Tag: lulzsec
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LulzSec Hacking Collective Brought Down From the Inside by Leader ‘Sabu’
Several high profile members of the LulzSec hacking collective have been arrested this morning, in several raids which took place on two continents. The group’s infamous leader, ‘Sabu’, has been helping law enforcement agencies bring down the group, acting as a cooperating witness. We’ve not heard a great deal from the LulzSec group in a…
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Anonymous Threat: Facebook will fall on 5th of November
Tech and social mischief makers, Anonymous have issued video statements on clip site YouTube – making its intentions known towards Facebook and encouraging others to ‘kill’ their beloved Social Network tomorrow, the 5th of November. On the same date as their mascot Guy Fawkes threatened to topple parliament in the gun powder plot of 1605,…
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Explanation for Apple Store outage? Mac Pro gets social sharing button
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For a number of hours yesterday afternoon the Apple Store was down for everybody. At first the we were excited, this usually a sign heralding a new product, possibly the latest Apple TV gadget with 1080p HD. But when the familiar “We’ll be Back” message disappeared speculation turned a bit darker. A number of sources were…
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Sony Wins Pwnie Awards for PSN Hack
We really should have placed a bet on this one, it was that obvious. Sony has won the Pwnie Award 2011 for the ‘Most Epic FAIL’, for their well documented, much talked about Playstation Network (PSN) hack earlier this year. Every year there is a Black Hat Security conference held where hackers, software developers and…
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The Sun Admits User Data May Have Been Stolen During LulzSec Hack
The Sun newspaper has admitted that user data may have been stolen during the high profile website hack suffered recently. Online hacker collective LulzSec attacked The Sun newspaper’s website on July 19th and redirected users to their own site which was designed to look exactly like the real deal. LulzSec then used this phony website…
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Anonymous & LulzSec appeal for PayPal account closures
Forsaking the usual route of intrusion and crippling of high profile targets it seems the mischief making hacktivist pair Anonymous and LulzSec – together forming AntiSec – are taking a backwards step in latest operation against the online payment transaction site PayPal. They posted an appeal on a hacker-safe forum asking us to close our…
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Anonymous & LulzSec appeal for PayPal account closures
Forsaking the usual route of intrusion and crippling of high profile targets it seems the mischief making hacktivist pair Anonymous and LulzSec – together forming AntiSec – are taking a backwards step in latest operation against the online payment transaction site PayPal. They posted an appeal on a hacker-safe forum asking us to close our…
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The Sun website hacked by LulzSec
They called it quits just a few weeks ago but now anti-security hacker movement LulzSec are back – and with a bang. Last night the group attacked both The Sun newspaper website and the News International website, with their sights firmly set on Rupert Murdoch. At around 10pm GMT last night LulzSec managed to hack…
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Fox News Twitter account declares Barack Obama dead due to hack
Latest cyber-attack by ‘The Script Kiddies’ sees thousands misinformed of US President’s supposed death
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Apple Hacked! Anonymous & LulzSec tag-team take credit for hit on Cupertino co.
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After high profile hits on tech and entertainment companies and world governments, it seems someone has finally taken a bite out of Apple – with members of hacker group Anonymous claiming an attack on the Cupertino, California based tech company. The Twitter account AnonymousIRC (a tag-team of members from both LulzSec and Anonymous) has claimed the intrusion…
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Apple Hacked! Anonymous & LulzSec tag-team take credit for hit on Cupertino co.
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After high profile hits on tech and entertainment companies and world governments, it seems someone has finally taken a bite out of Apple – with members of hacker group Anonymous claiming an attack on the Cupertino, California based tech company. The Twitter account AnonymousIRC (a tag-team of members from both LulzSec and Anonymous) has claimed the intrusion…
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iPad 3 4G Edition Outed By LulzSec Leak ? Christmas Release ?
As we reported this week the hacking group LulzSec has ended its 50-day war against large corporate companies, goverments and just about anyone who they felt deserved to be hacked.