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4chan.org, the popular image-based bulletin board, was temporarily shut down after it was hit by a massive distributed denial of service attack.Their status site announced on November 13 of a shutdown caused by a large DDoS attack. Two days later the website was still down.“Site continues to be down due to a DD... |
16 November 2011
13:02 GMT |
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To show their involvement in the war between Israel and Palestine, Anonymous hackers attacked a large number of Israeli government agency websites, warning that the virtual battle will continue until the siege on Gaza stops.
According to The Hacker News, websites belonging to IDF, Mossad, the Israeli army, Shin Bet ... |
7 November 2011
03:48 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous have hacked into the website of the German Society for Musical Performing and Mechanical Reproduction Rights (GEMA).When trying to access the website yesterday users were presented with a window similar to the one displayed by YouTube for videos removed for copyright infringement.The... |
24 August 2011
10:31 GMT |
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Researchers from web security vendor Armorize have detected a new mass injection attack that affected over 22,000 websites so far and directs users to drive-by download exploits.The researchers were able to determine the number of affected domains because the attackers originally forgot a script tag, rendering their ... |
17 August 2011
14:47 GMT |
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Hackers associated with Anonymous' Operation AntiSec have hacked into 77 websites belonging to various law enforcement agencies and stole sensitive data. The websites were apparently hosted on the same server and include those of the sheriff's offices and local administrations in many counties. The hac... |
1 August 2011
12:17 GMT |
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The website of Brazilian footballer Ronaldinho has been defaced over the weekend by a self-confessed muslim hacker who posted anti-US messages on the home page.For a few hours on Saturday visitors to Ronaldinho's website were greeted by a photo of the soccer superstar next to an image depicting Star Wars charact... |
17 May 2011
11:21 GMT |
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LUSH Cosmetics, a company selling handmade cosmetics products, has shut down its websites in Australia and New Zealand after hackers breached them and stole customer billing details.The company has advised people who placed online orders on any of the two websites, to contact their banks and discuss cancelling their ... |
15 February 2011
02:59 GMT |
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The American website of Plextor, a well known brand of optical disc drives, network storage solutions, portable hard disks and other devices, has been defaced by a hacker on Sunday.The hacker, who calls himself "ViciOuS," replaced the site's homepage with a message in Turkish which Google had a hard time transla... |
14 February 2011
12:58 GMT |
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The websites of the English Defence League (EDL), a far-right British organization, was defaced by a hacktivist who accused the group of extremism.The English Defence League is a radical group established in 2009 with a stated goal to stop the spread of Islamism in England.The organization claims to have thousands of... |
11 February 2011
10:51 GMT |
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The company operating the eHarmony.com online dating website has reset some account passwords after learning of a security breach on one of its systems.According to independent security reporter Brian Krebs, the company decided to take this proactive measure after a sale offer for the site's database appeared on... |
11 February 2011
02:51 GMT |
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Al Jazeera claims that hackers have managed to introduce rogue content into a portion on its Arabic website destined for ads, in order to discredit the objectivity of its Egyptian protest coverage."Hackers managed to compromise the advertising section of the ajjazeera.net site in order to distort the network's ... |
5 February 2011
04:09 GMT |
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Trapster, an online service which uses crowdsourcing to warn drivers about police speed traps, enforcement cameras and other road hazards, has notified its users that their email addresses and passwords might have been compromised.Trapster allows its users to report and confirm speed traps from a variety of mobile de... |
18 January 2011
08:57 GMT |
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A hacktivist has broken into three websites operated by the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), one of the largest parties in Northern Ireland, and translated their homepages into Irish.The hacker who took responsibility for the defacements, calls himself Hector O'Hackatdawn and claims to be an Irish language activ... |
14 January 2011
05:56 GMT |
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IBM developerWorks, a large website hosting developer resources, was defaced last Saturday by an Indonesian hacker who left a message taunting the admin.The incident was first reported on the Full Disclosure mailinglist and according to the discussion there, most pages under the /developerWorks/ directory were affect... |
11 January 2011
05:12 GMT |
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A hacker broke into the U.S. Navy Memorial website and left a message for the administrator ridiculing him for the weak security and offering his assistance.The United States Navy Memorial is located on Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., in Washington, D.C., and honors everyone who served or currently serve in the U.S. Navy,... |
26 November 2010
12:29 GMT |
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A group of Romanian hacktivists, who recently defaced two websites associated with The Daily Telegraph as a protest against negative depictions of the Romanian people in the British media, attacked the French newspaper Le Monde over the weekend, citing similar reasons. On April 14, a previously unknown group of hack... |
20 April 2010
11:30 GMT |
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An unknown attacker has managed to deface multiple websites associated with the UK Conservative Party by compromising a common registrar/webhost administrative account. Evidence in the form of a screenshot pack is circulating on underground hacking forums.The incident was reported by Christopher "Paperghost" Boyd, a ... |
2 March 2010
08:05 GMT |
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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
11:03 GMT |
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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
06:00 GMT |
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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
04:26 GMT |
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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
08:16 GMT |
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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
04:47 GMT |
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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
07:05 GMT |
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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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