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Facebook SPAM King Compromises 500,000 Accounts

, Aug 7th 2011 Discuss [22]

A fellow by the name of Sanford Wallace, otherwise known as one of the "Spam Kings", has been charged with 11 federal criminal counts, these counts related to 27 MILLION unsolicited SPAM messages sent via Facebook servers. FBI officials note that Wallace received "substantial revenue" for this so-called "scheme" in which 500,000 Facebook users accounts were compromised. As of August 7th, 2011, Wallace has turned himself into authorities, has pled not guilty, and is free on a $100,000 bond while he faces more than 40 years in prison for his alleged crimes. Lulzsec and Anonymous have been unavailable for comment.* Read The Full Story

Hacker shows how to hack insulin pumps at Black Hat conference

, Aug 5th 2011 Discuss [42]

I don’t get why someone would want to spend the time creating a method of hacking something as important and life sustaining to some people as an insulin pump. To diabetics that rely on the insulin pump for their lives hacking it and changing the dose of insulin could kill them. At the Black Hat Security conference a man named Jay Radcliffe showed off this hack. He is a diabetic and depends on an insulin pump and a glucose monitor to live. Radcliffe says that he has reverse-engineered the proprietary wireless communication system between the glucose meter and the pump. Read The Full Story

Anonymous may be testing a new attack tool dubbed #RefRef

, Aug 2nd 2011 Discuss [3]

With some high profile arrests in hacking cases lately it appears that Anonymous might be working on a new attack tool that makes it less likely that the attackers can be caught. The DDoS tool that anonymous is using in its attacks now is called LOIC. The new tool is apparently called #RefRef and the new tool attacks with new weapons. Read The Full Story

LulzSec hacker teen bailed: Details of 750,000 found on PC

, Aug 1st 2011 Discuss [6]

The teenage LulzSec hacker arrested by British police last week has been released on bail this morning, despite investigations discovering the personal details of 750,000 individuals on computers seized from his home. Jake Davis, who is believed to be LulzSec spokesperson Topiary, was granted bail after the judge took into account his age, clean record and the "considerable shock" of his arrest and the media's reaction to it, The FT reports. Davis appeared at the court in London wearing Neo-style sunglasses and clutching a copy of Free Radicals: the Secret Anarchy of Science. Read The Full Story

Lulzsec spokesperson Topiary arrested by British e-police

, Jul 27th 2011 Discuss [2]

UK police have reportedly arrested Lulzsec spokesperson Topiary, in a snatch that saw the unnamed 19 year old detained at a residential address in the Shetland Islands. The arrest was made by the Police Central e-Crime Unit, the Metropolitan Police has announced, after an "intelligence-led operation." Read The Full Story

Pentagon admits to losing 24,000 files in major network breach

, Jul 15th 2011 Discuss [11]

2011 has certainly been the year of the hacker so far. The number of hacks and attacks that have been perpetrated against the US government and businesses is staggering and shows no sign of letting up. Perhaps the most disturbing of all the hacks this year was one perpetrated against the US government that the Pentagon has now admitted happened in the spring of this year. The Pentagon says that the attack was one of the most damaging to date.

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AntiSec steals 90,000 military email account addresses and passwords

, Jul 12th 2011 Discuss [34]

The rash of hacks and attacks against the websites of government and private firms over the last year has grown to proportions we have never seen before. Hacker groups have been pilfering data from servers that are poorly secured in droves and then posting the information stolen online to prove they made the hack. The most recent hack that AntiSec has taken credit for was of a server run by military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton Inc. Read The Full Story

iOS Hacker Bringing Swype To Jailbroken iPhones

, Jul 7th 2011 Discuss [0]

It's unusual for someone that's gone Android to go back to iOS, but when it does happen, a sorely missed feature is the Swype keyboard. Swype lets you trace your finger from letter to letter without lifting off the screen to type your words. It's quicker and less straining to type this way, but the feature has yet to be available to iPhone users. Well, that may be about to change---at least for users of jailbroken iPhones---as one iOS hacker has just released a beta port of Swype. Read The Full Story

Fox News Twitter account hacked, Obama not shot

, Jul 4th 2011 Discuss [10]

Am I the only one that thinks that hackers have got out of hand recently? Not a day goes by that hackers haven't worked their way into something or other, stolen data, and posted it online as a way to brag about their hacking prowess. The latest victim of hackers is the twitter account of Fox News and the hack was a very public and embarrassing one for the news site. I have to think that this hack may end up being the one the person or persons responsible eventually come to regret. Read The Full Story

LulzSec call it quits after 50 days of hacking and release AT&T docs on the way out

, Jun 27th 2011 Discuss [1]

The hacker group known as LulzSec set out on what they call a 50-day cruise. It was more like a 50-day hack fest where the group accessed all sorts of data and took sites offline. The data that the hackers accessed was released to the public for the most part. After the 50 days of hacking the group is now calling it quits. That is probably a good thing, I suspect with all the hacking going on and with some of the sites attacked being US government sites there will be some government-sponsored investigations going on. Read The Full Story

LulzSec Hacker Boat Sunk By Another Hacker Group?

, Jun 22nd 2011 Discuss [11]

The "hacktivist" group called LulzSec has been wreaking havoc on websites and servers across the board over the last several weeks. Ever since the PlayStation Network breach, the group has been actively taking down gaming sites and even government agency sites including the CIA.gov and Senate.gov. They've certainly kept themselves in the headlines and are now drawing ire from other hackers. Read The Full Story

LulzSec Denies Sega Pass Hack, Offers Revenge

, Jun 17th 2011 Discuss [6]

Sega confirmed this morning that its Sega Pass network was hacked and has been offline since yesterday as the company investigates the extent of the breach. No hacker group has yet to step forward, and the usual suspect LulzSec has surprisingly denied responsibility for the attack. Read The Full Story
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