A spokesperson for the university sent me the following statement, dated December 7, on the recently disclosed breach involving the theft of a laptop from an employee’s car on November 10: Pepperdine University officials were notified that restricted information of current and former employees, including students, might have been compromised through a stolen University laptop…
Category: Breach Incidents
IT Security Service Provider Data Defence Hacked
A Self claimed leading IT security service website has become victim to hacking after hackers from a crew going by the handle @TheCrowsCrew gained access and left the site (https://www.datadefence.com/) with a new main page. The attack has happened within the last few hours and was carried out by the crows crew member @catalyst71_RJA and it…
100 Sites defaced by @UGBrazil
Hacker collective @UGBrazil has been hacking and defacing websites all weekend with regular postings via twitter. They have just now released a complete list of all sites breached which totals 100. The hack has left the sites with a new page with the Nyan Cat style in the background and a few links to the…
#OpIsrael Attack Updates 20+ further sites hacked
If you have not heard it by now, hacktivist from all around the globe are taking sights to Israel for the recent air raids and attacks on gaza strip. The amount of sites that are being defaced are mounting up very fast with at least another 19 sites over the past few days have ended…
30 Sites taken down for #OpEgypt
Anonymous hacktivist have just taken down 30 Egyptian websites in the name of #OpEygpt. The attack was announced a short time ago on twitter by a hacktivist using the handle @AnonymousGrupo with a link to a pastebin file that contains the list of breached sites. > Mass Tango Down #OpEgypt pastebin.com/2xvWYw95 — Anonymous (@AnonymousGrupo) December 9, 2012…
300 Indian sites defaced by Pakistani hackers
The on going cyber war between India and Pakistan hackers has left a further 300 Indian based or content related sites hacked and defaced by two Pakistani hackers who have been attacking and defacing sites for some time now. The attacks have been carried out by Sizzling Soul And P@khTuN72 and the defacement is done via a uploaded html file named sp.html which pretty…