The website of the Shaolin Temple, probably the most famous Buddhist monastery in the world, has been hacked several times recently. On November 11, the website was defaced and, instead of its usual content, a fake letter allegedly signed by the temple's abbot was displayed.The Shaolin Temple, also known as the ... |
26 November 2009
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A hacker has disclosed an SQL injection vulnerability in the website of the Internet Archive project, which exposed sensitive information about registered members. The leaked data included personal details such as the e-mail address, names, home address, zip, city and state. The vulnerability was discovered and repo... |
22 September 2009
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RBS WorldPay is currently banging heads with a grey hat hacker over the seriousness of SQL injection vulnerabilities that he discovered on its websites. Meanwhile, another web developer exposed a cross-site scripting weakness in a site belonging to the company in order to prove that its efforts to mitigate XSS are no... |
12 September 2009
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A popular URL shortening system called Cligs was compromised Monday morning. The unknown hacker has pointed some 2.2 million short URLs to a legit blog post about Twitter hashtags. URL shortening services allow users to create shorter and more convenient aliases for long URL. These are particularly useful on Twitter... |
17 June 2009
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Romanian grey-hat hacker Unu has hit the Daily Telegraph website for a second time in under three months and says that the impact of the new vulnerability he found is much more serious than last time. According to the hacker, the weakness allows for the execution of an SQL injection attack and the extraction of the p... |
29 May 2009
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Security researchers from antivirus vendor AVG have discovered that a section from the website of the Spelthorne Borough Council in the UK has been hacked and is serving exploits. According to their analysis, this is not the first time it happens. The incident has been reported by AVG's own Chief Research Offic... |
10 March 2009
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In an ironic twist of fate, Zone-h.org, which serves as an archive of website defacements, has been itself defaced. The hackers left a message claiming boredom made them do it and posted a video with an Arabic diaper commercial featuring dancing babies.Website defacements follow the same concept as the graffiti messa... |
14 February 2009
06:45 GMT |
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