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• Malicious phpMyAdmin served from SourceForge mirror

  25.09.2012

  A malicious version of the open source Web-based MySQL database administration tool phpMyAdmin has been discovered on one of the official mirror sites of SourceForge, the popular online code repository for free and open source software.

• Pro-Syrian attackers hacked Al Jazeera's website

  05.09.2012

  Visitors who tried to get their news from the website of the well-respected independent broadcaster Al Jazeera last night have been faced with an unexpected sight: a page sporting the Syrian flag, a screenshot of Al Jazeera's main page with the word "HACK!!" superimposed on it and the name and message of the attackers who targeted it.

• Reuters hacked again

  16.08.2012

  Reuters' blogging platform has been hacked for the second time in two weeks, and this time false news that Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was posted on one of the journalists' blog.

• Nepalese government websites serving backdoor

  09.08.2012

  Two websites belonging to the Nepalese government have been injected with malicious code that tries to take advantage of a Java vulnerability (CVE-2012-0507) in order to download a backdoor RAT on the visitors' machines, Websense warns.

• Reuters hack was due to old WordPress version

  07.08.2012

  While the individuals responsible for the recent hijacking of Reuters' blogging platform and one of its Twitter accounts are still unknown, it has emerged that the attackers likely managed to hack the former because Reuters still used an older version of WordPress.

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