Notorious hacker group Anonymous has taken down the Vatican's website today in an attack against the scandals and conservative doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church. The Italian branch of the hacker group claimed responsibility for the breach and even posted a statement listing the Church's misdeeds throughout history.
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Anonymous takes down Vatican website
Futurama’s Bender wins Washington DC school board election in mock race
Fictional robot Bender, known as a goofy and aloof character in the animated series Futurama, has won a Washington DC election to determine the new head of the city's public school board, thanks to a hack performed by a group of graduate students. By the way, it wasn't too difficult to hack into the system. All they had to do was guess "admin" as the user name and password to gain credentialed access to the server.
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Consider this: LulzSec’s Sabu didn’t snitch
Today the words are being skewed, accusations are being tossed around, and there’s no knowing exactly what’s gone on in a case that seems to have suddenly torn the hacker group LulzSec asunder. As the story goes, former top LulzSec man Hector “Sabu” Xavier Monsegur was until last year working with the loosely organized group of hackers and pushing their agenda on the world, no quarter given. Now it seems that his arrest this past June has turned into a guilty plea revealed today in an unsealed court document that points toward the idea that Sabu may have worked with the FBI to lessen his own sentence in exchange for giving up information that lead to the arrest of several of his former compatriots – but it’s not that cut and dry.
Hacking group LulzSec brought down from the inside
The LulzSec saga continues, although it may perhaps be at its end in this bizarre development that reads like something out of a movie. The shadowy organization has reportedly been brought down by the FBI, who have been working with LulzSec’s own leader, Hector Xavier Monsegur, otherwise known as “Sabu”, after the hacker agreed to cooperate having been arrested in mid-2011.
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Symantec reports Anonymous hack tool to be malware in itself
This week a couple of names in information security and the hacking of said information have popped up in relation to one another once again, Symantec accusing certain downloads of Anonymous web tools of containing malware in and of themselves. It is with the tools in question that the utterly massive hacker collective known as Anonymous is able to carry out DoS attacks with the help of users all around the world. What Symantec is saying today is that these tools, or at least some versions of the downloads of these tools, also contain malware that infects the user's own machine at the same time as they attack others.
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NASA admits to being hacked 13 times last year
Even high-tech NASA isn't impervious to hackers. The space agency reported to Congress this week that it had been hacked a total of 13 times last year, including one China-based attack that gained complete access and control of mission critical systems as well as employee accounts. The revelation comes as Congress debates two competing cyber-security bills to boost the government's defenses against cyber attacks.
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Trustwave finds most common business-compliant password is Password1
It appears that even requiring users to implement hard-to-hack password requirements doesn't prevent them from being as generic as possible. In a study of more than 2 million systems, Trustwave found that, not surprisingly, the most common password was "password," or some variation thereof. And among systems that required an upper-case letter and a number, Password1 was the top choice.
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Anonymous reveals Cybersecurity Act of 2012
This week it appears that the NSA has brought forth warnings of the hacker group Anonymous' ability to take down the power grid at a most opportune time, according to none other than Anonymous. While earlier this week it was warned by the NSA that Anonymous might be targeting the US power grid, the hacker group has noted that they'd do no such thing, as "there are ppl on life support/other vital services that rely on it." In addition, the group has brought attention today to a new bill that's looking to get passed in the first part of the year: the Cybersecurity Act of 2012.
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Transformer Prime bootloader unlock now available!
This week the folks at ASUS have granted the world with a simple unlock tool for their most excellent tablet yet, the Transformer Prime. Since this first in its class for many reasons device was released, developers and so-called hackers have ben working on plans for what they're going to do with the Transformer Prime once its bootloader was unlocked, and now the fun can commence. As is true with any bootloader unlock on an Android device specifically, going forward with the process will void your contract and will make your device no longer the device it once was.
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Facebook hacker gets 8 months in prison
A 26-year-old student has been given a prison sentence for doing the same thing to Facebook that helped inspire Facebook in the first place. The man, Glenn Mangham, was accused of hacking into Facebook's online servers numerous times in 2011. He was arrested on the charges in June and had to face five counts of computer hacking. The ruling was just recently handed down - guilty.
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Anonymous pledges weekly attacks on Friday
We're all used to celebrating Fridays as the end of the work or school week, giving us a chance to relax and unwind, and creating excuses so we don't have to wake up early on Saturday. But for another group of people, Fridays will become a bit more serious. Infamous hacking group Anonymous has decided to commit to at least of hack every week, and it will happen on Fridays.
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Nortel hacked for 10 years because execs had crackable passwords
In what is nothing short of an embarrassment for telecommunications giant Nortel Networks, it has been exposed that hackers in China have been accessing sensitive company information for nearly 10 years. It was hard to notice anything was wrong because these hackers seemed to gain access to proprietary company websites legitimately. All they needed to do was figure out the passwords of company executives.
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