@ActiSec has dumped a pastebin paste that contains two small account dumps from chinese based websites and is done in the name of #Opchina an operation thats setout to expose the chinese government. Hello! This is activism security here for another release pertaining to #OpChina. Today we have 2 releases in one! So i hope…
Month: March 2012
RedHackers Hack Police Net And Ankara Police Directorate
@r3dh4ck have struck again and this time they have hacked a police website and obtained data and are said to be leaking bit by bit to reliable sources. Redhackers have been around since the mid/late 90’s and are one of the more skilled hacker groups that are out there these days. The hacks have been done…
Universal Music Sweden Hacked by @anon_4freedom for ACTA
@anon_4freedom has been at it again hacking high profile websites that are well known. The latest adds to the attacks that Universal music has had over the past months with the Brazil and Portugal websites already being hacked as well as many others in the name of SOPA and ACTA. The latest leak has dumped a load of accounts,…
U.N Food And Agricultural Organization Defaced
content/images/gallery/random3/hacked-by-dr-hacker-faisal_al_dfery.png A hacker using the handle Dr.HaCkEr has added to the already big list of United nations websites that have been hacked and left defaced. The most recent belongs to the Food And Agricultural Organization Of the United Nations, and more so the north east subdomain. In the deface is a message from Syria to…
Data Breach Case Research Paper Sheds Light
Kristin J. Mathews writes: In a draft research paper titled “Empirical Analysis of Data Breach Litigation”, three prominent scholars have collected and analyzed a sample of over 230 federal data breach lawsuits in order to deduce just what makes them tick. Romanosky, Hoffman and Acquisti examined, for example, what factual and legal characteristics made a company more likely to be…
Outsider Hacks Dominated 2011 Security Breaches
Kelly Jackson Higgins reports from RSA: More than 85% of the data breach incident response cases investigated by Verizon Business last year originated from a hack, and more than 90% of them came from the outside rather than via a malicious insider or business partner. Tuesday, Verizon published a snapshot of data from its upcoming…