Duncan Riley reports: Notorious hacker group Lizard Squad has moved on from attacking Xbox Live and the Playstation Network and has now set its sites on the Tor network. The group announced the zero-day attack on Twitter, where is said it would target unnoticed weaknesses. Read more on Silicon Angle.
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#Anonymous dumps 13,000 passwords (updated)
Updates: See this post and this article for debunking that these are new leaks. Julie Bort reports: The hacker group known as Anonymous released a file on Friday containing about 13,000 passwords, it claims. […] But these accounts come from a variety of online sources, the Anonymous claims, some of them really popular. DailyDot’s Aaron Sankin sifted…
ISC.org website hacked: Scan your PC for malware if you stopped by
Chris Williams reports: The website for the Internet Systems Consortium, which develops the BIND DNS and ISC DHCP tools, has been hacked. Anyone who recently browsed ISC.org is urged to check their PC for malware as miscreants booby-trapped the site to infect visitors. The website has been replaced by a placeholder page warning netizens of…
The 1% Program of Public Architecture discloses breach
From their web site: “The 1% program of Public Architecture connects nonprofit organizations in need of design assistance with architecture and design firms willing to donate their time on a pro bono basis. “ I wish really bad karma for all hackers who go after non-profits trying to do some good in this world. Posted by the 1%…
DutchWear notifies online customers of payment card breach
Boersma Bros. LLC, dba DutchWear has disclosed a breach affecting those who made purchases online between November 7th and December 6th. On Saturday, December 6th, 2014, we received information that raised suspicion of an unauthorized breach of our website that was exposing the payment information for some customers of DutchWear. In order to best protect…
Entry Point of JPMorgan Data Breach Is Identified
Oops. An overlooked server that was not configured for two-factor authentication became the weak link in JPMorgan’s defenses. Matthew Goldstein, Nicole Perlroth, and Michael Corkery report: The computer breach at JPMorgan Chase this summer — the largest intrusion of an American bank to date — might have been thwarted if the bank had installed a simple…