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Anonymous hacker group takes stab at Google+

by Chris M on July 18, 2011 in Networking with No comments

Wired.com reported today that hacker/cracker group Anonymous have decided to launch their own social network after Google banned their presence on Google+. The ban came after the group violated Community Standards.

The social network is said to be called AnonPlus (lol) and they’ve got a bit of a website up, but it’s not much so we’ll have to keep our eyes on it to see what they do.

I think it will be interesting, a lot of the members of the Anonymous movement are highly intelligent and some of the programmers have amazing skills (and let’s not forget that there are amazing designers aboard too). That said, I have no doubt that they’ll be able to put something amazing together if they really wanted to.

Right now their aim will be to spite Google+ simply because of the domain name they’ve chosen – http://anonplus.com/ – I don’t think that is the right move from them, but there are a lot of people who would want to rebel, so that could result in a large following, so we’ll just have to see what their goals are and what they’ll come up with.

Here’s what they have at the moment:

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PayPal Twitter account hacked

by Chris M on July 6, 2011 in Internet with 2 Comments

Yesterday Fox News’ Twitter account was hacked and today it’s PayPal’s account. I now do wonder whether there’s an exploit lingering in Twitter’s code, because these are two big high profile accounts that surely don’t have basic passwords.

The hack took place a little earlier this morning and is said to have been done by an angry customer. The user who penetrated the account sent out a tweet mentioning www.paypalsucks.com and updated the profile picture.

Take a peak:

Some more final words from Lulzsec

by Chris M on July 6, 2011 in Uncategorized with 2 Comments

Just when we thought they had gone completely dark, we’ve received news that they sent out another final message.

Anonymous Tweeted a video message as “Lulzsec Last Message”. The video’s already received 175 likes and close on 7000 views, which isn’t shabby for just a couple hours.

Here’s their final message:

They definitely have someone working on their speeches, because, in my opinion, it’s very decently written.

I wonder when they’ll surface again?

Fox News Twitter account hacked!

by Chris M on July 4, 2011 in World News with No comments

Fox news has a Twitter account for its political subjects, the account is found at @foxnewspolitics. This account was hacked earlier this morning when tweets about Obama being assassinated were spotted!

Vice president and general manager of Fox News Digital said, “We will be requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com account,”.

Here’s what they did:

I find it interesting, I understand that turning to Twitter is part and parcel of solving this, but my guess is that either their Fox News’ server was hacked, or an employee’s email was hacked or something to that nature. Twitter has hundreds of ‘celebrities’ using their service and accounts don’t get hacked often enough for there to be an exploit.

Never-the-less, let’s watch closely and see what comes of this.

Google Labs database hacked

by Chris M on June 30, 2011 in Equipment with No comments

A vulnerability with Google’s Labs has been found after a hacker managed to penetrate through SQL injection a couple of hours ago. The hacker reported the problem to Google and no doubt Google are on top of it.

The hacker made the following statement:

I already contact with Google Corporation but they don’t give positive response, I think this is their big fault, and will suffer for that. But if they give Positive response then this will be very good for them. Thanks a Ton!!! ~ Shadman Tanjim

The following tools were used to exploit:

Remember, hacking is illegal, use these tools for education purposes only.

Zimbabwe government hacked by Anonymous

by Chris M on June 29, 2011 in World News with 5 Comments

I said it earlier today, hacking’s on the up and I must admit, hitting here in Africa, I didn’t think we’d have a hack on our continent, but clearly I was very wrong.

A file was released on Twitter earlier today and is said to contain usernames and encrypted passwords from different zones on the Zimbabwean government website. Continue reading →

Should I change my password?

by Chris M on June 29, 2011 in Equipment, Internet with No comments

I came across a really useful website whilst reading up on the Groupon hack that took place this morning and resulted in 300,000 users’ account information being leaked all over the Internet. Reference: http://t.co/79lxtMl

The site is https://shouldichangemypassword.com/ and the purpose of the site is to help average Internet users determine whether they should change their password. The site asks you for your email address, it searches a number of databases that are released by hackers to the public and then informations you whether your password has ever been compromised.

Very useful service if you ask me!

Hacking is on the up and up, it’s really important to check your password strength and make sure you don’t use the same password everywhere!

Facebook hired Playstation 3 Hacker – Geohot

by Chris M on June 29, 2011 in Guru's, Industry News with No comments

Remember George Hotz (Aka Geohot), yeh, the dude who hacked Sony’s Playstation 3! Well, finally Sony have taken the hint and are now trying to recruit a senior security analyst.

In other INTERESTING news, Facebook has actually hired George Hotz. Interestingly enough, this news was broken in the last 24 hours, yet Facebook state that George has been working for them since May already as a software engineer. So, it sounds like Facebook snapped him up immediately once Sony settled with him.

Remember this:

As I love the hacking scene, I have to say, kudo’s to George, although what he did was wrong (arguable), he ended up working at an amazing place (his words), and you can’t help but think, “If you can’t beat them, offer then a job!” That was said by Dylan Raynes and it’s so darn true.

I wonder what next, Google to hire Lulzsec members? ;)

More revealed about Lulzsec

by Chris M on June 29, 2011 in Internet with No comments

Hacker movement, Lulzsec, have been exposed a little more. Over the past few days, many hacking groups have stood up in protest to what Lulzsec were doing and have made effects to dox the members. Team Poison and a few others have had heated mud-slinging arguments with Lulzsec on the public Twitter timeline and it’s been very interesting to watch.

The Guardian has done some deeper research into the analysis around Lulzsec’s chat room discussions and have extracted statistics using one of the handy mIRC stats programs.

Here are the findings:

Lulzsec Chat Analysis - who talked to who
Lulzsec Chat Analysis – who talked to who
Lulzsec Big Mouths
Lulzsec Big Mouths

Now I agree that this isn’t much in the sense of analysis as software extracts this, so it’s not really about identifying who’s who, but just an interesting look at what was going on if you haven’t been glued to the scene and the news.

Lulzsec retires!

by Chris M on June 26, 2011 in Internet with No comments

About an hour ago, Lulzsec published a new release and along with the release was a message about setting sail into the distance, “We are Lulz Security, and this is our final release, as today marks something meaningful to us. 50 days ago, we set sail with our humble ship on an uneasy and brutal ocean: the Internet. The hate machine, the love machine, the machine powered by many machines. We are all part of it, helping it grow, and helping it grow on us.”

The final statement goes on to say, “Thank you for sailing with us. The breeze is fresh and the sun is setting, so now we head for the horizon.”

I’m intrigued by this move, were people like The Jester getting closer to them, were they scared of being caught and are thus vanishing? With such a huge amount of hype, 277,000 Twitter followers and the eye of the media on them, why stop now? Perhaps they’re just being clever, before getting carried away and caught, rather launch the sails and set forth. Most feel that it’s Team Poison’s threat: http://goo.gl/HHZHq

I have NO doubt that they’ll continue with their movements, but under another name, somewhere else and perhaps not so publicly.

Their final release (you’ll have to find the link on their Twitter account) is a 500mb torrent full of goodness, from AT&T data to private investigator emails to FBI information and so forth. Please download at your own will, I do not encourage you to do so and am merely publishing what I have seen published in multiple accounts. I will not take responsibility for your decision.

They left us with:

  1. Final remark
  2. Final video (below)

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