The virtual currency Dogecoin has suffered its first ever setback as a hacker has made away with approximately 21 million in Dogecoins valued at $13,000 ($0.00062 per Doge) from online wallet service…
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Vodafone Iceland hacked; data of over 70k users stolen
Vodafone Iceland was hacked on November 29 within initial breach only pegged to website defacement; however, after initial investigation the company confirmed that attackers have had accessed customer information as well as…
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Time magazine’s Twitter account
The Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) has managed to hack it way through Time’s Twitter account and posted tweets hailing the Syrian President. The Twitter account was reportedly hacked on Friday and a…
European Parliament culls public Wi-Fi access after email hack
A white hat hacker managed to break into multiple email accounts thereby forcing the European Parliament to cutoff its public Wi-Fi access. The French security researcher apparently performed man-in-the-middle attacks on multiple…
Adobe: It is ‘taking longer than expected’ to alert affected users
Adobe, which suffered from a severe security breach recently, has admitted that its timeline of alerting affected users is stretching and is ‘taking longer than expected’. Adobe came across evidence that its…
Evernote asking users to change passwords following Adobe hack
Evernote has compared the database leaked from Adobe hack with its own and is asking users who used the same email address on both the services to change their passwords. Evernote, through…
LulzSec’s Jeremy Hammond gets 10 years for Stratfor hack
Jeremy Hammond has been sentenced to 10 years in jail plus an additional 3 years of supervised release for his involvement in Stratfor hack. The LulzSec hacker was sentenced at the federal…
Bitcash.cz hacked; Bitcoin wallets of 4000 users emptied
What seems to be a trend now, another online repository and Bitcoin exchange, Bitcash.cz, based out of Czech Republic has been hacked and wallets of as many as 4000 users have been…
Secure Bitcoin wallet Inputs.io hacked; unable to pay all user balances
Update November 7 @ 08:40 We have heard back from Inputs.io. According to a reply we received on our email, the service was hacked on October 24 and the wallet claims that…
Adobe hack password dump analysis shows users still pathetic at choosing passwords
A password security expert at Stricture Consulting Group has revealed top 100 passwords being used by Adobe’s customers and has claimed that nearly two million of them used the easily guessable string…
Adobe: At least 38 million users impacted; Photoshop source code accessed by hackers
Update @ 21:09 GMT Wiebke Lips, Sr. Manager Corporate Communication at Adobe, has clarified in an emailed statement that Adobe is still investigating the security breach and the information pertaining to 2.9…
Adobe hackers may have hacked PR Newswire
PR Newswire, one of the most popular marketing and press release distribution services, was hacked on or after March 8 it has been revealed. According to a report by Brian Krebs hackers…
Bitcointalk.org hacked, site currently down
Update 1 Theymos has posted on a Reddit thread that he is willing to give 50 BTC as reward to anyone who finds out how Bitcointalk was hacked. Theymos notes that chances…
UK Businesses asking to be hacked?
Are British businesses simply asking to be hacked? Okay… So not in the literal sense, however a recent study by the Institute of Engineering and Technology found that the majority of businesses are not doing…
Twitter warns attacks will continue
It seems to be an almost daily occurrence in the news that high profile twitter feeds are being hijacked with nonsense tweets. Just today (30th April) the Guardian’s twitter account has been hacked by pro-Syria…