Jon Seidel reports: A federal judge in Chicago ordered an alleged Tennessee hacker accused of targeting schools and big businesses taken into custody Wednesday while he awaits trial. The FBI arrested Timothy French nearly a year ago in his hometown of Morristown, Tennessee, and accused him of being a key member of the hacker collective…
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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,…
Second member of #NullCrew arrested (updated to add complaint)
Following the arrest of a Quebec teen last week in the hacking of a Bell Canada supplier, a second person associated with #NullCrew (@NullCrew_FTS) has now been arrested. Kim Janssen reports: A hacker who targeted big businesses — including Comcast and Canadian Bell — as well as schools, including the University of Virginia, will face…
University of Virginia, Spokeo, Indiana among eight more sites hacked by NullCrew (update1)
Students and employees of the University of Virginia (UVa) may be scratching their heads today and wondering what UVa can or will do to secure its servers better. The university, which was hacked in 2012 by @AnonAntidote and again in 2013 by a former UVa student known as @R00tTh3B0x, has reportedly been hacked yet again –…
NullCrew hints at major hack
International Civil Aviation Organization is a specialized agency of the United Nations. I’d never heard of them, and would guess many readers haven’t either, but they seem to have caught NullCrew’s attention. Yesterday, the hackers posted something on Pastebin that revealed a database name, with corresponding database user name (“root”) and the database password in plain…
Anti-media cybercrime spree continues: Al Arabiya hacked by NullCrew
Violet Blue reports that NullCrew teamed up with the Horsemen of Lulz and used the same unpatched vulnerability in Zimbra that it used to hack Comcast to now hack Al Arabiya, the second largest media company in the Middle East. Read more on ZDNet.