Tag: HACK

On Friday, the Financial Times published a story about the ongoing criminal investigation into Anonymous -- the notorious online collective of hacktivists that have orchestrated cyber-attacks on Visa, MasterCard, and a handful of authoritarian governments. In the article, the paper quoted a computer security expert named Aaron Barr, who claimed to have "penetrated" the group, and said that his ...

A new piece of banking malware has finally surfaced, confirming fears that have been circulating for several months. The new worm combines elements from both Zeus and SpyEye, but, according to Seculert CTO and co-founder Aviv Raff, it has only infected a handful of people so far. Seculert's screenshots show that the malware has two control panels -- one resembling Zeus's, and the other ...

The hacktivists over at Anonymous are at it again. After bringing down opponents of WikiLeaks, and recently taking on Tunisia and Egypt, the loosely organized group of politically motivated hackers that hang out on 4Chan has now set its sights on the Yemeni government. In anticipation of yesterday's "Day of Rage" in Yemen, the collective took down the sites for the Yemeni Ministry of Information ...

The Web may be up and running in Egypt, but Anonymous clearly hasn't forgotten the Egyptian government's unprecedented shutdown of the Internet. The group of free speech 'hacktivists' is now claiming credit for taking down the websites of the Egyptian Ministry of Information and the National Democratic Party, which is currently in power. Anonymous confirmed the attacks in a message posted to its ...

Online dating site Plentyoffish recently became the victim of a targeted hack that compromised its database of usernames, e-mails and passwords. CEO Markus Frind posted about the incident to his personal blog, but there has been no official statement from the company as of yet. According to Frind's post, a fix has been put in place, and passwords have been reset -- but exactly what happened isn't ...

Share A cheeky hacker got a hold of the Mark Zuckerberg fan page on Facebook and decided it was time to poke a little fun at Zuck and his cash-saturated social network. The sneaky critic posted a message that appeared to come directly from the CEO on the page. Let the hacking begin: If facebook needs money, instead of going to the banks, why doesn't Facebook let its users invest in Facebook in a ...

Over the weekend, a hacker got hold of Lil Wayne's Twitter account, tweeting affronts to Soulja Boy, 50 Cent and Weezy, himself. One tweet, likely addressed to Soulja Boy, read, "I sent a donations to your Paypal, check it, I heard you got 13,000 sales lil homie, I feel bad for you!" Another, still more incendiary tweet read, "The real reason I made 6'7 is cuz that's how tall the n***a in rikers ...

Back in November, a group of hackers broke into a New Hampshire medical sever hosting 230,000 patient records, but the data itself was apparently just a collateral-damage afterthought. According to the Register, the ne'er-do-wells breached the Seacoast Radiology server in order to appropriate its bandwidth capabilities for playing 'Call of Duty.' Although the server housed names, Social ...

Many Hotmail users across the world reported over the weekend that their e-mails had been mysteriously deleted. Over the past couple of days, Microsoft's official forums were filled with complaints from users claiming that their inboxes and all of their folders had been emptied, with some suspecting that their accounts had been hacked. Microsoft's Hotmail technical team has acknowledged that it's ...

It's no secret that the U.S. government is going after WikiLeaks and its elusive founder Julian Assange. According to the Smoking Gun, however, federal authorities have been targeting its supporters, as well. Earlier this month, a group of pro-WikiLeaks hackers known as Anonymous began launching a series of coordinated cyber-attacks against companies that had severed ties with Julian Assange's ...

Honda has begun to reach out to the 2.2 million customers who have had their names, e-mail addresses and vehicle identification numbers (VINs) poached by hackers that infiltrated the car company's database. Honda's luxury brand Acura also had its systems hacked, but only e-mail addresses were stolen. The cause for concern here is obvious. With names, e-mails and VINs in hand, it would be easy for ...

Share Leon Walker recently discovered that his wife was having an affair, after he read some of her e-mails. Doing so, however, may just land him in prison. Last year, Walker reportedly hacked into his wife's Gmail account, using a laptop that the couple shared. He then found out that his wife, Clara, was having an affair with her second husband, who previously had been arrested for beating ...

Yesterday, Gawker announced that its servers had been hacked, and that more than a million of its user account passwords had been compromised. According to the site, all passwords were encrypted, but "simple ones may be vulnerable to a brute-force attack." Gawker recommended that all users change their passwords on its platform, and on any other site where they had used the same password. The ...

The group attacking Visa, PayPal and MasterCard want the world to know that it has absolutely no intention of wreaking widespread havoc -- it just wants to defend Wikileaks, that's all. The group, known as Anonymous, issued a press release today, and reassured average consumers that the so-called 'Operation: Payback' definitely won't put their personal data at risk. "We do not want to steal ...

Last week, a German teenager known as Deniz A and his 23-year-old accomplice managed to hack into the personal computers of Lady Gaga, Justin Timberlake and Ke$ha. Upon infiltrating the computers with a Trojan horse virus, the hackers stole and sold the artists' unfinished songs online. Over the course of 12 months, they allegedly pocketed over $13,000. They're even rumored to have blackmailed ...