And the lulz just keep on coming, with yet another security breach claimed by LulzSec. I’ve now stopped putting “LulzSec” in quotes (EXCEPT FOR RIGHT THERE!). You can see all our previous LulzSec coverage here.
(MORE: ‘We Do It for the Lulz’: What Makes LulzSec Tick?)
As the story goes, LulzSec released some 62,000 e-mail addresses …
Notorious hacker group LulzSec isn’t pulling punches—it now claims to have taken down the CIA’s website just today, Wednesday afternoon.
“Tango down – cia.gov – for the lulz,” the group wrote on its official Twitter feed just after 6pm ET.
And again, shortly thereafter: “Lulz Security, where the entertainment is always at your …
The hacker collective calling itself “Anonymous” has promised some sort of action against the Federal Reserve today, according to the above video (posted to YouTube) which is apparently from members of Anonymous.
The group is calling its impending action “Operating Empire State Rebellion.”
The entirety of the text presented in the …
Hot on the heels of Spain’s recent arrest of three members of the hacking group known as “Anonymous,” Turkish police are now claiming to have rounded up an additional 32 members of the group.
According to Security Week:
“The Anatolia news agency said today that the suspects were taken into custody after conducting raids in a dozen
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Another of Sony’s websites has reportedly been hacked—this time around, the victim is SonyPictures.com. The group claiming responsibility for the breach, “LulzSec,” is the same group behind the recent PBS website hack.
A statement from the group reads, in part:
“SonyPictures.com was owned by a very simple SQL injection, one of the
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Google has revealed that “the personal Gmail accounts of hundreds of users” may have been compromised and that the attacks appear to have come out of China. According to a company blog post:
“[W]e recently uncovered a campaign to collect user passwords, likely through phishing. This campaign, which appears to originate from Jinan,
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The Sony-owned “So-net” internet service provider has confirmed that its customer rewards website was recently breached, with the person or people responsible making off with “customers’ redeemable gift points worth about $1,225,” as first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
This event comes hot on the heels of Sony’s infamous …
If you use LastPass, the secure password storage service, listen up: you need to change your master password there as soon as possible. Turns out it wasn’t, unfortunately, the “last” password you’d ever need after all.
The LastPass team noticed something weird happening with their servers yesterday – data was flowing in and out in a …
Heads up on a recently revealed vulnerability in the popular Skype app for Android. While the app itself hasn’t been exposing anyone’s personal information, various rogue Android apps could theoretically exploit a weakness in how Skype handles things like your username, phone number, e-mail address, chat logs and more.
Apparently the …
Until recently, Libyan rebel had resorted to waving flags in order to communicate with each other in their fight against Muammar Gaddafi. Green flags signaled an advance, yellow flags signaled a retreat.
A rebel commander told the Wall Street Journal that Gaddafi “forced us back to the stone age.”
Libya’s cellphone network is under …
Email marketing provider Epsilon recently revealed that “a subset of Epsilon clients’ customer data” has been exposed.
As “the world’s largest permission-based email marketing provider” with a roster of more than 2,500 big-name clients, the subset of data includes “email addresses and/or customer names,” as the original press release …
George Lucas, if you’re reading, there’s a good reason why Han would have shot first: because he, like German laser hacker AnselmoFanZero, knew that lasers are very dangerous things capable of zapping holes through metal, plastic, and green dudes called Greedo.
What you see above is the result of 70 hours work. Its maker told Hacked …
