Tag: lulzsec
Hackers May Be Able To Manipulate Election Results
Ericka Chickowski DarkReading Hackers May Be Able To Manipulate Election Results. As the rest of the nation’s citizens sit on on pins and needles about who will win the presidential election — Barack Obama or Mitt Romney — information security pros are even more anxious in their wait to see whether this is the [...]
New Hacker Crews Spawned By Anonymous, LulzSec
Elinor Mills CNET With names like “LulzSec Reborn,” “MalSec,” and “SpexSec,” new hacking crews are cropping up in the wake of LulzSec arrests and Anonymous dissatisfaction. It’s been three months since the arrest of a handful of people accused of conducting denial-of-service and other attacks on police and corporate networks as part of the notorious [...]
LulzSec Reborn Leaks 10,000 Twitter Accounts
Kevin Parrish Tom’s Guide Use TweetGif? LulzSec Reborn leak may have your number. PC Magazine reports that LulzSec Reborn has leaked around 10,000 Twitter usernames and passwords of members who use TweetGif, an animated Gif-sharing application. Currently the motivation behind the leak is unknown at this point, as the group’s Pastebin announcement merely points to a destination [...]
10 Hacking Incidents That Made History
Joan Goodchild PC Advisor – UK Hacking has been around for decades. Today’s crimes are often financially-motivated fraud. Here are ten hacking incidents that made history In our first Rogues Gallery, we looked at ten infamous social engineers – con men who exploited human weaknesses rather than technical vulnerabilities. But there have been computer and network hacks [...]
Hackers Bring Down ‘Britain’s FBI’ with Cyber Attack
Rick Dewsbury MailOnline The Serious Organised Crime Agency’s website was temporarily shut down today after a cyber attack. It was the victim of a scam known as distributed denial of service (DDOS) whereby an internet address is flooded with bogus traffic, effectively making it unreachable. The actions can also jam other websites hosted by [...]
CabinCr3w Hacker Identified By Twitter & Hot Bikini Girl
Dan Oakes Brisbane Times Summary: Photos of an Australian girl in a bikini led to the arrest of CabinCr3w hacker Higinio O. Ochoa III, who allegedly hacked government websites. PICTURES of a scantily clad woman taken in an outer-Melbourne suburb have led to the arrest of a man who allegedly hacked law enforcement and [...]
Pastebin Makes Plans To Censor Hacker Pastes
by Sir Cumv3nt [VirtualThreat] Pastebin is seeking additional staffing in order to monitor the site for pastes that contain ‘sensitive information’, similar to those that hackers often post to the site. Anonymous, the online hactivist group, claims this move screams of censorship. Pastebin.com currently has over 200,000 registered users on the site and gets more than [...]
“LulzSec Reborn” Hacks Military Dating Site
RT The hacking group LulzSec Reborn may have resurfaced after a short lull. The group claims to have attacked a military dating website. In its announcement on the pastebin.com website, the group said it has leaked 170,937 military emails from MilitarySingles.com website. “There are emails such as @us.army.mil ; @carney.navy.mil ; @greatlakes.cnet.navy.mil ; [...]
Anonymous Promises to Take Down the Internet
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com They’re back. The FBI’s Lulzsec promises hijinks on April Fool’s Day. On Saturday, the supposed hacktivist group infiltrated – and we can presume created – by the U.S. government released a YouTube video promising more mayhem. “Lulzsec will start targeting governments, corporations, agencies, and quite possibly the people watching this video. We are [...]
Adult Site Hacked, Credit Card Info Exposed
Paul Roberts ThreatPost.com The adult Web site DigitalPlayground.com was hackeed. A group calling itself TheConsortium has claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole credit card information on 40,000 paying customers and even listened in on a company conference call. The compromise occurred on March 4, according to a message attributed to TheConsortium and [...]
LulzSec Brought Down by Own Leader
Jana Winter FoxNews.com EXCLUSIVE: Law enforcement agents on two continents swooped in on top members of the infamous computer hacking group LulzSec early this morning, and acting largely on evidence gathered by the organization’s brazen leader — who sources say has been secretly working for the government for months — arrested three and charged two [...]
Chicago Hacker Tied to Anonymous
Chuck Sudo Chicagoist.com Jeremy Hammond, the Bridgeport resident arrested yesterday in connection with the international investigation into hacktivist collectives Anonymous and LulzSec, is no stranger to being investigated by authorities for his computer skills or to being in prison. According to the Sun-Times, Hammond’s rap sheet includes “a conviction for burning a 2016 Olympics [...]
