Archive for the ‘Hacking’ Category

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LinkedIn Hacked

It’s most likely true – LinkedIn has been hacked. It was reported that some hacker in a Russian online forum had claimed he had uploaded over 6 million password hashes for LinkedIn accounts, but no user names were reported as being uploaded.  

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TheWikiBoat Readies DDoS Attacks #OpNewSon

It’s being dubbed “Operation NewSon” or, OpNewSon for short.  It’s slated to be a massive DDoS attack orchestrated by another Anonymous spin-off calling themselves “TheWikiBoat”.

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Anonymous Claims To Have Access To Classified US Databases

Though Anonymous has been very quiet in wake of the LulzSec arrests, a supposed high-ranking spokesperson for the Hacktivist group has made an extremely bold claim just recently.

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Scarlett Johansson Nude Photo Hacker Arrested

The man responsible for hacking into over 50 celebrities email accounts, and also responsible for leaking Scarlett Johansson’s nude pictures on the web, has been arrested and admitted guilt.  

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Vulnerability Discovered: GuardianEdge AKA Symantec Endpoint Encryption

GuardianEdge, or Symantec Endpoint Encryption full disk as it’s called, is a full disk encryption management platform.  It provides protection against things such as cold-boot attacks and blanking local Windows passwords.  The product itself works on both Windows and Mac OS computers.  

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LulzSec Leader Identified

It looks as maybe, just MAYBE, the leader of the hacking group LulzSec (alias Sabu) has finally been identified and also confirmed by Sabu himself. In a recently posted Blogspot website, details that ‘doxed’ (documentation identifying) Sabu, have appeared.  

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More From Anonymous

It’s been a busy week in the name of #Antisec for the hacker group – Anonymous.

Ryan Cleary Released On Bail

The 19 year old suspected LulzSec hacker and IRC chat room operator, has been released on bail.  

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Facebook Hires Geohot

The infamous Playstation 3 and iPhone jailbreaker, George Hotz (Geohot), has confirmed Facebook has hired him. If you remember, Geohot just recently settled with Sony in a lawsuit where they suggested he was infringing upon their copyrights and claimed reverse engineering the Playstation 3 was illegal. The settlement terms were simple:  Geohot agrees to never [...]

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Anonymous Picks Up Where LulzSec Left Off

Since LulzSec has disbanded and been brought into the collective known as “Anonymous”, Anonymous has been keeping very busy and keeping with their “plan“.

LulzSec Calls It Quits

This past weekend, the hacking group – LulzSec (Lulz Security), has retired. The announcement was made via Twitter on their @LulzSec account and on their website. The short tweet proclaimed:

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LulzSec Hacks Arizona Police

Just minutes ago, the infamous hacking group LulzSec, put a new link on their site to the Pirate Bay torrent they just uploaded.  

BitCoin/Mt.Gox Hacked, DARPA’s Firing Range & LulzSec

BitCoin/Mt.Gox Hacked, DARPA Digital Firing Range & LulzSec – Let’s begin with Bitcoin and MTGox.

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Operation Anti-Security – LulzSec & Anonymous Team Up

- LulzSec & Anonymous are either one in the same or they are two independent groups as they state and have finally teamed up.  Their goal – to bring government corruption to an end.  This ties in with the latest post by Anonymous in initiating “The Plan”.  The plan is to be carried out in [...]

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LulzSec Keeps Busy This Weekend

Since Friday morning, LulzSec has been extremely busy.  On Friday, the began the morning with posting a sort of manifesto on why they do the things they do.  Ultimately they do it for laughs – entertainment and because they believe they can.  They very much think they will get caught in the end, but their [...]

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LulzSec’s Thoughts On What They’ve Done

In a tweet this morning (their 1,000), they posted a link to a pastebin text drop that states the following (and can be found here):

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LulzSec Releases 62,000 User Names & Passwords

Just this morning, LulzSec had tweeted that they just released over 62,000 user names, passwords & emails addresses.  I’d advised anyone reading this blog to check to see if yours is listed.

CIA.gov DDoS’d by LulzSec

Here it is:  

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LulzSec Phone DoS Attacks and DoS Attacks – Wednesday

The Lulzy one’s are back at again on Wednesday.  First target was a DDoS attack on both “Heroes of Newerth” and Magnets.com.  Both sites were brought to a grinding halt, but seem to be back up now.

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EVE Online, Minecraft, FinFisher, & Escaptist Magazine – All Hacked By LulzSec

As of early this afternoon, LulzSec has targeted EVE Online, FinFisher, Escapist Magazine and Minecraft.   All three websites have been DDoS’ed and brought down.  LulzSec recently tweeted: