Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice and leaks 1.7GB of data

Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice and leaks 1.7GB of data Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release. Online statements attributed to Anonymous said they we...

April 2012 – Atari/Cryptic Studios

Atari, a pioneer in the early goings of the video gaming world, has struggled to maintain relevancy. A recent breach at one of the company’s former MMORPG developers, Cryptic Studios, could hamper their efforts further. While the breach actually occurred in December 2010, it wasn’t until April...

Report: Diablo III Users Find Accounts Hacked, Gold Stolen And New 'Mystery' Friends

Blizzard Entertainment’s update to the mega-popular Diablo game franchise hit a major snag over the weekend, after users started peppering support boards and the company with reports of raided accounts, missing virtual “gold” and mysterious new friends. The reports began on Saturday, just four da...

Global Payments Breach A Year Older Than First Reported

Alerts issued by Visa and Mastercard earlier this week suggest that a breach at payment processor Global Payments dates to January 2011, a full year earlier than the company initially announced. In alerts obtained by Bankinfosecurity.com, the two card companies claim the start of the security...

BitCoin hacked, More than 18,000 Bitcoins Stolen

Bitcoinica, a Bitcoin exchange started by a 17-year old teenager Zhou Tong, has been shut down for security investigations. It's believed that at least 18,000 BTC $90,000 or 68,000 EUR have been stolen.News of the hack was posted this morning by Bitcoinica's founder, Zhou Tong: "Today, we have...

Dutch Government Asks for €8.7 to Reimburse Diginotar Debacle

The Dutch government has asked DigiNotar, the Dutch certificate authority that was broken into last summer, for €8.7 million $11M USD to recoup money it spent buying new certificates, according to several Dutch news reports. The Dutch interior ministry asked for €1 million in January, yet the...

Social game Zynga's YoVille gets hacked

Social game Zynga's YoVille gets hacked Matt Spencer has been an active player of "YoVille" since the Zynga-owned virtual world launched in 2008, but hasn't played the game in about three weeks. He post a complaint on the gaming company's forum that in late January, Spencer's "YoVille" account wa...

opencart 1.5.2.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

opencart 1.5.2.1 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Author: Janek Vind "waraxe" Date: 06. April 2012 Location: Estonia, Tartu Web: http://www.waraxe.us/advisory-84.html Description of vulnerable software: OpenCart is a turn-key ready "out of the box" shopping cart solution. You simply install, select you...

International Police Association website defaced by Anonymous Hackers

Anonymous hackers deface International Police Association https://ipa-iac.org IPA on Friday afternoon and Anonymous hackers responsible left an angry message on the website's homepage, stating that they defaced the page "for the lulz" for fun but also warned that they might have stolen some...

Car Maker Nissan Admits To Virus Infection, Loss of Employee Accounts

Car maker Nissan became the latest high profile firm to acknowledge being hacked. The company issued a statement last week saying that it detected a virus infection on its network that resulted int he theft of employee login credentials from a company data store. The intrusion was detected on Apr...

mount.cifs chdir() Arbitrary root File Identification

Exploit for linux platform in category local exploits Blueliv Advisory 2012-004 - Discovered by: Jesus Olmos Gonzalez at Blueliv - Risk: 5/5 - Impact: 1/5 1. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- linux privileged and arbitrary chdir, this leads to an arbitary file identification as root. 2...

mount.cifs - chdir() Arbitrary Root File Identification

mount.cifs - chdir Arbitrary Root File Identification Blueliv Advisory 2012-004 - Discovered by: Jesus Olmos Gonzalez at Blueliv - Risk: 5/5 - Impact: 1/5 1. VULNERABILITY ------------------------- linux privileged and arbitrary chdir, this leads to an arbitary file identification as root. 2...

Pro-Tibetan activists become victim of Spear Phishing

Pro-Tibetan activists become victim of Spear Phishing Hackers are ramping up their attacks against Tibetan activists and are using increasingly sophisticated techniques to deliver malware An interesting example of such a malicious email has recently been spotted by FireEye researcher Alex Lanstei...

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach

181000 records compromised in Utah Security Breach Utah health officials said that hackers who broke into state computers last weekend stole far more medical records than originally thought, and the data likely includes Social Security numbers of children who have received public assistance. The...

Disaster Recovery Disaster: Drill Gone Wrong Leads To Loss Of Data On 800K

Call it a disaster recovery drill disaster. The loss of four magnetic tape cartridges containing data on 800,000 California residents was the unfortunate result of an IBM-managed disaster recovery exercise gone wrong, said Christine Lally, Assistant Secretary, Legislation & Communications for the...

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site

Return of Lulzsec, Dump 170937 accounts from Military Dating Site Another Hacking group after Lulzsec, comes with name LulzsecReborn has posted names, usernames, passwords, and emails of 170,937 accounts on MilitarySingles.com on Pastebin as part of the group's Operation Digiturk. LulzSec was a...

PYSEC-2012-26

The TAR file parser in AhnLab V3 Internet Security 2011.01.18.00, Avira AntiVir 7.11.1.163, Antiy Labs AVL SDK 2.0.3.7, avast! Antivirus 4.8.1351.0 and 5.0.677.0, AVG Anti-Virus 10.0.0.1190, Bitdefender 7.2, Quick Heal aka Cat QuickHeal 11.00, ClamAV 0.96.4, Command Antivirus 5.2.11.5, Comodo...

Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers

Stanford University defaced by Indian Hackers Stanford University subdomain defaced by Indian hackers "Yash" and "C0de Inject0r" from Team Nuts. Stanford is an American private research university located in Stanford, California. Hacker write on page "Everyday Someone Get Hacked , Today is your...

Hacker exposes 40,000 Credit Cards from Digital Playground

Hacker exposes 40,000 Credit Cards from Digital Playground A new hacking group called The Consortium has hit the scene and their first take down is the porn site Digital Playground deface it and Mirror is available here. Everything, including credit card information, was stored in plain text. "Th...

Finally Google Chrome gets hacked at Pwn2Own

Finally Google Chrome gets hacked at Pwn2Own Vupen Security and Sergey Glazunov independently managed to penetrate Google Chrome's security defenses at the Pwn2Own and 'Pwnium' contests respectively. The annual competition, which invites ethical hackers from around the world to attempt hacking in...