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Valve boss Gabe Newell has made a new announcement for users of its Steam digital distribution service and Steam forums, sharing some more information about the hacker attack suffered by the company late last year.Hackers dominated the spotlight in 2011, as after forcing Sony to take down its PlayStation Network, som... |
11 February 2012
02:31 GMT |
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Upcoming first-person shooter Syndicate has received a new trailer from developer Starbreeze and publisher Electronic Arts, which is designed to look like an infomercial for the DART6 chip that the player will use throughout the game in order to get access to his superpowers.They are officially known as hacking abili... |
2 February 2012
10:32 GMT |
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Microsoft has made a statement concerning recent discoveries that said its Xbox.com website wasn’t secure, emphasizing that such attacks are quite common in the online gaming business. Lately, we’ve been hearing a lot about Xbox Live accounts being hacked into, with nefarious individuals using stored cre... |
17 January 2012
15:31 GMT |
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The vulnerability used by hackers to break into Xbox Live accounts might have been uncovered recently, as two websites have posted similar walkthroughs that show how cyber-attackers could exploit Microsoft’s Xbox.com website and force their way into the accounts of its users. While Microsoft has denied in rec... |
16 January 2012
10:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a refund to one of its Xbox Live users after she fell prey to a phishing scam and saw her account used by hackers to purchase thousands of Microsoft Points.
After hackers started stealing accounts from all sorts of Xbox 360 owners and then used them to buy various things, mostly relating to FIFA... |
10 January 2012
05:10 GMT |
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Trion Worlds, the studio that administers the Rift online role playing game, has confirmed that “unauthorized intruders” have gained access to one of their account databases, managing to get a hold of user information like account names, encrypted passwords, email addresses and even the first and last fou... |
23 December 2011
20:31 GMT |
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Victoria Police raided the headquarters of The Age newspaper, seizing computers and documents with the purpose of finding evidence to prove that journalists illegally hacked into the computers belonging to the Australian Labor Party (ALP).
Last year in November, after being alerted by a whistleblower, The Age journa... |
16 December 2011
08:54 GMT |
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Around 15,000 account details belonging to the members of the Seven Sins gaming news website (se7ensins.com) were published in a Pastebin document by a hacker that calls himself NOTJESTER.
The leaked information contains usernames, passwords and email addresses allegedly found in a log file dated June 2010.
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14 December 2011
10:11 GMT |
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The Pakistani hacker collective known as Pak Cyber Pirates breached the defense mechanisms deployed by 99 US and Indian websites in an attempt to attract the attention of NATO officials.
All the defaced websites host an image of a Pakistani flag and signs of the alleged atrocities committed by NATO in their countr... |
10 December 2011
06:49 GMT |
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In September 2011, around $6,000 (4,200 EUR) were stolen from a SunTrust bank account belonging to Deer Chase Elementary School, in Richmond County, by a hacker group allegedly based in Florida.
It’s suspected that the same group illegally accessed the school’s PTA fund in 2010, making away with around ... |
9 December 2011
07:49 GMT |
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The website of UNICEF Ireland (unicef.ie) was breached and defaced by a hacker who calls himself Brwsk007, reports CyberWarNews. Brwsk007 claims that not only was the main page defaced, but he also obtained access to their databases. “Your site is Unsecure. We Accessed to your database and all files. We defa... |
9 December 2011
06:44 GMT |
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Four Romanians, known in cybercriminal underground as dobitoc212, xjuniior, iulyvip and r_florinus were indicted by US authorities for hacking into computing devices belonging to more than 200 businesses, especially targeting point-of-sale and checkout systems to steal credit card information.
According to the offi... |
9 December 2011
05:17 GMT |
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Wanting to further prove that government websites are not secure, hackers from TeamDX found a persistent cross-site scripting vulnerability in the official website of City of Glendale, California. No damage whatsoever was done to the site, the only reason why the operation took place was to show how “security ... |
9 December 2011
04:27 GMT |
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Certificate authorities (CAs) once again prove they’re weak when targeted by a cybercriminal operation. This time, Gemnet, a subsidiary of Dutch KPN, was attacked through its public website, the hackers managing to access some information stored on their server. For the moment, the company didn’t provid... |
9 December 2011
03:29 GMT |
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Anonymous SV, the Salvadorian faction of the infamous hacking group, and a collective known as 4AnonHack managed to breach the security measures implemented by the official website of the Cultural Secretariat of Mexico (cultura.michoacan.gob.mx), leaking some information from one of their databases.
Names, usernames... |
8 December 2011
07:03 GMT |
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After warning Toronto officials not to interfere with the peaceful protests that take place in the Occupy Toronto movement, members of Anonymous attacked the websites of over 50 local businesses, redirecting all of them to the official Occupy Toronto site. They also took down the Canadian version of the popular Crai... |
6 December 2011
13:41 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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International Checkout customers began receiving emails that alert them on the fact that the organization has recently fallen victim to a cyberattack which resulted in the theft of a large quantity of personal information, including credit card details. “International Checkout was recently the victim of a syst... |
6 December 2011
07:05 GMT |
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The Yamaha Racing Factory official website (yamahamotogp.com) was breached by a hacker called _V4ND that leaked the section of their database that contained customer credentials.
A number of 10,000 email addresses, usernames and passwords were leaked and unfortunately, all the passwords were stored in clear text, wh... |
6 December 2011
06:37 GMT |
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For those who don’t trust what they say, members of TeaMp0isoN, the hacker collective that managed to break into the systems of the United Nations Development Programme, leaked an email dated July 12, 2011, obtained from the server in question.
After UNDP representatives claimed that the breached server was ol... |
5 December 2011
09:12 GMT |
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While the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) claims that the data on the servers breached by TeaMp0isoN is outdated and the server itself is old, the hackers say that the logs they found prove otherwise. A few days ago, TeaMp0isoN managed to break into the servers of the UNDP, leaking usernames, passwords a... |
1 December 2011
09:47 GMT |
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Again we are presented with a situation that shows how even companies that should keep us protected are vulnerable to the attacks launched by cybercriminals. This time, NOD32’s website in Ukraine and Kaspersky’s Costa Rican site were defaced. Kaspersky was hacked by Algerian hackers Over-X, indoushka and... |
1 December 2011
03:26 GMT |
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The University of California, Riverside reported that the cash registers from food services were exploited by a cybercriminal who may have gained access to information from 5,000 credit cards. An official statement on UCR’s official website reveals that card numbers, cardholder names, expiration dates and an e... |
30 November 2011
10:39 GMT |
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XDarkSton3x, a member of the MetalSoft hacker collective, managed to break into the systems of the Guatemalan Congress, leaking tons of sensitive information. The main purpose of the attack was to make governments worldwide care more about security than money, reports Cyberwarnews. Names, usernames, email addresses... |
30 November 2011
09:38 GMT |
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The website of Fiochi Munizioni, Italy’s largest and oldest ammunition manufacturer, was hacked by members of Anonymous for producing the ammo that’s used to kill innocent people in Egypt.
“Anonymous has discovered that the Italian company Flakes (http://fiocchigfl.it/) produces ammunition that kil... |
30 November 2011
06:02 GMT |
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The website of the United Nations Development Programme was hacked by TeaMp0isoN and tons of details were leaked as a form of protest against what they call “the bureaucratic head of NATO used to legitimise the Barbarism of Capitalist elite.”
After yesterday I claimed that Anonymous and their supporting ... |
29 November 2011
02:56 GMT |
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Right before they announced a cyber safety session for parents and students, a hacker team breached the website of the Lumen Christi College in the UK, leaking the details of 15 staff members, including the ones belonging to the site’s administrator.
Principal department, science department, religious develo... |
26 November 2011
09:31 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a new statement defending itself and its Xbox Live online service after UK tabloid The Sun accused it of allowing hackers to steal sensitive data from many of its users through elaborate phishing attempts.While The Sun isn’t exactly the best source of journalism investigation from the UK, t... |
25 November 2011
19:41 GMT |
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A hacker collective that goes by the name of Pak Cyber HunterZ defaced a handful of Pakistani and Indian websites, some of them hosted on .gov or .edu domains.
“Site Has Been Hacked By (GiRl-RiD3r-H3x()r)Team Pak Cyber HunterZ. Where Is Your Security Admin? You dnt even got skills to protect your own a**,&rdqu... |
24 November 2011
10:11 GMT |
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A cybercriminal that resides in Hungary pleaded guilty after he was arrested for hacking into the computer systems of Marriott International, blackmailing the company with the purpose of getting a job.
26-year old Attila Nemeth tried to obtain a job as a computer engineer at Marriott in a highly unorthodox way, repo... |
24 November 2011
04:41 GMT |
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The Wine Library website owned by Gary Vaynerchuk was affected by a data breach as a result of which their customers may be exposed to credit card fraud. It's not certain how it happened, but a letter sent to the potential victims reveals that the breach might have taken place sometime in October, TechCrunch re... |
22 November 2011
10:22 GMT |
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Valve has released an official statement concerning its ongoing problems with its forums, saying that its whole Steam service has been hacked, with cyber-attackers gaining access to a database that contained user names, encrypted passwords, email addresses and possibly credit card information. Steam is the mos... |
11 November 2011
02:28 GMT |
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Sony has revealed that the hacker attack suffered by the PlayStation Network earlier this year actually benefited the company as it served to wake up dormant customers and get them more connected to the online service as a whole.Sony was faced with a serious problem back in April, when hackers attacked the PlayStatio... |
25 October 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 has, reportedly, been hacked once again, through a brand new 'jailbreak' device called JB2, which is now being tested out by people in Indonesia, of all places.Sony has had quite a lot of problems at the beginning of the year with security on the PlayStation 3, as groups of hackers finally... |
24 October 2011
05:32 GMT |
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Barely have DICE and Electronic Arts started the open beta stage for Battlefield 3, the new first-person shooter, and server files were leaked onto the web, prompting hackers to start their own servers and bypass the limits of the beta, like hosting 64 or 128-player matches in other types of gameplay modes.
DICE h... |
3 October 2011
06:57 GMT |
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I peek around the corner and see two guards moving down along a hallway and I decide this is a good moment to take some time and learn their patterns in order to take them down as quietly as possible.About two minutes later I move crouched and hidden to one of them and press Q in order to do a non-lethal takedown and... |
13 September 2011
18:11 GMT |
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Sony got its PlayStation Network back online earlier this year after a major hacker attack and, since then, it seems that activity on the service has reached massive records, surprising even the most optimistic of expectations, according to the company.Sony went through a very difficult time back in April, when a hac... |
8 September 2011
03:49 GMT |
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The first time I experienced hate for Deus Ex: Human Revolution was early on, when I found myself in a big administrative staff room filled with seven or eight glistening computer screens, all ready to be hacked, with stacks of personal and company e-mail ready to be read.And I hated the Eidos Montreal made game not ... |
6 September 2011
10:20 GMT |
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A brand new Xbox 360 hack has surfaced on the web, enabling the console to run any sort of software besides that which is signed by Microsoft, like unsigned homebrew programs, and, as opposed to the existing hacking methods, works on any type of Xbox 360 models, including the new Slim ones.
Microsoft's Xbox 3... |
30 August 2011
02:30 GMT |
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The Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) arrested four alleged hackers suspected of being members of a credit card fraud gang, responsible for damages of over $20 million.
The four suspects are believed to have hacked into computer systems belonging to Ukrainian and international financial institutions from where they... |
23 August 2011
07:07 GMT |
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A 25-year-old UK man has been charged with hacking into multiple Facebook servers that handled internal and external services.Glenn Steven Mangham, a student from York, is accused of repeatedly bypassing Facebook's security and accessing its protected systems.Mangham was arrested by Metropolitan Police Central e... |
20 August 2011
03:24 GMT |
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British celebrity chef and restaurant chain owner Gordon Ramsay is accusing members of his wife's family of planting spyware on his company's computers to intercept his personal and business email.In a lawsuit filed this month, he claims that his father-in-law and former CEO of Gordon Ramsay Holdings, Chris... |
9 August 2011
07:43 GMT |
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Sanford "Spamford" Wallace, a notorious spammer who promoted himself as a spam king in the '90s, has been charged with fraud for a phishing attack he allegedly launched on Facebook in 2008.Wallace has already lost a civil lawsuit brought by Facebook for his spamming activity in which the company was awarded $711... |
5 August 2011
13:48 GMT |
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The recent hacker attack that took the PlayStation Network down was a "great experience," at least in the eyes of Sony Network Entertainment boss Tim Schaaff, who quickly added that the company learned a lot, but doesn't want such a thing to happen again.
Sony was attacked by hackers back in April, act which ... |
15 July 2011
15:51 GMT |
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The notorious LulzSec hacking outfit announced plans to return for one last "mystery operation" after officially disbanding at the end of last month.The group is apparently doing this in order to help Pastebin.com restore its follower count on Twitter after the website recently switched its account.Pastebin.com is an... |
13 July 2011
09:15 GMT |
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Sony CEO Sir Howard Stringer has revealed during a press conference that the recent hacker attack suffered by his company was probably motivated because of Sony's actions while trying to protect its PlayStation 3 console and its content from actual hackers and pirates.
Sony hasn't been going through the ... |
29 June 2011
16:31 GMT |
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Electronic Arts got its Battlefield Heroes free-to-play online shooter functional once more, after having been the victim of the last batch of attacks from hacker group LulzSec.
Battlefield Heroes led the way for EA's free-to-play initiative, with the cartoon-ish shooter winning over quite a lot of gamers.
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28 June 2011
03:10 GMT |
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Infamous hacker group Lulz Security (aka LulzSec) has just announced that it has retired from the hacking scene, but, in order to offer a proper farewell gift to its fans, has released a brand new batch of personal user names and emails from various data bases, ranging from Electronic Arts' Battlefield Heroes fr... |
27 June 2011
03:20 GMT |
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Microsoft has issued a fresh statement on the hacker attack that was suffered by Sony's PlayStation Network, and pledged that it's doing "everything it can to be sure users' data is secure."Sony was attacked by hackers back in April, which prompted it to take down its PlayStation Network online service... |
24 June 2011
17:21 GMT |
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LulzSec has released almost 450 megabytes of sensitive information stolen from computers systems belonging to the Arizona Department of Public Safety (AZDPS).The latest cyber attack is part of the group's Anti-Security (#AntiSec) campaign that targets any government agency and affiliated organization.The Arizona... |
24 June 2011
04:58 GMT |
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