Blog Posts Tagged with "Pastebin"
Difference Between Spreading Information and Enabling Crime
February 14, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Most people don't get prosecuted or charged for distributing or re-tweeting a link to an Anonymous pastebin dump. Where is the line drawn then, and why are some incidents bigger than others? The question ultimately goes to the contents of the cache of information...
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KPN Hack: Why was Customer Notification Delayed?
February 13, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
The login credentials were stored in plain text in the repository that had been exposed, and that is absurd. This is a failure of the basic security procedures that should be recognized internationally, and is an offense for which there should be heavy penalties...
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Symantec: Emails Part of Law Enforcement Sting Operation
February 07, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
"The e-mail string posted by YamaTough was actually between them and... law enforcement. YamaTough actually reached out to us, first, saying that if we provided them with money, they would not post any more source code. At that point... it was a clear cut case of extortion..."
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Update: Alleged Source Code Thieves Attempt to Extort Symantec
February 06, 2012 Added by:Anthony M. Freed
Anonymous-aligned hacker YamaTough, the spokesperson for the hacktivist group “The Lords of Dharmaraja”, falsely accused Symantec of attempting to bribe the group in order to prevent the release of source code for the company's PCanywhere product, among others...
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The 2006 Theft of Symantec's Source Code - Response and Repercussions
January 26, 2012 Added by:Jeffrey Carr
Symantec has acknowledged that source code for multiple products was stolen in 2006. The worst part is that Symantec was clueless about the theft of its own source code for almost six years, which means that thousands of customers were clueless as well...
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Cyberwar Comes to a Mall in Fresno? Not so Much...
January 24, 2012 Added by:Infosec Island Admin
A Pastebin dump alleged to be from Anonymous has forty-nine IP addresses with SCADA systems on them. Furthermore, those systems were claimed to not have any authentication on them whatsoever. I checked the IP’s and I have to say “meh” on this little dump by the skiddies...
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More Exposure to SCADA Devices Through Shodan
January 22, 2012 Added by:Bob Radvanovsky
Wile I am certain that the majority of this membership knows what Shodan is, honestly, it represents slightly more than an automated port scanner reporting back on some of the more common open ports (HTTP, SNMP, telnet) that appear to be pingable throughout the Internet...
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T-Mobile: Hacktivism Strikes Again
January 16, 2012 Added by:Plagiarist Paganini
The technique is always the same: ridicule the opponents, show their inability to secure their networks, and express disagreement with the decisions and policies pursued by companies and government organizations...
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Update 3: Hackers May Leak Norton Antivirus Source Code
January 05, 2012 Added by:Headlines
YamaTough has posted more information from the alleged breach on Google+ in an effort to prove this is not a spoof, an excerpt is as follows...
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AntiSec Hackers Release Sensitive VDI Documents
August 19, 2011 Added by:Headlines
AntiSec hackers have made good on their threat to release sensitive emails and documents stolen in an operation against defense contractor VDI, revealing evidence that financial giant Merrill Lynch may have tipped off VDI about S&P plans to downgrade the U.S. government's credit rating...
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Pastebin Security Risks: Monitoring with Rollyo Searchrolls
July 31, 2011 Added by:Kurt Aubuchon
You might want to keep an eye on the various pastebin sites for mentions of your organization's domain names, IP addresses, proprietary application names, or other info that could be evidence of problems. Unfortunately, keeping an eye on all the pastebins on the internet is difficult...
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