Getting kicked out of an IRC channel can be annoying. Really annoying, apparently. So much so that @theamericanlulz, who describes himself as a 16 year-old French hacker, dumped over 600 IRC nicks and corresponding IPs from anonops .net IRC on Pastebin with promises to get more people arrested. In a preamble to the data, he explains…
Social networking site FindFriendz.com reportedly hacked – again?! (updated)
Via E Hacking News, A “t34m t!g3R” hacker by the handle of “An0nym0us sn3Ak3r” claims to have hacked FindFriendz.com and acquired 57,721 usernames and clear-text passwords. A subset of them, 364 usernames with their corresponding passwords appear on Pastebin. The data were posted on November 10. Update: I just came across something from May of 2011…
Want something to do in Providence at night? How about staying home and changing your password….
Another reported data leak posted to Pastebin – providencenightlife.net – reveals usernames, clear-text passwords, and e-mail addresses. Fifty thousand were reportedly acquired and posted to another site that requires you to fill out a survey to download the data. Since I don’t do surveys, I haven’t checked the full archive, but 83 are are offered…
video of steam servers getting DoS by @TehWongZ
Recently there have been confirmed reports by steam and others that the valve servers had been hacked. Charrie wong has released a video which shows the hacked steam server being used to dos another hackforums.net, see below. ?autoplay=0">
Reddit, I just came across a list of about 47k emails and passwords.
Seen on Reddit: Earlier today I received one of those run-of-the-mill phishing emails. I opened the url that the email wanted me to open, but leaving out the .php file in the end. At the directory, among other files belonging to the infected server was a .zip file, and inside it a .txt with 47130…
Duqu Virus More Serious Threat Than Previously Thought
The Duqu Virus, which was discovered in computers around the world two months ago, may be a more serious threat to data security than previously thought. Computer scientists at the Kaspersky Lab in Moscow revealed yesterday that the way the virus went about attacking individual computers was much more complicated than it had been considered…