The Tor Project would very much like to know how identities were laid bare in the recent Operation Onymous.
Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Operation Onymous: 17-nation bust takes out over 400 “hidden services”
It turns out that last week’s bust of Silk Road 2.0’s kingpin was just a hint at what was coming: namely, a multinational crackdown on dark-market sites hidden away on the Tor network. 
Department of Homeland Security employee data breached in “state-sponsored attack”
Personal data may well have been snatched out of the US government’s top employee background-checking firm in what officials are calling a major security breach. 
SSCC 172 – Ransomware’s not dead! [PODCAST]
Here’s the latest episode of our weekly security podcast. News you can use!
100 Bitcoin bounty slapped onto head of blackmailer who DDoSed Bitalo
No, thank you, we will *not* pay you 1 Bitcoin to stop the attack and teach us about our supposed vulnerabilities, Bitalo said, after being threatened with a DDoS. Instead, we will pay 100x that amount to track you down.
How to steal a million dollars (actually, $999,999.99) – no PIN required
Researchers at Newcastle University in the UK have come up with a surprising way of attacking contactless payments. The £20 safety limit for PINless transactions evaporates if payment is requested in a foreign currency, potentially opening the way to a $999,999.99 cup of coffee…
Rugby team’s site defaced to read ‘i love you isis’
Counter-terrorism police in the UK are investigating cybervandalism of a local UK rugby team’s website.
HTML5 goes officially live – now you really CAN say goodbye to Java in your browser!
Of the 21.5 years that the WWW has been going strong, 15 have been spent getting from HTML 4 to HTML5. That’s quite a journey! Paul Ducklin takes look at where we are now…
Millions of Drupal websites at risk from failure to patch
You should assume that your Drupal 7 website has been compromised if you didn’t patch it within 7 hours of the release of Drupal 7.32 on 15 October 2014.
TeamDigi7al US navy hacker sentenced to 2 years in jail
One of the two leaders of the cyber criminal group known as Team Digi7al was last week sentenced to two years in federal prison for his role in breaking into the computer systems of a pretty random mix of targets.
