Andy Hoffman reports: Officials at the Pzazz entertainment complex in Burlington have confirmed “computer hackers” breached security at their facility last year, resulting in dozens of credit card numbers being stolen. Rob Higgins, general manager of the complex, recently sent letters to several American Express cardholders who were victimized last year by high-tech thieves who…
Month: September 2012
Australian Company pays 3k Ransom to hackers
Abc.net.au has reported that an Australian based company have been at the center of a extortion case after hackers took control of their computer systems. The company which are located in Alice springs have spoken to the abc and stated that currently all services are offline and that they thought they had sufficient security to prevent this from…
Australian Attorney General Websites attacked for #OpFreeAssange
This morning anonymous hacktivist have taken sights back towards Australian and as a result the Australian Attorney Generals website has been suffering outages and downtime this morning. Both sites for the Attorney General have come under the attack by the hacktivist who are using this as a way of gaining attention for julian assange, The most recent…
1440+ Sites taken offline by h4x0r HuSsY (VOBHH)
Voice of black hat hackers member h4x0r HuSsY who in the past has attacked many different sites has tipped us of to a large scale attack that has been carried out over the past few days. As normally with VOBHH the attack is defacement based and contains a short message as well as a new message which is…
Cambridge still being attacked by NullCrew
This week we published an article about the on going attacks on Cambridge university mainly led by #nullcrew hackers but has since been a reason for other hackers to start having a ago at the university network. The most recent attacks come from twitter user @Timoxeline who is apart of Nullcrew and the attacks come in the form of…
Debate heats up in Oz over data liability
Hamish Barwick reports: The call for mandatory data breach notifications and potential legal proceedings against enterprises who fail to protect customer data has become a little louder in Australia, according to the findings of a new survey. The report, entitled Australian Consumer Data Survey 2012, which was conducted for iSeek Communications in July 2012 with…