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…
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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…
Update: Saudi hacker warns he is in possession of one million Israeli credit card numbers
Oded Yaron reports: The Saudi hacker who managed to steal 15 thousand Israeli credit cards revealed another 11 thousand stolen numbers on Thursday, and threatened to release one million total stolen numbers. According to a message left on the Saudi hacking group Group-XP’s message board, the hacker, who goes by the name of 0xOmar, was…
Singapore’s NUS confirms security breach
Liau Yun Qing reports: Hackers have infiltrated the National University of Singapore’s (NUS) backend systems and made away with a trove of information, including staff usernames, domain information and hashed passwords. University has confirmed the incident but noted that the affected data is not confidential. According to a report Thursday on tech Web site Secure…
[CORRECTED AND UPDATED]: “Anonymous Dumps Bank of America client credit card info in #OpBank” – Fiction!
UPDATE: #OpBank was not a real operation – or at the very least, there’s no indication it has been carried out as reported by media coverage elsewhere. Earlier today, @Gardenslayer tweeted: #OpBank is NOT a real op, it’s a screening assignment for new @Gardenslayer writers. #BoA was NOT compromised. Similarly, @DiscordiAnon tweeted: @PeterHScrooby your article…