Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Monday, June 13, 2011

32 Anonymous suspects arrested in Turkey


Turkish police are reported to have detained 32 people in connection with internet attacks that have disrupted access to government websites.
Alleged members of the loosely-knit Anonymous hacktivist group were rounded up in 12 cities, including Ankara and Istanbul, just days aftersimilar arrests of Anonymous suspects in Spain.
At the end of last week, in an attack that was dubbed "Operation Turkey", Anonymous supporters brought down Turkish government websites in protest against controversial plans by the authorities in the country to introduce internet filtering.
The sites were brought down by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, with different computers around the world being deployed to bombard the sites with traffic using the LOIC attack tool.

Sunday, June 12, 2011

Visit the New Facebook scare spreads on Facebook


Warnings are being posted across Facebook, warning users to beware messages from friends that invite them to "Visit the New Facebook".
Although these messages are being shared by Facebook users with the best of intentions, the warning about the risk of being locked out of your own Facebook account may in fact be more of a nuisance than the alleged hacker attack itself.
Here's a typical message seen on Facebook:
PLEASE RE-POST FOR EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!THIS NOTICE IS DIRECTED TO EVERYONE WHO HAS A PAGE ON FACEBOOK: IF SOME PEOPLE IN YOUR PROFILE OR YOUR FRIENDS SEND YOU A LINK WITH WORDS "VISIT THE NEW FACEBOOK ' DO NOT OPEN! IF YOU OPEN IT YOU CAN SAY GOODBYE TO YOUR PAGE. IT'S A HACKER WHO STEALS YOUR DETAILS AND REMOVES YOU FROM YOUR OWN PAGE. COPY AND SPREAD THE WORD

26,000 sex website passwords exposed by LulzSec


The notorious LulzSec hacking group has published login passwords for almost 26,000 users of an x-rated porn website.
The hackers compromised the database of the hardcore website (called "Pron"), exposing not only the email addresses and passwords of over 25,000 members but also the credentials of 55 administrators of other adult websites.