I just received the following email from ecademy.com.  It is an unfortunate tale of the site being hacked, the customer database stolen, the company being sued and as a result of the verdict and legal expenses they have decided to shut down. 
Dear members, clients and guests of our portal,Over the last few years our portal [...]

Categories: hacking · security

Seems one of my facebook contacts’ account was compromised either by phishing or key logging… “he” had posted the following URL onto my wall
h11p://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn
He also had the following from another user on his wall
“lol i cant believe these pics got posted….its going to be BADDDD when her boyfriend sees these- h11p://www.facebook.com.profile.php.id.371233.cn”
Of course, the guilty [...]

Categories: hacking · virus, worms & malware

Noticed something funny happening yesterday with DNS, it was only for a short amount of time, but it occurred on 3 different systems. For example when I went to google.com, it
was redirected to a sedo.com search page. My first thought was that google had not renewed their domain in time which [...]

Categories: hacking · security