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Again denied bail Kim Dotcom has said that during his arrest he was kicked punched and God only knows what else after they found him in his panic room.
"I was punched in the face, I was kicked down on the floor,” Dotcom said. “One guy was standing on my hand so my nail was ruptured and my hand was bleeding, it was quite aggressive."
He is still fighting against extradition to the United States on copyright infringement, racketeering and money laundering charges. Police have raided his mansion after a FBI Investigation.
When striking the site Pron.com and gaining access to over 26,000 emails and passwords LulzSec had a few followers use those same emails and passwords to log on to Facebook and see those users who are into the porn site. Facebook responded by matching up those emails and passwords with the ones on the site and reset their passwords. A few of those addresses had the .gov and .mil, which when you think about it isn't too surprising. LulzSec also released 55 admins of other adult entertainment sites.
On Friday around 32 people believed to be apart of Anonymous have been arrested which happened just days after the Spanish police arrested 3 suspects believed to have been apart of Anonymous's attack on Sony. Out of those 32 arrested 8 of them are believed to be under the age of 18.
In its report on the Turkish arrests, The Guardian outlines the government's new filtering system:
Approximately 12 hours ago (as of this post writing), LulzSec announced via twitter that they were releasing the Source Code of the Sony Developer Network. The code was made available both by MediaFire, and by the torrent site, ThePirateBay. Within this torrent were included Sony BMG Internal Network Maps.
LulzSec has done it again. They hacked Sony once more as they said they would do and managed hack Sony Pictures, Sony Entertainment, Sony BMG and compromised sensitive data for over one million customers, as well as gaining access to admin passwords, music "codes" and "coupons".
Security group "LulzSec" has garnered a reasonable amount of media attention lately, with their latest exploit being the relatively public PBS Hack. Late Sunday night, a story appeared on PBS stating that Tupac Shakur (a rapper from the mid 90's) had been found alive and well in New Zealand. This is a largely discredited fact, and as such, should have been a reasonable indication to most people that something was amiss in the PBS systems.
A Lebanese hacker group called "Idahca" is believed to have done the attack on Sony Ericsson eShop web site using SQL injection. E-mail, Passwords, and names of thousands of users have been exposed. In a statement Sony Ericsson made they said records for around 2,000 customers have been compromised. This includes names, emails, and a hashed version of their passwords.
The ACLU: "Two weeks ago, as part of our FOIA lawsuit over those documents, the government gave us several declarations attempting to justify the redaction of the documents. We've been combing through the documents and recently came across this unexpectedly honest explanation from the FBI of why the government doesn't want us to know which "electronic communication service providers" participate in its dragnet surveillance program."
A recent scam playing on the successful "iPhone" series of smarphones, and the hype surrounding their impending releases, has been seen on Facebook recently. It follows a similar format to many other spam threads, and though annoying and harmless, it does make the original author extra money in the process.
Approximately 12 hours ago, the Metasploit project and Rapid7 team announced the release and immediate availability of the Metasploit Framework 3.7.0. There are a number of changes, not the least of which includes increased performance on the sessions handler. However, rather the rewriting what has already been so clearly stated, we'll just show you a copy of their release statement:
