Sites get hacked, it’s not pleasant but it happens. A critical part of it, especially in my experience, has been the web application log forensics applied directly after an attack. You can usually piece together what happened, especially if the attacker doesn’t rotate IP addresses during the attack. With a little poking around and after […]
If any of you follow the mailings lists or the ‘scene’ as it’s known, you’d be familiar with PHC, Phrack, Gobbles, ~el8, Silvio, gayh1tler and the whole Whitehat Holocaust AKA pr0j3kt m4yh3m. (Back when it went public). The war against whitehats has started up again more vehemently recently with zine known as zero for owned […]
Tags: dan-kaminsky, hacked, kevin-mitnick, media whores, pr0j3ct m4yh3m, rm -rf, summer of hax, Web Hacking, whitehat holocaust, zero for owned, zf05, zf05.txt, ~el8
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It just goes to show, however smart you think you are…don’t bother trying to wreck someones data. In this case, even if the guy was pissed it was highly responsible as it involved medical records and could actually seriously effect someones life. He was pretty careful but left a few clues behind, more than enough […]
Tags: california, disgruntled employee, hacked, hacker, it manager rampage, jon paul oson, law breaker, Legal Issues, oson, prison sentence
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Gentoo Pulls the Plug after Getting Pwned Gentoo pulled quite a few of it’s servers recently following the discovery of a fairly severe flaw in it’s systems. Just to show that Linux systems aren’t invulnerable and immune to all security issues. Ubuntu suffered quite heavily recently too, so don’t assume just because you use Linux […]
Tags: gentoo, gentoo hacked, gentoo hacking, gentoo security, hacked, Linux Hacking, linux-security, pwned, server owned
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A while back Microsoft UK got hacked by some Saudi Hackers, Microsoft is always one of the top targets for renegades and ‘cyber-terrorists’ as the high profile nature of the company can give some publicity to their causes. This was less than a month after Technet got owned. I don’t think they are ever going […]
Tags: defaced, hacked, hacking-web-sites, hacking-websites, microsoft, microsoft-uk, saudi-hackers, UK, web-application-security, web-defacement, web-security
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It has happened quite a few times lately, politically tight situations, mistakes, data or information leaks and whoops damn…er…let’s blame it on hackers! Case 1: California Highway Patrol officials have opened a criminal investigation into “multiple” breaches and illegal downloads by outside hackers into the computers of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office, after an embarrassing private […]
Tags: arnold-shwarzenegger, blame-hackers, dan-geary, hacked, hackers, hacking, joe-lieberman, lieberman, politcally-tight-situation, politicians, politics, shwarzenegger, slip-up
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Haha, well serves them right, get out and get laid guys. Online payment company iBill on Thursday said a massive cache of stolen consumer data uncovered by security experts did not come from its database. “I’m the first person that would have taken this to the FBI and the first person to have gone on […]
Tags: darknet, Database Hacking, hacked, hackers, hacking, ibill, porn, porn-database
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