Tag: hackers
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode213 – Torture Report, Sony Hack, Oakland Undercover
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode213 – Torture Report, Sony Hack, Oakland Undercover Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: CIA Lied to Congress, White House and Britain Over Torture Corporate Media Comes…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode202 – Missing Planes, iCloud Hacks, @SuspiciousMemes
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode202 – Missing Planes, iCloud Hacks, Suspicious Memes Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Officials Warn 11 Missing Airplanes Could Be Used on 9/11 Anniversary Flashback: 13…
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Prominent Hacker Who Became FBI Informant Is Released
from mashable.com: The hacker who cofounded the shadowy LulzSec group, but who then helped the U.S. government disrupt at least 300 cyberattacks while working as an FBI informant, is now a free man. A Manhattan federal district court judge granted Hector Xavier Monsegur, better known by his hacker moniker “Sabu,” a sentence of time served…
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode194 – Belgium Buyer, Royal Nazi, GMO Ban
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode194 – Belgium Buyer, Royal Nazi, GMO Ban Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Did the Fed Launder $141B Through Belgium to Hide Massive Increase In QE?…
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Global Raids Target ‘Blackshades’ Hacking Ring
from online.wsj.com: The Federal Bureau of Investigation and foreign police agencies have launched a series of raids around the world at the homes of people linked to a type of hacking software called Blackshades, according to posts on hacker forums and people familiar with the investigation.
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#NewWorldNextWeek: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO
NewWorldNextWeek.com: Episode190 – Follow The LEEDIR, Mainstream Conspiracies, Nyet GMO Welcome to New World Next Week – the video series from Corbett Report and Media Monarchy that covers some of the most important developments in open source intelligence news. This week: Story #1: Los Angeles Law Enforcement Looking To Crowdsource Surveillance Corbett Report Flashback: Episode…
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Secret Service Probes Possible Data-Leak Hack Attack at Sears
from theregister.co.uk: The US Secret Service is helping to hunt for evidence of a possible computer security breach at retail giant Sears, it was claimed today. Bloomberg cited sources familiar with the matter in reporting that the company was working with Uncle Sam’s g-men and digital forensics experts at Verizon to probe a possible network…
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Hacked Veterans Site Could Be Compromising ‘Military Intelligence’
from nextgov.com: A cyberattack against the Veteran of Foreign Wars website, believed to have been initiated in China, may have sought to spy on U.S. military members, security company FireEye said Thursday. FireEye said the attack, which has now been fixed on VFW.org, exploited a zero-day flaw in the Internet Explorer 10 browser. The company…
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Twitter Account Hacked By Holding PayPal, GoDaddy Ransom (Updated)
Elaborate Hack Steals Rare Twitter Handle @N* from ibtimes.com: A social drama is unfolding on Twitter after a longtime user had his rare single character handle @N hacked and stolen. The attackers went through great lengths to get the much-coveted handle. Why is this hacking so significant? All of the 26 single-character handles on Twitter…
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Yahoo Identifies Effort to Break Into Users’ Accounts
from bloomberg.com: Yahoo! Inc. (YHOO), the biggest U.S. Web portal, said it recently identified an effort to break into some users’ Yahoo Mail e-mail accounts. The list of names and passwords used in the attack was probably taken from a third-party database, Yahoo said yesterday in a blog post. The company said it acted immediately…
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U.S. warns merchants on methods used by Target hackers
from reuters.com: The U.S. government on Thursday provided merchants with information gleaned from its confidential investigation into the massive data breach at Target Corp, in a move aimed at identifying and thwarting similar attacks that may be ongoing. The report titled “Indicators for Network Defenders” brings to light some of the first information gleaned from…
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Bitcoin’s Skyrocketing Value Ushers in Era of $1M Hacker Heists
from arstechnica.com: A company billing itself as one of Europe’s biggest Bitcoin exchanges said it suffered a coordinated attack that succeeded in stealing almost $1 million worth of the digital currency, marking the latest in a string of high-stakes heists hitting companies that hold large sums online.
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$1M Bitcoin Theft From Website, Some Say Inside Job
from bbc.co.uk: A man who ran an online “wallet service” for storing Bitcoins has claimed hackers stole virtual currency from his site worth more than one million Australian dollars. The Australian man said 4,100 Bitcoins (US$1.04m, £650,000) were taken in two separate attacks. He said he would not report the theft to police as Bitcoin…
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NSA Site Goes Down Due to Alleged DDoS Attack
from RT.com: The website for the United States National Security Agency suddenly went offline Friday. NSA.gov has been unavailable globally as of late Friday afternoon, and Twitter accounts belonging to people loosely affiliated with the Anonymous hacktivism movement have suggested they are responsible. Twitter users @AnonymousOwn3r and @TruthIzSexy both were quick to comment on the…
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How the Adobe hack could fuel next wave of cyberattacks
from usatoday.com: Adobe has taken several steps to calm concerns among its corporate users about the loss of customer account data and critical source code to hackers. The company has begun advising enterprise customers that Adobe product users will be required to change their account password at their next login attempt… Meanwhile, corporations would be…