Jan 25, 2012

Underground Nazis take-down UFC website.

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UFC.com president Dana White tells that their website was a victim of cyber attack, on twitter. The site was alleged taken-down by hackers claiming as “Underground Nazi H4ck3rGrOup”.

A criminal investigation is underway after the site got compromised on Sunday. The site might be victim because, it was supporting SOPA. Users who wished to visit UFC.com were redirected to UGNazi.com, which welcome the users with bizarre music and cartoon drawing of Adolf Hitler.

Jan 20, 2012

MegaUpload shut down angers Anonymous, hits out at DOJ, MPAA, FBI and other Entertainment sites.

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It is claimed to be biggest attack in Cyber history. Anonymous, a group of “Hacktivist”, gone wild by taking down several prominent sites related to Govt., Institutions and Entertainment Industry.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered FBI to shut down popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload, charging it for violating various copyright laws. After a little while, DOJ’s website was attacked by Anonymous protesting its move.

Cyber stealer adds $ 6.7 million to their piggy bank.

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Look like some hackers were very busy this New Year, while other were enjoying it. The officials were shocked to know that a welled planned cyber heist was carried out in their Postbank, South African Postbank.

The hackers were successful at transferring money to their account and flee with it, costing the postbank with loss of $ 6.7 million (42 million Rands). According to the Sunday Times, the cyber gang behind the heist was obviously very well informed about the post office's IT systems, and began preparing the ground for its execution a few months before by opening accounts in post offices across the country and compromising an employee computer in the Rustenburg Post Office.

Jan 16, 2012

“El Al”, get hacked by pro-Palestinian hacker group, “Nightmare”.

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After taking down Israeli’s Fire-Fighting service website, the pro-Palestinian hacker group,” Nightmare” has taken down “El Al”, Israel’s stock exchange and national carrier.

This attack comes a day after Islamist Hamas called upon to intensify cyber war against Jewish, Israel state.

Jan 15, 2012

Zappos starts notifying its customers about the Security Breach, resets passwords.

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Zappos, an online, web based retailer, Subsidiary of Amazon.com, specializing in shoes and other day to day accessories, claims that it was the victim of cyber attack. The company claims that the hacker gained access to the company’s internal network through the company’s servers in Ketucky.

The company claims that customer’s payment and credit card data remained un-accessed by hackers. As a preventive measure, Zappos, started notifying its 24+ million customers and reset, and expired their existing passwords.

Jan 13, 2012

Anonymous gives keys to play with Israeli Power Stations.

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When you go through the tweets of @FuryOfAnon, infact, his first tweet, you will find a Pastebin link with some IP addresses and logins. Those logins and IP addresses aren’t normal, those sensitive (no longer) logins information belongs to Israeli supervisionay control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Gaza geeks hacks Israeli Fire Service department website.

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Group of hackers from Gaza strip has succeeded in taking down Israeli Fire and Rescue Services official website on Thursday night. The website home was de-faced with black color, with a message from hackers taunting Israeli govt., saying "We hack into your websites, and will continue to do so until you suffer."

Israeli authority confirmed the same issuing a statement, "An hour ago the State of Israel's Fire Services website was hacked into and altered. As we speak, the site is under attack by various hackers." Jerusalem Fire Services Spokesman, Lahav Assaf Avres, said necessary steps are being taken to bring the site back online.