UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

History Sniffing Case Dismissed Because Defendant Fails to Quantify Losses

A federal court in New York has dismissed a case in which the plaintiff claimed that a third-party advertiser had violated the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA by sniffing her browser history and using flash cookies, ruling that the plaintiff didn’t prove that the actions were harmful enough...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎

25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook‎ A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...

Viruses and Vendors Can Put Healthcare Data At Risk

A recent article in Healthcare Security Info highlights that computer viruses can cause security breaches, that can then in turn compromise health care data and potentially violate the HIPAA and HITECH Act regulations. Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston had to notify more than 2,000...

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google

Indian Govt wants monitoring access for Twitter, Facebook,Skype and Google India's authorities are already forcing Research In Motion to grant access to the encrypted email and instant messages of its BlackBerry users, and now the government is pressuring Google and Skype too. Doesn't the...

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists

British police issue warning to Anonymous , Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists The Metropolitan Police have taken the unusual step of using Twitter to send a message to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments.A message posted on the Met Police's offici...

Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail

Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail after being charged with five offences relating to computer attacks and break-ins by the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. Davis was granted bail to stay with his mother ...

EFF Argues Forced Decryption Violates Fifth Amendment

Digital civil liberties organization, the Electric Frontier Foundation EFF, appealed to the U.S. District Court of Colorado arguing that encrypted personal data is covered by the Fifth Amendment’s protection against self incrimination. The group submitted a brief of Amicus Curaie .PDF last week o...

Veterans Affairs breaches

The Department of Veterans Affairs was hit on two separate occasions by breaches in 2006. 26.5 million Veterans and their families had their names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth lifted after a laptop was swiped from an employee’s home in May. The laptop was retrieved in August and tw...

UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Congressmen, Witnesses Question Data Breach Bill's Specifics

In an initial hearing to discuss a proposed national data-breach notification bill on Wednesday, representatives and witnesses dissected the SAFE Data Act proposed by Rep. Mary Bono Mack and said that the legislation had a long way to go to be ready for prime time. The hearing, which is just the...

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act

Anonymous Takes Down U.S. Chamber Of Commerce for PROTECT IP Act Anonymous collective launches DDoS attack against the business lobbying group over it's support for the legislation to fight online infringement that many fear will great expand the govt's ability to filter the Internet. Anonymous...

CHMag Issue 16th, May 2011 Download !

CHMag Issue 16th, May 2011 Download ! Here we are again with the latest issue of ClubHack Magazine. This time also the issue is dedicated to Browser security. Contents of this Issue:- 1. Tech Gyan - First ever public disclosure of Password secrets of "Apple Safari". 2. Tool Gyan - BeEF Browser...

White House Unveils Cybersecurity Legislative Agenda

The White House proposed Thursday reforming the Federal Information Security Management Act by formalizing the Department of Homeland Security role in managing cybersecurity for the federal government's civilian computers and networks. What the Obama administration does not propose is the...

Congressman Calls on Apple to Explain iPhone Tracking

Congress stepped into the brewing controversy over a recently disclosed tracking feature in most versions of Apple’s popular iPhone. Representative Ed Markey D-Mass has written a letter to Apple CEO Steve Jobs asking for more information about the feature PDF, suggesting that it may run afoul of...

Senators Propose Bill Of Rights To Protect Personal Information Online

Senators John Kerry D-Mass. and John McCain R-Ariz. don’t agree on much in the policy arena, except when it comes to protecting online privacy. The incongruous couple are political bedfellows on a piece of legislation introduced yesterday called The Commercial Privacy Bill of Rights Act of 2011...

India's CBI plans to send teams to US, Europe to trace hackers !

Against the backdrop of the attack on its website by "Pakistan Cyber Army", the CBI is considering to send its team to the US and Europe to trace hackers involved in the defacement. Sources said the agency officials have pin-pointed three Internet Protocol IP address -- a unique numerical label...

kernel: net/sched/act_police.c infoleak

The tcfactpolicedump function in net/sched/actpolice.c in the actions implementation in the network queueing functionality in the Linux kernel before 2.6.36-rc4 does not properly initialize certain structure members, which allows local users to obtain potentially sensitive information from kernel...