April 14: See update and possible correction at the bottom of this post concerning the storage and encryption of tips. TeaMp0isoN claims that one of the sites they recently “audited” was the web site of Waterloo Crime Stoppers. In a zine about what they describe as a 0day SQLi attack, TeaMp0isoN writes that they found an unprotected…
Category: Hack
TeaMp0isoN reveals schools’ vulnerabilities
Reading @_TeaMp0isoN_’s Twitter timeline last night and this morning was somewhat disheartening. Tweet after tweet identified vulnerabilities that would enable hackers access to universities’ sites. For each school named, TeaMp0isoN indicated the type of vulnerability they had found and the vulnerable url. In some cases, if the university has a Twitter account, TeaMp0isoN included their Twitter account…
Hacker gets 10 years in jail for spying on Colombia peace process
I’m always reluctant to rely on Fox News for anything, but they seem to have the only English-language news coverage of this development: A Colombian court sentenced hacker Andres Sepulveda to 10 years in prison after he admitted to various crimes, including spying on the government’s peace talks with the FARC, and accepted the prosecution’s…
Ca: Quebec Anonymous takes credit for hacking Montreal police website
Kate McKenna reports: The Quebec branch of the online hacker collective Anonymous is taking credit for infiltrating the websites of the Montreal police and the union representing its officers. Op Fry The SPVM | Target: DOWN | Montreal Fraternal Order Of Police – http://t.co/S2fH2vb0hF | #Anonymous#FuckSPVM pic.twitter.com/ctgBRRicNC — Anonymous Quebec (@QuebecAnon) April 11, 2015 Around 10:30 p.m. ET on Friday, the Montreal…
OpIsrael: Anonymous Hacks Israeli Arms Importer Website, Leaks Thousands of Login Data
Waqas writes: Online hacktivist Anonymous has breached into an Israeli gun shop website (lhbltd.com) and leaked login credentials plus personal details of its local and international customers, including some government officers. The leaked data files have been divided and pasted in three different parts on Pastie sites for #OpIsrael. After analyzing the data we found out that data…
Walters McCann Fanska notifies clients of network security breach
Kansas City-based accounting firm Walters McCann Fanska is notifying clients that their personal and financial account information may have been acquired by a hacker or hackers who had access to the firm’s network from sometime late last year until late February 2015. To their credit, the firm noticed suspicious activity with some accounts at the end…