CitySights NY, a company organizing sightseeing tours in New York, notified 110,000 former customers that their credit card details were compromised after unidentified individuals hacked its website.In a letter [pdf] to the New Hampshire Attorney General's Office, Twin America, CitySights' parent company, r... |
21 December 2010
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Unknown attackers managed to compromise the main distribution server of the ProFTPD Project and rigged the source code with a root shell backdoor.ProFTPD is a very popular open source FTP daemon (server) capable of running on most UNIX-like systems including Linux, BSD, Mac OS X and Solaris.The software is distribute... |
2 December 2010
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The Popbitch celebrity gossip website was blacklisted by Google after hackers managed to compromise its ad server and push malware to users.Yesterday people had trouble accessing popbitch.com, a popular UK-based celebrity gossip website, who's board is said to be frequented by music industry insiders.This is bec... |
17 September 2010
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A vulnerability in a component of the OpenX advertising platform has been exploited by hackers to tamper with ad serving on multiple websites including The Pirate Bay, eSarcasm and AfterDawn.The affected component, called Open Flash Chart 2, is developed by a third party, but has been included by default in OpenX sin... |
15 September 2010
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Security researchers warn that hackers are compromising outdated OpenX servers in order to push malicious ads on other websites. The latest attack employs an exploit cocktail in an attempt to infect visitors with malware.OpenX is an open source advertising server, which users willing to publish ads can download, inst... |
1 July 2010
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The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) announces that several of its services were targeted in a complex attack that led to a server being completely hacked and another partially compromised. A considerable number of possibly insecure password hashes have also been lifted from the organization's systems.The attack... |
14 April 2010
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The websites and servers of reputed security experts and popular online hacking communities have been compromised by a group called ZF0 (Zero for 0wned), which released a big text file containing a wealth of info extracted during the hacks. According to its manifesto, ZF0 opposes full-disclosure practices and thinks ... |
30 July 2009
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A group of cyber hacktivists, whose declared goal is to put an end to vulnerability full disclosure practices, hacked into servers belonging to the popular free image hosting service ImageShack. The perpetrators modified the settings in order to display their manifesto instead of the hosted images. ImageShack is one... |
13 July 2009
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Rumors about the existence of an exploit for a yet undisclosed OpenSSH vulnerability are actively circulating on forums, blogs and mailing lists. The little, probable proof that is available suggests that the latest OpenSSH version is not affected. The problem was first mentioned in a thread on the Webhosting Talk F... |
9 July 2009
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