A Chinese based Electronics Giant has had its website hacked by the Turkish Ajan hacker group which has carried out many high profile attacks in the past. The target this time is CASIO (www.casio.com.cn) who is a long term player in the electronics game and well known all around the world. > Casio Computer Co., Ltd. (カシオ計算機株式会社 Kashio Keisanki Kabushiki-gaisha?) is amultinational electronics…
Category: Breach Incidents
String of cyber attacks by Anonymous for #OpBigBrother and #IDP13
This weekend has seen the coming of yet another Anonymous based operation that has now left many sites being victims of cyber attacks. The attacks have been carried out in the name of OpBigBrother and more so #IDP13 or International day for privacy which was set for the 23rd of Feb 2013. Many of the…
Is Kively.com revealing user info?
On February 7, a site reader alerted me to a possible problem over on Kively.com: Look at the description directory – it reveals all the PII when there is some in the descriptor. After looking at the description directory, I found myself wondering about whether some of the entries were, in fact, disclosing some PII. Instead…
Matlock Town Council Hacked by Anonymous
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…
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…