Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 11th Sept 6 PM

Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 11th Sept 6 PM

Hackers hit Al-Jazeera SMS service GMA News The Hacker News reported Al-Jazeera confirmed the hack in a tweet, whose English translation read the hackers "sent fake news with no basis." “The story claiming that the Prime Minister (Sheikh Hamad bin Jassem) has been the target of an assassination ... See all stories on this topic » Hacker takes down GoDaddy, and loads of innocent Web sites. Is it terrorism? AMERICAblog (blog) A hacker who was using a name suggesting that he was with the group Anonymous claims to have taken down Godaddy today, a site that millions of Web sites, including ours, uses to host our DNS records and nameservers and all other complicated technical ... See all stories on this topic » GoDaddy says sites are down; hacker claims responsibility NBCNews.com (blog) Web-hosting giant GoDaddy said Monday its customers are experiencing website outages, and a supposed member of the hacking group Anonymous has taken "credit" for the problem. "Hey all, We're aware of the trouble people are having with our site. See all stories on this topic » Go Daddy-serviced Web sites go down; hacker takes credit CNET One hacker claims responsibility for an outage affecting sites for which Go Daddy provides hosting and DNS services. Elinor Mills. by Elinor Mills. September 10, 2012 12:07 PM PDT Follow @elinormills. Go Daddy's Twitter account confirmed the outage. See all stories on this topic » Hackers take credit for GoDaddy Web outage Pioneer Press A Twitter feed that claimed to be affiliated with the "Anonymous" hacker group said it was behind the outage, but that couldn't be confirmed. Another Twitter account, known to be associated with Anonymous, suggested the first one was just taking ... See all stories on this topic » Anonymous hacker claims GoDaddy attack; outage hits millions ZDNet But one of the 'main' Anonymous account, @YourAnonNews, has distanced the hacking collective from the alleged attack, saying in a tweet: "Please redirect your godaddy hate to @AnonymousOwn3r says is the 'leader' of Anonymous." If this was the work of ... See all stories on this topic »

Domino's India Web site hacked, customer data leaked ZDNet Summary: The pizza retailer's site in India was reportedly hacked by a Turkish group, which leaked personal information including passwords and phone numbers from 37,000 accounts online. Ryan Huang. By Ryan Huang | September 11, 2012 -- 04:53 GMT ... See all stories on this topic »

Did Apple ID hackers hit BlueToad, not FBI? San Francisco Chronicle The company, BlueToad, which works with thousands of publishers to translate printed content into digital and mobile formats, said hackers had breached its systems more than a week ago and stolen the file. A few days after the file appeared online, the ... See all stories on this topic »

Pirate Bay Founder Arrested for Tax Hack Wall Street Journal The Swedish hacker—also known under his hacker alias "anakata"—has also been formally arrested in connection with another hacking case, Swedish prosecutors said Tuesday. Mr. Svartholm, along with other hackers, were believed to have obtained ... See all stories on this topic »

Hack Your Kindle to Use It as a Raspberry Pi Screen Gizmodo With some fairly involved hacking of the Kindle, he was able to get it up and running as a screen for the Pi—and even used the setup as his main computer for a couple of weeks. Sadly, he doesn't mention being able to use the Kindle's 3G, but then, you ... See all stories on this topic »

Phone-hack saga: Prison officer cuffed in cop bung probe Register The probe is related to the Met's ongoing phone-hacking inquiry. The unnamed suspect remains in police custody. He was cuffed over allegations of conspiracy to corrupt, contrary to the Prevention of Corruption Act 1906, and claims of misconduct in a ... See all stories on this topic »

Hackers stole Apple data from Florida company, not from FBI Reuters ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) - A Florida company said on Monday that its files - not an FBI agent's laptop - were hacked by a renegade group that released Apple product identification data it claimed to have obtained through a breach of the nation's top ... See all stories on this topic »

Hackers Stole Apple IDs From A Company In Florida, Not From The FBI Business Insider He also speculated that whoever posted the data on the Internet might have been acting out of a grudge against a hosted publisher, or might be trying to establish their bona fides among the well-known hacking groups. The Apple ID numbers, called unique ... See all stories on this topic »

Biz Break: HP trims more jobs; solar panel installations jump San Jose Mercury News In more hacking news, a Florida mobile publishing company says its files, and not the FBI's, werehacked by the group that released Apple (AAPL) user identification codes last week, claiming they were obtained from an FBI laptop. The codes actually ... See all stories on this topic » Millions of websites down due to alleged GoDaddy hacking By brooklynvegan After a whole bunch of 'page not found' messages in a row, I realized:GoDaddy, the domain registrar and Web hosting company, is down, perhaps taking millions of websites down as a result. "Status Alert: Hey, all. We're aware of... brooklynvegan DeSoto Government Hit in Phone Hacking Scheme | WREG.com ... By Dennis Turner Hackers apparently gained access to the phone networks in DeSoto, Tunica, Tate and Panola Counties, racking up phone bills in the tens of thousands of dollars, each. WREG.com -- Memphis News & Weather... GoDaddy restores service after hacking incident | Ubergizmo By Edwin Kee Earlier today, the Internet was abuzz about web hosting company GoDaddy being hacked by thehacker collective known as Anonymous, and in an announcement over on Twitter, GoDaddy mentioned that the majority of their customer-hosted ... Ubergizmo Pirate Bay founder held on new suspicions of hacking into the ... Pirate Bay founder held on new suspicions of hacking into the Swedish tax agency - @TheLocalSweden. Breaking news - www.breakingnews.com Anonymous didn't hack FBI laptop, says hacked web publisher ... By Charles Arthur File which revealed a million unique device identifiers (UDIDs) came from web publisher Blue Toad, not FBI laptop, reveals company chief. By Charles Arthur. Blogposts | guardian.co.uk