Recently there was an announcement for an attack on NYSE; Anonymous has released a statement that asks anons not to fall for this disinformation and not to take part in any type fo attacks. This information comes from the Anonymous Wiki pastebin account. Greetings Fellow Anons: As brothers and sisters, we have to look out for one…
3300+ Accounts leaked from funniestvideosonline.com by @ThEhAcKeR12
@ThEhAcKeR12 has dump a preview of accounts with a link to the download files. These accounts come from the funniestvideosonline.com website and are all encrypted passwords. https://pastebin.com/reQH78pa @ThEhAcKeR12 has also dump a sheet with wikipedia exploits via sqli. https://pastebin.com/stEw7bUk
Hacking “to protect others” is still hacking, kid
Shaun Tan reports on AsiaOne that a 20-year old student in Singapore decided to “help” those whose email addresses and passwords had been exposed by LulzSec dumping the database from 55 porn sites. Rather than just emailing those individuals to warn them, however, he decided to take matters into his own hands to change their…
AT: AnonAustria releases data from the Austrian Economy Chamber
The Austrian Economy Chamber (WKO) has become the latest victim of a hacking attack. WKO confirmed yesterday evening (Tues) that its webserver was infiltrated by unidentified cyber criminals. More than 6,000 data sets of customers of the chamber were published on the internet. Most of the records contain information about clients of WKO’s real estate…
The biggest companies fail and own it
Over on CSO, Bill Brenner writes: No matter how rigorous the audit, chances remain high that a company will still suffer a security breach. The bad guys are always at work and it’s hard to keep up with them. If and when that kind of failure happens, the key to bigger failure or success is…
UK: Two laptop theft incidents result in undertakings
Two organisations have taken action after they breached the Data Protection Act by failing to encrypt personal information on laptops that were later stolen, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) said today. The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) breached the Data Protection Act in May 2011 when a laptop – containing sensitive personal data – was…