@Cyber_War_News contributed to this post. vBulletin.com is back online after a breach first reported on DataBreaches.net. In new developments, vBulletin forced a password reset and issued a patch while the 0day used to hack them was put for sale. Password Reset An announcement in their forum last night acknowledged the breach and explains: vBulletin.com Password Reset…
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UT: Salt Lake City School District systems down after hack, no student info compromised
Fox News reports: The Salt Lake City School District phone system is working again after officials said a cyber hack took down phone and online systems Monday. The district said, ” Our district network was the target of a cyber attack where thousands of external systems coordinated to access our system at the same time. This attack…
Pennsylvania man gets prison for hiring “hacker” to erase court fines
From the do-you-know-who-you’re-hiring-on-Craigslist dept: Miles Snyder reports: A Harrisburg man will serve at least two years in prison for recruiting a computer hacker to wipe out fines he owed to Lancaster County. Zachary J. Landis, 27, was sentenced to 2-4 years in state prison after pleading guilty last week to felony counts of computer trespass, unlawful…
The Hacking Team Defectors
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bichhierai has a good piece about members of the Hacking Team who left, and what happened afterwards. Here’s a teaser from it: His name is Alberto Pelliccione. Until last year, he was the man responsible for developing Hacking Team’s Android spyware, and one of the employees who had worked on the company’s marquee product,…
TalkTalk data being used to con seniors
A caution from the Daily Mail: In the past week, many pensioners have told the Daily Mail how they have fallen victim to conmen pretending to be from TalkTalk. They often claim to be offering compensation for the data breach before asking for victims’ bank account details. Last night a senior cyber-crime officer warned: ‘The…
vBulletin, Foxit Software forums hacked by Coldzer0; hundreds of thousands of users’ info stolen
This post was co-authored with @Cyber_War_News. Some days we scratch our heads at the folks who proudly claim hacks and then give law enforcement enough evidence to go after them. And then this happened: #vBulletin 5.x.x hacked by Coldzer0 today. Licences & database dumped, shell on server. vBulletin denied. #0day #security #zeroday — Terry Tran (@terryjunx) November…