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The George Washington Institue for Sustainability hacked by Cocain TeaM The George Washington Institue for Sustainability website got hacked and defaced by Cocain TeaM hackers. Mirror of hack available on Zone-H . The George Washington University is located four blocks from the White House and was created by an Act of Congress in 1821. Today, GW is the largest institution of higher education in the nation's capital.

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14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft A 21 year old man received a 14 year prison sentenced on Friday for running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information with losses estimated at more than $3 million. Tony Perez III, of Hammond, Indiana, pleaded guilty to the charges on April 4. In his plea, Perez said he sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information. Perez found customers through criminal "carding forums," Internet discussion groups set up to aid in the buying and selling of stolen financial account information and related services. When the US Secret Service raided his apartment in June 2010, they found data for 21,000 stolen credit cards and equipment needed to encode them onto blank cards. Credit card companies said losses from the card numbers in Perez's possession topped more than $3 million. In addition to the prison term, Judge Liam O'Grady of U.S. District Court for th...

NBC News Twitter account hacked & post fake news of 9/11 Hackers have broken into the Twitter account of NBC News and posted messages claiming that there has been a terrorist attack at Ground Zero in New York. Coming two days before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the prank by a group calling themselves the ' script kiddies ' was greeted with widespread opprobrium from other twitter users. " Breaking News! Ground Zero has just been attacked. Flight 5736 has crashed into the site, suspected hijacking. More as the story develops ," was the first tweet this afternoon. It was followed by two others, including one that started " This is not a joke ." The fourth tweet said " NBCNEWS hacked by The Script Kiddies. " Luke Russert, who covers politics for NBC News, also tweeted: " Please ignore NOT TRUE tweets coming from @NBCNews . We got hacked by tasteless despicable attention seeking criminals. " Some experts suspect that sc...

Google tells Iranians to Change their Gmail password Google is advising all its users in Iran to change their Gmail passwords, and check that their Google accounts have not been compromised.In a blog post , Google said that it was directly contacting users in Iran who may have been hit by a man-in-the-middle attack. The move follows the compromise of Dutch SSL certificate authority DigiNotar. Hackers created fake SSL certificate credentials for Google.com and many other domains. These fake Google credentials were used to run man-in-the-middle attacks against Gmail users in Iran, according to an examination of authentication look-ups logs at DigiNotar and other evidence. Specifically, Google recommends that users in Iran change their passwords; verify their account recovery options; check the Web sites and applications that are allowed to access their Google account; check Gmail settings for suspicious forwarding addresses or delegated accounts; and pay attention to warnings tha...