A cyber attack that some are attributing to the hacking group, Lulz Security, has breached the database behind the website of the Department of Energy’s Y12 National Security Complex, which is located several miles from DOE’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

Over the last two months, the multi-national Sony Corporation has come under a wide range of attacks from an even wider range of attackers. The backstory about what event prompted who to attack and why will make a mediocre made-for-TV movie someday. This article is not going to cover the brief history of hacks; readers can find details elsewhere.

Lulz Security, the hacking group that broke into a number of Sony servers and then denied any moral responsibility for repercussions of that hack, is at it again. The group discovered a security issue on one of Nintendo’s Web servers, published the user database of an FBI information sharing program, and for good measure, published the source code to another Sony Web property. The Nintendo hack …