Cyberoam
December 31, 2015
•[ leak, technology ]
Security firm Cyberoam confirms a cyber attack on its systems last week, resulting in possible leakage of its database containing personal details of one million records of customers and partners. Apparently the author of the attack is trying to sell the database on the dark web for 100 bitcoin.
BBC
December 31, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
All of the BBC's websites are unavailable following a DDoS attack.
Kasganj News Portal
December 30, 2015
•[ hack, technology ]
Another episode of the Cyber War between India and Pakistan. A local news portal of Kasganj district (kasganjlive.in) is hacked by a Pakistani hacker called Mr 4nOnymOus.
Linode
December 29, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Virtual server host Linode is the target of a four day-long DDoS attack.
Steam
December 25, 2015
•[ ddos, misconfiguration, technology ]
A DDoS attack against Steam causes the company to deploy a new caching configuration in production, which leads to the inadvertent exposure of 34,000 users.
Unknown Organization
December 25, 2015
•[ hack, sqlinjection, technology ]
Members of the Anonymous hacker collective deface the Asia Pacific Telecommunity website (apt.int), gain access to the site's admin panel and also manage to get their hands on a database dump.
EA
December 24, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad, the group of hackers who threatened to ruin Christmas for gamers decide to keep their promise and take down the Electronic Arts servers.
Sanrio Digital
December 21, 2015
•[ leak, misconfiguration, technology ]
Chris Vickery, a security researcher discovers a leaked database of more than 3.3 million user accounts for Sanriotown.com and other Sanrio-owned websites like hellokitty.com and mymelody.com.
Xbox Live
December 18, 2015
•[ hack, ddos, technology ]
Phantom Squad prepare their Christmas campaign and claim responsibility for a DDoS attack on Microsoft's Xbox Live service.
Juniper Networks
December 17, 2015
•[ hack, malware, technology ]
Juniper Networks issues an urgent security advisory about "unauthorized code" found within the operating system used by some of the company's firewalls and Secure Service Gateway appliances.
