OH SNAP! LinkedIn Hacked over 6 Million Passwords Stolen

SMFH…the internet is far from safe!!! As a general rule of thumb you should change your password frequently.

According to various “unconfirmed reports” there has been a security breach at social network LinkedIn. Hackers reportedly uploaded 6,458,020 passwords to a Russian user forum, but it is still unclear if they also accessed the corresponding usernames. LinkedIn has yet to confirm the breach stating on a company blog, “Our security team continues to investigate this morning’s reports of stolen passwords. At this time, we’re still unable to confirm that any security breach has occurred. You can stay informed of our progress by following us on Twitter @LinkedIn and @LinkedInNews.”

As a reminder, to protect yourself and your computer, it’s always a good idea to frequently change your password.

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Hollywood Leaks Make Good On Their Promise To Expose Celebrities

The hacker group that calls themselves “Hollywood Leaks” have made good on their promise. They hacked Kreayshawn’s cellphone at the VMA’s and leaked nude pictures of her from when she was younger, earlier this week they hacked Scarlett Johansson & Mila Kunis. When will they stop, what exactly are these morons trying to prove besides they have way too much time on their hands?

In the video, the hackers say:

“Attention Hollywood. We are Anonymous. We have been watching you. We have been listening to you. You have been allowed to run free too long. The time of Jew-controlled media (a bit racist are WE) is over. We are taking back the media with your faggot vampires and Scientology pastors. We are here for the people. We are here for the Lulz. We are here to stay. We have your lives. We have your blood, sweat and tears. Over the next couple of weeks, everyone will have them. We will rock you for ages. Consider this our acceptance speech for the Video Music Awards.”

Justin Timberlake Says “It’s NOT My PENIS”

SMH…I cannot find these pictures anywhere LOL…I am digging trust!!!

It's NOT my WANKY!!!

Justin Timberlake wants to make it clear — the explicit picture on Mila Kunis‘ cell phone — showing a penis — is NOT J.T. — this according to a source close to Justin.

TMZ broke the story … Mila’s cell phone was hacked, and two of the pics the hackers seized showed Justin — one laying in bed, the other showing Justin with a pair of pink panties over his head.

There is another pic of a penis but that’s it — there’s no torso, no face … and Justin has made it clear to people close to him — he NEVER sent such a pic to Mila or to anyone for that matter.

The HOLLYWOOD HACKERS aka HOLLYWOOD LEAKS

Well, we all know they have been hacking into celebrities emails, phones, Twitter & Facebook accounts etc…I guess it makes for good entertainment & certainly generates a lot of views to my blog but all in all this is a BIT too much…like I said earlier these CELEBRITIES are also HUMAN BEINGS like you & I. I don’t know about you, but I LOVE my PRIVACY…it’s just so sad that they are robbed of it just because of what they do for a living…the are actors, singers, sports players, etc but they are just like us “trying to make a living” yea OK…so some of them are filthy RICH but does that mean to invade their PRIVACY, hack into their personal stuff?!?!?

I mean what if one of these HACKERS were hacked & pictures of them doing some SMH (shaking my head) type things were leaked all over the internet…what if someone had a picture of their MAMA giving brains in a MCDONALD’S bathroom to some bum off SKID ROW!?!?! (LMAO…ha my IMAGINATION) & leaked it all over the internet, I wonder how they would feel, or if they had some really embarassing/personal information hacked!!!

Gawker reports — The newest hacker gang isn’t after credit card numbers or classified NATO documents. Their game is blockbuster scripts, verified Twitter accounts and nude cell phone snapshots. Harden your passwords, glitterati: Hollywood Leaks will use any means necessary to bust open the entertainment industry. Hollywood Leaks has been quietly breaking into entertainment industry insiders’ email accounts for the last few weeks and leaking what they find there. They cracked the email account of an actor in the upcoming Tom Cruise musical, Rock of Ages and were surprised to find that the film’s director, Peter Shankman, had sent the script around to his cast via email. They downloaded it, then put it on the Pirate Bay. They’ve posted the cell phone numbers of about a dozen celebrities to the hacker-friendly document sharing site Pastebin.com, including Miley Cyrus, Lil Jon, and Ashley Greene.

I called N’Sync’s Joey Fatone last Friday and got his voicemail. It was really him. LISTEN! (Alas, Miley Cyrus’ phone number didn’t work.)

Hollywood Leaks say they’re an offshoot of the hacktivist collective Anonymous, even appropriating their tag line “We never forgive, We Never forget.” Like Anonymous, they’re a loose-knit band of internet troublemakers—probably no more than five or six core members—who organize in raucous chat rooms and promote their hacks on their Twitter account. But where Anonymous is super seriously concerned with world politics and the Church of Scientology, Hollywood Leaks just wants to make celebs sweat.

“We’re simply here to facilitate the free flow of information from a place which was previously over looked, Hollywood,” a Hollywood Leaks representative told us in an email. Wikileaks to the Stars, sort of.

During Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards, the rapper Kreayshawn found out the hard way what freedom of information means to Hollywood Leaks. As she sat in the audience at the awards, Hollywood Leaks was taking over her Twitter account, using it to tweet nude pictures stolen from her cell phone to her 300,000 followers. Kreayshawn took to Tumblr soon after: “My twitter got hacked today by some anti-Hollywood extremists. They sent out wack ass tweets and promoted their odd message of anti-jew stuff and deleted my twitter.”

Kreayshawn claims the picture were taken when she was underaged. Not so, said a Hollywood Leaks hacker today. He claimed she took the pictures in 2009, when she was 20, and sent them to rapper Lil B, whom she’s worked with before.

In a chat today, two Hollywood Leaks members named IAMDGKZ1 and dapper weren’t clear as to why they targeted Kreayshawn. They certainly aren’t fans of her music.

“The beat… is good, but her voice induces nausea,” said IAMDGKZ1, a self-identified “hip hop nerd”. Dapper is not a rap fan and got racist about it.

“Rap is for n*ggers,” he said. “The cia made it so theyd kill each other.” IAMDGKZ1 laughed him off.

“lol dapper is our joe biden, saying off the wall shit all the time.”

Most importantly, with a hack timed to the VMAs and crowd-pleasing nude pics, Hollywood Leaks hoped to build their brand.

“The important thing… is the timing, and the attention,” said Dapper. “It’s a launchboard.”

Hollywood Leaks members say they’re just getting started. “We’re currently sitting on several unreleased movie scripts, and enough numbers / emails to keep phones ringing and the inboxes full for the foreseeable future.” In our chat today, IAMDGKZ1 hinted that an upcoming leak will target a well-known movie director.

Hackers have been targeting celebrities since before the first verified Twitter account twinkled to life. But Hollywood Leaks should send celebs scrambling to enable dual factor authentication on their Gmail accounts. It’s not that IAMDGKZ1 and his buddies are particularly skilled—they say they’ve broken into accounts mostly by guessing bad security questions. The real deadliness is the urge is to publicize everything they find for maximum effect, like an even less-ethical TMZ.

Rupert Murdoch’s $1 Billion Hacking Scandal You Haven’t Heard About

the story just keeps getting better…

THR reports — Meet Christopher Tarnovsky, a former U.S.-based hacker who once made his living under the employ of one of Rupert Murdoch‘s companies.

About 15 years ago, Tarnovsky helped DirecTV gain a top place as a leading satellite TV provider by working with the NDS Group – a digital rights firm owned in large part by News Corp. — to beat other hackers who were attempting to crack smart cards used to protect pay TV. Along the way, Tarnovsky got caught up in a drama that would eventually lead to a $1 billion lawsuit by some of Murdoch’s competitors, who accused Tarnovsky and his employer of sabatoge.

If you’ve never heard of this $1 billion lawsuit, you’re not alone. 

The drama has stayed mostly under the radar despite many years of hard-fought litigation. Now, as the saga surrounding News Corp.’s phone-hacking scandal continues to unfold, and journalists look to find a U.S. connection to the story, Tarnovsky’s name has popped up. He says he’s recently been approached by CBS and ABC to share his story.

“You’re not the first person to call,” he told us when we spoke to him Friday.

In the early 1990s, Tarnovsky worked on high-tech security for the U.S. Army. Some of his duties involved providing support to the National Security Agency for satellite transmissions to Europe.

His experience with satellite-TV systems eventually landed him some work back in the states after leaving the Army. He became known for some postings he made on online pirate forums and was contracted by another pirate who was interested in beating the electronic countermeasures that DirecTV had set up on smart cards used in set-top boxes to lock transmissions away from non-paying customers.

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Tarnovsky was quite successful in hacking these cards created by NDS. So much so that eventually, as he once told Wired, NDS offered him a job designing its countermeasures as well as infiltrating the piracy community.

His successes, though, began to raise the suspicions of a rival, NagraStar, which makes access cards and systems for EchoStar’s Dish Network and other pay-TV services. In a billion-dollar lawsuit filed in 2003, NagraStar accused its Murdoch-owned competitor of hiring Tarnovsky and other hackers to manufacture and distribute counterfeit NagraStar cards so that pirates could steal Dish Network’s programming for free.

After five years of litigation, NDS was cleared by a California jury of the most serious allegations. The company was only found to have illegally intercepted EchoStar’s satellite signal in one of its tests. Echostar was awarded less than $46, but the case continued up to the Ninth Circuit over nearly $20 million in legal fees spent by both sides.

Meanwhile, Tarnovsky was eventually let go by NDS.

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Now a software security analyst at his own private firm in Vista, California, Tarnovsky believes we need to have a more nuanced view of the world of hacking.

“Every company out there hires hackers,” he says. “When people jailbreak iPhones, Apple hires hackers to protect them.”

On the other hand, Tarnovsky is disgusted like many by what he’s seeing in the news about his former employer.

“All that sounds pretty low,” he says. “To hack into dead people’s voicemails is certainly not ethical.”

The ‘Malicious’ Fox News Hackers Claimed OBAMA Was Dead

WOW!!! this isn’t even funny, and why in the F**K would anybody pull such a nasty prank…not cute IDIOTS!!!

Followers of Fox News’ political Twitter feed started their Fourth with a shock: Six tweets reporting the fake news that President Obama was assassinated. How did this happen?

THE WEEK reports — At about 2 a.m. on the Fourth of July, the Fox News politics Twitter feed announced the shocking “news” that President Obama was dead after being shot twice at an Iowa restaurant, and wished “the best of luck” to President Joe Biden. (Obama spent the weekend at Camp David and the White House.) Fox News confirmed that its account had been hacked, and expressed regret for any distress caused by the “malicious and false tweets,” which stayed live until about noon on Independence Day. The Secret Service is looking into the incident. How did this happen at a major news organization, and why? Here, a brief guide:

Who are these “malicious” hackers?
A group calling itself the Script Kiddies claimed responsibility for the hack, both through its own Twitter account and in an interview with an editor at SUNY Stony Brook’s student-run magazine Think. (“‘Script kiddies’ is a pejorative term for wannabe hackers,” explains Max Read at Gawker. “I guess they’re trying to reclaim it?”) A purported member of the Script Kiddies told Think‘s Adam Peck that the group was “close in relation” to Anonymous, the more famous group of “hactivists.”

What was the point of this stunt?
The Script Kiddies say hacking Fox is part of the Anonymous-linked “AntiSec,” or anti-security, campaign to unearth and publish government and corporate secrets. But there seems to be an element of self-promotion, too. In the two hours before the Obama tweets, the Script Kiddies brazenly replaced the Fox logo with their own, and reached out to Anonymous — with little effect. When that failed to draw much attention, says Matt Brian at The Next Web, the hackers apparently followed the advice of someone at hacker site 4chan: “If you had tweeted some fake news (i.e. Fox News sources say Obama died of a heart attack this evening), it would have had a bigger impact. Just saying.”

Why pick on Fox News?
The Script Kiddies source told Think‘s Adam Peck that Fox News “was selected because we figured their security would be just as much of a joke as their reporting.” But Peck says his impression is that targeting Fox has “less to do with their politics as it does with the fact that they represent corporate America.” Whatever the reason, tweeting fake news of Obama’s assassination was “even more provocative because Fox News is widely perceived to be a voice of opposition to the Obama administration,” say Liz Robbins and Brian Stelter in The New York Times.

How did the hackers gain access to Fox News’ Twitter feed?
It’s unclear. Twitter blamed security lapses at Fox News, suggesting that hackers had taken control of the Fox email account associated with the hacked feed. Fox News said it is “requesting a detailed investigation from Twitter about how this occurred, and measures to prevent future unauthorized access into FoxNews.com accounts.”

Can we learn anything from this episode?
Yes, don’t rely on Twitter for your news, says Robin Marty at Care2. That’s a good policy, agrees Richard Roeper in the Chicago Sun-Times. But it’s more a reminder that when you read breaking news distributed through Twitter, Facebook, or any other social media site, “you’re literally clicks away from being able to check it out from multiple other sources.” Some people were inevitably “duped by the tweets,” Roeper says, but as “talented as these rogue groups are, they can’t hack the entire Internet.”

LulzSec GOING At It AGAIN!!!

Lulz Security, better known now as the group that hacked servers at Sony and PBS, has taken to its Twitter feed to taunt the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the wake of a major cyberattack on Sony Pictures Entertainment and Sony Music.

The group’s site is registered in the Bahamas, according to the Internet domain registration database WHOIS.

LulzSec also said that it has received some funding from supporters who want to see it continue its work.

SOURCE

Post-PSN Sony hack: Kicking A Man When He’s Down?

With Sony only just having gotten its PSN and PlayStation Store fully functioning, the hacker group LulzSec have released a statement claiming to have once again bypassed Sony‘s online security — this time on one of its websites — but, unlike the first PSN breach, it appears that a significant proportion of the general public have reacted with pity or even sympathy rather than anger.

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Lulz? Sony Hackers Deny Responsibility For Misuse of Leaked Data

Hackers from Lulz Security (“LulzSec”) broke into Sony Pictures servers, grabbed one million user accounts and plaintext passwords, then released a large sample of this data online yesterday. The data set seen by Ars Technica included names, home addresses, passwords, and e-mail addresses—perfect for malicious exploitation, since many people reuse passwords on multiple accounts. To make matters worse, the sample that LulzSec released contained data almost exclusively on (allegedly) elderly users born in the 1920s, ’30s, and ’40s.

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