Dan Goodin reports: LinkedIn is suing a gang of hackers who used Amazon’s cloud computing service to circumvent security measures and copy data from hundreds of thousands of member profiles each day. Read more on Ars Technica.
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The Straight Dope forum hacked – reset your passwords
The following notice was posted on The Straight Dope on January 7: Important Message about your Straight Dope Account and Password Our security team recently discovered that the Straight Dope message board forum was targeted and hacked. This resulted in the illegal acquisition of message board users’ information, namely usernames, email addresses, and Straight Dope…
Pointer: World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Hacked, 175,333 Accounts Leaked (Updated)
Another report from CyberWarNews.info: Tonight a hacker using the handle @smitt3nz has announced another leak which this time is from the World Poker Tour Amateur Poker League Website (http://www.wptapl.com/). […] The surprising part about this is the fact the an Australian government worker from the defence department has registered with the defence.gov.au email. Other email addresses used are whitehouse, IRS, us courts, Wichita…
Pointer: MMMOOO hacked – 86,369 User Credentials Leaked
Over on CyberWarNews.info, Lee reported: Today a group of hackers going by the name hitlersec have been announcing some breaches and one of the is MMMOOO (http://www.immmooo.com/en/). MMMOOO is a website owned and operated by Shanghai Jibiao Info Tech Co., Ltd, and is a mobile phone application aimed at the Chinese market. Read more on Cyber…
Malware attack hits thousands of Yahoo users
Faith Karimi and Joe Sutton of CNN report: A malware attack hit Yahoo’s advertising server over the last few days, affecting thousands of users in various countries, an Internet security firm said. In a blog post, Fox-IT said Yahoo’s servers were releasing an “exploit kit” that exploited vulnerabilities in Java and installed malware. “Clients visiting yahoo.com received advertisements…
Western Asian callers hack Bangalore IT firm phone lines, possible terror link considered
Naveen Ammembala has a report on DNA of a hack that may or may not have terrorism connections: Unidentified callers from a West Asian country managed to hack the firewall of an international video conferencing equipment of an IT company in the city, and make calls to Afghanistan. Police say that the hacking by the…