On Monday, the now notorious NSA leaker Edward Snowden answered questions on The Guardian’s website. He explained why he chose to go to Hong Kong and, more importantly, why he told China that the US was hacking into their universities and research facilities.
According to Snowden, he has left th... [read more >>] Edward Snowden, the man who became known all over the world after leaking classified details on the US National Security Agency’s PRISM surveillance program, has reiterated the fact that the United States is “hacking everyone everywhere.”
In an interview he had with the South China Mornin... [read more >>] Earlier this week, we learned that cybercriminals launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against the systems of DNSimple and easyDNS. The attacks have been mitigated and both companies have published blog posts to explain what happened. As it turns out, the DNS providers were not the targets... [read more >>] The official website of Turkey’s Prime Minister, basbakanlik.gov.tr, appears to have been breached by Anonymous Turkey and the Syrian Electronic Army in support of OpTurkey.
Anonymous Turkey has leaked a long list of usernames allegedly taken from the email domain of the Prime Minister’s websit... [read more >>] The Syrian Computer Society has decided to stop hosting the official website of the notorious pro-Assad hacktivist collective, the Syrian Electronic Army.
“We at the Syrian Electronic Army management regret to inform all members and staff that the Syrian Electronic Army's website is no longer fu... [read more >>] A vulnerability in third-party software installed on the Drupal.org server infrastructure has allowed cybercriminals to gain access to account information from drupal.org and groups.drupal.org.
According to an announcement from Drupal representatives, the incident isn’t a result of a vulnerability in... [read more >>] United States prosecutors have charged 8 individuals suspected of being involved in a massive cybercrime ring that caused losses of $45 million (€34 million) to financial institutions from all over the world in a matter of hours. The 8 suspects are believed to be the New York cell of an international ... [read more >>] Name.com has started sending out notifications to customers, informing them about a data breach. The company believes that hackers might have accessed usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card information.
The Internet registrar says it stores the private keys needed to acce... [read more >>] Update. The Syrian Electronic Army says it has nothing to do with the emails. Read the initial story below.
The Syrian Electronic Army is best known for hijacking the social media accounts and websites of news organizations they accuse of spreading false news about the situation in Syria. However, no... [read more >>] OpUSA seems to have come to an end and it appears the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was right to say that the campaign would mostly consist of nuisance-level attacks.
So let’s take a look at what the hacktivist groups have claimed to have done.
Hackers News Bulletin has compiled a list of... [read more >>] |
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