By now, everyone is aware of the site called “Exposed,” that keeps publishing the personal information, including social security numbers, of various celebrities, law enforcement officials and government officials. According to Ars Technica, the hackers who run the site might have stolen the i... [read more >>] On September 18, Romanian researcher Radu Dragusin discovered that the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) was inadvertently sharing the usernames and clear text passwords of 100,000 users on an FTP server.
According to Dragusin, - who currently works in the Computer Science department... [read more >>] Hackers and hacker groups are always trying to outdo each other and always trying to grab attention, so everything they say should be taken with a grain of salt. That said, there have been so many breaches at so many places with hilariously bad security practices that there's not much that will surpris... [read more >>] Unlike other hacker collectives which breach websites and immediately tell the world about their accomplishment, Team GhostShell prefers to target multiple websites before unveiling their work. They claim to have breached over 100 sites worldwide, leaking a total of around 1 million record sets.
The hacks ... [read more >>] One of the members of the Team GhostShell hacker collective claims to have breached the systems of IT Wall Street – a website dedicated for those in search of an IT job in the financial services industry – to show his support for Occupy Wall Street.
“Hello there! My name is Masakaki, part of the Far-... [read more >>] After learning that journalists who support them have been threatened, the RedHack group has decided to leak another series of classified documents stolen from the Turkish government. This time, they leaked a file containing the identities of Turkish police informants. According to the hacktivists, this mov... [read more >>] A number of 453,492 email addresses and associated clear text passwords have been published online by a hacker group that calls itself the D33Ds Company. After analyzing the data dump, experts determined that the information likely comes from Yahoo! Voices. Even though the file published by the hackers doe... [read more >>] The owners of Formsping – the website where users can “share their perspective on anything” – reset the passwords of all their customers after identifying a data breach that affected one of their servers. As it turns out, the hackers posted around 420,000 password hashes on a forum.... [read more >>] A few days ago, WikiLeaks published over 2 million emails allegedly obtained from Syrian officials and organizations connected to the Assad regime. The source of the large quantity of data was unknown, but a few days ago, the Anonymous community took credit for its involvement.
According to the hackers, An... [read more >>] There is a lot going on in the world of information security at the moment and this week (July 2 – July 8) we’ve seen all sorts of events, from Anonymous hacks and massive data leaks, to controversial botnets and vulnerabilities. This is why we call this week the week of diversity.
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