Go Daddy CEO Denies Hackers Behind Major Outage

The CEO of Go Daddy said Tuesday internal issues, not a denial of service attack, left millions of hosted sites offline for several hours yesterday. In a statement, interim chief executive Scott Wagner said an internal investigation into the outage concluded no outside attack took place. “The...

Second LulzSec Member Arrested for Sony Pictures Attack

A Tempe, Arizona man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking part in the June 2011 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s network, in which passwords and other personal data was stolen from one million user accounts. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, was charged with conspiracy and unauthorized...

Team GhostShell leak One Million Records

TeamGhostShell a team linked with the Activist group Anonymous, is claiming that they have hacked some major U.S. institutions including major banking institutions, accounts of politicians and has posted those details online. The dumps comprising of millions of accounts has been let loose on the...

Acuity CMS 2.6.x <= Path Traversal Arbitrary File Access

OVERVIEW Acuity CMS 2.6.x ASP-based versions are vulnerable to Path Traversal. 2. BACKGROUND Acuity CMS is a powerful but simple, extremely easy to use, low priced, easy to deploy content management system. It is a leader in its price and feature class. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION The issue is...

Acuity CMS 2.6.x <= Arbitrary File Upload

OVERVIEW Acuity CMS 2.6.x ASP-based versions are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Upload. 2. BACKGROUND Acuity CMS is a powerful but simple, extremely easy to use, low priced, easy to deploy content management system. It is a leader in its price and feature class. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION Acuity...

Acuity CMS 2.6.x Directory Traversal

OVERVIEW Acuity CMS 2.6.x ASP-based versions are vulnerable to Path Traversal. 2. BACKGROUND Acuity CMS is a powerful but simple, extremely easy to use, low priced, easy to deploy content management system. It is a leader in its price and feature class. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION The issue is...

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised

Bogus Report: 55,000 Twitter accounts compromised Thousands of Twitter passwords were exposed this week and the site was looking into matter. According to a message posted on Twitter's Japanese blog, None of the recently leaked Twitter logins and passwords came from within the company. Twitter ha...

Acuity CMS 2.6.x <= Cross Site Scripting

OVERVIEW Acuity CMS 2.6.x ASP-based versions are vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. 2. BACKGROUND Acuity CMS is a powerful but simple, extremely easy to use, low priced, easy to deploy content management system. It is a leader in its price and feature class. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION...

Anon Tweets About Hack, Gets Arrested

A 21 year-old Ohio man associated with the Anonymous Internet collective is in detention after boasting on Twitter about his involvement in the hack of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department. John Anthony Borell III was charged with two counts of computer...

Acuity CMS 2.6.x Cross Site Scripting

OVERVIEW Acuity CMS 2.6.x ASP-based versions are vulnerable to Cross Site Scripting. 2. BACKGROUND Acuity CMS is a powerful but simple, extremely easy to use, low priced, easy to deploy content management system. It is a leader in its price and feature class. 3. VULNERABILITY DESCRIPTION...

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous. "We are fighting you...

NYT Profiles LulzSec's Sabu As Talented Hacker With Star-Crossed Life

Hector Xavier Monsegur or “Sabu,” de facto ringleader of the notorious Anonymous Internet Collective, was not merely a talented hacker. He was also something of a Robin Hood of the East Side projects and a hard-partying nuisance to his neighbors, a report by the New Yok Times claims. A report fin...

UPDATE: Interpol Operation Leads to Arrest of 25 Suspected Anons

Interpol announced yesterday that they had taken part in an international operation that led to the arrests of 25 alleged members of the Anonymous hacker collective. The not-arrested members of Anonymous reportedly lashed back with a stinging DDoS attack on Interpol’s website. The so-called...

Three Greek Anonymous hackers arrested for defacing Government Sites

Three Greek Anonymous hackers arrested for defacing Government Sites According to a press release by the Greek police,They has arrested an eighteen-year-old and identified two other teenagers it accuses of having defaced the Greek Ministry of Justice website. The attack happened at the start of...

Anonymous Targets U.S. Makers of Crowd Control Tools

The Anonymous hacker collective lashed out against two companies it accuses of selling crowd control technologies to repressive regimes and to law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. Web sites belonging to Combined Systems Inc. CSI and Sur-Tec Inc. were both down on Friday. The...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

World Economic Forum Sees Dark Side To Connectivity

The latest edition World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report takes a dim view of our hyper connected world. At the group’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, members wrestled with the consequences of ubiquitous Internet connectivity, concluding that groups or individuals with few resources ar...

#OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN

OpRobinHood : Thousands of United Nation logins leaked by TeaMp0isoN Online 'hactivist' collective Anonymous and hackers Team Poison have joined forces for a new group effort known as 'Operation Robin Hood', that plans to target banks in an effort to give money back to the people. TeaMp0isoN toda...

Pizza Delivery For Mr. Blankfein? Group Outs Goldman Sachs CEO In Occupy Wall Street Protest

The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests spilled into the digital realm, as a group linked to the Anonymous hacking collective spilled information about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with e-mail addresses for much of the investment bank’s senior leadership. The ongoing Occupy Wall Stree...

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer's Personal Info

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer's Personal Info The Anonymous activist collective today released personal information about a New York police officer who is believed to have sprayed pepper spray on women protesters on Wall Street. The group released phone number,...