Monday, 23 January 2012

For Protest Against #SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson



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Dinelson deface 68 Websites for Protest Against SOPA and PIPA. List of all Hacked site is posted here. A protest to a Congressional bill called SOPA caused quite a stir on Wednesday as thousands of websites protested SOPA with blacked-out pages.

Megaupload, a hugely popular website for sharing files, was a major SOPA target, because it allegedly disobeys copyright laws and legislation. After the SOPA protest, the Department of Justice issued a release stating that federal officials had taken the site down. Following this announcement, a hacking collective called Anonymous launched several attacks on government and entertainment industry websites, including those for the Justice Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Universal Music.

2 days back SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress. Both the House and the Senate on Friday backed away from a pair of controversial anti-piracy bills, tossing them into limbo and throwing doubt on their future viability.
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Sunday, 22 January 2012

"Rock Paper Shotgun(RPS)" popular gaming Forum hacked


Rock Paper Shotgun (RPS), a popular gaming site's server hacked. RPS is notifying their customers about the attack via email.

According to their notification, Hackers break into their server on Jan 14 and gained access to server for five days. Researchers are not sure whether hackers compromised the user details or not.

If they got to those files, they will have got customer's emails, usernames, and encrypted passwords. Though the passwords are encrypted, hackers are able to break the hash codes.  So users recommends to change their passwords immediately.  If you use the same password anywhere else, change the password for them also.

    "We're tremendously sorry. We learned about the attack on Thursday afternoon, and the tech people at Positive closed it off immediately, and have been sorting it out since, working out what they could have found. We learned the information reported above this evening, and have told you as quickly as we can." said in their report.
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Saudi Arabia's King Saud University Database Hacked



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The Official Website of King Saud University (KSU) Got hacked by some unknown Hacker.is a public university located in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.

Database of 812 Users hacked from http://printpress.ksu.edu.sa/ and dumped on Internet by Hacker on a file sharing site including Mail address list, mobile phones and passwords.

Passwords are not encrypted in any hashes. Most of the Students using same Email ID and Password for Facebook and Other Sites.

Its not clear weather its Part of Cyberwar b/w of Israel and Saudi Arabia.
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