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A group of Lebanese hackers called Mad HackerZ Team breached the country’s official Yellow Pages website (yellowpages.com.lb), leaking tons of information they found on its servers. We’ve contacted the hackers to find out about their reasons for hacking this and other sites.
The hackers published usernam... |
23 February 2012
10:10 GMT |
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The Hack News provides a list of 300 websites that were defaced by a group of Turkish hackers known as SlyHacker.
Judging by the mirrors posted by the hackers on Zone-H, most of the sites were hosted on .info domains and the servers they were hosted on ran a Windows 2003 Server operating system.
The hackers defaced... |
22 February 2012
07:43 GMT |
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SoveReign and Shad0wfiend, hackers part of The Hackers Army (THA), breached the PlayStation 3 community website called PS3 Planet (ps3-planet.it), leaking some information from their databases to prove that they gained access. Voice of Grey Hat reports that the site, designed for Italian speakers, was taken offline ... |
21 February 2012
10:21 GMT |
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Star Vault issued a statement admitting that its security was breached for a short period of time on February 19. The hackers that accessed the site’s servers may have already utilized the information they obtained to “destroy in game assets” and make changes to the accounts.
A member of the game s... |
21 February 2012
09:52 GMT |
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The official website of the City of Newark in New Jersey was hacked for the second time this month by a hacker known as Kahuna.
According to the hacker, after the first breach took place, the administrators didn’t secure the site, which allowed him to gain access for the second time.
Unfortunately for Newark... |
21 February 2012
04:22 GMT |
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Cyber War News informs us of a hacking operation that exposes the usernames and passwords of more than 1,700 individuals who own accounts on the Yamaha Commercial Audio Systems website. Unfortunately, not only the users were exposed by a hacker called Muldaria48, but also a number of 8 site administrators. Since Ya... |
20 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Glenn Mangham, also known as the hacker that managed to breach Facebook and gain access to “invaluable” intellectual property, was sentenced to 8 months in jail after the court didn’t completely buy his story about wanting to improve the media giant’s security.
According to The Guardian, 26-y... |
20 February 2012
05:55 GMT |
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A hacker known as xdev, part of b4lc4nh4ck, managed to breach the site of the University of Washington, leaking a small amount of data to prove that he gained access to the institution's servers. Judging by the latest incidents, the University of Washington is trying to patch up the vulnerabilities in their of... |
20 February 2012
03:24 GMT |
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The official Twitter profile of American singer, songwriter, rapper, dancer and actress, Teyana Taylor, was taken over by a hacker who tweeted “mean and hurtful things” and leaking private pictures of the celebrity.
Voice of Grey Hat can’t confirm if the R rated pictures that allegedly feature Tayl... |
18 February 2012
05:54 GMT |
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KPN, a Dutch Internet service provider that has around two million account holders, discovered a data breach that affected their systems in January, but decided to keep everything a secret during the time in which the incident was being investigated. Anonymous hackers took credit for the breach and even published a ... |
14 February 2012
11:11 GMT |
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The official websites of the US National Weather Service (weather.gov) and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce (noaa.gov) were breached by a hacker that goes by the name of Codeinsec.
The hacker didn’t provide any details regarding the purpose for which the sit... |
14 February 2012
09:11 GMT |
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The developers of the popular open source Webmail solution Horde identified a number of manipulated files on one of their FTP servers. They concluded that the server has been breached, the files stored on it being altered to allow unauthenticated remote PHP execution. “We have immediately taken down all distri... |
14 February 2012
07:53 GMT |
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A couple of hackers known as Bch195 and HaxOr managed to breach the website of the world renowned electronics manufacturer Philips, defacing one of the official site’s subdomains. Cyberwarnews informs that the hackers not only defaced the microsites subdomain, but they’ve also leaked tons of information ... |
14 February 2012
05:11 GMT |
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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. We’ve contacted one of these victims and it turns out that it’s not an easy tas... |
13 February 2012
13:51 GMT |
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A group of hackers managed to gain access to TicketWeb’s direct email marketing systems and utilized it to send phishing emails to unsuspecting customers. The ticket distribution company is alerting users to be on the lookout for suspicious emails.
According to The Inquirer, TicketWeb clients began receiving e... |
13 February 2012
10:41 GMT |
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Cryptome.org, a website very similar to Wikileaks, was breached, the cybercriminals placing an attack script on each of its pages with the purpose of infecting computers to make them part of a botnet.
F-Secure’s Mikko Hypponen informs that the script used the Blackhole toolkit to find vulnerabilities in the co... |
13 February 2012
10:04 GMT |
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The official website of the US Census Bureau (census.gov), the government organization that gathers demographic and economic data, was hacked by members of r00tw0rm and inj3ct0r, the hackers obtaining what they call a “secret zip file.”
A Pastebin file reveals a sample of the data they obtained from the ... |
13 February 2012
09:19 GMT |
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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 hackers obtained a 6 gigabyte database, but refused to disclose the name of the flawed subdomain ... |
13 February 2012
02:53 GMT |
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Hackers part of the IDF Team took responsibility for an attack that targeted a site administered by Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist political party. The site, www.qasssam.ps, was hit after it advertised air strikes on Israeli civilians from the Gaza Strip.
The Jerusalem Post informs that the hackers issued a warnin... |
10 February 2012
05:55 GMT |
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As part of their operations against law enforcement agencies, Anonymous hackers breached the sites of the Alabama Department of Public Safety, the Texas Department of Public Safety, and the Mobile Police Department, also based in Alabama, leaking information from their databases.
DataBreaches sums up the hacks nicel... |
10 February 2012
04:58 GMT |
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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 leaked another round of data. Even more, they found a series of vulnerabilities present in the org... |
9 February 2012
10:43 GMT |
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An amateur hacker revealed how easy it would be for someone to exploit one of Ireland’s most popular modems and routers. Ross Canpolat showed that, with the use of a simple software and a few other basic steps, almost anyone could access a device and cause serious damage.
Even though the technique may work on ... |
8 February 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Foxconn.com, the site of the multinational electronics manufacturing company that works with some major industry names such as Intel, IBM, Microsoft and Apple, was taken offline after a group of hackers that call themselves Swagg Security breached their systems and leaked tons of data.
Cyberwarnews reports that the ... |
8 February 2012
07:35 GMT |
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The world-renowned phone manufacturer Nokia was recently targeted by hackers who managed to gain access to one of their subdomains hosted on the Australian site, defacing it. According to The Hacker News, the hacker aldyfrt didn’t mention anything about his reasons for defacing the site, which probably means t... |
7 February 2012
14:21 GMT |
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The database held by the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) is filled with private information that could be considered a gold mine by hackers and identity thieves. This is probably the reason why hackers from all over the world, mainly China, target the computers of the South Carolina DMV each day.
DMV representati... |
7 February 2012
10:11 GMT |
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Ever since Bashar al-Assad, the president of Syria, started to retaliate against the citizens’ protest in a violent manner, Anonymous hacktivists from all over the world began showing their involvement.
Their latest target is the site of the Ministry of Public Administration, from which they managed to obtain ... |
6 February 2012
09:17 GMT |
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Last week we’ve learned that DreamHost was notifying customers that the firm suffered a data breach. It turns out that the information obtained by the hackers was put to good use and some sites were already compromised and altered to redirect visitors to a Russian scam.
Zscaler researchers identified a number ... |
4 February 2012
05:43 GMT |
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A large number of Activision-published gaming sites such as Call of Duty, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, Spider-Man: Edge of Time, Transformers: Fall of Cybertron, Prototype 2, The Quantum of Solace, DJ Hero 2 and Guitar Hero were hacked by a Turkish hacker collective called GrayHatz.
The Hacker News reports that a studi... |
4 February 2012
04:11 GMT |
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Voice of Grey Hat provides a Pastebin document that allegedly contains login credentials obtained by THA Disastar hackers after breaching a number of websites belonging to Vodafone.
Judging by the data leak, the hackers obtained some login credentials to Vodafone Greece, Vodafone Australia, Vodafone Italy, Vodafone ... |
3 February 2012
09:41 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers managed to gain access to the official website of the Irish government’s Department of Foreign Affairs, obtaining passwords used by employees and officials. Some of the passwords were used to administrate the website Irish Aid, an overseas development program.
According to The Journal, member... |
3 February 2012
06:27 GMT |
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One of Australia’s largest domain trading websites admitted to being hacked by a group of unnamed hackers who managed to gain access to customer information, including names, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers and credit card information.
SC Magazine reports that the credit card numbers and the... |
3 February 2012
05:48 GMT |
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Last year, we witnessed a lot of unfortunate incidents regarding certificate authorities and the trust factor seems to fade with each hack attack targeting these companies. Now, it turns out that even Symantec-owned Verisign suffered multiple data breaches back in 2010. A quarterly report filed by the company with t... |
3 February 2012
04:58 GMT |
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Unnamed hackers managed to breach the website of Universal Music Portugal, publishing in a Pastebin document all the information they could find in their databases.
Cyberwarnews reports that 314 valid email addresses, usernames and passwords, all in clear-text, were made available by the hackers.
Shortly after the... |
2 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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The “dog” subdomain of the domain used by Honda Thailand, the world renowned car manufacturer, was hacked by a collective called SpyDevilz, comprising 7 members.
A message posted on the defaced website hints that the hackers may be Turkish, but it doesn’t offer any other clues to the reasons for wh... |
2 February 2012
06:49 GMT |
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Unnamed hackers managed to breach the security measure implemented by EA on its official forum (forum.ea.com) after successfully exploiting a vulnerability they identified in the software that runs the site (possibly a Java app). Voice Of Grey Hat informs that the company’s Marketing Manager Dan Sheridan came... |
2 February 2012
05:21 GMT |
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After moving his operations out of Africa, the grey hat hacker known as SEPO moved his operations to the Middle East, where just like in Africa, he targets banks and other major institutions that are either considered corrupt or simply vulnerable.
His last operation targeted the Central Bank of Bahrain, a financial ... |
2 February 2012
03:05 GMT |
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Australian media giant Fairfax confirmed that two of its websites, Herald Education and Young Writer, were breached by hackers, forcing them to temporarily block users from accessing the affected domains.
In an interview with SC Magazine, the unnamed hackers revealed that they breached the sites only to show that th... |
1 February 2012
09:39 GMT |
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The latest malicious campaign begins at the point where cybercriminals compromise a few hundred websites based on WordPress 3.2.1 and alter them to redirect visitors to a domain that serves the malicious Phoenix Exploit Kit. M86 Security Labs researchers came across around four hundred of these sites. Using a cleve... |
31 January 2012
09:49 GMT |
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Serbia’s currently ruling party, the Democratic Party, has become a target of Anonymous hackers who are displeased with the organization’s way of managing “the current state of affairs.” “We prepare food. We take away garbage. We work in the factory. We safeguard peace of mind. We are l... |
31 January 2012
03:34 GMT |
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Hackers from Team Grey Hat (TGH), the ones that consider themselves as the “Achilles of the cyber world” breached another important website as part of their protest against the Indian government. The Central Drug Research Institute (CDRI) was hacked because members of TGH believe that Indian children hav... |
31 January 2012
02:11 GMT |
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Close to 100,000 students, faculty and staff members of the University of Hawaii will receive credit monitoring and fraud protection services for a period of two years after the educational institution admitted to a number of five data breaches.
The reputation of the University of Hawaii was stained by a lot of unfo... |
30 January 2012
05:38 GMT |
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Three apparently “very bright kids”, students at the Palos Verdes High School in California, were arrested after being suspected of hacking into their teachers’ computers to change grades. Besides computer hacking, they’re also accused of breaking into the school at night to steal physical cop... |
28 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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The hacker known as SEPO managed to breach three important sites, accessing their databases and leaking sensitive information online for everyone to see. First, he managed to access the servers of ProCredit Bank, a financial institution from Bosnia and Herzegovina, but since the part of the server he had breached di... |
28 January 2012
04:29 GMT |
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An Xbox Live community with around 35,000 members called Xbox Live Clans suffered a data breach, hackers managing to obtain and leak usernames, represented by email addresses, and password hashes. The hacker alsa7r posted all the information on Pastebin, potentially exposing all the forum’s members. At the ti... |
27 January 2012
07:44 GMT |
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After Dana White, the president of the Zuffa’s Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC), threatened Anonymous calling them cowards, the hacktivist collective responded by breaching the UFC’s official website and defacing it as part of OpUFC. The whole thing started after White publicly revealed support for t... |
27 January 2012
05:25 GMT |
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There have been many rumors around the hacking operation that affected Symantec back in 2006, resulting in the theft of source code for some of their products. Now the company came forward with official “security recommendations,” advising customers to disable their pcAnywhere products until they release ... |
26 January 2012
04:09 GMT |
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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 |
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The official website of Endiama (Empresa Nacional de Diamantes), the national diamond company of Angola, suffered a data breach, the hacker known as SEPO managing to obtain and leak sensitive information from their databases.
“So, such big company with a security that [expletive]... Oh! I forgot! They just [ex... |
25 January 2012
07:38 GMT |
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The New York State Public Service Commission issued a press release and started sending out notification letters to around two million individuals after they had identified a data breach as a result of which sensitive information might have been obtained by an unknown attacker.
The customer information systems of th... |
25 January 2012
04:16 GMT |
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OnGuard Online, a website run by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC), has been shut down by Anonymous hacktivists as a continuation of the protests that have taken place in the past days. The hackers not only defaced the website, but also leaked some data from their servers, allegedly belonging to the members of th... |
24 January 2012
09:23 GMT |
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