Chris Dyches reports: School officials say an online security breach has hit a Charlotte college campus and they are still trying to figure out how much information was potentially risked. According to the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, the breach hit the UNC-Charlotte campus and put information for students and staff at risk, they…
Category: Breach Incidents
Anonymous leak 2x teaser military file in the name of #antisec
content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png It would seem that anonymous is soon to release another dump of information from the American military that will no doubt stir up some troubles. So far they have released 2 documents and the others are not far away. The leaks have been announced from the @anonymousIRC twitter account and come in the form of pdf files. content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png content/images/gallery/antisec12/capture.png…
Hacker Fail Root Arrested and Computers Seized
A hacker who use’s the handle @FailRooT has said to of been arrested and had computers seized as part of a investigation into the hacking by the team they ran called @MetalSoftTeam. Metal Soft Team has been around for some time now and have made a name for themselves as defacers, hacking sites and leaving them with…
Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach
Aliyah Sternstein reports: Hackers posing as officials from the geopolitical analysis publisher Stratfor are emailing infected links to government subscribers whose email addresses were stolen during an earlier raid on the company’s computers, Microsoft researchers say. Read more on NextGov.
Federal Reserve Vulnerable to hackers
A hacker going by the handle D35m0nd142 has posted information about the federalreserve.com website that shows its vuln to attackers. Now its a worry that such websites are hackable with such minor hacks and shows that the governments are clearly not thinking about security the way they should be. https://pastebin.com/QM9kLnPB
NASDAQ website taken offline by hackers
Hackers using the handle L0NGwave99 have claimed to taken down the www.nasdaq.com website whcih is now showing a time out error. For the second day, the Destributed Denial of Service operation on the www.nasdaq.com continued execution. If you go to NASDAQ site https://www.nasdaq.com you will not see anything execpt timeout or nothing. This DDoS Operation over…