The first photograph shows a slightly overweight young man standing in front of a white Porsche Cayenne, cigarette in hand, expression uneasy. In a second he appears to be reading a charge sheet as a masked military policeman in black stands guard in the background.
Could this confused-looking individual really be the creator of one of the most successful and feared cybercrime tools of all time?
Researchers have unearthed a server storing more than two million pilfered login credentials for all kinds of user accounts, including those on Facebook, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, and a handful of other websites.
Vodafone Iceland has been hacked and 77,000 customer records spaffed across the internet.
The Icelandic National Broadcasting Service ruv.is reports that the hack became apparent on Saturday. By Sunday Vodafone Iceland had 'fessed up to the incident but denied other reports that personal details including bank account numbers and passwords had been revealed to the world.
First, an introduction: I write about hackers, and for the past few years that has meant I write about Anonymous. At the time of the Stratfor hack I was working for Wired covering Anonymous — notably the antics of Antisec anons much of the time. I had missed the Lulzsec period, which I spent under federal investigation myself. From February to July of that year I stayed away from the hacker world, unsure if my computer would be seized and unwilling to draw my sources into a possible fishing expedition.
Indonesian hackers are targeting Australian police and other government agencies' websites as payback for spying on their president but no critical police information has been compromised.
The hacking group called BlackSinChan is reportedly acquiring and publishing encrypted passcodes of some Australian websites, leaving a message on one site "This is the payback for Spying Indonesia!"
Activist hackers linked to the collective known as Anonymous have secretly accessed US government computers and stolen sensitive information in a campaign that began almost a year ago, the FBI warned this week.
The hackers exploited a flaw in Adobe Systems Inc's software to launch a rash of electronic break-ins that began last December, the FBI said in a memo seen by Reuters, then left "back doors" to return to many of the machines as recently as last month.
On Friday, Edwin Vargas, a 42-year-old New York Police Department (NYPD) detective, pleaded guilty to one count of computer hacking and one count of conspiring to commit computer hacking. The Bronx officer was arrested in May.
Between April 2010 and October 2012, Vargas obtained credentials for about 43 personal email accounts – and one mobile phone – belonging to roughly 30 individuals, according to an FBI report. As many as 20 email accounts belonged to NYPD officers.
The Grugq is an world renowned information security researcher with 15 years of industry experience. Grugq started his career at a Fortune 100 company, before transitioning to @stake, where he was forced to resign for publishing a Phrack article on anti-forensics.
Visitors to the news portion of Vice.com – part of an international media brand that concentrates on arts, culture and other news – on Friday evening may have been surprised by a headline that read, “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here.”
The post – which had ‘SEA' on the byline – was simply a brief (below).
A hacker group which breached Adobe systems last month appears to have made a huge haul in swiping some 850,000 cleartext records from a limousine service which ferried some of the world's most rich and famous.
Data including the phone numbers and residence of actors, top executives and politicians were now in the hands of crackers along with a quarter of a million cleartext credit card numbers for their limitless or near-limitless American Express accounts and some damning observations taken by drivers of the well-heeled passengers.
