HKEx - Hong Kong stock exchange Hacked

Trading in Hong Kong was disrupted on Wednesday by a hacking incident on the Hong Kong Exchange website. "Our current assessment that this is a result of a malicious attack by outside hacking," Charlies Li, chief executive of Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing, told reporters.

The seven stocks in question were all due to release sensitive results to the website that could impact the price of their stocks.Although the Hong Kong stock exchange also operates an alternative backup site for posting the results, it chose to halt trading of the affected stocks for the afternoon session.Stocks affected included HSBC, Cathay Pacific, China Power International and the Hong Kong exchange itself.It is unclear at this point whether the attack actually compromised the site, or if it was merely a denial of service attack.

"It was the first time for a suspension due to such a kind of technical problem and one involving so many companies," Alfred Chan, chief dealer at Cheer Pearl Investment in Hong Kong. Hackers attacked the Zimbabwe stock exchange website on Friday, forcing a shutdown of the site and hampering traders monitoring performance on the 79-company bourse.

http://www.thehackernews.com/2011/08/hkex-hong-kong-stock-exchange-hacked.html

Hackers attack 1,500 Vietnamese websites

 

Foreign hackers have attacked an estimated 1,500 Vietnamese websites, including the online forum for white-hat hackers, since early this month.

The list of hacked websites ranges from government sites to sites dealing with real estate and electronics. In the latest case, Kon Tum Province’s Department of Education and Training's website was disrupted on Wednesday.
On June 5, www.hvaonline.net, a popular forum for legitimate web security technicians (aka white-hat hackers) fell prey to a staunch attack.
The hackers allegedly deployed a Distributed Denial-of-Service attack (DDoS attack).
The website’s service provider announced that most of the hackers had Chinese IP addresses.
Shortly after the website was restored, on June 12, it was hit by another DoS attack.
The Vietnam National Oil and Gas Group (PetroVietnam)'s site, petrotimes.vn, and a website used by the Vietnamese Ministry of Foreign Affairs were also hacked.
IT experts said the DDoS attacks did not cause huge losses to Vietnamese websites because they could not change the content of the websites.
The hackers used the attacks just to show what they are capable of, they said.
According to commenters in a number of popular IT forums, a number of Vietnamese companies and agencies were poorly equipped to deal with the online assault. “Foreign hackers are launching organized and deliberate attacks on Vietnamese websites,” said Vo Do Thang, director of Athena Network Security Center in Ho Chi Minh City.

http://www.i-policy.org/2011/06/hackers-attack-1500-vietnamese-websites.html

CIA website and FBI hacked by LulzSec

Hacking collective LulzSec has decided to stop giving online gaming sites a hard time and instead put its efforts into taking down the CIA's website and the FBI's phone network.
Last week the group managed to DDoS the CIA's homepage and along with it the FBI's phone network in Detroit.
As per usual LulzSec kept everyone updated with its hacking shenanigans on Twitter, posting on the site: "Tango down – CIA.Gov- for the lulz.".
According to reports, it wasn't just the CIA and the FBI, either - the US Senate's website was also a target, but the group failed to compromise the site.

Love hack
LulzSec has been extremely busy over the last few weeks, but it has mostly targeted gaming sites. Its Titanic Takeover Tuesday campaign saw the group hack into Eve Online, Minecraft, League of Legends and FinFisher.
Even though LulzSec seems to be infiltrating websites just to show how poor the security is, this latest wave of hacks will have the US government keeping more than a close eye on it.

 http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/cia-website-and-fbi-hacked-by-lulzsec-966715#ixzz1PzhuXoHY

Citigroup card customers data hacked

Computer hackers have breached Citigroup’s computer network and have accessed data on hundreds of thousands of its card customers, the Financial Times said.

Citigroup said the breach, which affected about 1 per cent of its card customers, was discovered in early May through routine monitoring.

According to the bank’s annual report, Citi Cards has about 21 million customers in North America.

The breach occurred at Citi Account Online, which holds basic customer information such as names, account numbers and e-mail addresses.

Other information such as birth dates, social security numbers and card security codes are held elsewhere and were not compromised, Citi said.

“The bank said it had contacted law enforcement officials and tightened its fraud detection procedures, but declined to provide further details or to say whether customers had reported suspicious transactions,” the FT reported.

Though Citigroup said the breach involved only credit card accounts, the FT said that several people have reported about their debit card details being compromised.

Hacking into companies is increasingly becoming common.

Lockheed Martin, PBS and Sony have all recently had their security systems violated.

http://www.thehindu.com/business/companies/article2090316.ece

Sony apologises as hackers strike again!!!

Sony executives took to the stage at games show E3 to apologise for a massive hacking incident, as yet another attack targeted the beleaguered firm.
In April, Sony temporarily shut down its PlayStation Network, after hackers made off with details from 77 million accounts, including some credit card data.
"This is not the first time I've come to the stage at E3 with an elephant in the room," Jack Tretton, the head of Sony's gaming division in the US, told attendees of the show, as the firm unveiled an update to the PlayStation Portable, the Vita.
"I want to apologise personally and on behalf of the company for any anxiety that we have caused," he said. "It is you that causes us to be both humble and amazed at the amount of dedication and support you continue to give to the PlayStation brand."
Another hack
The apology came as hacking group Lulz Security said it had again targeted Sony, posting company data online.
The group posted what appeared to be Sony BMG network maps from a New York city office and what they said was 54MB of Sony developer source code.
"We're not commenting on this issue," said Sony Music spokeswoman Liz Young.
Last week, the group said it had broken into Sony's computer network and accessed information on more than one million customers to show the vulnerability of the company's systems.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks that Sony disclosed in April and May.

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