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Turkish Ministry of Economy and Central Finance and Contracts Unit Sites Hacked

D35m0nd142, the German hacker known for identifying serious vulnerabilities on high-profile websites in an attempt to show the lack of security, has breached a couple of websites owned by the Turkish government.  The targets are the Turkey Contact Point website of the Ministry of Economy (tcp.gov.tr), and the o...

18 March 2013
09:09 GMT

Hacker Gains Access to Foxconn Databases, Just Wants to Prove Lack of Security

D35m0nd142, the hacker from Germany, has managed to breach a website owned by Foxconn, the major electronics manufacturer. The subdomain he penetrated, cq.foxconn.com, appears to belong to the factory from Chongqing, China. The hacker has exploited a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability to gain access to a database whi...

5 February 2013
10:34 GMT

Hacker Gains Access to 7 ESA Databases by Leveraging Blind SQL Injection Flaw

The hacker known as D35m0nd142 has identified a Blind SQL Injection vulnerability on a domain owned by the European Space Agency (ESA).  The hacker has managed to gain access to the information stored in 7 databases. To demonstrate his findings, he has published database and table names, but also the contents o...

30 January 2013
07:11 GMT

Website of Harvard’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences Hacked

The hacker D35m0nd142 has defaced the Gordon McKay & Blue Hill libraries subdomain of Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences website (library.seas.harvard.edu).  He published the following message in the announcements section of the site: “HACKED by D35m0nd142. I’ve de...

17 January 2013
04:21 GMT

Flaws in NASA’s GSFC Site Allowed Hackers to Bypass Firewalls, Steal Information

German hacker D35m0nd142 has identified a couple of vulnerabilities on the website of NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) that could have been leveraged by cybercriminals to cause some serious damage. Fortunately, the agency rushed to address the issues after being notified by the hacker. D35m0nd142 has ...

3 January 2013
07:00 GMT

Hacker Claims to Have Gained Access to 1,300 Databases Owned by 4 Universities

The German hacker known as D35m0nd142 claims to have gained access to a total of 1,300 databases stored on the systems of New York University, Stanford University, Johns Hopkins University and Moscow University. The hacker has told me in an email that the databases contain email addresses, passwords, activation keys...

26 November 2012
14:31 GMT

Hacker Leaks 600 User Accounts from Indian Entertainment Site to Prove Flaws

German hacker D35m0nd142 has taken a different approach this time to highlight the flaws that exist in a particular website. He leaked the details of 600 user accounts from Channelv.in, an Indian entertainment site, to demonstrate that it contains serious security holes. The security expert claims to have gained acc...

11 June 2012
08:42 GMT

Hacker Exposes SQL Injection Vulnerabilities on RIAA Site

The grey hat hacker from Germany known as D35m0nd142 identified an SQL Injection vulnerability on the official site of the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA). The hacker describes the security hole as, “an SQL flaw with possible denial of service attack using #refref or any similar tool and Direc...

4 April 2012
04:59 GMT

Hacker Reports XSS Vulnerabilities on AT&T Site

The grey hat hacker known as D35m0nd142 identified cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities on the official site of the renowned telecoms company AT&T. He told us that the XSS vulnerability could be exploited to steal user accounts if an attacker could convince the potential victim to click on a cleverly designed ...

19 March 2012
14:31 GMT

Multiple Vulnerabilities Expose CBS.com to Hackers

The German grey hat known as D35m0nd142 probed the official website of CBS (cbs.com) and found several vulnerabilities that could easily be exploited by hackers. The list of security holes includes 17 Blind SQL Injection issues, a directory disclosure flaw and a number of cross-site scripting (XSS) problems with the...

5 March 2012
10:12 GMT

Sophos Website Breached by D35m0nd142

After yesterday he proved that he gained unauthorized access to websites that belong to the United Nations, Skype and Oracle, today D35m0nd142 showed that even the best in the business can have vulnerable sites. The grey hat identified an SQL Injection vulnerability in the official Sophos site and provided a screensh...

1 March 2012
10:29 GMT

MySQL.com and US Army Site Hacked by D35m0nd142

D35m0nd142, the German grey hat that’s slowly but surely becoming famous for finding vulnerabilities in major websites, did it again. He managed to breach a US Army site and for the second time he gained unauthorized access to mysql.com. By leveraging a blind SQL injection vulnerability, the hacker managed to ...

22 February 2012
08:49 GMT

Royal Navy, Federal Reserve and Other Sites Hacked by D35m0nd142

The German grey hat that not long ago took part in our Hackers around the world series returns. This time he managed to breach the official website of the Royal Navy after finding an SQL injection vulnerability. “The admins have been warned immediately before of this post. The vulnerable ‘parameter&rsquo...

20 February 2012
07:42 GMT

Hacker Finds SQL Injection Vulnerability in NATO Website

The last hacker that took part in our series called Hackers around the world, D35m0nd142, found another major website as being vulnerable. This time the flaw is present on the official international website of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). Unlike other operations in which the gray hat only published...

25 January 2012
13:21 GMT

European Security and Islamic Network Hacked by D35m0nd142

One of the busiest gray hat hackers, who breaches websites with the purpose of determining their administrators to improve their security, did it again. This time, he managed to breach European Security, Islamic Network and iGPS. European Security & Defence, Defense et Securite, a website that provides news mostly f...

11 January 2012
14:11 GMT

Harvard and Oxford Universities Hacked by D35m0nd142

The hacker named D35m0nd142 started the new year with a couple of operations purposed to prove that even after multiple hacks, Universities such as Harvard and Oxford still fail to buff up their security. Oxford University’s Begbroke Science Park website contained a vulnerability that allowed the hacker to acc...

5 January 2012
08:33 GMT


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