Mad HackerZ Team has been attacking the Lebanese government over the past few days and one of the latest sites to be attacked is the Lebanese Ministry of economy and trade website. The hack has left the hacked, redirected to a deface page as well as a small load of database info and accounts being…
Federal Action Regionalists Defaced By MetalSoft Team for FailRoot
content/images/gallery/random3/capture_3.png A few weeks ago we got word that one of the main members of a hacker team who goes by the handle Metal soft team was detained and had computers seized as part of an investigation into the recent string of attacks. As a result other team members have continued or defaced websites with a new message,…
WikiLeaks Publishes 5 Million STRATFOR eMails
EDIT: It is 00:47 UTC right now. The WikiLeaks site appears to be back up, for the time being. The release can be found at https://wikileaks.org/the-gifiles.html?nocache. And users are to index them on Twitter with the hashtag #gifiles At 00:00 UTC the whistle blower site WikiLeaks published no less than 5,000,000 (5 milion) emails. They…
KY: Vets' Info Breached At VA Hospital
Personal information of almost 1,200 veterans was discovered unattended last month at the Robley Rex VA Medical Center in Louisville. Officials said information containing the names, Social Security numbers and discharge dates of approximately 1,182 veterans was found, unattended, in the lobby entrance of the facility. Read more on WLKY
WikiLeaks starts to publish hacked Stratfor emails
Stephen Grey reports: The anti-secrecy group WikiLeaks began publishing on Monday more than five million emails from a U.S.-based global security analysis company that has been likened to a shadow CIA. The emails, snatched by hackers, could unmask sensitive sources and throw light on the murky world of intelligence-gathering by the company known as Stratfor,…
1749 French based Sites Defaced by CwGhost.
content/images/gallery/random3/capture_2.png thehacknews.com has come across a very interesting hack and mass deface that has left 1749 French based websites all with the same page. The deface page features the below message first then several pictures of graphic nature then has 4 youtube videos attemtping to explian the reasons behind these attacks. the attacks have been…