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A hacker whose hat is gray claims that he found multiple vulnerabilities in the website of University of Melbourne but even after informing the site administrators multiple times, they failed to patch up the issues.
The website is down and even though its owners blame the shut down on maintenance procedures, accordi... |
17 November 2011
10:43 GMT |
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Epson Korea has warned 350,000 website users that their personal information and passwords have been stolen by hackers.An alert posted on the company's website encourages users to change their passwords immediately and advises them that their names, phone numbers and email addresses have been compromised.Given t... |
22 August 2011
08:58 GMT |
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Someone broke into the website of Goatse Security, the hacking group whose members exploited a hole in AT&T's systems last year to extract information about iPad owners.The attacker left an offensive message on the greyhat hackers' website, accusing them of self-aggrandizement.He made his reasons for the at... |
27 January 2011
05:54 GMT |
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LUSH Cosmetics, a UK company selling handmade cosmetics products, warned customers about a credit card breach after its website got hacked.In an announcement posted online, the company said that after discovering the compromise and patching the hole, the website was placed under full-time security monitoring.Because ... |
21 January 2011
11:58 GMT |
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In a rather unusual incident, a hacker managed to deface the website of the Kenyan police and dedicated the attack to Facebook's CEO Mark Zuckerberg.Kenyapolice.go.ke normally contains information about and provided by Kenya's primary national law enforcement body.However, earlier today visitors of the site... |
4 January 2011
10:20 GMT |
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A hacker claims to have gained full access to the website of the British Royal Navy and the underlying database through an SQL injection attack.The public disclosure was made by a Romanian self-confessed security enthusiast who uses the online handle of "TinKode."The grey hat hacker specializes in finding Web vulnera... |
6 November 2010
06:26 GMT |
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A person claiming to be the hacker who recently broke into Cryptome.org, claims to have learned the identity of many of the site's sources including that of several WikiLeaks insiders.Cryptome is a longstanding whistleblower website, co-founded in 1996 by New York architects and civil liberties activists John Yo... |
6 October 2010
06:33 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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Hundreds of WordPress blogs hosted on shared servers were compromised over the weekend and had malicious code injected into their pages. A detailed analysis of the affected sites uncovered instructions to hide the attack from Google's web crawler.The obfuscated JavaScript code injected into the footer.php script... |
10 May 2010
12:05 GMT |
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The website of the U.S. Department of Treasury Bureau of Engraving and Printing (BEP) was compromised by unknown attackers, who rigged it to infect visitors with malware. A malicious IFrame loading exploits from a third-party domain was injected into the index page.The hack was discovered sometime on Sunday evening, ... |
4 May 2010
10:29 GMT |
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The group of Romanian hacktivists calling themselves Romanian National Security (RNS) have attacked and defaced multiple websites belonging to the biggest Italian public television company Radiotelevisione Italiana (RAI), as well as leading Italian newspapers La Stampa and Corriere della Sera. The message left behind... |
30 April 2010
10:24 GMT |
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A Lebanese greyhat hacker reports finding an SQL injection vulnerability in edimax.com. According to him, the flaw can be exploited to extract administrative credentials for all of the hardware manufacturer's websites. In an e-mail to Softpedia, a self-confessed security enthusiast, who goes by the online monik... |
17 April 2010
03:00 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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A Lebanese hacker claims to have hacked Orange's regional website in Cote d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) through SQL injection. The attack allegedly gave him access to the website's administration interface and information on almost 60,000 customers.Orange is the fifth largest telecom provider in the world wit... |
9 February 2010
09:15 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 website of the Center for Aerosol Research at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center has been taken offline after a grey hat hacker demoed an attack on its database. The SQL injection exploitation had to be performed manually and was unusually hard to pull off, according to the attacker."I want to say that it wa... |
25 January 2010
10:51 GMT |
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Board.ie, the most popular forum in Ireland with millions of unique visitors each month, suffered a serious security breach yesterday. As a precaution, the website was taken offline and a password reset was triggered for all registered users."Today, Thursday 21 Jan 2010 at 11:20 GMT the Boards.ie database was attacke... |
22 January 2010
10:01 GMT |
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Network Solutions announced that several hundred websites hosted on its infrastructure fell victim in a mass defacement attack during the past several days. Preliminary findings suggest that a remote file inclusion technique was used to compromise several of the company's Unix servers.Network Solutions is one of... |
20 January 2010
10:49 GMT |
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The website of the highly popular Practical Fishkeeping aquarium magazine was hacked over a week ago, prompting its administrators to alert the almost 24,000 members that their personal information might have been stolen. The website is still down at the time of writing this article.Practical Fishkeeping is a best-se... |
14 December 2009
09:20 GMT |
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A grey hat hacker has found a critical SQL injection weakness on the official Kaspersky Lab websites in Malaysia and Singapore. Exploiting the vulnerability leads to full compromise of the underlying database, which contains customer information, product keys and other sensitive data.The attack has been documented by... |
10 December 2009
10:06 GMT |
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Kaspersky Lab's online presence in Portugal has been targeted by a Romanian hacker, who used SQL injection to obtain unrestricted access to the database. According to the attacker, the website contained, at the very least, product licensing information.The self-confessed grey hacker goes by the moniker of "TinKo... |
8 December 2009
09:01 GMT |
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Grey hats hacking for reputation have turned their attention to websites hosted in the nasa.gov domain name space. Websites administered by two NASA centers were compromised in the last few days through SQL injection attacks.The first two incidents involve the websites of the Instrument Systems and Technology Divisio... |
8 December 2009
05:24 GMT |
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The Apache Infrastructure Team has released a detailed analysis of the recent attack that led to multiple apache.org servers being compromised. After outlining the mistakes that made the incident possible and their plan to strengthen security, the admins have been congratulated by the community for their openness. T... |
4 September 2009
09:57 GMT |
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DLP Lamp Source, a distributor of replacement DLP and LCD lamps, is in the process of notifying its customers of a data-breach incident, which exposed their personal information and credit-card details. The company notes that the administration portion of its website was compromised by unknown attackers. We have bec... |
31 July 2009
04:47 GMT |
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Following the disclosure of an alleged SQL injection vulnerability affecting the news.bitdefender.com website, the antivirus vendor has released the results of its internal investigation. The most important thing, according to the company, is that no sensitive data has been compromised.A white-hat hacker calling hims... |
23 February 2009
10:29 GMT |
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During the past few weeks, a Romanian self-proclaimed ethical hacking group has kept the leading antivirus vendors on their toes after disclosing SQL injection vulnerabilities on several of their websites. The security companies that have been affected include Kaspersky, Bitdefender, F-Secure and Symantec. Even tho... |
23 February 2009
09:00 GMT |
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