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The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has revealed that authorities have disrupted the activities of a drug trafficking ring that relied on hackers to breach the systems of shipping companies in an effort to facilitate smuggling.
According to authorities, the gang hacked the websites of two major container terminals ... |
18 June 2013
11:22 GMT |
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Pod2g was known to be one of Apple’s biggest fans, but now that he’s been playing around with iOS 7, he’s had a change of heart.
In fact, his impression of Jony Ive’s redesign is so negative he says he’s ready to move onto Android.
“After a few days of iOS 7 beta 1 testing, I mus... |
18 June 2013
05:12 GMT |
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Note. After talking to a number of hackers and security experts familiar with Hmei7's work, we've determined that the hacker we've interviewed might not be the real Hmei7. He has provided us with proof that he is Hmei7, but new evidence suggests that he might simply be a troll. If it turns out that he ... |
15 June 2013
10:21 GMT |
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John Anthony Borell III, 22, known on the web as Anonymous hacker “ItsKahuna,” has pleaded guilty to five hacking-related charges.
According to The Associated Press, Borell agreed to admit hacking the websites of the LA County Canine Police Association, the Salt Lake City police, Syracuse police, Utah Ch... |
12 June 2013
10:20 GMT |
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LulzSec hacker Ryan Cleary, known on the hacking scene as ViraL, will be released soon. He was sentenced to 30 months in prison back in May after admitting to his involvement in cyberattacks against several high-profile organizations. He has already served over half of his sentence – one year, six months and 1... |
12 June 2013
09:37 GMT |
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A few days ago, some Anonymous hackers announced that they started tracking individuals they believed to be “child predators.” They claimed that they monitored chatrooms and social media websites and found several individuals, including teachers, politicians and doctors.
The operation seems to focus main... |
12 June 2013
07:13 GMT |
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The Syrian Computer Society has decided to stop hosting the official website of the notorious pro-Assad hacktivist collective, the Syrian Electronic Army.
“We at the Syrian Electronic Army management regret to inform all members and staff that the Syrian Electronic Army's website is no longer functional. ... |
1 June 2013
07:04 GMT |
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WatchGuard has released an interesting infographic that portrays the motives and the methods used by “the three most dangerous types of hackers.” The infographic, titled “The Three Bad Guys Behind the Latest Cyber-Security Attacks,” shows the unique attributes of cybercriminals, hacktivists a... |
30 May 2013
10:56 GMT |
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Hacking duo Joe Brown and Sky Zangas have released a modified carrier update for Verizon users wielding iPhones and cellular iPads to increase their data speeds. The hack enables 1x Advanced and EVDO Rev. B on the iPhone 5, as well as on cellular versions of the iPad 3, iPad 4, and iPad mini. It also enhances LTE da... |
30 May 2013
09:17 GMT |
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A 34-year-old Russian national living illegally in South Africa has been detained by local authorities on suspicion of hacking into the systems of telecoms giant MTN.
Since 2011, when he began his illegal activities, the man is suspected of having stolen 50 million South African Rands’ (5 million USD) worth of airti... |
30 May 2013
06:44 GMT |
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Alexander Waterland, aged 25, of Loveland, Ohio, has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison and two years of supervised release. He has been convicted for trying to blackmail the University of Pittsburgh. Waterland downloaded some information, including student and faculty details, from a University of Pit... |
30 May 2013
04:13 GMT |
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SuperDaE, an Australian hacker who previously posted confidential information about the Xbox One and the PlayStation 4, has revealed that, if he's arrested for hacking into Microsoft's database, he'll publicly reveal all the data he's gathered up until now to the world. Before Microsoft's Xb... |
27 May 2013
05:14 GMT |
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23-year-old Todd Miller of Columbus, Ohio, has been sentenced to one year of house arrest and three years probation for his role in attacks against Sony’s PlayStation Network.
The sentence could have been much higher, but back in 2011, after the FBI paid him a visit, Miller took out the hard drives from ... |
13 May 2013
07:22 GMT |
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After hacking into the website of Turkey’s Foreign Ministry, some of the country’s officials said that the notorious RedHack group would be placed on the list of terrorist organizations. However, prosecutors have ruled that the hackers are not terrorists. Although they’ve hacked several high-profil... |
10 May 2013
02:37 GMT |
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A programmer from Long Island, New York, was arrested last week and charged with hacking into the systems of a company that manufactures high-voltage power supplies. The suspect, Michael Meneses, worked for the firm in question until January 2012. The complaint reveals that Meneses worked for the company as a softwa... |
6 May 2013
14:01 GMT |
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Hamza Bendelladj of Algeria, aka “Bx1,” has been extradited from Thailand – where he was arrested earlier this year while in transit from Malaysia to Egypt – to the US. He is accused of playing a critical role in developing, marketing, distributing and controlling the notorious piece of malwar... |
6 May 2013
07:51 GMT |
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The individuals from “PayPal 14” – a group of activists accused of launching the 2010 cyberattacks against PayPal after the company refused to continue processing donations for WikiLeaks – are due in court on May 14. Anonymous hacktivists have released a statement in which they urge everyone ... |
6 May 2013
05:10 GMT |
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As the presidential elections draw near, tension mounts in Iran both in the real world and in cyberspace. On May 1, the official website of the country’s Basij military branch was taken down after a cyberattack was launched against it.
“Due to the impending vote, elements of the global arrogance have lau... |
3 May 2013
10:11 GMT |
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Some Indian politicians have stopped using their smartphones for important communications after news broke out that hackers were being hired by their political opponents.
Times of India reports that hackers and security experts are being offered Rs 1 lakh ($1,852 / €1,416) and sometimes even more to breach the ... |
3 May 2013
06:51 GMT |
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Law enforcement authorities are constantly seeking more power to be able to “spy” on the online communications of individuals they believe to be involved in criminal activities. However, for the time being, they require a warrant to do that and, as it turns out, they don’t always get one. Ars Techn... |
26 April 2013
09:26 GMT |
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On Tuesday, Matthew Keys, the former Reuters deputy social media editor accused of helping Anonymous hackers deface the Los Angeles Times website, pleaded not guilty. The Huffington Post reports that the journalist hasn’t made any statements, but his lawyer has provided some details regarding their defen... |
24 April 2013
04:30 GMT |
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Over the past months, the Syrian Electronic Army – the hacker collective that backs the Syrian regime – has hijacked dozens of Twitter accounts. The hackers’ latest targets are 4 Twitter accounts of CBS and two operated by FIFA, including the one of FIFA President Sepp Blatter.
However, the h... |
23 April 2013
05:09 GMT |
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Cody Kretsinger, the LulzSec hacker who admitted in April 2012 to breaching Sony Pictures Entertainment, has been sentenced to 1 year in prison. According to the Los Angeles Times, Kretsinger – who was known on the hacking scene as “Recursion” – will also have to perform 1,000 hours of commun... |
19 April 2013
02:49 GMT |
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21-year-old Lewys Stephen Martin of the United Kingdom – charged back in November 2012 with disrupting various websites, including the ones of Oxford University, Cambridge University and Kent Police – has pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him.
According to Kent Police, the hacker has pleaded ... |
16 April 2013
07:00 GMT |
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Microsoft has again become victim of a successful DNS hijack attempt, this time in Kenya. Bangladeshi hacker TiGER-M@TE managed to break into the servers hosted by Nairobi-based Footprint Computer Solutions and change the DNS settings of several high-profile websites belonging to Google, Kaspersky, Western Union, Del... |
16 April 2013
04:51 GMT |
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The hacker attack that The War Z underwent, the controversial zombie online shooter, was concentrated on its forums as publisher OP Productions has confirmed that the nefarious individuals didn't access the game's account database. The War Z was at the center of a huge controversy late last year when it wa... |
15 April 2013
08:31 GMT |
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After reading stories about iOS exploits fetching as much as half a million dollars on the black market for software vulnerabilities, you might think the hackers are pretty enticed to make a pitch to the government, the army, or other parties who might be interested in buying. But they’re not. In fact, as Dav... |
12 April 2013
08:25 GMT |
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It’s official. The code-savvy team behind evasi0n is not burning the midnight oil to release a jailbreak for iOS 6.1.3, the latest version of Apple’s mobile operating system powering iPhones and iPads worldwide.
Responding to a jailbreak-related question from one of his Twitter followers, French hacking ... |
2 April 2013
11:32 GMT |
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Two prominent hackers on the jailbreak scene today are reporting a security breach involving Apple’s iMessage text-messaging service on iOS and OS X.“On Wednesday night my private iMessage handle got flooded with ‘Hi’ and ‘We are anonymous’ [expletive],” iH8sn0w tells TNW.Gra... |
30 March 2013
09:11 GMT |
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We've learned about some interesting things from the information security world over the past week, but since no particular topic has made headlines, we’ve entitled this security brief “Diversity.”
When it comes to hacking, the first story worth mentioning is the one about the cyberattacks aga... |
24 March 2013
04:01 GMT |
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17-year-old Michael William Cook, of Acworth, Georgia, US, has been arrested and charged with distributing adult content involving children. Police say Cook sent his victims, all aged under 18, text messages that appeared to be coming from a company called Maxi Focus Photography in an effort to trick them into insta... |
22 March 2013
04:39 GMT |
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Redmond-based software maker Microsoft recently confirmed that a group of hackers got access to the Xbox Live accounts of several current and former employees.
While the accounts do not contain social security numbers, they do collect names and addresses. Security researcher Brian Krebs, who has closely monitored th... |
20 March 2013
09:32 GMT |
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Over the weekend, we learned that some irritated hackers launched distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attacks against Brian Krebs’ website, and called a SWAT team on him. After further investigating the incident, the expert has uncovered some interesting things.
After getting in touch with the owner of booter... |
19 March 2013
05:27 GMT |
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A security issue has been found within the Origin digital distribution service as hackers can use a flaw in the program to execute malicious files that can give them complete access to a victim's computer.
Electronic Arts' Origin service has received a lot of criticism in recent weeks due to the problemati... |
19 March 2013
04:35 GMT |
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Andrew Auernheimer – aka “Weev,” the Internet activist found guilty in November 2012 of hacking into the systems of AT&T and stealing the details of around 120,000 iPad owners – has been reportedly sentenced to 41 months in prison and three years of supervised release.
Tweets ... |
18 March 2013
12:16 GMT |
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The US Justice Department has indicted Matthew Keys, a deputy social media editor at Reuters, for allegedly helping Anonymous hacktivists gain access to a server of the Tribune Company and deface the Los Angeles Times’ website. Keys has been charged with one count of attempted transmission of information to da... |
15 March 2013
03:58 GMT |
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The UK Metropolitan Police has announced that four individuals, current and former Mirror Group Newspaper journalists, have been arrested as part of an investigation into a phone voicemail interception case.
The arrests are part of the now-famous Operation Weeting, but authorities say the case is treated separately ... |
14 March 2013
10:18 GMT |
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The sentencing of Russian national Kristina Svechinskaya, known as the world’s most attractive hacker, has been postponed for the second time this year. The sentencing was initially scheduled for January 11, but it was later moved to March 1, and now to April 19, RAPSI News reports.
Although she has been named... |
7 March 2013
07:12 GMT |
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As we mentioned earlier, DeadMellox, the leader of Team GhostShell, revealed that he has decided to take a break from the hacking scene for an undetermined period of time. Before he does that, we’ve asked him to offer us an interview to find out more about the impact of his group’s operations. The hacker... |
1 March 2013
09:31 GMT |
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Speaking at the 2013 RSA Conference in San Francisco, FBI Director Robert Muller explained that the partnership between government agencies and private industry must be strengthened, also saying that a new approach is needed in the effort to combat cybercrime.
Muller has highlighted the fact that after 9/11, the FBI... |
1 March 2013
04:32 GMT |
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After leaking millions of pieces of information from the systems of organizations from all over the world, Team GhostShell has become the target of several law enforcement agencies. In an interview we’ve had with DeadMellox, the leader of the group, he has detailed some of his encounters with the authorities.
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1 March 2013
03:59 GMT |
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Andrew Auernheimer, the Internet activist found guilty in November 2012 of hacking into the systems of AT&T and stealing the details of around 120,000 iPad owners, will be sentenced on March 18, TechCrunch reports.
Auernheimer, also known as “Weev,” could face up to ten years in prison after being convic... |
28 February 2013
09:30 GMT |
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The sentencing of Hector Xavier Monsegur – better known as Sabu, the leader of the infamous LulzSec hacker collective – has been postponed once again without any explanation. According to The Guardian, Monsegur was scheduled to appear at a Manhattan federal court on Friday where he should have been sente... |
23 February 2013
03:53 GMT |
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The same anonymous group thought to be responsible for an attack on Facebook has breached “a small number” of Macs at Apple. The Cupertino giant quickly squashed the malware, which could also affect users in the wild, via a software update.
Apple tells All Things D that the company “has identified ... |
20 February 2013
02:34 GMT |
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Earlier today we’ve learned that security firm Mandiant has published a comprehensive report detailing the activities of Unit 61398, the organization that’s believed to be behind many of the cyber espionage operations launched by China.
Besides technical details regarding APT1, as the campaign has been d... |
19 February 2013
09:30 GMT |
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This week, US President Barack Obama has finally issued the long-awaited cybersecurity executive order. The order is not as good as proper legislation, but it’s one step forward in the United States’ attempt to secure the country’s critical infrastructures.
In addition, the executive order doesn�... |
17 February 2013
03:01 GMT |
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The UK Metropolitan Police reveals that officers have arrested 6 former employees of the News of the World (NOTW) newspaper. It’s believed that the suspects intercepted telephone voicemails during 2005 to 2006.
According to Scotland Yard, this is a separate conspiracy than the one they’ve been investigat... |
13 February 2013
08:20 GMT |
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Japanese authorities have arrested an individual they believe to be behind the malware that has been making threats on behalf of the users whose computers it infected.
According to the Bangkok Post, the police suspect that 30-year-old Tokyo resident Yusuke Katayama is responsible for the mass-killing threats.
It al... |
11 February 2013
04:17 GMT |
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Indian authorities have arrested a Doranda college student involved with a cybercriminal group. Investigators have learned that the suspect used Facebook to interact with other hackers.
According to the Daily Bhaskar, the fraudsters wanted to steal a total of 70 crores (the equivalent of around $13 million) from fou... |
11 February 2013
03:39 GMT |
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A hacker accused of stealing money and laundering it in an effort to fund terrorist activities has been sentenced to 8 years in prison by a court in Jakarta, the capital city of Indonesia.
According to the Jakarta Globe, the hacker, Cahya Fitrianta, will also have to pay a $51,000 (38,000 EUR) fine.
Fitriant... |
8 February 2013
04:35 GMT |
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