Normally Australian based websites are not really a big target for hackers but more recently this trend has changed and many of the websites for business, personal and organizations are vulnerable to hacks. Over the past 24-48hrs there has been a fair few attacks on many different Australian based websites, some of which are hosted in united states. The attacks have comes from…
Uganda Government Under Attack By Anonymous for Anti-LGBT
A hacker who uses the handle @DramaSett3r and flys under the anonymous flag has been leaking data over the past 24hrs that come from the Uganda based government. These attacks that have been carried out are in the name of Anti-LGBT for which in Uganda people have been murdered in the past for their sexuality. The Uganda Presidents website opm.go.ug was…
Privacy laws complicate exchange data-sharing: Pritts
Rich Daly reports: Strong state privacy laws continue to complicate health information exchanges’ efforts to ease health-data sharing, a senior federal health technology official said Monday. And a key to overcoming such obstacles may be greater use of meta tags. Joy Pritts, chief privacy officer in the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information…
New Zealand Developer & Hosting WebMate Hacked, Defaced
A New Zealand based web development and hosting company has become victims to hackers after its main site and webhost site was hacked and left defaced. The company is web mate www.webmate.co.nz and the hosting website appeared to look just like the main website but on a different domain /webmatehost.co.nz. The attack happened earlier today some time and was uploaded to the zone-h website along with…
Mitchell Rangers Soccer Club Hacked, Defaced, Restored
Yet another Australian based website has been attacked and left with a defacing on it. The website belongs to the Mitchell Rangers Soccer Club mitchellrangers.org.au/ and the attack has been carried out by "Hack-School". The defacing was mirrored on the well know zone-h website by "The Dark Hacker" and was logged earlier today and has just recently been restored by…
Torrent Site ScanBits.org Hacked, 9000 Accounts Leaked
A torrent site has fallen victim to hackers who have obtained access to its database and grabbed a copy of it totalling over 300mb. The torrent site is scanbits.org and along with the dump comes 9000+ user accounts with full account information, emails, encrypted passwords and more. The leaked data has also shown that they website is logging…