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Whats hot in hacking this month?

Hacked websites are popping up everywhere

Its been a pretty exciting month for hacking. We are getting news of some new hacked site every other day. And these are not small inconsequential sites for the most part. Here are a couple you may not have come across.

News: THE CRAZIES Hackers Leaks Server Certificates of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA)
What happened: HE CRAZIES Hackers steal the Several Certificate revocation lists (CRLs) from Server of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) – http://disa.mil/ and leak the Certificates at :

http://www.mediafire.com/?dvli58a9logojld

http://www.mediafire.com/?k8z168aazj6s1k8

Impact: To be determined

News: EC-Council Academy Hacked by GaySec (Malaysian hackers)
What happened: The server hosting the EC-Ccouncil Academy (Not the Ec-Council!) was rooted.
Impact: Not important enough to matter.

News: Pakistani Website Songs.pk Hacked By Indian Hackers In Response To The 2011 Mumbai Bomb Blast
What Happened: The attack seems to be in retaliation for the recent Mumbai bomb blasts.
Impact: No real impact

News: Pentagon Admits 24,000 Files Were Hacked, Declares Cyberspace A Theater Of War
What happened: The Pentagon admits that a “foreign intelligence service” stole 24,000 Defense Department files.
Impact: We will probably never know

News:  Hacking collective redirect Sun website to fake story claiming Rupert Murdoch had been found dead – before redirecting site to the LulzSec Twitter accoun
What Happened: The group LulzSec hacked the website and redirected it to a fake story.
Impact: Rupert Murdoch is not dead.

hacked sun website

News:  School District’s Website Hacked, Conroe Independent School District Investigating Incident
What happened: Hacker broken into the website of the largest school district in Texas. It is unclear of student data was stolen.
Impact: Changed grades?

News:  Lady Gaga website hacked
What happened: The hackers were able to break into the British website wand download names and email addresses.
Impact: Little Monsters will be getting an extra dose of spam.

News:  PBS website hacked for second time in a month
What happened: PBS said the hacked revealed “a very small number” of PBS employees’ user names and encrypted passwords. Well those passwords could not have been that well encrypted.
Impact: Donations for new security tools?

 

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