An Anonymous hacktivist from Pakistan using the handle xPerf3cti0n has breached over 300 websites leaving them all with a common message. Dear Admin: Your website has been hacked for various reasons. We at Anonymous Pakistan beleive in free-awareness. We hack for a reason. Do not forget us, for we will be back. We are Anonymous Pakistan. Remember us….
Disaster avoided by encryption? Yay….
I’m so used to reading news stories about thefts where data were not encrypted that my jaw still occasionally drops when it turns out the data were encrypted. Here’s a story like that from Lancashire in the U.K.: […] Eddie Sutton, Lancashire County Council’s assistant chief executive, said: “I can confirm that a number of…
United Nations Ecuador Subdomains Hacked, Defaced
The united nations is no stranger to the hacker scene with many attempted, successful and failed attacks over the year its actually impossible to keep count. Two of the latest attacks are on the UN’s Ecuador website and its been aimed at two different subdomains which now sport the same message. One of the sites is…
Ministry Of Public Work In Bahia
Bahia State in Brazil has come under fire form hackers from team brazilian cyber army @TeamBCA. The website that has been breached is the Ministry of public work which holds information, news and other related resources related to Public works in Bahia. The attack has been announced on twitter from the @TeamBCA account and was posted to pastebin. > Brazilian Cyber…
University of Virginia Medical Center reports lost handheld device held patients' personal and medical information (updated)
The University of Virginia Medical Center has posted a notice of a breach: The University of Virginia Medical Center and Continuum Home Infusion are committed to protecting the personal information entrusted to us by our patients and potential patients referred to us for care. Regrettably, this notice is regarding an incident involving some of that…
Anonymous Set Sights on Censorship Giant Canipre
Over the past few years Internet censorship has become a really hot topic, one that is touchy to talk about, one that has many mixed messages about the do and don’t. One of the company’s behind the push for Internet censorship is Canipre(https://canipre.com) and they have now become targets of anonymous hacktivist who are angry over the fact that Canipre…