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Websites of Top Hollywood Celebrities Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj hacked by Ethical Spectrum
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The hacker going by the handle of Ethical Spectrum has defaced the official websites of Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Chelsea Handler and Nicki Minaz. It seems that Ethical Spectrum had been targeting the websites of Hollywood VIPs since 8th March, 2014 and was fully successful today. The meme that appeared before the shut-down-for-maintenance webpage is given below
At the time of writing this article, websites of the following Hollywood personalities had been hacked and are showing shut-down-for-maintenance page.
1. Miley Cyrus www.mileycyrus.com
2. Selena Gomez www.selenagomez.com
3.Taylor Swift www.taylorswift.com
4. Nicki Minaj www.mypinkfriday.com
5. Chelsea Handler www.chelseahandler.com
6. Britney Spears www.britneyspears.com
7. Kacey Musgraves www.kaceymusgraves.com
8. Christina Grimmie www.christinagrimmieofficial.com
9. Chrissie Young www.chriseyoungcountry.com
10. Pat Green www.patgreen.com
11. Rob Thomas www.robthomasmusic.com
12. Rock Mafia www.rockmafia.com
13. Rita Wilson www.ritawilson.com
14. Jordan Knight www.jordanknight.com
15. Nick Carter www.nickcarter.net
16. Coco Jones www.therealcocojones.com
17. Aaron Lewis www.aaronlewismusic.com
18. Sum 41 www.sum41.com
Ethical Spectrum who came into the limelight when he managed to hack into the systems of Finnish game developer Supercell by first hacking into the email account of an Supercell employee and then hacking Supercell's Facebook page. Supercell is the publisher of very popular mobile games like Hayday and Clash of Clans. Coincidently today is exact one month anniversary after hacking of Supercell. Though all the actors listed above have managed to revert there web page to ' Shut Down For Maintenance' Ethical Spectrum had posted a picture of meme characters dancing, along with the message
It is apparent that Ethical Spectrum was targeting the security service of the service provider (website maker) for these Hollywood stars. One of the sites had a message in which he blames Greg Patterson – the COO and co-founder of ground(ctrl), a company that specializes in creating websites for artists – for the attack.
It is reported that Ethical Spectrum had approached the service provider to secure these very websites for a fee but he was spurned by ground(ctrl). The after effects of the spurning are for all to see. Ethical Spectrum didnt take kindly to the ground(ctrl)'s rejection of his offer and breached the company’s systems, he could easily gain access to the sites they’ve created. The ground(ctrl)’s official website is also down as of now.
Websites of Top Hollywood Celebrities Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Taylor Swift, Nicki Minaj hacked by Ethical Spectrum
Incidentally at the time of writing, many more hollywood personalities websites are being added to the already growing list and by nightfall this may be the biggest hacking yet on hollywood stars.
mirror
1. http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21985368
2. http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/21961590
Update : It seems the Hollywood stars have recovered from their nightmares.
Attack of the Drones - Snoopy drone can steal your smartphone data
By Malarie Gokey, Tech Times | March 24, 10:55 AM
Forget about the NSA, there's a new drone named Snoopy that can steal all your smartphone data while it's flying in the sky. A group of hackers created the drone and will show it off at Black Hat Asia in Singapore. (Photo : Gabriel Garcia Marengo)
The NSA ain't got nothin' on the new Snoopy drone Daniel Cuthbert at Sensepost Research Labs and fellow security researcher Glenn Wilkinson created. The two benevolent hackers made Snoopy as part of an experiment that is intended to raise consumer awareness about the inherent vulnerabilities of mobile devices.
Every smartphone and tablet with Wi-Fi onboard automatically searches for new Wi-Fi connections as soon as your preferred Wi-Fi network is out of range. Your smartphone continually searches and searches and searches for Wi-Fi networks that you've joined before until you connect it to one. Cuthbert and Wilkinson set out to show people just how dangerous this constant searching can be for smartphone users. That's why they created the Snoopy drone.
"Their phone will very noisily be shouting out the name of every network its ever connected to," Wilkinson said. "They'll be shouting out, 'Starbucks, are you there? McDonald's Free Wi-Fi, are you there?"
The Snoopy drone can fly around in any city or town, pretend to be the Wi-Fi network your smartphone or tablet is looking for and then, once you connect to that fake network, the drone steals a whole bunch of meta data to learn more about you. Snoopy uses your device's specific identification number a.k.a MAC address to view all your data.
"Your phone connects to me and then I can see all of your traffic," Wilkinson said.
Snoopy can then tell what you search for, where you work, where you shop and other key information.
"I've seen somebody looking for 'Bank X' corporate Wi-Fi," Wilkinson said. "Now we know that that person works at that bank."
The drone can also access your location data, user names, passwords and even your credit card numbers. Amazon, PayPal and Yahoo accounts were among those hacked by the drone when the researchers demoed Snoopy in London. Over the course of just one hour, the Snoopy drone collected the network names and locations of 150 different devices, all of which could be hacked using the drone.
The hackers stated that they will show off the Snoopy drone and its terrifying capabilities at the Black Hat Asia conference in Singapore next week. The Snoopy drone takes Internet surveillance to a whole new level and its creators say that it could be a very dangerous tool in the hands of the wrong person.
The only way to circumvent the vulnerability the Snoopy drone targets is to turn off your device's Wi-Fi whenever you leave your preferred network. That way, your smartphone won't be searching for its favorite networks and will be impossible to fool with a fake Wi-Fi network.
