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Websites defaced before deadline set by hacker group
Local websites have been hacked ahead of the deadline set by a foreign-based hacker group, Anonymous, that said it would attack the Malaysian Government portal at 3.30am today.
On the micro-blogging site Twitter yesterday evening, there were reports that 27 sites in total had been hacked. -
CIA website brought down by DDoS attack, LulzSec hackers claim responsibility
The CIA website at cia.gov is currently inaccessible, having apparently fallen foul of a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack by hackers.
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Amid a looming review of the security of Philippine government websites, another government website fell victim to a hacker who defaced its news section.
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Creditsafe suspends website in wake of drive-by download attack
UK credit reference and credit recovery agency creditsafe.co.uk took its site offline on Tuesday, as a precaution, following a hacking attack. The site remains offline at the time of writing on Wednesday afternoon.
Miscreants planted malicious code on Creditsafe Limited's1 website. This code had the effect of redirecting surfers to a hacker controlled website that attempted to drop malware onto the PCs of surfers, likely using unlatched browser exploits or similar methods -
BBC News - Spanish police website hit by Anonymous hackers
On Friday, June 10, authorities in Spain arrested three people believed to be members of the loosely organized hacking collective known as Anonymous and who were involved with the cyber attack on Sony networks. Following the arrests, the website of the Spanish national police force was hit with a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that took it offline for a short period of time. The attack is believed to be retaliation for the arrests. Also following the attack, Turkish authorities detained 32 people alleged to be associated with Anonymous.
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FBI Investigating Cyber Theft of $139,000 from Pittsford, NY
he FBI is investigating fraudulent automated clearinghouse (ACH) transactions that resulted in the theft of at least 9,000 from the bank account of Pittsford, New York. The fraudulent transactions started about two weeks ago, when the attackers made a series of transactions from city coffers to money mules, who took the money and wired it to accounts outside the US. The transactions took place shortly after Pittsford opened an account with a new bank, where they had not yet established transaction controls. At their previous bank, all transactions had to be approved by at least two town officials.
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Citigroup hack exploited easy-to-detect web flaw
Hackers who stole bank account details for 200,000 Citigroup customers infiltrated the company's system by exploiting a garden-variety security hole in the company's website for credit card users, according to a report citing an unnamed security investigator.
The New York Times reported that the technique allowed the hackers to leapfrog from account to account on the Citi website by changing the numbers in the URLs that appeared after customers had entered valid usernames and passwords. The hackers wrote a script that automatically repeated the exercise tens of thousands of times, the NYT said in an article published Monday. -
Infamous hacker group Anonymous pays the Indian cyberworld a visit
Hacker group Anonymous (or a group claiming to be part of Anonymous) defaced two websites under the National Informatics Center domain.
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LulzSec hacks US Senate • The Register
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. -
Over 200 Vietnamese websites hacked
More than 200 Vietnamese websites have been attacked and some defaced with Chinese flags, an Internet security firm said as a maritime dispute raises tensions between the countries.The ministries of agriculture and foreign affairs are among those targeted since the beginning of June, said Nguyen Minh Duc, director of the state-linked Bach Khoa Internetwork Security Centre (BKIS).
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PHL hackers deface PNRI website, hint at more attacks
Hackers claiming to be from the Philippines attacked the website of the Philippine Nuclear Research Institute on Monday, redirecting visitors to a separate website.
Il ritaglio di giornale qui sotto ricorda uno degli eventi più non-trovo-un-aggettivo-appropriato del mio periodo di studente di Ingegneria a Pisa. Ricordo che una mattina iniziò a spargersi la voce "hanno murato la porta del dipartimento!". Andammo subito a vedere ed arrivammo un pò prima dei giornalisti che scattarono questa foto. La porta era murata, intonacata, pitturata di bianco e sovrastata da una scritta "INGEGNERIA DEVE ESSERE DIFFICILE". Le "E" di "INGEGNERIA" erano scritte al contrario perché era una sorta di "marchio di fabbrica" della facoltà di Ingegneria di Pisa. L'aula più grande, quella in cui pressoché tutti gli studenti seguivano i corsi dei primi anni, aveva infatti alcuni bellissimi "affreschi scherzosi" che furono fatti nel corso delle proteste studentesche di qualche anno prima ed in cui la parola "Ingegneria" era appuntoi scritta in quel modo. Si era anche già sparsa la voce di cosa era ...
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