Hacker group Lulz Security reveal password and login details for Facebook, PayPal and student's emails

Hackers 'tweet' 62,000 personal details
Leak "random assortment from collection"
Sophos: Blasts hackers as "schoolboys"  
CRIMINAL hackers who crippled the CIA website this week have published student's email logins as well as Facebook and PayPal accounts.
The group known as "Lulz Security" dumped more than 62,000 personal details on Twitter yesterday, inviting people to try the passwords on everything from bank accounts to online stores.
It is claimed the passwords were downloaded 2100 times in the first 4 minutes after release.
Twitter was soon flooded with claims from individuals who said they had used the passwords to gain illicit access to Facebook and PayPal accounts.
"I chatted with some girl's boyfriend (on Facebook) and told him that I would never f*** him again. He said "no problem, I understand " wtf" - Twitter user @Pedacitodepan
"Cheers for the paypal account with £250 in it! ;)" - Twitter user @Murraaayyy
"Ordered a large pack of condoms for an elderly woman on Amazon" - Twitter user @RDisher
Emails and passwords of University of Queensland students and a high school student in central Queensland were also published along with logins at seven other Australian universities.
Lulz Security took credit for crashing the CIA website for several hours on Thursday and have also reportedly attacked Sony, Nintendo, the US Senate, the US Public Broadcasting System and Infraguard, a private company that works with the FBI.
The hackers said the attacks were "just for kicks" and that the passwords in the recent leak were "a random assortment from a collection".
"So don't ask which site they're from or how old they are because we have no idea," the group said.
"Releasing 62,000 possible account combinations is the loot for creative minds to scour; think of it like digging a very unique mineshaft."
James Cook University and Griffith University logins were also compromised but it is not clear if they were for students or faculty.
Representatives for both universities said there had been no intrusion of their servers, while UQ's director of IT services Rob Moffatt said none of the university's email addresses were breached.
Only one of the UQ addresses was still live and the password was incorrect, he said.
"We have investigated these claims and have ascertained that the group involved has not breached any active university accounts," Mr Moffatt said.
"UQ staff and students should not be concerned about the integrity of their university accounts.
"UQ takes these issues very seriously and will continue to monitor developments."
Queensland police said they were monitoring the situation.
Fraud Squad Detective Superintendent Brian Hay said the hackers had "delusions" they were helping people by exposing security flaws.
"The reality is these people are committing criminal acts and are stealing innocent people's details and publishing them to the detriment of everybody," Supt Hay said.
"They think they're clever and laughing now but they're taking on organisations like the CIA and the FBI."
The most cyber attacks on Australians was reported last year and this year was set to be worse, Supt Hay said.
"Queenslanders should regularly change their passwords to their online logins.
"You almost have to operate with the expectation that you will be compromised."

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'Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2' Trailer: What's New?

This sneak peek is full of explosions, knights, nostalgia, Death Eaters, betrayal, spells and, of course, our favorite dynamic trio: Harry, Ron and Hermione. Here are the three best NEW scenes that'll have you watching this trailer on repeat until July 15:


1. A kiss!
Squee! Harry/Ginny fans will love a split-second snippet of the estranged couple's climactic smooch. This little sneak peek has us even more anxious to watch the full thing on the big screen. Then, we can compare it to the last movie's Harry/Hermione kiss (nominated for an MTV Movie Award!) and determine whether Dan Radcliffe has more chemistry with Emma Watson or Bonnie Wright.

2. Hogwarts under siege
Between the Death Eaters casting spells upon an unprotected Hogwarts, the castle's knights marching bravely into battle and the Room of Requirement ablaze in Fiendfyre, there's no doubt that the final "Harry Potter" film is an action movie. Whether you're a hardcore Potterhead or you've only seen a few of the films, this trailer reaffirms that there'll be an abundance of OMG moments.

3. Dragon joyriding
One of the scenes from the book that we were most excited to see on the big screen is the breakout from Gringotts on dragonback. Well, imagine our delight to experience this epic escape in the new trailer! We get to see the creature burst through the roof and soar over the countryside before Harry, Ron and Hermione abandon ship and jump into the lake.

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RBC's Heritage moment

Being title sponsor of the RBC Canadian Open is not enough.

Neither is joining forces with the PGA of America as its 'Official Bank and Patron Partner' or having a tour staff consisting of Luke Donald, Matt Kuchar, Ernie Els, Jim Furyk, Fred Couples, Anthony Kim, Mike Weir, Stephen Ames and Morgan Pressel. (Did I forget anyone?)

Apparently, it's also not enough to sponsor the new Canadian PGA player rankings or to assume a vital role in grassroots and national player development in this country.

Jim Little, RBC's chief brand and communications officer, told me earlier this year North America's fifth largest financial institution needed more golf. His company needed it, he said, to further complement its global brand building strategy.

As of Thursday RBC has more golf - a lot more.

Becoming title sponsor of the RBC Heritage in Hilton Head, S.C., through 2016 means a bunch of things, but here's what's most important: RBC saves an event ingrained into the fabric of the PGA Tour. It saves it from being either moth-balled or amalgamated with some other tournament and it puts it back where it belongs - the week after the Masters. I don't know what anyone else thought, but going to the Valero Texas Open after Augusta? That was just plain wrong.

RBC perhaps did not come in at the 11th hour like it did when it rescued the Canadian Open in 2008, but the Heritage clearly faced an uncertain future. Today the tournament not only has a new lease on life but it has a title sponsor that has quietly become one of the PGA Tour's most important business partners. Presently, RBC is the only sponsor to have multiple tour events, notwithstanding FedEx, which sponsors the Memphis stop and the tour's playoffs and points system.

Here are a few words from the principles. We'll start with Little:

"Becoming title sponsor of this classic tournament has provided RBC with a unique opportunity to associate our brand with one of the PGA TOUR's most liked and well attended tournaments in North America. RBC is very committed to building our brand and serving our growing client base in the U.S. and the RBC Heritage provides very attractive opportunities for our U.S. businesses to reach target markets and foster new business development."

Apparently Little and RBC spoke with up to 40 players about the Heritage, including some of his own Team RBC members. All said they would be at Heritage. That sold Little.

Here's what a relieved Steve Wilmot, Heritage's longtime tournament director had to say:

"My thanks go out to RBC for coming forward and giving us the helping hand we needed. This has been a rough couple of years for our beloved tournament; we have worked so hard to keep it alive. I want to recognize the important role RBC has played in saving the Heritage and keeping it in our community."

From a public relations standpoint getting RBC on board with The Heritage is also a collective sigh of relief for the PGA Tour. Commissioner Tim Finchem and crew would have soft shoed their way around losing the popular event but being this close to television negotiations with the networks avoids a critical landmine.

Finchem had a lot to say as he often does on the teleconference Thursday, but I found this pearl somewhat compelling:

"RBC is already one of our really good partners up in Canada, the RBC Canadian Open, and I can just tell you that this is a company that knows golf, knows sports marketing, is hands on, and will work with the foundation here to build this tournament on into the future."

As part of the five-year sponsorship deal, RBC will leverage U.S. network television opportunities to promote its wealth management, private banking and capital markets businesses to a coveted client demographic. In addition, RBC believes in giving back to important charitable causes in communities in which it does business. Through this new agreement, RBC and the Heritage Classic Foundation will inject millions of dollars into the economy and to charitable organizations within South Carolina, starting in 2012.

And according to South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, RBC also adds one more title to its business portfolio:

"Regardless of how big you are in the world, you are now - and you can take back to your company - that RBC is the official bank for South Carolina, I will tell you that."

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Kenny Chesney touches down at the Linc in Philadelphia

Regardless of your opinion on modern country, country pop or whatever you call the songs and videos that get played all the time on the radio and CMT, it's kind of tough to find a hole in Kenny Chesney's game.

The looks are killer: 10-gallon hat, chiseled frame, GQ-worthy face. Tunes like "She's Got It All," "All I Need to Know" and new hits like "The Boys of Fall" are put up on a tee for him by crackerjack songwriters, but he's the one with the golden voice who knocks them out of the park.

So why wouldn't anyone with even a mild interest in country music want to check out Chesney's Goin' Coastal tour when it comes to Lincoln Financial Field at 4:30 p.m. Saturday?

How about the ticket price?

Admission to see Chesney and the Zac Brown Band is $99.50 on the low end, $246.40 on the high end (they're available at www.ticketmaster.com if you have that kind of change to spend on a rock concert). This isn't meant to be a whine-about-ticket-prices screed. Instead, it's an opportunity to express sympathy to Chesney's diehard fans, and to offer a few cheaper options:

» JD Souther and Jill Andrews, 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St., Philadelphia ($25; www.worldcafelive.com). Remember The Eagles? Remember playing air guitar on the opening riff of "Heartache Tonight" or singing it out with Don Henley on "Victim of Love" to get over a breakup? You can thank JD Souther, who co-wrote those tracks and "New Kid In Town" and "Best of My Love" as well as tunes for Brian Wilson and Warren Zevon. On Tuesday, he'll be the one doing the playing. Knoxville, Tenn.-based singer-songwriter Jill Andrews opens.

» The Feelies, with opening act TBA, 8 tonight at the World Cafe Live ($20). If scientists examined the DNA of bands like Pavement, Sebadoh and Weezer, they'd find a similar strain of frenetic, herky-jerky nerdiness that can be traced back to the likes of Devo, Talking Heads, Television and the Violent Femmes. They'd also uncover a connection to New York's The Feelies, who threw more than a little jangle on top of their sound. Twenty years after their debut album, "Crazy Rhythms," put them on the map, they're back with a new album, "Here Before."

» Eastern Conference Champions, with Prowler and Illinois, 9 p.m. Monday at Johnny Brenda's, 1201 N. Frankford Ave., Philadelphia ($10; www.ticketfly.com). The Champs held a Facebook promotion earlier this year where they asked fans to request a cover tune for them to record, which they would then post online for free. The results had to have been fixed: They went with The Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?", which the band knocked out of the park and must have already been cranking while recording their recently released album, "Speak-ahh." The album is smothered in the reverb, dissonance and adventurous songwriting that made The Pixies great.

Guided By Voices

I think I've figured out why Guided By Voices never hit the big-time: People who read about them get bored with the long-winded story about the school teacher-turned-rock star and get turned off and scared by the band's endless catalog.

So let's try a different approach and get right to it:

If you don't mind patches of songs that are shoddily recorded, preposterously short or have weird titles, keep reading.

If you're into The Who or The Beatles, go buy "Bee Thousand" and/or "Alien Lanes" and keep reading. If you're a fan of Cheap Trick or the late-1970s power-pop era, go and buy "Do The Collapse" or "Isolation Drills" and keep reading. If you're a fan of early Genesis, prog-rock or anything weird, go and buy "Vampire on Titus" or "Universal Truths and Cycles" and keep reading.

If you've gotten this far, go to the River Stage at Great Plaza in Philadelphia tonight and see this band live. Wavves opens the show at 6:30 p.m. Tickets are $39.70 at www.ticketmaster.com.

Soul Jazz Cafe

With its recently completed arsenal of high quality restaurants, Christiana Mall has become a place to eat as much as it is a shopping destination.

Concord Mall has answered, becoming a go-to spot for soul and jazz thanks to Café Riviera.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, the restaurant will host the Soul Jazz Cafe, which features Kim Pinder Garner, who performs Phyllis Hyman classics, as the headliner. She'll be backed by the Rick Tucker Universal Soul Band. The Best Kept Soul Band opens with a set of Motown classics.

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UPDATE 2-RIM swoons on grim results,

 * RIM results trigger 22 pct slide in its shares
 * Some of biggest shareholders show signs of bailing
 * Citigroup cuts RIM to "sell" from "hold"
 * CIBC, BMO, 7 others cut price targets
 (Updates throughout)
 By Alastair Sharp
 TORONTO, June 17 (Reuters) - Research In Motion's (RIM.TO)
(RIMM.O)'s dismal results and failure to offer a clear strategy
to arrest its sad decline pushed its shares down more than 20
percent on Friday, drawing parallels with other technology
stars that have fallen from grace.
 The BlackBerry maker's shares plummeted below $29, hitting
the lowest level in almost five years, the morning after it
missed some of its own limp forecasts and reported a drop in
quarterly profit. The shares are down more than 60 percent
since February.
 And even more worrying, some of the company's largest
shareholders are showing signs of bailing out.
 One of RIM's biggest investors, Jarisloswky Fraser, has
already cut its stake in half, according to Bloomberg.
 Another investor is giving RIM six months to get its
business in order.
 "I think in the next six months we'll have a much better
idea of where we stand," said the head of a fund with a major
stake. "They've laid out a business strategy and we're
measuring their ability to execute."
 LOWER TARGETS
 At least nine analysts lowered their price targets on the
stock, most of them highlighting what appears to be a
once-dynamic product development pipeline that's running dry.
 RIM admitted delays in revamping an aging smartphone lineup
and slashed what most analysts viewed as an unattainable full
year earnings outlook. It also said it planned to cut an
unspecified number of jobs. [ID:nN16217792]
 "Bottom line, we believe RIM has no short-term fixes to
improve product portfolio, brand perception, to reinvigorate
share gains, revenue growth and profitability," Citi's Jim Suva
wrote in a note to clients.
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 Graphic on key RIM metrics    r.reuters.com/ner22s
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 RIM's difficulties bear a striking resemblance to recent
troubles at Finland's Nokia (NOK1V.HE), another struggling
national technology champion blindsided by the roaring success
of Apple's (AAPL.O) iPhone and handset makers using Google's
(GOOG.O) Android software. [ID:nL3E7H603G]
 Some analysts drew comparisons between RIM and Nortel
Networks (NRTLQ.PK), the once-mighty Canadian equipment maker
that went into bankruptcy and is selling its final assets.
 RIM's co-chief executives both sounded contrite on a
conference call with analysts. But analysts said neither
appeared to fully comprehend the challenges that lay ahead.
 "The company is facing its greatest challenge, maybe in its
history, and each CEO continues to believe there is
unprecedented interest in their products," Deutsche Bank's
Brian Modoff wrote as he slashed his price target to $20 from
$45.
 In the latest blow to its reputation, RIM has now has
delayed the launch of the touchscreen version of the Bold model
and at least one other device. That threatens its hard-won
relationships with North American and European carriers, which
expected the phones in July.
 "We are concerned that RIM may have given them overly
optimistic launch timetables, which may end up alienating"
them, said Tero Kuittinen, an analyst from MKM Partners.
 Cellular-enabled versions of RIM's PlayBook tablet, which
would give carriers a reason to push the iPad competitor,
aren't expected until autumn.
 LEADERSHIP QUESTIONS
 The dim results and outlook announced on Thursday also
fanned questions about RIM's co-chief executives.
 Deutsche's Modoff was disappointed that neither Mike
Lazaridis nor Jim Balsillie described the planned job cuts as a
reorganization -- which he would view as a positive.
 Both brushed off criticism of RIM's dual chief with what
seemed "more of a staged piece of theater than a serious answer
to a serious strategic question," Modoff said.
 RIM has cut staff before, in a 2002 move still known around
its Waterloo, Ontario, headquarters as the "10 percent purge."
That followed a dip in revenue and spiraling costs as the
company started selling its early BlackBerry phones via
carriers.
 But it has been all growth since then, with RIM now
boasting more than 17,000 employees.
 To be sure, there were bright spots in first quarter
results. International revenue grew 67 percent partly on the
attractiveness of its BlackBerry Messenger instant messaging
service. But that appeal may not be enough.
 "The concern is the sustainability of that low-end market
that is working for them now. I'm not sure over the long haul
if that texting arbitrage is going to keep them afloat," said
Matthew Robison from Wunderlich Securities, who suggested RIM
may retract into a niche space serving corporations.
 RIM's U.S.-listed shares were down $7.91 at $27.42 by late
morning on Friday. The shares fell $6.53 to C$27.80 on the
Toronto Stock Exchange.
 The table below lists the price target changes on RIM's
US-listed shares:
 BROKERAGE       PRICE TARGET      RATING
 New  Old (In US$)
 BMO             55   80           Outperform
 Citigroup       25   45           Sell
 CIBC            65   75           Sector outperformer
 Jefferies       24   35           Underperform
 National Bank   25   40           Underperform
 Susquehanna     28   31           Negative
 ThinkEquity     32   42           Hold
 UBS             41   45           Neutral
 (Additional reporting by Soham Chatterjee and Tenzin Pema in
Bangalore; Editing by Don Sebastian)

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Jesse James & Kat Von D Refute Break-Up Rumors; Plan Summer Wedding

Sandra Bullock's ex-husband Jesse James has put to rest rumors of a split from Kat Von D by setting a wedding date with the celebrity tattoo artist.

A report published in Life & Style magazine recently suggested the couple, who started dating less than two months after James and Bullock divorced last year, had called off their engagement.

But James is adamant the relationship is on track, telling People.com, "(The split rumors are) absolutely not true. We're still going strong. Things are completely good with us."

Von D adds, "That's the furthest thing from the truth."

And the West Coast Choppers boss can't wait to marry Von D: "That day can't come soon enough! Everything is on track. I am absolutely more in love today than I was a year ago. She's the one for me."

James and Von D are planning a summer ceremony on the one-year anniversary of when they began their romance.

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Rebecca Black’s “Friday” Is Back Just in Time for Friday — On Vevo-Branded Channel [UPDATE]

Update: It seems as though Rebecca Black does not have an official Vevo channel at this time, according to a rep. This channel was not, in fact, created by Vevo. We’re trying to find out more about the Vevo branding and where the channel came from. Either way, it’s back! Enjoy.

Well, this is interesting. We all shed bitter tears Thursday when Rebecca Black‘s poppy hit disappeared from YouTube due to copyright claims from the girl herself. But today, my friends, is Friday, because the video is back once more (also, it’s actually Friday).

Looks like Black has moved to a Vevo-branded channel from her humble beginnings on YouTube. We’ve reached out to Vevo for comment. In the meantime, rejoice! This one appears to be the “Director’s Cut.”

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