04.07.2011 Internet & Industry News

High profile recent hacks: Sony to Sega to Fox News

We’d been planning on doing a news post rounding up all the recent high profile hacks of websites and databases, etc… but not had the time.  However The Telegraph have just published a news article so saving us the time and trouble of doing this ourselves – so for a summary of the big names hit by hackers have a look here: Timeline of recent hacks: from Sony to Sega to Fox News.  Remember one thing – if they can’t protect themselves, what hope for a small company website if targeted?

UPDATE 5th Sept 2011: And more big sites hit: “Visitors to the websites of Vodafone, the Daily Telegraph, UPS and four others were re-directed to a site set up by Turkish hackers on Sunday night.