It recent weeks its come to light that there is websites that have been selling off xbox live accounts, of coarse "hacked" accounts these are. Few weeks ago a 23yo women noticed extra charges on her account, after hours on the phone to Microsoft they finally stopped the account but not before she lost $215….
18yo Israeli Man, Arrested and held for using stolen credit cards from 0xOmar
content/images/gallery/random2/il.gif 0xOmar, the hacker who spent months hacking Israeli banks with one clear intention, to cause mass disruption for the banks and Israeli’s. Last week 0xmar released few lots of credit cards that amounted to over 400k, and since then it has caused anger on many sides of the world, Israel now is now treating cyber…
FBI: Third International Conference on Cyber Security
Since 2007, the ZeuS Trojan has infected almost 4 million computers in the United States alone. It can collect data on forms and documents, take screen shots, steal passwords, and give remote access to the host computer. Financial losses due to the ZeuS Trojan are estimated at up to $60 million. What’s really worrisome, however,…
Turkish hackers Warn Of Cyber War
Recently the main media has picked up a story about some Turkish hackers who have been hacking the french. In one of the latest attacks by a group know as AYYILDIZ who has over 12,000 total defacement’s on h-zone has hacked and defaced a Turkish website with one clear message, they are ready for cyber war. The defacement…
Ca: Computers with personal info stolen from Waterloo Region District School Board (Corrected)
I wasn’t even going to mention this breach on this blog. I originally intended to just add it to DataLossDB, but when I read it, I was somewhat put off by the school board’s actions and statements so I decided to comment on it here. Jeff Hicks reports: Nine computers stolen from the Waterloo Region…
Israel to Treat Hackers Like Terrorist
content/images/gallery/random2/il.gif In recent days there has been huge media hype, lots of anger, many articles and reports in what has been one of Israel’s biggest cyber attacks. The attack which if you have not heard yet had leaked over 400k total credit cards with one intention, to disrupt the bank system and cause the Israeli…