By Todd Haselton |
LivingSocial was recently the target of a massive security attack that left the hackers with identities of more than 50 million users, according to AllThingsD and an internal memo obtained by the news outlet. The identifying information includes names, birthdays, email addresses and passwords. The company…
By FOX Business |
As mobile device sales continue to multiply, so do the hack attacks to get into their valuable data cores. We may not know where the hacks originate, but we do know who the target is: the phones and the platforms with the greatest users. A new…
By Todd Haselton |
Apple was recently hacked and attacked by the same group of China-based hackers that went after Facebook last week. Apple admitted the security issue in a statement to Reuters, but noted that the hackers weren’t able to walk away with any secure information about Apple’s customer…
By Todd Haselton |
Well this is both silly and scary at the same time. Hackers who appear to be associated with Anonymous (they’re suggesting you follow them @YourAnonNews on Twitter), have hijacked Burger King’s Twitter account. The feed is currently loaded with bizarre jokes and the hackers have…
By Maximum PC |
Hactivist group promises more shenanigans in 2013. If you thought the hactivist group known as Anonymous would fade from view in the New Year, think again. Anonymous posted a message making it clear it intends to keep on hacking, telling the world, “We are still here…Expect us.”…
By Todd Haselton |
Hackers recently discovered that anyone was able to reset the password for a Skype user’s account, allowing them to quickly and easily gain access to the VoIP service. Now, Microsoft, which owns Skype, has pulled the password reset page, which provides an easy albeit temporary…
By Todd Haselton |
Anonymous hacking group LulzSecEurope today has taken responsibility for hacking the website of the National Cancer Institute. Disgusting. “The information appears to be database configuration data for a “CSM UPT Super Admin Application,” Identity Finder said. “The database is essentially a set of instructions on…
By Todd Haselton |
The hacking group Anonymous has claimed responsibility for taking down the popular web hosting service GoDaddy. As a result, thousands, if not millions, of websites are now offline, including my own personal website. The twitter account for Anonymous, @AnonOpsLegion wrote the following note earlier today:…
By Todd Haselton |
Hackers are at it again: this time 1,000,001 unique device identifies (UDIDs) were recently leaked by Antisec. UDIDs, which consist of 40 characters, are used by developers and other Apple partners to run applications on devices. Antisec obtained more than 12 million UDIDs but decided…
By Todd Haselton |
Text spoofing: it isn’t a new concept. In fact, hackers have been taking advantage of spoofing anything from IPs and phone numbers to emails and, yes, even text messages to trick the receiving party into believing the originating source is legitimate. Get a phone call…
By Killian Bell |
A Yahoo! Voice server has been breached by hacking group D33Ds Company and 453,000 usernames and passwords have been posted online in plain text. TrustedSec reports that the sensitive data was obtained using a SQL injection attack that extracted the information from Yahoo!’s database servers…
By Brandon Russell |
The source code for Symantec’s Norton AntiVirus 2006 was published to The Pirate Bay late Thursday, ZDNet reports. Activists associated with the loosely organized hacker collective Anonymous “proudly” announced the news via Twitter, with code to the software’s consumer version, corporate edition and files for…
By Todd Haselton |
LulzSec leader Hector Xavier Monsegur, a hacker from New York City otherwise known as “Sabu,” has helped lead the FBI to the arrests of other infamous LulzSec hackers. Monsegur was allegedly arrested last year and has been working on the FBI’s side ever since. He is…
By Killian Bell |
Boston Police Department became the latest victim of an Anonymous hack just over a week ago, when its community policing website BPDNews.com was destroyed, leaving visitors with only a YouTube video of the nineties hip-hop track ‘Sound of da Police’ by KRS-One to enjoy. The…
By Adriana Lee |
This one pains me on a personal level, since I’m a bit of shoe addict, but customers of Zappos.com have just had their personal info compromised this weekend. Data, such as customer names, e-mails, billing and shipping addresses, phone numbers, and partial credit card numbers…
By Sean P. Aune |
Steam, the popular digital download service for video games, joins the ranks of sites that have been hacked as of late. Valve is currently in the process of letting its customers know about a hacking attack that came to their attention on November 6. This…
By Killian Bell |
Following recent cyber attacks on News Corp, Sony, and even the Pentagon, I’m sure you’re already aware of the “hacktivist” group known as Anonymous. Its next attack, named “Operation Facebook” and scheduled for November 5, promises to “destroy” the world’s largest social network and the…
By Adriana Lee |
Hackers are getting more creative by the second. Is there nothing they can’t burrow into? Well with this, they can add one more thing to the list: our vehicles. Among the cool (and maybe scary) things that are coming out of The Black Hat Technical…
By Adriana Lee |
This is the part in the movie when a montage usually happens. The subjects of a criminal investigation have just taunted the authorities, saying “You can’t stop us,” spurring images of field agents working tirelessly to prove them wrong. And usually, the action culminates in…
By Adriana Lee |
Early this morning, the FBI searched the New York homes of three young men — ages between late teens to early 20s — suspected of being affiliated with the griefer group Anonymous. Agents descended upon the Baldwin, NY, home of Giordani Jordan, along with two…
By Sean P. Aune |
For reasons known only to them, the LulzSec hacking group that has made such a splash recently with high profile attacks has decided to call it quits. The small group of hackers – which claims to only have six members – announced their final batch…
By Adriana Lee |
LulzSec, in a joint effort with fellow griefer group Anonymous, targeted Arizona Police yesterday when they leaked hundreds of confidential documents into the wild via BitTorrent. The intelligence docs, training manuals, and personal data (including names, e-mails, cell phone numbers and addresses of police workers)…
By Adriana Lee |
Could it be? Is the head of LulzSec — the infamous group of hackers known throughout the world for its griefing exploits against the U.S. government, CIA, U.K. Census and multiple tech companies — actually a 19-year-old kid? Police in Wickford, Essex announced the detainment…
By Adriana Lee |
Lulz Security, a griefer group largely credited (blamed?) for its unwavering Sony attacks, was back at it again this week. Following its hacks of the U.S. Senate website, the group has claimed responsibility for two high-profile incidents: the packet-flooding (and crash) of the CIA’s website…
