According to an interview with The Guardian, the Ministry of Defence (MoD) in the UK has admitted to being the target of multiple breaches of its systems thanks to unknown hackers.

While the number of attacks, or what systems were breached exactly, aren’t known, the MoD admits that it’s enough of a wakeup call to get smarter when it comes to defending itself from online attacks.

It’s quite shocking to see that what appears to be the US equivalent to the FBI or Secret Service, not having the know-how or staff to keep one step ahead of hackers in this digital age.

The great malware archive VX Heavens (and yes, it was REALLY an archive, such cool really old malware to find on it) has been closed by the Ukrainian authorities a week ago.

Here the announcement on the site:

Dear friends

How you can see, the VX Heavens server is unreachable since 23.03.2012. VX Heavens' administration sincerelly apologies for the inconvenience caused to You.

For many years we were tried hard to establish a reliable work of the site, which supplied you with a professional quality information on systems security and computer virology. We do always believed that a true research in any field (computer virology included) is only possible in the atmosphere of trust, openness and mutual assistance.

(This is my first exclusive news article, so don't mind the bad formatting :) )

The notorious hacker group Anonymous managed to take down the DNS servers for (roughly) seven minutes just a few moments ago. This time employing multiple botnets to compliment the usual LOIC volunteers.

I have been camping their IRC channels and I don't know if they took down Internet world-wide or just the Europe part but I certainly felt the attack.

Official prepared video statement from the Anonymous group can be found here. (it's a private video for the time being, will go live later today, enjoy the exclusive!)

In case they attack again and do more damage this time, Google IP is 173.194.35.178. Feel free to add more just as a precaution.

Stay tuned for more info and IRC logs!

fetlife.com - They call themself a "safe haven" and even the "facebook for fetishists" But what really awaits you there is a privacy disaster paired with incompetent and even lying admins/owners.

The full story now in my blog.