LulzSec, the hacking and prankster collective that has attacked the US Senate, Sony, and the Fox and PBS television networks, has struck again, claiming it was behind an assault that took down the website for the Central Intelligence Agency. Attempts to access cia.gov on Wednesday afternoon were met with only limited success. LulzSec claimed responsibility […]
Over the previous 18 months since discovering the Google Android Platform I have played with many an app from the Google Android Market, all of which were free, out of the many hundreds which I download apart from one which I did delve deep in to my pocket and paid the couple of pound to […]
Hacktivist pranksters LulzSec have struck again with the release of 26,000 email addresses and passwords from members of internet smut site Pron.com. Relying on the frequent mistake of using the same login combination on multiple sites, LulzSec called on its followers to try and use the credentials to log into Facebook, before letting the friends […]
LulzSec, the security collective which claimed credit for hacking Sony, has taken to Twitter to warn the NHS that it stumbled across several admin passwords. The Department of Health claimed the breach was nothing more serious than “a very small number of website administrators”. It said no national systems were hit – given the slow […]
A local authority has signed an undertaking to improve the security of the personal data it holds after information about six vulnerable home support clients was stolen from a worker, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has said. North Lanarkshire Council’s guidance on how workers should use, transport and dispose of sensitive documents was “inadequate”, the […]
Surrey County Council has been fined £120,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office for breaking the Data Protection Act. The council was rapped for three separate offences. Firstly, in May last year it sent mental and physical health information on 241 individuals to the wrong group email address. Recipients included cab and coach firms. The council […]
Citigroup has admitted that hackers could have grabbed thousands of account details for its credit card customers. The breach hit Citi Account Online systems and information potentially accessed was limited to names, email addresses and account numbers. Birth dates, PINs and other sensitive information is held elsewhere the bank said. The bank has contacted police […]
Four Virgin Atlantic employees at Gatwick airport were sacked after a video purportedly showing a member of the Taliban having sex with a donkey was emailed to the airline’s entire IT department. The vid, called “What the Taliban do when they are not making improvised explosive devices”, according to the Sunday Mirror, was accidently distributed […]
Mischief-making hacking group LulzSec hacked into the systems of an FBI-affiliated public-private partnership organisation, defacing its website and leaking its email database in the process. Website defacements included mooching messages such as “LET IT FLOW YOU STUPID FBI BATTLESHIPS” and a video clip. Part of the message suggests that LulzSec launched the attack as some […]
Hackers say they breached the website security of computer-maker Acer and made off with data for 40,000 of its customers. Screenshots posted on Friday on The Hacker News appeared to show the purchase histories, names, email addresses, and partial addresses and phone numbers for a limited number of customers stored on acer-euro.com. The site said […]