I have no idea what happened four days ago, even after reading the subreddit, but it looks like litecointalk.org is down. Anyone have additional details? Merkle reports: A worrying announcement was posted on the Litecoin subreddit yesterday, as it turns out unidentified assailants have compromised the LitecoinTalk forums. All users had to reset their passwords…
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SmeshApp removed from Play Store after allegations it was used by Pakistan to spy on Indian Army personnel
Mudit Mohilay reports that Google has removed SmeshApp from the Play Store. The app was reportedly being used by Pakistani intelligence agencies to spy upon Indian Army personnel. […] On the surface, SmeshApp appeared like your regular, run-of-the-mill IM app and is quite similar to WhatsApp and Telegram. However, once the app was installed —…
Two teens arrested for hacking hundreds of key Instagram users to scam others
Tim Ring reports: Dutch police have arrested two teenagers suspected of hacking hundreds of influential Instagram users and exploiting their tens of thousands of followers. […] The 18 and 19 year-old males – from towns near Rotterdam and The Hague – are accused of stealing the passwords from key Instagram account holders, who may be…
Staminus Breach: Just How Bad Is It?
RiskBasedSecurity has analyzed the available data dump and boy, this breach was bad, involving their full source code on top of everything else. Read RBS’s analysis here.
Private tracker member data leaked via BBCode exploit
Andy of TorrentFreak writes that a vulnerability in a popular private tracker, SceneAccess, enabled a security expert to extract private data about site members and staff and attach usernames to IP addresses. The possibility remains, Andy writes, that other sites are also affected. Read more on TorrentFreak.
HawkingTech.com compromised – again
Well, I emailed Hawking Technology (HawkingTech.com) on March 8 and again on March 10, and they never replied, but because some of their data have been publicly dumped, I may as well post this. There were over 25,000 rows with fields for username, password, and email address in the data dump. The passwords were MD5 and easily cracked, including…