While browsing forums and BB´s I stumbled across this forum post on the hacking site Defcon… I know your pain, as someone who has and still does in a few cities live out of a storage unit. Out of curiosity did you ever spend the night in one? My buddy got me into that a [...]

Yahoo E-Mail accounts hacked in China. The attacks seemed to be coordinated and were against journalists, rights activists and academics. A Chinese human rights organization said that there web site was hit 5 days in a row. In at least one incident a hacked account had all there E-Mails forwarded to a mystery address. This [...]

You probably remember this hacker, who used the internet name of Hacker Croll, who gained access to celebrity Twitter account holders including President Obama´s. This dude gained access to the accounts by hacking an e-mail account belonging to a Twitter Administrator. It is also believed by the cops that he was responsible for hacks against [...]

The Way this works is the scam exploits software flaws to piggyback on the computing resources of the colleges and universities in the UK. The spammers were pushing fake Viagra, Cialis and many other drugs. What would happen is code was injected into the college web sites, so when a person searched for the drugs [...]

Spanish authorities announced that they have arrested three dudes that allegedly ran one of the worlds largest botnets. What makes this really interesting is the fact that none of them were hackers. That´s right folks, it seems they subbed out the hacking part. The botnet name was Mariposa, translated to English means Butterfly which was [...]

In a move that could hurt Google users in China, the worlds largest search engine executives said that they will no longer censor content for there Chinese operations and probably will pull out of the market if the government does not agree with this decision. Google has been struggling about there operations there for a [...]

Yesterdays outage was the result of a DDoS (distributed denial of service) attack. So I guess strictly speaking they were not hacked but merely hit by a bot-net. Amazon was not the only one either. Twitter users of Amazon’s S3 service for Web hosting reported outages as well, and customers of Salesforce.com and Walmart.com were [...]

Extradition might be soon for Gary McKinnon. Flashback 8 years and you might remember that the US Air Force, Navy, Army, Department Of Defense and NASA were all hacked by a UK citizen named Gary McKinnon better known at that time in the hacking world as Solo. He was arrested back then but has so [...]

Hotmail, Gmail and possibly AOL and Yahoo E-Mail account holders have had there passwords hacked from the above services. Microsoft and Google said the compromised information likely came as a result of a phishing scam, through which millions of people are sent e-mail (often warnings about a fake security breach), asking them to click on [...]