Cisco Systems was attacked in a massive hacking attack.

About 100,000 of their accounts used to manage company assets were all just compromised. An unknown volume of the user, customer, and proprietary information was stolen. All their systems are locked down and are under the excuse of “technical difficulties”. This is another in the list of attacks. Microsoft and Twitch were hacked and now … Read more

Linux Mint website compromised once again. This website is really insecure.

The Linux Mint website has been compromised once again. This means that if you download a Linux Mint ISO, it would not be safe to use until this is fixed. The information is here: http://pastebin.com/raw/ZMAqGsyp. This is not a good look for this Linux distribution. That is why I am using Fedora Core 25 instead … Read more

Sony pictures servers compromised and files stolen.

Sony pictures serves were recently hacked and some files were stolen. Apparently, there was a single folder named “Passwords” and this contained all of the files that were stolen. Apparently a DVDrip of the movie Fury was downloaded as well as countless passwords and other files. 47,000 social security numbers for various Hollywood stars including … Read more

Mt Gox source code leaked to the Internet. This is a good example of how not to setup a bitcoin exchange.

This is a screenshot of some leaked source code for a Bitcoin exchange. This source code is intended to access a MySQL database. Here is the full code listing: http://pastebin.com/W8B3CGiN. The bitcoin digital currency was devised to allow payment over the Internet using a digital currency. This breach shows that security is not absolute. But … Read more

Ubuntu forums cracked by a malicious individual. Users demand answers.

http://www.reddit.com/r/Ubuntu/comments/1iy1sv/official_ubuntu_forums_hacked_we_demand_answers/. The Ubuntu forums have been cracked by a malicious user. This person has taken the database and now has all of the password and e-mail information in his/her grasp. This is a more regular occurrence these days. The problem seems to have been a VBulletin mod that was compromised and had administrator privileges and … Read more

Malicious crackers hit Gillard ministers’ computers.

The computers belonging to the Prime Minister Julia Gillard have been compromised in a coordinated cyber-attack by Chinese terrorist hackers. This on top of the incident where all Internet traffic for a time was re-routed through China allowing Chinese authorities to sort through sensitive western data. The computers that were cracked into had very simple … Read more