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AntiSec Christmas Stratfor Hack Cost $700,000 in Credit Card Fraud
Remember last year when Anonymous and AntiSec breached the FBI think tank Stratfor and made news by making off with 200 gigabytes of personal and finical data and 60,000 credit card numbers? It was about Christmas time and Anonymous decided to make some rather large donations at the time described a sort of Santa Robin ...
Anonymous Unleashes Symantec Antivirus 2006 Source Code
Today, The Pirate Bay came to index a torrent containing the leaked source code of Symantec Norton Antivirus 2006 after a long, strange journey including hackers, intrigue, and (failed) police stings. The entire thing started in January when a hacker with the handle Yama Tough threatened via Twitter to release the code. Then 1.27 gigabytes ...
Anonymous Takes Down Vatican Website Alleging “Corruption”
Not willing to sit on their heels, Anonymous recently decided to bag the Vatican. They did so through claims of retaliation against “corruption in the Roman Catholic Church,” and Wednesday morning, they took down the Vatican’s website Among the darkened websites include www.vatican.va and the hacker group also claimed to have taken out several others, ...
30,000 WordPress Installs Compromised In Newest Round of Malware
This week Websense Security Labs reported a massive infection of numerous WordPress installations by a new wave of malware distributing fake antivirus software. In their report, they cite that as of Monday, over 200,000 infected web pages had been discovered and close to 30,000 unique hosts had been identified. The installed Trojan hijacks the browsing ...
LinkedIn Acquisition of Rapportive Brings Social-Professional Magic to Gmail
The interesting Gmail social-context plugin, Rapportive, has been acquired by social-media for professionals company LinkedIn. Rapportive creates plugin software that provides context-sensitive social-media information on top of Gmail’s user interface. As a result, it works as a sort of highly immersive address book that brings a lot of social-media information to the front when replying ...
Anonymous/AntiSec Defaces Panda Security Website in Revenge
Website defacement has become the mainstay of what essentially boils down to cybervandalism—and, just like its inner-city variant, it’s used as a medium to spread both playful and political messages. Yesterday, a multitude of subdomains belonging to security firm Panda Security were obliterated and replaced with cyber-graffiti scrawls, including a YouTube video, and the text-output ...
Dwolla Caught in Legal Feud with Bitcoin Exchange TradeHill for $2 Million
In what has all the hallmarks of a legal fiasco, Bitcoin exchange TradeHill has filed suit against payment network startup Dwolla and alleged racketeering, intentional misrepresentation, false advertising, and breach of contract, among other violations. TradeHill is claiming that Dwolla has cost them at lest $2 million in damages. Adrianne Jeffries of Betabeat has the ...
2011 Provides a Record Year for PC Video Game Sales, Cloud and F2P Dominate
As an industry and entertainment avenue video games intersect across numerous layers of human life, so when the PC Gaming Alliance (PCGA) came out with their “Horizons” research report, it really wasn’t a surprise that 2011 was a record year for the growth of PC gaming sales. Sales have been bolstered not just by the ...
US Files for Extradition of Megaupload Suspects at Last Minute
Just when you thought the Megaupload saga has reached a fever pitch and couldn’t climb any further up drama mountain, US authorities waited until the eleventh-hour to file extradition papers on the suspects in the case. The United Statesas officially requested the extradition of Kim Dotcom and three of his coworkers related to the case ...
CloudFlare Speaks Out About Their Experience Hosting LulzSec
“You have my permission. — Jack Sparrow” That’s what a representative of LulzSec told CloudFlare CEO Matthew Prince when he asked permission to tell the tale of rough water and a siege on the cyberseas that resulted from his company protecting the website of the now-infamous hacker group. In June 2010, during the heyday of ...