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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 .

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...