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Northumbria Police Authority website defaced, serving Phish for breakfast

Aug

2011

It seems the Northumbria Police Authority website (northumbriapoliceauthority(dot)org(dot)uk) was compromised recently to push a “fight the power” message, and it looks like the defacement is the least of their worries as you’ll see shortly. What is the Northumbria Police Authority? We could use my wonderful description (“An Authority for the Northumbria Police”), but I think […]

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Hackers deface Libya’s top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

Aug

2011

With heavy fighting reaching the compound of Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi’s compound, hackers have also taken virtual arms overnight and defaced the website of domain name registry nic.ly. Hackers calling themselves “Electr0n” have defaced the nic.ly website, the main registry which administers .ly domain names (the “.ly” stands for “Libya”) and replaced it with a […]

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Syrian Ministry of Defense website hacked

Aug

2011

Once again, hacking has turned political – with the website of the Ministry of Defense in Syria defaced by the Anonymous hacktivist collective. Amid news reports of thousands of deaths in Syria after the authorities cracked down with deadly force using tanks and armoured vehicles against anti-government protests, visitors to the Syrian military department’s website […]

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Northumbria Police Authority website defaced, serving Phish for breakfast

Hackers deface Libya’s top level domain registry with anti-Gadaffi message

Syrian Ministry of Defense website hacked

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