A lot of people and companies get complacent and don’t believe the hackers are winning, but trust me they are. So we have to ask, why are hackers winning the security game? What’s putting them ahead of the security teams and CISOs inside organizations. It’s an old story anyway, the Hackers always win in some […]
Tags: b-sides, ciso, hackers, hacking, infosec, securing against hackers, Security, security is broken, security teams
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This is pretty epic, the big buzz last week was all about Sabu and how he was a traitor to LulzSec and Anonymous. Now most people think things like these only happen in the movies, secret arrests followed by strong-arm tactics to make the perp turn and be an informant for the feds. Sounds like […]
Tags: anonymous, hackers, Hector Xavier Monsegur, informant, lulzsec, sabu, stratfor, traitor
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There was a bit of a buzz on the 10th anniversary of 9/11 when the NBC News Twitter account was hacking and started posting updates regarding a repeated terrorist attack against ground zero. It only lasted a few minutes but as the account has 120,000 followers – it caused quite a stir. It’s not known […]
This is a very complete list, probably the most complete one I’ve seen and it includes pictures – pictures of people who rarely have their pictures taken or allow them out on the Internet. The list is according to the proper original definition of a Hacker, as taken from the New Hacker’s Dictionary: A person […]
Tags: black hat hackers, famous hackers, hackers, hacking, list of hackers, white hat hackers
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Another teen hacker in the news, this guy looks like he has some formidable skills though with the list of crimes he’s perpetrated. He’s pleaded guilty though, so he should get a reduced sentence and he’s still classified as a juvenile offender being only 17 – so that works in his favour too. A juvenile […]
Tags: 4chan, aush0k, computer felonies, cyber attacks, ddos, dos, dshocker, fraud, hackers, hacking, hoax calls, myg0t, telephone spoofing
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It seems that people are truly shocked when their identities get exposed, and the vast majority use the same single password for ALL of their online accounts. That’s just crazy! A ‘kind-hearted’ hacker recently exposed a bunch of online accounts (with passwords) to gain himself more status in a hacker forum (l33t sk1llz dudebro!). WHEN […]
Tags: account cracking, data-security, email-hacking, hackers, hacking, identity-theft, Password Cracking, Privacy
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We reported on this case back in September 2007, the largest US data breach in history so far (45 million customer records!). It seems like finally the people behind it have been busted, 11 people have been charged by US authorities. The US authorities have charged 11 people in connection with the theft of credit-card […]
Tags: credit card details, credit-card-fraud, credit-card-hacking, data breach, hackers, hackers busted, tjx, us data breach
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Looks like India has them moving into the hacking scene young, it’ll happen anywhere with decent network infrastructure and disparate levels of economy. Look at Eastern Europe and China as other examples, India though due to it’s outsourcing culture and plentiful legitimate jobs in the IT industry doesn’t seem to suffer so many problems with […]
Tags: ahmedabad, ajay, credit-card-fraud, cvv, ebay, ebay fraud, ebay scams, hackers, hacking, Legal Issues, mulund, mumbai, paypal, paypal fraud
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As far as I know this has been happening for some time, sometimes a patch comes out for a vulnerability that many people don’t know about (including the hackers) so they will see what problem the patch fixes (possibly through reverse engineering) then develop an exploit to leverage on the flaw. It seems things are […]
It looks like someone is going after the bad guys in a new way, by hacking them back! It’s no news to us that many hacking tools and script kiddy trojan kits are badly programmed..a lot of them have back-doors and the client-side tools have easy exploits that enable you to take over the ‘hackers’ […]
Tags: bitsec, exploits, hackers, hacking, hacking the hacker, joel eriksson, reverse-engineering, trojans, vulnerabilities
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