While the Syrian government is busy shutting down the Internet in the country when it suits it, it's also busy fighting a war online as well.
Granted, the only things getting hurt are Twitter accounts, but the Syrian Electronic Army has been busy hacking sites and taking over Twitter accounts, with r... [read more >>] Four men associated with the LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced by a British court. All received prison terms, though Mustafa al-Bassam, who was a minor at the time, got a suspended sentence. Others will only serve a portion of their sentence in prison. Jake Davis, known as Topiary in the group, who ... [read more >>] A few hours ago, the following tweet was posted from the official Sky News Newsdesk Twitter account: “Colin was here.”
Twitter users didn’t appear to be surprised by the message, considering that the Twitter accounts of numerous major media organizations were hijacked in the past period b... [read more >>] Earlier today, a hacker that goes by the name of Hyst3ria (@Hyst3riaKMS) has notified us that he has breached the official website of Romania’s National Authority for Qualifications (anc.gov.ro), a public institution coordinated by the country’s Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports.... [read more >>] The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has announced that the man suspected of launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the systems of Spamhaus has been extradited to the Netherlands. The man, identified as 35-year-old SK, is believed to be Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka CB3ROB, the own... [read more >>] AlienVault experts are currently analyzing an attack on the website of the US Department of Labor (dol.gov). According to the security firm, when users visit the Department of Labor website, a script is executed. This script is designed to probe the victim’s computer to see what versions of Fla... [read more >>] The hacker group that supports the Syrian regime, the Syrian Electronic Army, has breached a total of 11 Twitter accounts of the Guardian newspaper.
The list of targeted accounts includes Guardian Books, Guardian Travel, Guardian Film, Guardian Pictures, and the ones of a few of the paper’s editors.
... [read more >>] For the past 30 hours, the download infrastructure of VideoLAN (get.videolan.org) has been hit by a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack. According to the creators of the popular VLC media player, the attack is still going strong.
“VideoLAN is experiencing a major DDOS attack targeting its mir... [read more >>] A total of 4 Twitter accounts of CBS – the ones of “60 Minutes,” “48 Hours,” “Energy 103.7” and “CBS Denver” – were hacked on Saturday by members of the notorious Syrian Electronic Army. “We have experienced problems on Twitter accounts of #... [read more >>] A couple of hours ago, Reddit representatives announced on Twitter that they were working on mitigating a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack that disrupted the website. “We are working on recovering from what appears to be a DDoS,” reads one notification posted on the Reddit Status Twi... [read more >>] |
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