Published at: 08:06 am - Sunday June 26 2011
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 […]
Published at: 10:06 am - Saturday June 25 2011
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 […]
Published at: 09:06 am - Tuesday June 14 2011
Hacker tricksters LulzSec is baiting US lawmakers with its latest attack on the US Senate. The hacking group posted what security experts Sophos characterised as “basic information on the filesystems, user logins and the Apache web server config files” of the Senate website on Wednesday morning. The group also posted a directory listing in a […]
Published at: 01:06 am - Tuesday June 14 2011
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 […]
Published at: 02:06 pm - Monday June 13 2011
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 […]
Published at: 09:05 am - Tuesday May 31 2011
Hackers aligned with WikiLeaks broke into and defaced the website of US broadcaster PBS over the weekend shortly after it had aired a less than flattering documentary about the whistle-blowing site. LulzSec took particular offence at the portrayal of presumed WikiLeaks source Bradley Manning during of an episode of PBS’s Frontline news magazine programme. In […]