The Anonymous campaign began Oct. 14, when members of the hacktivist group found a cache of child-pornography websites while browsing a secret website called the Hidden Wiki, a guidebook to hundreds of underground websites invisible to search engines and regular Internet users. The hackers singled out Lolita City, a file-sharing site used by pedophiles, and […]
A security breach has left several sites including the Irish Catholic defaced. Atheistic hackers defaced the paper’s site at http://www.irishcatholic.ie/site on sunday with a message mocking religion that also fired barbs at a site admin. The message, headed, You.Got.Taken (screenshot below), states: “The Irish Catholic – Ireland’s biggest and best-selling Catholic newspaper since 1888 is […]
#DefCon 19 : Presentations from the Defcon Conference for Download Defcon 19 presentations available for download, Go check out the presentations from this year’s defcon conference here: http://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ For folks that don’t have time to click: curl -silent http://good.net/dl/k4r3lj/DEFCON19/ | grep -i ‘pdf’ | cut -d ‘”‘ -f 8 | cut -d ‘<‘ -f 1 […]
#DefCon 19 : Android Network Toolkit for Penetration Testing and Hacking Have an Android and wanna start pwning people, networks and machines like penetration testers do? Defcon 2011 is in full hacking swing, and Itzhak Avraham — “Zuk” for short — and his company Zimperium have unveiled the Android Network Toolkit for easy hacking on the […]
By ForHacSec.com columnist – Fergal Glynn at Veracode.com Mobile applications have become one of the hottest trends, but this has come at a price. The sharp rise in popularity means businesses are rushing their apps to the market, while security has taken a back seat. Neither the developers, nor the app stores, test web applications […]
A hacker group that has attacked several high-profile websites over the last two months has announced that it is disbanding. Lulz Security made its announcement through its Twitter account, giving no reason for its decision. A statement published on a file-sharing website said that its “planned 50-day cruise has expired”. The group leapt to prominence […]
Lulz Security’s spree of embarrassing hacks continued as the group released hundreds of internal documents belonging to various Arizona law enforcement agencies, including the Arizona Department of Public Safety. Many of the documents released over BitTorrent are stamped “law enforcement sensitive” and “for official use only,” and the dump of some 700 files contains material from […]
The Lulz Security hacking group that has claimed attacks on high-profile targets including the CIA and Sony in recent weeks has exclusively told the BBC’s Newsnight programme that it wants to target the “higher ups” who write the rules and “bring them down a few notches”. Lulzsec has claimed a new scalp – releasing confidential […]
NATO is warning subscribers to its e-Bookshop service that hackers have likely stolen its customer database. The site is run as a separate service for distributing NATO information and does not contain any classified or secret information. The bookshop has been closed and all members been warned by email to change their passwords if they […]
Travelodge has told customers who’ve received spam email that the company has not lost their credit card details, which is nice. The letter said: Our main priority is to ensure the security of our customers’ data, which is why I wanted to make you aware that a small number of you may have received a […]