An anonymous hacktivist using the handle fiofa fado has hacked a UK government council website and as a result the site has been left defaced. The website is for the town council of Matlock (https://www.matlock.gov.uk) and contains information regarding local events, help and services and news. The attack was posted to Fiofa Fado’s Facebook timeline about 12 hours ago and at…
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National Association of Federal Agents Defaced For #FFF
#FFF Is well known in the information security and hacker scene with it being closely associated to Anonymous and antisec operation from late 2011. Over the past months/year there have been many attacks and one of the latest that has been dubbed part of #FFF ( fuck FBI friday) is on the National Association of…
90 Portuguese Sites hacked by AnonGhost
An anonymous based hacker collective calling themselves AnonGhost have been on a spree of defacement’s since the start of the year with the latest being 90 Portuguese websites. The sites are all based in or content related to Portuguese and the defacement contains the common layout that we often see from AnonGhost. The defacement has…
US State Department hacked in the name of Aaron Swartz
This week anonymous hackers have announced an attacked on the united states governments state departments (www.state.gov) website. The attack was announced in normal fashion on twitter and has been posted to the pastebin hosted by par-anoia.net and comes with 1 clear message that it has been done in the name of Aaron Swaztz. "Aaron Swartz this is for you,…
50,000 Accounts leaked from Pympy.com
A Spanish language based social network style provider Pympy.com has been hacked and over 50,000 accounts have been leaked The attack was announce by hacker @AnonVoldemort on twitter just a short time ago. > Pympy Resources for social networks, forums, Hi5, Facebook, Myspace, twitter +70.000 Users DATA-DUMP @cyber_war_news goo.gl/hEcl9 — Voldem0rt (@AnonVoldemort) February 1, 2013 The leaked…
Break Down and Insight into Project Sun Rise African data leak
The following is a deeper insight to all the information and leaked data from Project Sun Rise by Team Ghost Shell. On the 28th of January 2013 @TeamGhostshell announced another large leak of information from a heap of websites in the latest project by the hacker collective. Information The attack has a main release note…