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Orange French Portal Hacked

Romanian grey-hat hacker Unu makes a comeback with a big bang – a critical SQL injection in Orange.fr. Exploiting the vulnerability exposes the names, e-mail addresses and plain text passwords of over 245,000 users. The newly reborn Romanian HackersBlog has published details of an SQL injection vulnerability a...

25 May 2009
05:11 GMT

HackersBlog Packs Up Shop and Waves Goodbye

The rather successful Romanian self-proclaimed ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog has announced its retirement from the Web vulnerability disclosure scene, invoking the members' lack of spare time. During its short life online, the group has achieved international recognition and has attracted a lot of media att...

24 March 2009
05:59 GMT

British Telecom Downplays Security Breach

Following the disclosure of an SQL injection vulnerability affecting a section of the British Telecom website, the company claims that no customer data has been affected. Meanwhile, the hacker has published evidence of a new, more serious flaw on BT.com. The original security breach was reported by a Romanian hacker...

12 March 2009
04:14 GMT

BT.com Compromised

Evidence of an SQLi flaw allegedly affecting the website of BT, one of the largest communications providers in the world, has been published by a self-confessed white-hat hacker. He claims that successful exploitation of the vulnerability exposes the login credentials and e-mail addresses of registered users. BT, al...

10 March 2009
04:35 GMT

Telegraph.co.uk Website Hacked

HackersBlog, the Romanian whitehat hacking outfit, have disclosed an SQL vulnerability in a section of the telegraph.co.uk website. According to the group, the flaw gives attackers access to over 700,000 e-mail addresses and user passwords.The Daily Telegraph, also referred to as The Telegraph, is one of the biggest ...

7 March 2009
07:44 GMT

UK's National Lottery Website Vulnerable to SQL Injection

A white-hat hacker claims that the website of UK's National Lottery is open to SQL injection attacks that could endanger the privacy of the registered players. By exploiting an insecure parameter on a page, unauthorized access to the site's database can be obtained. The http://www.national-lottery.co.uk we...

24 February 2009
06:24 GMT

Bitdefender Concludes Investigation into Security Incident

Following the disclosure of an alleged SQL injection vulnerability affecting the news.bitdefender.com website, the antivirus vendor has released the results of its internal investigation. The most important thing, according to the company, is that no sensitive data has been compromised.A white-hat hacker calling hims...

23 February 2009
10:29 GMT

Hackers of Kaspersky, Bitdefender, F-Secure and Symantec Speak Up

During the past few weeks, a Romanian self-proclaimed ethical hacking group has kept the leading antivirus vendors on their toes after disclosing SQL injection vulnerabilities on several of their websites. The security companies that have been affected include Kaspersky, Bitdefender, F-Secure and Symantec. Even tho...

23 February 2009
09:00 GMT

Symantec Denies SQL Injection – Hacker Disagrees

Following the disclosure of a flaw in a section of the Symantec website that allegedly allows for SQL injection attacks, the company has denied its existence and invoked an "inconsistent exception handling routine for language options." The Romanian hacker who disclosed the vulnerability disagrees and has released ad...

20 February 2009
06:39 GMT

Symantec Website Hacked

The Romanian ethical hacking outfit HackersBlog shames yet another antivirus vendor – Symantec. A SQL injection vulnerability in a section of the Symantec website allows unauthorized access to the database. Symantec is one of the biggest IT security companies in the world, developing a wide range of products f...

19 February 2009
03:41 GMT

International Herald Tribune SQL Injection

The Romanian HackersBlog outfit disclosed a SQL injection vulnerability in the website of the International Herald Tribune, the international edition of the New York Times. A poorly-sanitized parameter allowed the hackers to obtain access to the database, including the table containing the login credentials of the ne...

18 February 2009
03:47 GMT

Bitdefender Hit Again by Romanian Hackers

The Romanian hacker going by the handle of "unu" has announced a new SQL injection vulnerability affecting the website of Bitdefender antivirus. However, this time around the flaw is on the company's main website and not on one maintained by a reseller. During the previous week, a Romanian ethical hacking outfi...

16 February 2009
04:29 GMT

F-Secure Joins the List of Compromised Antivirus Websites

After previously compromising websites belonging or related to Kaspersky and Bitdefender, the Romanian hackers from the HackersBlog crew launched a new successful SQL injection attack against the website of an antivirus vendor. This time around, it was F-Secure, however, the security breach did not have the potential...

12 February 2009
04:07 GMT


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