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The defacement that disrupted the normal activity of Notepad++ website recently did not pass away without consequences as the developer has taken some action in order to protect the integrity of Notepad++ installer.
According to an official announcement of the app’s developer, only the database of the website ... |
21 May 2012
10:23 GMT |
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Napsterakos, a hacker that claims to be part of the Greek Hacking Scene (GHS) managed to find a vulnerability in Coca Cola Norway’s official website, defacing it to show his powers and to protest against the corruption acts that take place. “When futere is based on lies, everyone is corrupted,” rea... |
8 December 2011
03:06 GMT |
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As part of the Operation End Monsanto, hacktivists attacked a PR firm accused of helping corrupt corporations until it was completely shut down. It seems as the Biving, the company in question, liquidated its assets after being hit by numerous cyberattacks.
Anonymous representatives claim that at first they breache... |
6 December 2011
08:10 GMT |
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Operation Antisec made another victim, this time the website of the Australian Casino, Liquor and Gaming Control Authority (CLGCA) being defaced by Anonymous to prove their point, reports Cyberwarnews. “This domain has been seized by Exphin1ty and #AntiSec For Australia’s decision to censor the internet... |
28 November 2011
03:59 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous have hacked into the website of the German Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (GEMA).When trying to access the website yesterday users were presented with a window similar to the one displayed by YouTube for videos removed for copyright infringement.The... |
24 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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A hacker has managed to break into the Nokia developer site and deface it with a message taunting the company and mocking its security practices.Users who tried to access the developer.nokia.com website over the weekend saw an image of Homer Simpson and a message from the hacker that read:"LOL, Worlds number 1 mobile... |
23 August 2011
12:54 GMT |
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The website of HSBC South Korea has been hacked and defaced by a Turkish hacking group called Turkguvenligi (Turkish Trust League).The group is known for high-profile defacements, its previous victims including microsoft.co.kr, www.microsoft.com.br, secunia.com, www.destinyschild.com, www.victoriabeckham.com, evanesc... |
20 August 2011
06:43 GMT |
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In response to Anonymous defacing the Syrian Ministry of Defence website late last week, a group of hackers broke into Anon Plus and left a message on its home page.Anonymous hacktivists hijacked mod.gov.sy over the weekend to leave an encouragement message for Syrian pro-democracy protesters and call on the country&... |
9 August 2011
05:08 GMT |
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Hackers associated with the Italian branch of Anonymous have broken into the website of the prison police syndicate (SAPPE) and defaced it with a political message.People visiting www.sappe.it, the website of the Italian Independent Prison Police Syndicate (Sindacato Autonomo Polizia Penitenziaria - SAPPE) yesterday ... |
8 August 2011
12:12 GMT |
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Moody's website was defaced by a hacker unhappy with the agency downgrading Portugal's credit rating to a very low level.Last week Moody's cut Portugal's rating by four points on its scale, pushing it towards what creditors consider "junk" levels.Furthermore, the agency said the country will have ... |
11 July 2011
07:05 GMT |
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A hacker has defaced David Beckham's website by inserting a "fail" image into the header. It's not immediately clear why the soccer star was targeted.The image depicts a dog trying to eat from a bowl shown in a wall poster. The image is accompanied text reading "FAIL," probably a connection to the FAIL Inte... |
11 July 2011
03:35 GMT |
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Members of the Anonymous collective have hacked and defaced over one hundred websites belonging to the Turkish government in a campaign against Internet censorship in the country.In addition to defacing 74 websites with the Anonymous logo and a message for the government, the hackers also leaked information extracted... |
7 July 2011
05:48 GMT |
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The website of the Indian National Security Guard (NSG) was defaced by hackers and the email accounts of some officers were compromised.NSG is one of India's special response units that is mainly involved in counter-terrorism activities. It is headquartered in Mehramnagar, Palam.Following the hack, all officers ... |
4 July 2011
13:27 GMT |
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A group of hackers called Swagger Security has broken into the website of English singer Amy Winehouse and posted an offensive message on its homepage.The group made references to Anonymous' AntiSec campaign by writing "Winehouse = no swag, AntiSec = no swag, we swag" and called the troubled artist a racis... |
1 July 2011
08:56 GMT |
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The official website of the Tunisian government was defaced by members of Anonymous in sign of protest to on-going Internet censorship in the country.People trying to access the website earlier today were greeted by an image of the Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask and an announcement that read "this domain has been seized i... |
27 June 2011
13:56 GMT |
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LulzSec, the group of hackers that recently made the news headlines with cyber attacks against Sony and PBS, has hacked into the Atlanta chapter of InfraGard, an organization set up as a partnership between private businesses and the FBI.InfraGard's purpose is to facilitate the sharing of counterterrorism, count... |
4 June 2011
06:00 GMT |
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The website of Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho has been defaced over the weekend by a self-confessed muslim hacker who posted anti-US messages on the home page.For a few hours on Saturday visitors to Ronaldinho's website were greeted by a photo of the soccer superstar next to an image depicting Star Wars charact... |
17 May 2011
11:21 GMT |
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The American website of Plextor, a well known brand of optical disc drives, network storage solutions, portable hard disks and other devices, has been defaced by a hacker on Sunday.The hacker, who calls himself "ViciOuS," replaced the site's homepage with a message in Turkish which Google had a hard time transla... |
14 February 2011
12:58 GMT |
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The websites of the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right British organization, was defaced by a hacktivist who accused the group of extremism.The English Defence League is a radical group established in 2009 with a stated goal to stop the spread of Islamism in England.The organization claims to have thousands of... |
11 February 2011
10:51 GMT |
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IBM developerWorks, a large website hosting developer resources, was defaced last Saturday by an Indonesian hacker who left a message taunting the admin.The incident was first reported on the Full Disclosure mailinglist and according to the discussion there, most pages under the /developerWorks/ directory were affect... |
11 January 2011
05:12 GMT |
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A hacker managed to hijack the DNS for google.com.bd and redirect the domain's traffic to a website under their control for a limited period of time on Saturday.Many Bangladeshi Internet users reported being taken to a page saying that Google Bangladesh was "OwN3D by TiGER-M@TE."According to TechCrunch, Google c... |
10 January 2011
02:57 GMT |
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A hacker broke into the U.S. Navy Memorial website and left a message for the administrator ridiculing him for the weak security and offering his assistance.The United States Navy Memorial is located on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C., and honors everyone who served or currently serve in the U.S. Navy,... |
26 November 2010
12:29 GMT |
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Experts claims the defacement of copyprotected.com was achieved through SQL injection, while other reports suggest the UK Conservative Party website might be next.Members of the notorious Anonymous collective hacked MPAA's copyprotected.com website yesterday and placed The Pirate Bay logo and the group's Op... |
16 October 2010
05:28 GMT |
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Members of the Anonymous collective have hacked copyprotected.com, a website run by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) to provide information about the copy protection awareness icon.The "Copy Protection Awareness Icon" was launched by the MPAA back in 2005 and according to the association "is used on c... |
15 October 2010
04:11 GMT |
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The longstanding whistleblower website Cryptome.org has been hacked during the weekend and all of the 54,000 files hosted on it have been deleted.Cryptome publishes sensitive leaked documents and is ran by a long-time civil liberties activist named John Young, who co-founded the site in 1996.The attack began during t... |
5 October 2010
02:09 GMT |
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The website of the Sweden Democrats (Sverigedemokraterna) political party was defaced by hackers on Saturday, one day before the general elections took place.The Local reports that following the hack, the index page of the sverigedemokraterna.se website displayed an ASCII image of a birthday cake with one lit candle.... |
20 September 2010
05:20 GMT |
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A group of Romanian hacktivists, who recently defaced two websites associated with The Daily Telegraph as a protest against negative depictions of the Romanian people in the British media, attacked the French newspaper Le Monde over the weekend, citing similar reasons. On April 14, a previously unknown group of hack... |
20 April 2010
11:30 GMT |
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Two websites hosted on the telegraph.co.uk domain were defaced to display Romanian patriotic messages and the country's flag, yesterday. The hacktivists who claimed responsibility for the attack expressed anger at the British media for portraying the Romanian people in an unfavorable light.
The attack targete... |
15 April 2010
09:31 GMT |
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TechCrunch has been the victim of a cyber-attack for a second time in less than 24 hours. Following the new incident, an offensive and taunting message was left on the front page of the technology blog.It seems that someone has a personal vendetta against the world's second most popular technology blog and its f... |
27 January 2010
04:31 GMT |
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The popular technology blog TechCrunch was hit by hackers yesterday evening, resulting in a downtime of several hours. The website's home page was altered to only display a link to illegal content.TechCrunch.com is a technology blog founded in 2005, which has grown to become one of the major sources of technolog... |
26 January 2010
10:06 GMT |
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The most popular Web search engine in China, Baidu.com, was attacked by a group of hacktivists identifying themselves as the Iranian Cyber Army. The hackers hijacked the domain's DNS records and pointed it to a server under their control.Baidu is a Chinese search engine established in 2000. According to the Alex... |
12 January 2010
04:45 GMT |
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The website of the biggest Australian film festival was defaced by Chinese hacktivists. The politically motivated hackers replaced the content with the Chinese flag and messages against Rebiya Kadeer, leader of the Uyghur ethnic group, who was invited to attend the event. The 2009 edition of the Melbourne Internatio... |
28 July 2009
06:13 GMT |
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Several sections of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) website have been defaced by an Indian hacktivist. He warns the government that this is just the beginning, if attacks against Indian students living in Australia don't stop. According to Trend Micro's Solutions Architect Rik Ferguson, who was among... |
18 July 2009
05:37 GMT |
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