Another reminder to watch your file-sharing settings. The Mainichi Daily News reports: A 34-year-old Japanese computer hacker wanted in Japan for alleged cybercrimes was arrested in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai on Tuesday, Thai police said Wednesday. Yugen Orimo is suspected of hacking private data of some 350 Japanese people via a popular file-sharing…
Category: Hack
Members of LulzSec Charged for Crimes Affecting Over One Million Victims; “Sabu” Turned on Fellow Hackers
Press release: Five computer hackers in the United States and abroad were charged today, and a sixth pled guilty, for computer hacking and other crimes. The six hackers identified themselves as aligned with the group Anonymous, which is a loose confederation of computer hackers and others, and/or offshoot groups related to Anonymous, including “Internet Feds,”…
Digital Playground becomes hackers’ playground (update 1)
The Digital Playground porn site has reportedly been hacked. Big time. The site that advertises “Porn worth paying for” may find itself paying dearly for a security breach that may have exposed over 72,000 customers’ details and over 44,000 credit card numbers. In what they claim as their first release, a group calling themselves The…
University of Washington and other universities hacked. Again. And again.
The message at the top of a paste by two hackers pretty much nails it: A few days back, Team ITNRA hacker ‘HaxOr’ hacked into the University of Washington using a SQL injection. The SQL injection that was abused was fixed, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t more. Just because someone finds an SQL injection…
Redhack hits Ankara police website
Another law enforcement site, this one in Turkey, hit. ANF reports: The website of the police headquarter in Ankara has been hacked by Redhack in the organization of ‘AntiSec’ formation. Panicked after the attack,the police shut down all their servers, writes the Redhack site, but they could not prevent Redhack from getting the files. Explaining…
Fun Publications Admits To Security Breach, Apologizes for Inconvenience
Peter Van reports: Fun Publications has sent out a message to all Transformers Club members this weekend notifying the members that there was indeed a security breach related to their e-commerce database. In a written statement sent to members, Brian Savage says that “Fun Publications has determined that there is a security issue with our…