AFP reports: Two teenagers are suspected of having hacked the websites of Belgian and French newspapers earlier in the week, prosecutors said Friday. “The regional unit of computer crime managed …to identify the presumed perpetrators” of the cyber attacks Sunday and Monday, Brussels prosecutors said in a statement. The attacks were launched against the websites of Le…
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FBI watched as NullCrew dumped Bell Canada passwords online
Andrew Seymour reports: When Bell Canada’s website was hacked last year — and the accounts and passwords of more than 12,000 Canadians posted online — the Federal Bureau of Investigation was not only watching, but letting the hackers stage the attack from what was secretly an FBI server. The bureau had spent more than a year keeping tabs on the 15-year-old Canadian teenager,…
Northwestern U. hacked, but no personal info on server
Part of Northwestern University‘s network has been offline for over a week as a result of a hack first disclosed on Twitter. On April 5, “MLT” reported a XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) vulnerability on XSSposed.org involving themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu. And then this happened: Some Random University Login page : http://themayor.itcs.northwestern.edu/user.php?error=1 Admin Email : [email protected] Password : manager Yours Truly, ~Chief. — Chief (@Puttied) April…
Hackers break into Lufthansa customer database
Looks like I prepared this but forgot to post it last week. Let’s get caught up: DW reports that Lufthansa airline has experienced a hack involving its frequent flyer or rewards program. But unlike other airlines that reported similar breaches, in this case, other databases were also seemingly involved and the hackers were able to obtain…
AU: Alleged hacker to face Brisbane court
AAP reports: A Queensland man is facing fraud and cyber crime charges after he allegedly hacked into the computer at a Brisbane business education facility. Detectives from the Fraud and Cyber Crime Group searched a number of addresses in the Brisbane area on Friday and seized a computer and electronic equipment. They say they arrested…
TheRealDeal Market: where hackers go to buy and sell zero-day exploits
Andy Greenberg reports: Hackers have for years bought and sold their secrets in a de facto gray market for zero-day exploits—intrusion techniques for which no software patch exists. Now a new marketplace hopes to formalize that digital arms trade in a setting where it could flourish: under the cover of the Dark Web’s anonymity protections. Over the…