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Federal Nigerian Government Websites Hacked by Elemento_pcx & s4r4d0 Nigerian Government Websites defaced by hacker with name " Elemento_pcx & s4r4d0 ". Defacement page   contain the message " Fatal Error!by Elemento_pcx & s4r4d0 ..."Be yourself but not always the same" ... G. The Thinker ...Help? s4r4d0 [at] yahoo.com & elemento_pcx [at] yahoo.com.br ". Mirror of hack also posted to Zone-H .

Linux Foundation & Linux.com multiple server compromised The Linux Foundation has pulled its websites from the web to clean up from a "security breach". A notice posted on the Linux Foundation said the entire infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. Multiple Servers that are part of the Linux Foundation & Linux.com infrastructure were affected during a recent intrusion on 8 September which " may have compromised your username, password, email address and other information ".  More from the Linux Foundation announcement: We are in the process of restoring services in a secure manner as quickly as possible. As with any intrusion and as a matter of caution, you should consider the passwords and SSH keys that you have used on these sites compromised. If you have reused these passwords on other sites, please change them immediately. ...

Hundreds of domains hacked by X-NerD hacker More than 250 websites are defaced by Pakistani hacker " X-NerD " and a custom page can be seen their at site/x.php . List and Mirror of all 250+ hacked sites are here .

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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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