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The Xbox Live online service was down for a few hours yesterday and immediately after the outage happened, a hacker claimed to have broken into Microsoft's servers. The company has now denied the rumor, saying that its service wasn't affected by any intrusion.
The Xbox Live service is crucial to the succes... |
24 May 2013
02:28 GMT |
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A few hours ago, the following tweet was posted from the official Sky News Newsdesk Twitter account: “Colin was here.”
Twitter users didn’t appear to be surprised by the message, considering that the Twitter accounts of numerous major media organizations were hijacked in the past period by the Syri... |
14 May 2013
08:22 GMT |
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The Internet is full of tutorials on how to hack road signs, and it appears some people are putting them to good use. The latest incident occurred in Florida, where a portable traffic sign was hacked to display “Smoke weed erryday.” According to the Orlando Sentinel, a number of people stopped to take pi... |
14 May 2013
02:42 GMT |
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Hackers of the Turkish Ajan collective claim to have breached the website of the police department of the City of Mobile, Alabama, United States (mobilepd.org).
They haven’t caused any damage to the website itself, but they’ve leaked an archive file that appears to contain information from the site... |
13 May 2013
03:22 GMT |
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In case you haven’t been following this week’s cyber security events and you want to catch up, here’s a brief of the week’s main events and incidents.
Over the past days, the Syrian Electronic Army has made numerous headlines. First, because they hacked the Twitter account and the SMS service... |
12 May 2013
01:51 GMT |
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A couple of days ago, the notorious Syrian Electronic Army managed to hack into the systems of The Onion, the popular news satire organization. After addressing the breach, the publication’s tech team published a post detailing how the hackers managed to gain unauthorized access to their systems.
It turns out ... |
9 May 2013
09:23 GMT |
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Guccifer, the hacker who has become famous after breaching the email accounts of the Bush family and several other officials, is back. His latest victim is Candace Bushnell, the author of SATC, The Carrie Diaries, Summer and the City, One Fifth Avenue and Lipstick Jungle.
The Smoking Gun reports that the hacker gain... |
9 May 2013
08:49 GMT |
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These days, a large number of data breaches are blamed on China. However, Evernote claims that the recent hack attack doesn’t appear to come from China, but an identity theft group. According to Bloomberg, Mandiant is investigating the breach that affected Evernote and a detailed report will be compiled in a f... |
9 May 2013
04:16 GMT |
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Name.com has started sending out notifications to customers, informing them about a data breach. The company believes that hackers might have accessed usernames, email addresses, encrypted passwords and encrypted credit card information.
The Internet registrar says it stores the private keys needed to access credit ... |
9 May 2013
03:56 GMT |
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Mapco Express, the US-based convenience store chain, is notifying customers about a security breach. The company says hackers have managed to gain access to customer credit/debit card information by planting malware on payment processing systems.
The precise number of affected customers hasn’t been revea... |
7 May 2013
07:24 GMT |
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The Syrian Electronic Army has hijacked the Twitter account of yet another major media organization. This time, the victim is E! Online, the popular celebrity gossip and entertainment news provider. The hackers claim to have breached not only E! Online’s Twitter account, but also its SMS service, which alleged... |
6 May 2013
02:54 GMT |
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At least 18 students from the Schoenbar Middle School in Ketchikan, Alaska, have been involved in a phishing scheme that targeted their teachers.
According to the Associated Press, the students tricked the teachers into handing over their administrator credentials by presenting them with bogus software updates.
Si... |
3 May 2013
02:52 GMT |
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A total of 10 domains and subdomains owned by world-renowned car manufacturer Ferrari have been defaced by a Brazilian hacker collective that calls itself the “Red Eye Crew.” The affected domains are the ones that host the Ferrari forum (forum.ferrari.com), the mobile site (m.ferrari.com), the special ca... |
1 May 2013
09:16 GMT |
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Online reputation and review management firm Reputation.com has suffered a security breach. The company has started notifying customers, informing them that their passwords have been reset.
Reputation.com representatives have stated that the attack was “interrupted and swiftly shut down” before the attac... |
1 May 2013
07:08 GMT |
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Three web subdomains of the State of Texas, US, all associated with the Texas State Board of Dental Examiners, have been defaced by a hacker that uses the online nickname Nob0dy.
HackRead informs that the affected subdomains are tsbde.texas.gov, dentalboard.texas.gov and tsbde.state.tx.us.
The hacker hasn’t r... |
30 April 2013
05:29 GMT |
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Several domains and subdomains of Nimbuzz, the highly popular free instant messaging app, have been hacked and defaced by an Iranian hacker.
The Hackers Post reports that the nimbuzz.com, developers.nimbuzz.com, shop.nimbuzz.com, services.nimbuzz.com, nimbuzzout.com, get.nimbuzz.com and profile.nimbuzz.com sites hav... |
29 April 2013
11:07 GMT |
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The hacker group that supports the Syrian regime, the Syrian Electronic Army, has breached a total of 11 Twitter accounts of the Guardian newspaper.
The list of targeted accounts includes Guardian Books, Guardian Travel, Guardian Film, Guardian Pictures, and the ones of a few of the paper’s editors.
Currently... |
29 April 2013
08:43 GMT |
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The official website of the City of Harford (Hartford.gov), Connecticut’s capital city, and the one of Jefferson County (jeffersoncountywi.gov), Wisconsin, have been hacked and defaced.
On Thursday, a hacker that goes by the name of “Nob0dy” defaced the main page of the Jefferson County website. In... |
26 April 2013
08:44 GMT |
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Up until now, the Syrian Electronic Army has breached, on average, the Twitter accounts of one high-profile organization per week. Over the past week, things seem to have changed. After breaching the accounts of CBS and FIFA a couple of days ago, on Tuesday, the hackers managed to hijack two Twitter accounts of... |
24 April 2013
03:11 GMT |
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A total of 15 websites of the Bangladeshi government have been breached by Indian hackers Yamraaj and “404 !-!@!2$!-!@.”
The list of affected sites includes a subdomain of National Web Portal of Bangladesh (infokosh.bangladesh.gov.bd), the Department of Prisons (prison.gov.bd), the Bangladesh National Co... |
23 April 2013
09:52 GMT |
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Verizon has released its 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report. The company has found that, in 2012, hacking was the “number one way” that data breaches occurred.
The figures from the report show that 52% of data breaches involved hacking. 76% of intrusions exploited weak or stolen credentials, 40% reli... |
23 April 2013
04:13 GMT |
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A total of 7 domains of Mercedes-Benz Austria have been hacked and defaced by the members of the Turkish Ajan collective.
The list of affected domains includes mercedes.at, lessiak.mercedes-benz.at, mercedes-benz.at, schulung.mercedes-benz.at, kroepfl.mercedes-benz.at and dialog.mercedes-benz.at.
The pages have bee... |
22 April 2013
05:40 GMT |
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A total of 4 Twitter accounts of CBS – the ones of “60 Minutes,” “48 Hours,” “Energy 103.7” and “CBS Denver” – were hacked on Saturday by members of the notorious Syrian Electronic Army. “We have experienced problems on Twitter accounts of #60Minutes ... |
22 April 2013
02:33 GMT |
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Hackers of the Portugal Cyber Army and ones from the HighTech Brazil HackTeam claim to have breached the official website of the Dubai International Airport, hosted on the dubaiairport.com domain.
As a result of the alleged hack, over 50 dubaiairports.ae email addresses and hashed passwords, which appear to be... |
20 April 2013
03:54 GMT |
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Last week, users of Seclist.org – the security mailing list archive for Full Disclosure, Bugtraq, Nmap and many others – might have experienced some issues when accessing the site. It turns out that the downtime was due to the fact that the website’s web hosting provider, Linode, had been hacked. A... |
15 April 2013
05:44 GMT |
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A few hours ago, visitors of the official Google Kenya domain (google.co.ke) were met with a page that displayed the following message: “Hacked by TiGER-M@TE, Bangladeshi hacker.”
Currently, Google Kenya appears to be working properly, but I’ve managed to find mirrors of the defacement page.
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15 April 2013
04:42 GMT |
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The official Twitter account of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (@NicolasMaduro) and the one of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela (@PartidoPSUV) have been hacked by the members of the LulzSec Peru hacktivist collective. In addition, the hackers also claim to have defaced Maduro’s official blog which,... |
15 April 2013
03:42 GMT |
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Hackers of Anonymous Belgium have breached the official website of the Bree fire department in Belgium after learning that two of its volunteers have been accused of molesting a 13-year-old girl. The girl, a member of the fire department’s youth unit, has been allegedly abused by a 24-year-old man who leads th... |
8 April 2013
06:14 GMT |
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Hackers of the Tunisian Cyber Army continue their preparations for OpBlackSummer, the campaign they’ve initiated against the United States. They claim that their latest target is an official website of the First National Bank of Mercersburg (fnbmbg.com).
The hackers have told E Hacking News that they’ve ... |
8 April 2013
05:26 GMT |
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Hackers apparently affiliated with the Anonymous movement have breached the website, the Twitter account and the Flickr account of Uriminzokkiri (translated as “Our Nation”), a China-based North Korea news website. In addition, several Uriminzokkiri-related websites have also been taken down.
On the comp... |
4 April 2013
09:11 GMT |
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Mt. Gox, the world’s largest Bitcoin exchange service, and Bitcoin wallet website Instawallet have both been targeted by cybercriminals. First, Instawallet has reported that it has suspended the service indefinitely until it can develop an alternative architecture. The reason: the company’s systems have... |
4 April 2013
06:55 GMT |
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Hackers of the Turkish Ajan collective continue to target the websites of high-profile companies, some of which from the fast food industry. Back in September 2012, they hit the Indian website of Domino’s Pizza, leaking the details of around 37,000 users.
On Monday, Maxney and xXM3HM3TXx, members of the ... |
26 March 2013
06:11 GMT |
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Guccifer – the hacker known for breaching the accounts of the Bush family, Colin Powell, UN officials, former FBI agents and other public figures – has added another victim to his list. This time it’s John Doerr, an American venture capitalist at Kleiner Perkins Caufield Byers (KPCB) and a member of... |
22 March 2013
04:59 GMT |
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Guccifer – the hacker who became famous after hijacking the email accounts of several officials, including members of the Bush family and their friends – has breached the AOL account of Sidney Blumenthal, a senior adviser of former President Bill Clinton.
According to The Smoking Gun, the hacker has mana... |
19 March 2013
06:28 GMT |
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In the past months, we learned of numerous public figures whose voicemails were breached by the now-defunct News of the World (NOTW). It turns out that Princess Diana and Hasnat Khan, the Pakistani heart and lung surgeon she had a two-year relationship with, might also be on the victim list. According to The Telegra... |
18 March 2013
09:53 GMT |
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Hackers calling themselves Aces & Eights, named after the professional wrestling stable, have breached the Impact Wrestling website (impactwrestling.com) of Total Nonstop Action (TNA) Wrestling. In addition, the hackers have also hijacked the official Impact Wrestling Facebook and Twitter accounts. The hackers uploa... |
16 March 2013
04:45 GMT |
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The National Vulnerability Database (NVD) and several other websites operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have been inaccessible for the past few days.
It turns out that NIST's systems have been hacked. More precisely, the sites have been taken down after malware was identified... |
14 March 2013
05:47 GMT |
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A Turkish hacker using the online moniker SaMuRa! has somehow managed to deface a section of the official Service Center website of Acer Thailand (www2.acer.co.th).
The hacker, a member of the TurkHackTeam, has told HackRead that he has breached the website to show the Taiwan-based hardware and electronics cor... |
14 March 2013
05:27 GMT |
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The official Facebook account of Colin Powell, former US Secretary of State, has been hacked. The hacker started publishing some of the pictures stolen from the email accounts of the Bush family earlier this year.
Sophos reports that the hacker managed to publish several posts and even an album named “GEORGE &... |
11 March 2013
12:09 GMT |
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In an effort to raise awareness on the fact that most computer systems are poorly protected, computer science students from Serbia have hacked an advertising billboard from the center of Belgrade and have made it display, among other things, the logo of The Pirate Bay.
Just before programming the billboard to displa... |
11 March 2013
11:17 GMT |
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On Thursday, the members of the Anonymous-affiliated M3du5a hacker collective breached the official website of Constantin Film, a German film production and distribution company based in Munich.
As a result of the breach, around two dozen usernames and passwords that protect the site’s backend, and the m... |
8 March 2013
03:22 GMT |
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Saudi Aramco might have taken some steps to protect its critical systems against cyberattacks after the massive data breach that occurred in August 2012. However, it appears the company hasn’t done much to protect its social media accounts.
On Wednesday, a hacker that goes by the name of Mister Rero hacked the... |
7 March 2013
02:35 GMT |
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BitInstant is the latest Bitcoin exchange website to fall victim to hackers. The company was forced to shut down its website between Thursday and Monday to address the issue. According to a statement made by the company’s representatives, the attackers haven’t managed to gain access to any personal ... |
6 March 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Hackers of the NullCrew collective have managed to breach the support center website of US telecommunications company Time Warner Cable.
The hacktivists have added a defacement page to supportcenter.timewarnercable.com: 8888/sdcxuser/. Besides the picture of a gorilla, the defacement page also contains informa... |
6 March 2013
05:26 GMT |
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Michael Musacchio, a 61-year-old man from Plano, Texas, was convicted by a federal jury for conspiring to hack into the computer networks of his former employer. According to the US Department of Justice, between 2002 and 2004, Musacchio was the president of a third-party logistics company called Exel Transportation... |
4 March 2013
10:30 GMT |
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21-year-old Nicholas Webber, sentenced to jail for five years in 2011 for running a cybercrime website called GhostMarket, managed to hack into the networks of the prison after being allowed to attend an IT class.
The incident occurred back in 2011, but it only came to light recently after the teacher, Michael Fox, ... |
4 March 2013
03:50 GMT |
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The passwords of all 50 million Evernote users are being reset after the company identified suspicious activity on its network.
After investigating the incident, the firm hasn’t found any evidence that payment information for Evernote Business or Evernote Premium customers, or content from stores had been acce... |
4 March 2013
02:39 GMT |
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Prime Suspectz – a veteran hacker group that, according to their zone-h.org account, breached at least 200 high-profile websites between 2000 and 2002 – have managed to deface the “portal” subdomain of LulzSec.com, a domain that’s currently owned by US authorities.
“Anonymous & Lu... |
2 March 2013
06:47 GMT |
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Hackers of the Syrian Electronic Army have managed to hijack the “Photo Department” Twitter account (@AFPphoto) of Agence France-Presse (AFP).
As soon as it learned about the hack, AFP had the account suspended. However, the hackers have managed to post several images related to the conflict in Syr... |
27 February 2013
03:22 GMT |
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A website of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) has been hacked. As a result of the breach, the details of around 50,000 users have been leaked online.
The published information consists of usernames, email addresses, password hashes, and other user details.
The hacker, Phr0zenMyst, says he targeted ABC... |
27 February 2013
03:08 GMT |
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