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Metropolitan Police representatives deny being hacked by members of TeaMp0isoN. They believe that the recording between the employee of the anti-terrorist hotline and the other law enforcement organization was made via “the receiving handset.”
“We have throughout the day researched the allegation t... |
13 April 2012
02:52 GMT |
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MalSec, the group that recently defaced the website of Security Center Ltd., a Cayman Island security firm, returns with other data breaches. The hackers also released a video to introduce the group and its objectives. This time, the list of targets includes the Development Bank of the Philippines (www.dbp.ph), a Ro... |
12 April 2012
10:30 GMT |
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Spect, a hacker part of the newly formed Team Digi7al, managed to gain unauthorized access to the email account of Silvia Elena Alfaro Espinosa, the ambassador of Peru in Bolivia since January 2011. The hacker not only published the username and password that protect the account, but also dumped the entire contents ... |
12 April 2012
09:42 GMT |
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Anonymous hacktivists breached Bucharest’s - Romania’s capital - city hall website (pmb.ro). As a result of the hack, all the messages sent by citizens to the mayor’s office were published online, along with the sender’s email address. Thousands of records, dating back to 2005 were published... |
12 April 2012
04:56 GMT |
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Yesterday, we learned that the members of TeaMp0isoN launched a phone-based denial-of-service (DOS) attack on UK’s anti-terrorism agency, MI6. Now, the hackers return with proof of the phone bombing and with a conversation that’s allegedly between MI6 representatives and the FBI, or other law enforcement ... |
12 April 2012
04:17 GMT |
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On March 30, 2012, the Utah Department of Technology Services (DTS) suffered a data breach as a result of which sensitive data was extracted by the attackers. Initial reports mentioned only around 24,000 victims, but now it turns out that more than 700,000 Children's Health Insurance Program or Medicaid customer... |
11 April 2012
07:01 GMT |
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A hacker that calls himself Hardcore Charlie claims to have “owned” CEIEC, China National Electronics Import-Export Corporation, a company that’s believed to be connected to the Chinese military.
“Today us prezenta recently owneed chino military kontraktor CEIEC. Us be shoked porque their [ex... |
6 April 2012
10:16 GMT |
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Security expert Gareth Wright identified a security hole in the iOS version of the Facebook app that could allow someone with ill intent to steal user credentials. After further analysis, the folks over at The Next Web determined that Dropbox also presents the vulnerability.
Furthermore, it has been found that not o... |
6 April 2012
05:09 GMT |
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The world renowned security firm Sophos has revealed that its Partner Portal has been temporarily taken offline after a couple of “unauthorized programs” were found on the server. It’s believed that the malicious elements were designed to allow hackers to gain remote access to information.
The secu... |
6 April 2012
02:55 GMT |
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Hackers from Malicious Security (MalSec) and ones that operate under the AnonOpsRomania banner have breached the site of Eurofound (eurofound.europa.eu), the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, leaking hundreds of user credentials.
By leveraging an SQL Injection vulnerability, t... |
5 April 2012
06:00 GMT |
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The official NATO Croatia site (nato.mvp.hr), hosted on the main website of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs, was hacked and defaced by two of the members of TeaMp0isoN, TriCk and Phantom. Here’s what the hackers wrote on the defaced site: Dividing up a country when a genuine uprising is taking p... |
3 April 2012
03:21 GMT |
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Anonymous hackers claim to have breached the website of the Public Broadcasting Service (pbs.org), leaking large amounts of sensitive information from its databases.
“PBS is just another example of mainstream media, feeding lies to the public. Therefore PBS could very well be a target of Anonymous,” the ... |
2 April 2012
03:56 GMT |
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Global Payments Inc, the company affected recently by a massive data breach, came forward admitting that the hackers stole 1.5 million credit card numbers. On the bright side, the incident affects only credit card holders from North America, and the cybercriminals managed to gain access only to Track 2 card data, wh... |
2 April 2012
02:47 GMT |
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Yesterday we’ve learned that MasterCard and Visa were alerting banks that a major processor has suffered a data breach. As it turns out, the victim of the breach is Global Payments Inc., a company that provides electronic transaction services worldwide.
In a press release made a few hours ago, Global Payments ... |
31 March 2012
03:53 GMT |
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Thousands of individuals, some of which with protected identities, may become exposed after hackers targeted Logica, an IT company that serves several government organizations, including Skatteverek, Sweden’s Tax Agency.
The exact number of affected people is unknown, but The Local informs that the incident is... |
30 March 2012
10:03 GMT |
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Many users are aware that LulzSec Reborn, the hacker collective that decided to pick up where the old LulzSec crew left off, claim to have breached MilitarySingles.com, leaking more than 170,000 record sets. If at first the site’s representatives said they were investigating the incident, now they came forwar... |
29 March 2012
04:34 GMT |
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Over the past weekend, a hacker managed to gain unauthorized access to the databases of Skeptical Science, a site that focuses its efforts on the issue of global warming, addressing climate enthusiasts in more than 20 languages.
According to John Cook, the creator and administrator of Skeptical Science, the entire ... |
28 March 2012
05:59 GMT |
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After logging in to his account, a Groupon customer noticed that the information he was presented with actually belonged to someone else with the same name. He was able to access the other accountholder’s address information, the last four digits of his credit card, expiration date and the name of the bank that... |
28 March 2012
05:42 GMT |
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It’s probably not news to anyone that the LulzSec name once again “laughs at security” and the reborn collective is not wasting any time. A few hours ago they breached the website of CSS Corp, a global information and communications technology company, leaking the main domain’s entire database... |
27 March 2012
03:35 GMT |
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Back in November 2011, we revealed the inauguration of PwnedList, a great service which allows users to check if their accounts have been stolen by cybercriminals.
Since then, some considerable improvements have been made to the site, including a daily monitoring service which warns individuals and companies in cas... |
26 March 2012
15:21 GMT |
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A number of 978 record sets were leaked from the servers of Stanford University after a hacker known as GreyerSting managed to identify an SQL Injection vulnerability on the institution’s official computer forum. “I was just bored and noticed the vulnerability and decided to exploit it,” the hacker... |
26 March 2012
04:46 GMT |
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A few days ago, a video revealed to the world that the famous LulzSec collective may reborn from its ashes on April 1. As it turns out they couldn’t wait until then and have already made a victim.
Their first target was MilitarySingles.com, an online dating service for soldiers, a site from which they leaked a... |
26 March 2012
02:22 GMT |
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A hacker called Le0nB3lm0nt breached minimins.com, a popular weight loss support forum, leaking the website’s entire database, totaling 80,461 record sets.
A Pastebin post that contains sample data reveals that email addresses, usernames and password hashes were made available by the hacker.
According to Data... |
24 March 2012
05:31 GMT |
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Black Jester, the hacker who yesterday demonstrated that he managed to gain unauthorized access to a NASA site, leaked sensitive contract information from a site connected to the US Army Communications and Electronics Command (CECOM).
A number of 30 record sets that include names, user IDs, physical addresses, email... |
22 March 2012
12:05 GMT |
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Black Jester, the Sudanese hacker known for personally going to a United Nations office to inform them of vulnerabilities that affected one of their sites, returns. This time he managed to breach a subdomain owned by NASA, more precisely the one that belongs to Air Traffic Conflict Resolutions (airtrafficconflictreso... |
21 March 2012
11:26 GMT |
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Due to an error, all the individuals who tried to access the Norwegian tax portal Altinn at around 6:17 PM on Tuesday found themselves logged in as a 36-year-old man from Oslo named Kenneth.
Visitors would be able to see not only his financial information, but also his wife’s and the details of the company he worked... |
21 March 2012
08:27 GMT |
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An administrative error made by Student Finance England exposed the email addresses of around 8,000 students who needed to complete grant application forms.
Student Finance England, a subsidiary of Student Loans Company, the body responsible for delivering grants, emailed the notifications to students, along with a... |
21 March 2012
06:25 GMT |
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A study performed by the Ponemon Institute reveals some interesting figures regarding the costs a company has to support in case of data breaches, compared to previous years.
The numbers show that for the first time in seven years the costs of data breaches have decreased considerably.
In 2011, firms paid $5.5 mill... |
21 March 2012
05:54 GMT |
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The hacker known as S3rver.exe managed to breach the official website of the International Police Association of Australia (ipa-australiapolice.com.au), defacing the Houses domain. “I hacked it just because I felt like it :D. Because of [expletive] too much politics,” S3rver told us. “I have access... |
20 March 2012
04:18 GMT |
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Hacktivists worldwide have revealed the beginning of an operation meant to stop Joseph Kony, the Ugandan guerilla group leader accused of turning children into his personal soldiers. Rwandan Hackers have joined the operation and, in order to show their support, they’ve breached a number of four websites that ... |
19 March 2012
06:26 GMT |
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A hacker called UR0B0R0X claims to have breached the official websites of Fox, Sony, Warner Bros, and 17 others, leaking some sensitive data from their servers. The data leak includes names, email addresses, usernames and password hashes that are allegedly taken from Sony Pictures, RPM Productions, Addisonin Interac... |
19 March 2012
05:56 GMT |
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A number of three files containing highly sensitive information belonging to students and staff members from the University of Tampa (UT) were publicly available for a period of around eight months due to a server management error. One of the files contained the records of 6,818 students, including IDs, social secur... |
16 March 2012
10:14 GMT |
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Cricket fans who possess accounts on cricfire.com are advised to immediately change their passwords and monitor their inboxes for any malicious messages that may come their way. The warning is a result of a data breach that affected the site recently.
A hacker called Le0n B3lm0nt published a large part of the websit... |
15 March 2012
10:55 GMT |
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The data breach that affected TRICARE in September 2011 turns out to be more serious than initial reports led us to believe. A lot of customers are coming forward to claim that fraudulent charges have been made using their credit cards after the incident occurred.
“Retrieving the data on the tapes requires kno... |
15 March 2012
09:18 GMT |
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One of the stars of the popular TV show "Glee", Heather Morris, has fallen victim to a hacker who managed to gain access to the data stored on her mobile phone. As a result, a number of private photos of the celebrity have been published online. Graham Cluley reports that at that moment there is nothing to indicate ... |
13 March 2012
05:53 GMT |
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The official site of Atomic Data and Analysis Structure for Fusion in Europe (ADAS-EU) didn’t stand a chance when Anonymous hacktivists started probing it. After successfully exploiting the flaws present on the website, the hackers leaked the organization’s Workpackage 4 database as a “teaser”... |
12 March 2012
09:28 GMT |
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Symantec confirmed for Infosec Island that the Norton Antivirus 2006 source code leaked by Anonymous yesterday was in fact genuine. However, company representatives state that they were expecting this move and that customers are not affected in any way. We previously reported that the 1.4 gigabyte code published by ... |
10 March 2012
06:28 GMT |
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The saga that illustrates the cyber-battle between world renowned security solutions provider Symantec and Anonymous hacktivists continues. The hackers published the alleged source code of Norton Antivirus 2006, which they obtained during a breach that took place in 2006.
Not long ago, the hackers claimed they posse... |
9 March 2012
04:31 GMT |
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Operation Free Palestine, an operation launched by hacktivists worldwide in support for the Palestinian people, continues with the breach of the official website of the France-Israel Association, an organization purposed to maintain and promote the friendship between French and Israeli citizens.The hackers responsibl... |
8 March 2012
02:30 GMT |
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Mad HackerZ Team, the hackers from Lebanon who started an electronic revolution against the country’s government, breached the official site of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Emigrants, and the one of the Batroun Municipality, a city that’s well known for its touristic attractions.
The site of the B... |
7 March 2012
11:01 GMT |
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Grey hat hackers proved many times in the past weeks that most websites managed by universities tend to be highly unsecure. Now, members of TeaMp0isoN demonstrated how easily these flaws can be exploited by leaking tons of information from the official sites of UCLA, Wayne State University, and the Hampshire County C... |
7 March 2012
04:29 GMT |
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The official websites of universities and research institutions are known to be vulnerable and this story demonstrates this. Sepo, the hacker that’s known for finding flaws where you would least expect it, breached the sites of the Engineering Professors’ Council, the Department of Computer Science and En... |
6 March 2012
08:07 GMT |
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A report entitled “The Human Factor in Data Protection” commissioned by Trend Micro and performed by the Ponemon Institute revealed that most IT security practitioners in the US blamed employees for the data breaches that affected their companies.
It’s well known that the human factor is one of th... |
6 March 2012
05:15 GMT |
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BlitzSec, the group of hackers that so far only published proof of concepts to reveal that some major websites were vulnerable, now shows its hacktivist side, breaching the official site of the Library of Congress (loc.gov) to protests against the US Congress’ actions.
“Congress this is a message to you,... |
5 March 2012
08:49 GMT |
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Team Inj3c0r and Team R00tw0rm breached the official website of the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR), leaking the entire contents of its databases.
“After UN.ORG, UNESCO.ORG and UNEP.ORG We present you UNIDIR.ORG lol. United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research, a UN Organizatio... |
5 March 2012
04:52 GMT |
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Linode, a company that provides virtualization hosting to companies worldwide, was breached recently by an unknown hacker who managed to gain access to a number of 8 accounts which referenced Bitcoin, stealing all the digital currency he could find. Linode immediately released a statement and notified all the indivi... |
3 March 2012
06:57 GMT |
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OpMonsanto, the operation launched by Anonymous hackers against the world renowned agricultural biotechnology corporation, continues. The hacktivists managed to leak an email database which they admitted was outdated, the purpose of the breach being to show the organization that it’s not off the hook yet.
A Pa... |
2 March 2012
08:24 GMT |
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Abu Nazir, the Polish hacker that leaked around 250,000 account details from a few local forums, now breached SteamKeys.pl, a website that commercializes Steam keys.
As a result of the hack, 1431 account details, including usernames, SHA1 password hashes, and email addresses, were published on Pastebin.
By leveragi... |
2 March 2012
03:39 GMT |
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Abu Nazir, a hacker from Poland, leaked around 250,000 credential sets from the servers of Gram24.pl, a popular forum, and Vista.pl a site that offers news, scripts, software and other useful things.
The hacker’s Pastebin account reveals that 236,351 usernames, MD5 password hashes, their salt, and email addres... |
29 February 2012
05:57 GMT |
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After the official Microsoft Store in India was breached, the Redmond company issued a statement to reassure customers that the hackers didn’t gain access to credit card information. In a second email sent to clients, the company admitted that financial information may have been exposed.
According to Amit Agar... |
28 February 2012
04:55 GMT |
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