RICS Asia, the accrediting body for professionals in land, property and construction, has been targeted by a hacking group calling itself “HTGz Security,” who were purportedly able to leak database tables containing over 12,000 entries of member information.

A faction of the Anonymous hacking collective called AntiSec, in conjunction with hacking group Hagash Team, claimed the defacement and hacking of eight Vietnamese government websites and hundreds of other websites in protest against political repression in Vietnam.

A pro-al-Qaeda hacking group calling itself “al-Qaeda Electronic” echoed the oft-cited statement from Usama bin Laden that that America “will not enjoy security” until security is achieved for Palestinians, in a message displayed on a number of defaced Russian, Norwegian, and Vietnamese websites.