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Theregister.co.uk one of the biggest tech-news site got hacked yesterday by Turkish hacker Turkguvenligi popularly known as Tg.
Many other sites such as Vodafone,National Geographic,Acer and betfair.com got hacked by him simultaneously.The hack was done by dns hijacking method.What he did in the hack was that he replaced the nameservers of the original site with the one he has control over.One the defaced site it was written
h4ck1n9 is not a cr1m3. 4 Sept. We TurkGuvenligi declare this day as World Hackers Day – Have fun 
h4ck y0u”.
A few days ago this appeared on Kernel.org’s home page. “Earlier this month, a number of servers in the kernel.org infrastructure were compromised. We discovered this August 28th. While we currently believe that the source code repositories were unaffected, we are in the process of verifying this and taking steps to enhance security across the kernel.org infrastructure.”
We told you about a few suspicious apps made by a Vietnam-based Thuat Nguyen which were eating up money from certain app store and iTunes clients. As it turns out, Apple just got rid of all the apps made by this developer. Apple said that the developer violated the Program License Agreement in a way that rigged fraudulent purchases of his e-books. A few hundred users were charged as high as $600 for the ebooks they never purchased. We recommend our readers to check their iTunes account and remove all the sensitive information which can lead to monitory loss.
If you are an Apple App Store customer or an iTunes user then make sure that you check out your bank account statement. It seems that a lot of Apple ids have been compromised and are being used to buy apps on App store. Hundreds of dollars are missing from a few users’ account. It is suspicious that out of top 50 book apps 40 were created by a Vietnamese developer “Thuat Nguyen”. MacRumors forum thread shows that a number of users had their account compromised and hundreds of dollars were spent from their account to buy some apps which they never purchased personally.
Yesterday a handful members of internet community 4chan hacked YouTube and targeted the videos of pop singer Justin Bieber, although some other videos were also hacked. Some users claimed that they saw a pop up saying that Bieber is dead.
It seems that You Tube had a vulnerability which allowed the members of 4chan group to inject html directly into the webpages and execute it. For a few hours You Tube was the host of a variety of malwares, pop up messages and pornographic videos.
Yet another hacking attack, this time on Reddit. According to the Reddit’s blog, their official gmail account which was used for feedbacks has been hacked. Luckily Reddit didn’t used this account to save any sort of user information so no confidential information has been compromised. Meanwhile Reddit has decided to change their feedback email address to reddit@reddit.com.
A few days ago a security breach in iPad exposed some data about its users including several CEOs, military officials and top politicians. It has been said that every iPad user could be vulnerable to this malicious hacking.
It is believed that over 114.000 user accounts have been compromised. The information exposed comprises subscribers’ email addresses and AT&T authentication id known as ICC-ID.
