Few hours ago on paste bin there has been a dump of 270 or so sites that have been part of a mass deface/take offline. We Checked a fair few off these sites and they still offline. All sites seem to be legit sites, but we have no further info on the reasons behind this…
Month: July 2011
Toshiba Hacked?
The message on the first Pastebin post said: Toshiba HACKED BY V0iD DATABASE LEAK: 16% More To Come…. What followed was a list of 11 admins’ email addresses from the TACP database with associated plaintext passwords and ID number. The admin with superuser status was noted. There were also 333 users’ email addresses and plaintext…
The Sun defends itself against accusations concerning Brown's child (updated with apology from The Guardian)
Yesterday, I posted a link to a story in The Guardian that essentially accused The Sun of egregious conducting in publishing information about a political figure’s child’s health issues. At the time, I stated that whoever engaged in such conduct should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law, but noted that an investigation…
The real story doesn't require psychic powers
Since the story first broke yesterday, I’ve been somewhat fascinated by the case of a Colorado Springs nurse who has reportedly been fired for misusing/exceeding her access to Physician Link to access the records of 2,500 patients at Colorado Springs Hospital that she had no legitimate reason to access. According to an updated version of…
Monsanto hacktivists dump some data as they ramp up
A press release posted to Pastebin yesterday read: Over the last 2 months we have pushed the exposure of hundreds of pages of articles detailing Monsanto’s corrupt, unethical, and downright evil business practices. We’ve created a nice go-to reference guide on piratepad/anonpad(anonpad.org/opmonsanto, backed up elsewhere), where anyone can read up on and add their own…
A message to Bishop of Orlando from Anonymous
Operation Orlando is still going flat out with the mayor still not backing down on the food permit and the FnB feeders still face jail time for doing the right thing. Early today has seen an attack on some more Orlando city websites, but not long after a warning was pasted on paste bin and announced on…