought its website down following a string of similar attacks by activist hacker groups.

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Brazil suffers its biggest cyber attack – yet

The service interruption of government websites and the disclosure of the supposedly personal data of top-ranking politicians claimed by hacking collective LulzSec is part of a string of cyber attacks that have taken place in Brazil in the last 48 … Continue reading

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