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Offline FuyuKitsune

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Hacks in the news
« on: June 01, 2011, 01:14:56 am »
I keep seeing hacks in the news so I thought it'd be nice to have a topic for all of them. None of them are really worth their own topic so they can all get tossed in here. Anyone can toss in stories and discuss.

First up: Lockheed Martin. The largest freaking defense contractor in the US got hacked because of the previous SecurID hack. With some keys and algorithms they got remote access.
If you weren't listening, RSA got hacked with a Flash 0-day embedded in Excel spreadsheets. Spreadsheets were mass-mailed to workers at the company and then kicked some ass with Poison Ivy. It wasn't extremely sophisticated but it fucked them up.

Second up: PBS. LulzSec got butthurt because of a story about Wikileaks. They say they used a 0-day in Movetable Type 4 (PBS's CMS). Then they rooted and dumped tables.
LulzSec toyed around on Sony's Japanese site and hacked Sony's Greek site, and hacked a login page to some crap from Fox earlier this March.

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Re: Hacks in the news
« Reply #1 on: June 01, 2011, 12:57:32 pm »
Nice news, I only heard about Sony, from all that. :O
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Re: Hacks in the news
« Reply #2 on: June 01, 2011, 02:00:33 pm »
These days following a dutch news site on security.
And i noticed an up-line of hack in publicity these weeks.
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Re: Hacks in the news
« Reply #3 on: June 03, 2011, 03:44:51 am »
LulzSec struck again
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/06/sony-lulzsec/
http://thepiratebay.org/torrent/6443601

They SQLi'd SonyPictures.com and dumped PLAINTEXT PASSWORDS from the server.

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Re: Hacks in the news
« Reply #4 on: June 04, 2011, 03:27:54 am »
one of the best hacking news that Ive seen on my life is the worm WANK which infected the machines of the NASA http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WANK_(computer_worm) its said that it was coded by a group of hackers and one of them was julian assange :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXbCwq4ewBU

3:42 :P epic win well I know that everyone hate politics and those kind of things but I just like that part however for me it was cool