eBay hacked, hundreds of million passwords being compromised

CNET.com, 21 May 2014
The e-commerce site confirmed Wednesday that its corporate network was hacked and a database with users' passwords was compromised. While eBay says there is no evidence that users' financial information was accessed in the hack, the company is telling all users to change their passwords.
The database, which eBay said was compromised in late February and early March, held eBay customer's names, encrypted passwords, email addresses, physical addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth. However, the company says users' financial information was not accessed. Full story

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EXPOSED: NDP website vulnerable to hackers gaining personal particulars of users

Zitseng.com, 19 May 2014

I don’t normally want to criticise websites, but I’ve heard so many complaints about our National Day Parade (NDP) website and I can’t help but agree with them. It’s almost a national embarrassment that a country with such advanced and developed infocommunications capabilities could not find someone better to showcase its most important national event on the Internet.
It’s not even just one aspect where the NDP website is failing. There are problems with security and privacy, design and layout, HTML coding, and more.
Let’s start with security and privacy. It’s one of the biggest thing on the Internet that everyone is concerned about. You see, the ticket balloting submission, in the sub-site http://eballot.ndp.gov.sg/, does not use SSL to encrypt its web communication. They are going to ask people to submit private personal information, but they don’t think to use encryption on their website. Full story

Filipino hackers declare war on China attacking more than 200 Chinese websites

Gulfnews.com, 20 May 2014

A group of Filipino 'hackivists' defaced websites of up to 200 Chinese government and commercial entities as the maritime dispute between the Asian neighbours heightened over disputed islands, Manila news sites reported on Tuesday.
Members of the hackers group Anonymous Philippines late on Monday claimed responsibility for crippling attack on a huge number of Chinese government and commercial Web sites to protest Beijing’s actions in South China Sea, which the group called the "West Philippine Sea".
Many of the crippled websites remained down on Tuesday, with some sites initially displaying "Kismet is back" pop-up message before the defaced site appears. Full story

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More than 180 websites hacked in Singapore this week

Yahoo! News Singapore, 20 Feb 2014
Dozens of Singapore websites, possibly more than 180, have been defaced by hackers in two separate occasions this week.
The latest batch of defacements, which occurred at 11am yesterday, affected over 80 websites, reported SingCERT, a cyber security organization started by government agency IDA. Some of those sites belong to the Reform Party (RP), an opposition political party in Singapore.
SingCERT has notified hosting providers about the intrusions. It said that no government websites were affected. Full story

Anonymous targets Singapore regime with another tweetstorm

ZDNet.com, 9 Feb 2014
Anonymous has stepped up efforts to raise awareness over ongoing criminal procedings in alleged hackers in Singapore linked to the hacktivist group.
The group called for a tweetstorm using the #FreeAnonsSG hashtag for February 9, 2014 at 8am Singapore time, to protest against various arrests linked to Anonymous made last last year, according to its statement on a pastebin. The arrests included those of James Raj Arokiasamy, alleged to be the hacker under the moniker "Messiah", linked to the defacement of at least one government Web site; what it dubbed the "Singapore 5", comprising 5 men accused of civil disobedience involving pro-Anonymous graffiti on a wall; and also "the plight of all the anons involved". Full story

Anonymous threatens to leak personal data of Singapore government employees

Techinasia.com, 7 Feb 2014
Hacker and hacktivist collective Anonymous is planning to leak the personal information of government employees tomorrow, in protest over the recent arrests of alleged Anonymous operatives, reports ZDNet.
The group also sent private data on ten individuals to ZDNet as part of their press statement. These included names, government e-mail addresses, birthdates, passport numbers, mobile phone numbers, and nationalities. Information on more individuals will be disclosed to the public the next day, it threatened.
The government executives in the list come from a variety of agencies, such as the Singapore Prison Service, Immigration and Checkpoints Authority (ICA), the Public Utilities Board (PUB), and more. Full story

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Singapore PM Lee Hsien Loong vows to hunt down and severely punish Anonymous hackers

XIN MSN News, 6 Nov 2013
Singapore will "spare no effort" to hunt down hackers from activist group Anonymous who last week threatened to wage a cyber war against the government, Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong said Wednesday.
Lee told reporters the city-state had also strengthened its defences against such attacks.
"Our IT (information technology) network, the Internet, our communications have become an essential part of our business and our lives now," the Today newspaper quoted him as saying in its online edition.
"And, therefore, when somebody threatens to do harm to it... we take that very seriously and we will spare no effort to try and track down the culprits and if we can find him, we will bring him to justice and he will be dealt with severely." Full story