As most people would know there is a trend going on called the "ANTI-Sec Movement" which I am neither against or for simply for the reason some companies do deserve to get slammed with security breaches and show the customers how easy it truly is to get there lives taken from them simply by... you guest it "Trusting a Corporation."
Does anyone remember the days people wanted the 'Mom and Pop Shops' and no one trusted the corporations? I don't know what happen but I do miss those days, But with people actually "trusting" these big corporations all the independent 'Mom & Pop Shops' lose out and are forced to either sell or shutdown.
But the reason why I also disagree with the new movement is some of these websites that can't truly afford an IT Staff and is more like a low market will still get plucked and yes I understand that it's to prove a point but people are also at risk of getting there identity taken away from them; most people in this movement are actually not leaking most of the user database, it still will show up though so you always must take the precautions when playing in the digital world.
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Showing posts with label News. Show all posts
Sunday, July 10, 2011
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Hacker Dumps Details of Florida Voter Database
Rigged voting might be as old as US election systems themselves, so what happens when a hacker collects the voting database?
The AntiSec movement is definitely rolling along, Anonymous is pointing to a recent hack that could raise some serious questions over the integrity of voting in Florida. It seems that a hacker who uses Twitter obtained parts of the Florida voting database which has been subsequently posted to Paste2. It appears that the hacker in question wanted to show that voting fraud can easily happen today and dumped parts of the Florida database to prove it.The content was posted to PasteBin (same content) while Abhaxas tweeted, “Who believes voting isn’t tampered with?”
It’s the latest in a long string of hacks since LulzSec was disbanded. Previously, the Arizona Polce Force had details leak about them not not once, not twice, but three times. In another leak, the AntiSec movement leaked details of Viacom and Universal Music along with content from various government servers.
This latest hack clearly demonstrates that Anonymous isn’t the only organization that is doing the hacking these days. One thing is for sure though, it’s hard to imagine that this would not have very big political implications.
This resent security breach is under investigation.
Sunday, June 12, 2011
18 years old hacker gets caught!
The Greek Police have apprehended and arrested an 18 year old hacker suspected of breaking into sites such as Interpol, the FBI, and numbers of US state agencies. The unidentified hacker lives with his mother in a Agios Dimitrios, a district of Athens, had claimed he has broken into the Interpol site once before at the mere age of 15 years old.
The head of Greece's cybercrime squad Manolis Sfakianakis is quoted as saying on NET; "This unnamed hacker has taken many strikes out all over the world from his house" Manolis also states that Interpol is the basic one, next to other US agencies, he carried out these attacks by himself, but has world with others before.
This young hacker went by the handle 'nsplitter' had has put his hands into some serious cyber crime activities such as credit card fraud, and e-banking data through toolbars downloaded by internet users, and generated cloned cards to make unauthorised ATM withdrawals.
Reports indicate the young hacker has been released by Greek Police, pending further investigation.
The AFP newswire, says that, during his arrest on Wednesday, police executed a search warrant on his home and seized almost 8,000 euros, $300, 130 blank cards, laptops, external drives and a router. He used his illegal funds to invest in the stock market.
"If found guilty of all charges, he faces a prison sentence of at least five years".
The head of Greece's cybercrime squad Manolis Sfakianakis is quoted as saying on NET; "This unnamed hacker has taken many strikes out all over the world from his house" Manolis also states that Interpol is the basic one, next to other US agencies, he carried out these attacks by himself, but has world with others before.
This young hacker went by the handle 'nsplitter' had has put his hands into some serious cyber crime activities such as credit card fraud, and e-banking data through toolbars downloaded by internet users, and generated cloned cards to make unauthorised ATM withdrawals.
Reports indicate the young hacker has been released by Greek Police, pending further investigation.
The AFP newswire, says that, during his arrest on Wednesday, police executed a search warrant on his home and seized almost 8,000 euros, $300, 130 blank cards, laptops, external drives and a router. He used his illegal funds to invest in the stock market.
"If found guilty of all charges, he faces a prison sentence of at least five years".
Hackers attacked IMF with "Sophisticated cyberattack"
The International Monetary Fund also known as the "IMF" has suffered a major blow by hackers.
The organization, made headlines when following the arrest and resignation of it's boss Dominque Strauss-Kahn (He was arrested for sexual assault has been as a trampoline for malware attacks.) there have been attempts to oversee the financial troubles around the world, promote economic development.
According to the New York Times according to sources within the IMF there has in face been a "major breach of security" this attack was serious enough to cut the connection of the computer linking between the IMF and its near neighbor in Washington, World Bank.
Spokesman for the World Bank reported to the New York Times; ""Disconnection was taken out of an abundance of caution, until the nature of the attack was understood." The link to the world bank has since been restored and there have been no reported attacks on the World Bank.
Bloomberg claimed to have gotten its hands on some internal emails and memos distributed to IMF staff informing them there computer systems had been compromised.
The organization, made headlines when following the arrest and resignation of it's boss Dominque Strauss-Kahn (He was arrested for sexual assault has been as a trampoline for malware attacks.) there have been attempts to oversee the financial troubles around the world, promote economic development.
According to the New York Times according to sources within the IMF there has in face been a "major breach of security" this attack was serious enough to cut the connection of the computer linking between the IMF and its near neighbor in Washington, World Bank.
Spokesman for the World Bank reported to the New York Times; ""Disconnection was taken out of an abundance of caution, until the nature of the attack was understood." The link to the world bank has since been restored and there have been no reported attacks on the World Bank.
Bloomberg claimed to have gotten its hands on some internal emails and memos distributed to IMF staff informing them there computer systems had been compromised.
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