Tristan Oliver writes: Special Correspondent Shayne Edwards of SonicRadio.Net alerted TSSZ to a security alert issued by Sega of Japan today for users of the SEGA ID system. The E-Mail, in Japanese, confirms attempts by “a malicious third party” to login to numerous SEGA ID accounts. It is not clear how the compromise happened, or what, if…
80+ Sites Hacked, Defaced by rEd X from 3xp1r3 Cyber Army
3xp1r3 Cyber Army (3CA) has been at it again with one of the members using the handle rED X has attacked and left over 80 sites defaced. The defacement list was uploaded to pastebin and all defacement’s have been mirrored on 3CA’s h-zone account and contains no real firm message beside stating that who its been…
80+ Australian websites hacked, defaced in less than 48hrs
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…