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Hacker nabs Yahoo! site backups  17 December 2012 
Source: SC MagazIne - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A penetration tester has reportedly hacked Yahoo!, claiming to have gained access to website backup and database files for a dozen databases.
 
Samsung TV vulnerability could let a hacker change the channel  12 December 2012 
Source: PC World - Posted by Dave Wreski   
f you're watching TV and the channel suddenly changes, you may not have sat on the remote control by accident.
 
ADFA hack a national security failure, expert finds  12 December 2012 
Source: Phys - Posted by Dave Wreski   
A hacker has accessed personal details on thousands of Australia's future military leaders, a situation one expert has described as a national security failure.
 
Pakistani hacker hits over 400 Chinese govt sites  07 December 2012 
Source: ZDNet Blogs - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Marking the city government's third breach, over 400 government sites in China's Xuchang City have been hacked and defaced by a hacker from the Pakistan Cyber Army, who posted the details on PasteBin.
 
1.1 million US consumers affected as insurance companies breached  06 December 2012 
Source: H Security - Posted by Alex   
The US insurance company Nationwide Mutual has revealed that its network, which it shares with Allied Insurance, was attacked on 3 October and that the attackers stole personal information from their network. Nationwide is one of the biggest insurance and financial services in the world.
 
Hacker Group Exploits Massive Security Hole In Tumblr  06 December 2012 
Source: Buzzfeed - Posted by Dave Wreski   
It seems like the first large blog to go down this morning belonged to The Daily Dot, which helped spread the infected posts to hundreds, if not thousands, of other blogs. The posts are signed by the GNAA, a notoriously inflammatory hacker group.
 
Tumblr troubled by trojan text - Update  04 December 2012 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
An outbreak of a worm on Tumblr, the microblogging platform, hit many accounts by taking advantage of the platform's reblogging capability. The payload of the worm was the publication of a posting angrily explaining how the worm's authors hated Tumblr users, was analysed by Sophos which noted that the malicious code was embedded mostly as a Base64-encoded string hidden within a data URI.
 
Chrome: Pinkie Pie's 64-bit vulnerability fixed  03 December 2012 
Source: H Security - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Google has released security updates to the Stable and Beta channels of its Chrome browser and to the Stable channel of Chrome OS. The update to the Stable channel for Chrome closes two security vulnerabilities rated High by the company, one of which earned the leading hacker of the Chrome browser, Pinkie Pie, a $7331 payout and a congratulatory note from the Chrome team for a successful 64-bit exploit of Chrome.
 
Forget Disclosure — Hackers Should Keep Security Holes to Themselves  30 November 2012 
Source: Wired - Posted by Dave Wreski   
The author of this opinion piece, aka “weev,” was found guilty last week of computer intrusion for obtaining the unprotected e-mail addresses of more than 100,000 iPad owners from AT&T’s website, and passing them to a journalist. His sentencing is set for February 25, 2013.
 
Local hotel thefts may involve security flaw  29 November 2012 
Source: Chron - Posted by Dave Wreski   
Did a Houston man accused of breaking into Galleria-area hotels use a device that targets a security flaw present in millions of hotel rooms worldwide?
 
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