Whenever a hacker collective defaces hundreds and maybe even thousands of websites all at once, few ever think about the owners of the commercial websites and the trouble they go through to deal with the effects of the hack... [read more >>] There are very few people in the world that haven’t used at least once Daemon Tools to mount image files when playing games or installing applications, but few know that the latest variant of the software comes with a... [read more >>] The Chinese Evil Shadow hacker collective managed to breach the official Indian Microsoft Store (microsoftstore.co.in), defacing it and leaking data from their databases.
On the team’s blog the hackers reveal their ... [read more >>] Members of two hacker collectives, Team r00tw0rm and Team inj3ct0r, identified an SQL injection vulnerability on one of the subdomains owned by NASA and hosted on the domain nasa.gov. By leveraging the security hole, the ha... [read more >>] Distributed denial of service (DDOS) attacks are a major concern these days for both companies and major websites, especially if they know they may be targeted by hacktivists. Security solutions provider Radware published ... [read more >>] This week’s episode of Hackers around the world features the first white hat hacker to take part in our series. Up until now, we’ve only talked to black hats and gray hats, so we’ve decided to take a look at wha... [read more >>] As part of Operation Return, TeamHav0k hackers revisited some of the vulnerabilities they found last year in government and university websites. Fortunately, the university websites appreciated the findings and patched up a... [read more >>] The global protests against the controversial Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Act (ACTA) seem to have left their mark on state leaders, the latest country to pull back being Germany. While they didn’t clearly state that t... [read more >>] The Megaupload closure coincided with the start of what was later known as the largest distributed denial of service (DDOS) attack in history, with reports saying that there were around 5,000 individuals, both hackers and s... [read more >>] Since they failed to patch up the vulnerabilities that allowed hackers to gain access and leak data from their servers the first time, members of TeaMp0isoN revisited the United Nations Development Programme website and lea... [read more >>] |
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