Japanese Game maker Club Nintendo's 24,000 accounts Hacked

Japanese video game maker Nintendo recently revealed that one of its main fan sites Club Nintendo got hacked and Out of 15.5 million login attempts in brute-force process, almost 24,000 user accounts have been hijacked early last month. Nintendo said it first became aware of the illicit logins on...

World's most secure messaging service offers £10,000 if you crack it

Privacy conscious phone users are being offered a new app that claims to be the world's first totally secure messaging service. A London-based iPhone messaging app claims to be unhackable and is offering reward to anyone who can intercept a message sent by it. Redact believes that messages sent v...

World's most secure messaging service offers £10,000 if you crack it

Privacy conscious phone users are being offered a new app that claims to be the world's first totally secure messaging service. A London-based iPhone messaging app claims to be unhackable and is offering reward to anyone who can intercept a message sent by it. Redact believes that messages sent v...

Zendesk security breach, "We've been hacked"

Customer service software provider Zendesk announced a security breach, that affected three major Zendesk clients i.e Tumblr, Pinterest and Twitter and allowed hackers into their systems. The hacks come just days after Apple ,Twitter and Facebook revealed that their employees computers fell victi...

Win $13,500 bounty to hack Kim Dotcom's Mega encryption

Kim Dotcom is offering a bounty of €10,000 approx. US$13,580 to the first person who breaks its newly launched file storage service. Mega's launch last month was meet by criticism from multiple security researchers, Kim Dotcom announced a prize to the hackers last week. Kim tweeted,"Mega's open...

Warm up your keyboard for Facebook Hacker Cup 2013

Dear Hackers, Warm up your keyboards! Because Facebook open Registration for third Hacker Cup 2013, an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the title of world champion, with $5,000 top prize. The qualification rou...

Sweet Orange Exploit Kit Offers Customers Higher Infection Rates

The newly emerging Sweet Orange Exploit Kit boasts a 10 to 25 percent infection rate and is promising to drive 150,000 unique visitors per day to the websites of its customers, according to Jeff Doty and Chris Larsen of Blue Coat Security. If the claims of Sweet Orange’s authors reflect reality, ...

$36,000 USD reward for wanted hacker

Japan's National Police Agency has offered a monetary reward for a wanted hacker, use programming languages like C to create a virus called "iesys.exe" and Hijack systems of innocent people to post aggressive messages on Internet on behalf of Users. Method called a "Syberian Post Office" to post...

Facebook Helps FBI to shuts down Butterfly botnet theft $850 millions

The U.S. Department of Justice said on Tuesday that they’ve arrested 10 suspects from from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States involved in a global botnet operation that infected more than 11 million systems. The ring is said to...

'Pinkie Pie' discovered second Chrome exploit worth $60k at Pwnium 2

Hacker known as "Pinkie Pie" produced the first Chrome vulnerability at the Hack In the Box conference on Wednesday, just ahead of the deadline for the competition this afternoon. The exploit, if later confirmed by Google's US headquarters, will have earned the teenage hacker known as Pinkie Pie...

Saudi Aramco Confirms Scope of Malware Attack

Officials at oil giant Saudi Aramco have confirmed that about 30,000 of the company’s workstations were hit by a malware attack on August 15, a number that lines up with claims made in posts on Pastebin by a group taking credit for the attack. The company said that while tens of thousands of...

Hacker made calls worth £10,000 from public phone

Hacker made calls worth £10,000 from public phone Computer expert Dariusz Ganski, of Sunny Bank, Kingswood, used a router to tap into BT phone boxes and made hours of calls to expensive numbers. He make calls worth £10,000 of premium-line bills and he has been jailed for 18 months. Prosecutor Dav...

Google Ups Bounty For Bugs To $20,000

Search giant Google said it is quintupling the top bounty it will pay for information on security holes in its products to $20,000. In a post on the company’s Online Security Blog, Google said it was updating its rewards and rules for the bounty program, which is celebrating its first anniversary...

Nikjju Mass injection campaign target more than 2 Millions Urls

Nikjju Mass injection campaign target more than 2 Millions Urls Daniel Cid an open source developer and information security professional reported on Sucuri blog that their team tracked a new mass SQL injection campaign that started early this month and till now more than 180,000 URLs have been...

Utah Data Breach of 181,000 Records Blamed on Configuration Error

Nearly 200,000 people who receive benefits from the Medicaid and Child Health Insurance Plan in Utah have had their personal information–including Social Security numbers in some cases–compromised as part of an intrusion on the network at the Utah Department of Technology Services. The 181,000...

Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers

Dutch News site spread Malware on 100000 Computers Dutch popular news site NU.nl appears to be serving Java exploit drive-by malware to users of IE. Nu.nl has approximately one hour long served the Javascript code that attempted to provide visitors to the news site with a trojan to infect. The...

Google Patches Chrome Bugs Used in Pwnium Contest

VANCOUVER–Google has already patched the bugs used by researcher Sergey Glazunov to compromise Chrome on Wednesday as part of the company’s Pwnium contest at the CanSecWest conference here. The vulnerability that Glazunov was ablt to exploit is a universal XSS and bad history navigation bug in th...

Biggest Hack in Swedish History Affects Politicians, Journalists Among Others

Login credentials for nearly 200,000 individuals, most Swedish citizens, have been exposed in what experts are calling the largest data breach in that country’s history. According to a report from The Local, a Sweden-based, English language news publication, a popular Swedish blogging platform,...

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables

WikiLeaks.org under Cyber Attack after releasing U.S. diplomatic cables The WikiLeaks website, which contains thousands of U.S. embassy cables, has crashed in an apparent cyberattack. The anti-secrecy organization said in a Twitter message Tuesday that Wikileaks.org "is presently under attack."...

350,000 Epson Korea customers data breached

350,000 Epson Korea customers data breached Epson Korea Co., Ltd. said that hackers had breached the personal data of its 350,000 registered customers last week. An official at the South Korean affiliate of Seiko Epson Corp. said the company has reported the case to the communications regulator. ...