[securityaffairs] Syrian Electronic Army hacks into Facebook’s domain

by paganinip on February 6th, 2014

The Syrian Electronic Army claimed Wednesday that it managed to hack into Facebook violating an administrator account of the Facebook’s Domain Registrar.

[csoonline] Bell Canada hacked

Over this past weekend the hacker collective that calls themselves Nullcrew, exposed details of a breach of 22,000 Bell Canada customer accounts.

For a variety of reasons I decided to ask Ben Sapiro, fellow Liquidmatrix staffer, to provide his perspective on the Bell Canada data.

Ben: Many of the tables that contain password columns don't actually appear to contain that many passwords or at least not a password that is going to be useful anywhere else except on this service (whatever it is). In most cases the password field contains a monotonically increasing value which is almost always 8 characters long. Since it's statistically unlikely that random users would almost always enter in eight character passwords with always increasing hexadecimal values what we have here is either the worlds worst random password generator or some sort of reference to another table elsewhere.