John Leyden reports: Namesco customers are angry over the domain name and hosting firm’s handling of a security breach that exposed their credit card details. A number of punters’ card details were leaked after hackers broke into Namesco’s systems. The web biz notified these customers as well as advising a larger number of its clients…
Category: Hack
Saudi denies bank info breach by Israeli hackers (updated)
Tarek El-Tablawy reports: A top Saudi banking official on Tuesday denied an Israeli media report that hackers from Israel obtained credit card and bank account details of thousands of Saudi citizens, retaliating for an attack on Israeli accounts. Talaat Hafez, secretary-general of the media office in the kingdom’s banking authority, denied a report by the…
#OpFreePalestine continues to hack Israeli sites
Anti-Israeli cyberattacks continue. Although I have not noted all previous attacks on this blog, in Pastebin releases over the past two days, data from a number of Israeli web sites have been dumped: From TopLinks: 56 advertisers’ links with the admin/MD5 password for KRNEWS From Bar-Ilan University Geography and Environment Department: 36 names, e-mail addresses, and…
De: Police hacked after top cop rows with daughter
From The Local in Germany: A hacker attack which infiltrated Germany’s federal police computer system using Trojan programs and a system of routes via Russia last summer was due to a row about internet usage between a top cop and his daughter. It resulted in the “Patras” server being closed down – meaning that federal…
Israel’s hacker avengers: We’ve obtained Saudi credit card info
Aviel Magnezi reports: The major credit card information leak, a by-product of the activities of the Saudi hacker who has been sneering over attempts to locate him, has not been ignored. Israeli hackers who spoke to Ynet claimed on Monday that they have managed to lay their hands on the details of thousands of credit…
Cn: SQL Injection Attack Exposes Sina Passwords
Reuters reports: China’s SINA Corp has fixed a vulnerability in one of its websites that allowed unauthorised access to microblogging usernames and passwords, a Chinese web security blog reported. Sina’s question-and-answer website, iask.sina.com.cn, was revealed to have a security loophole that made it easy to uncover Weibo account passwords and usernames, Youxia security blog reported…