Hackers Could Exploit Federal Government Shutdown !

The federal government's list of emergency network security personnel has not been updated in 15 years, putting national security at high risk if a shutdown takes place on March 4. The possible government shutdown scheduled for March 4, 2011 could trigger a cyberwar emergency. If non-essential...

More than 199 Indian govt websites defaced in last 6 months !

The government today said 199 government websites have been defaced by foreign hackers in the last six months. "The website of Central Bureau of Investigation CBI was defaced by a foreign hacker "Pakistan Cyber Army" on December 3, 2010. In addition to this, a total of 198 government websites wer...

HIPAA Bares Its Teeth: $4.3m Fine For Privacy Violation

The health care industry’s toothless tiger finally bared its teeth, as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services issued a $4.3 m fine to a Maryland health care provider for violations of the HIPAA Privacy Rule. The action is the first monetary fine issued since the Act was passed in 1996...

Senior bank manager's account hacked !

JAIPUR: A senior manager of a private bank has registered an FIR against some unidentified persons who allegedly hacked his email ID and sent objectionable emails. The Ashok Nagar police are investigating the matter. SHO, Ashok Nagar and investigating officer of the case Jagmohan said one Brijesh...

Vodafone Network Seized by Egyptian Authorities to Spread Propaganda Via Text Message

Vodafone released a statement yesterday confirming that the authorities in Egypt seized their network to send propaganda text messages to the Egyptian people. Such text messages have been sent since the start of the protests in an attempt to cool tensions among the protestors who are demanding th...

London Police Arrest Five Anonymous Hacker !

Month after allegedly assaulting various websites to defend Wikileaks London police may have caught members of "hacktivism" Anonymous group. Five alleged members were arrested in London today for Anonymous violation of the Computer Misuse Act. The men are aged 15 to 26 and face up to 10 years in...

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried...

University of Sydney failed to secure vulnerable web data !!

The detailed records of thousands of University of Sydney students past and present are being stored online where they can be easily downloaded and read via an internet connection. It is understood the university was told about this security threat in February 2007, but did not move to secure the...

Sony Sues PlayStation 3 Jailbreakers

Sony has filed a lawsuit against a group of hackers who were able to bypass the DRM protections in the company’s PlayStation 3, compromised the root key and later published tools allowing others to follow in their footsteps and play pirated software on the console. On Tuesday, Sony filed suit in...

Cyber harassment : Girl's morphed photo and phone number put on web !

BANGALORE: An Information Technology student who is in Bangalore in search of employment has filed a complaint against a youth for harassment. Thyagarajanagar police have registered a case against one Krishna Mohan who hails from Andhra Pradesh under the Information Technology Act 2000. The accus...

Xiaodong Sheldon Meng (Quantum3D)

Meng was a 44 year-old software engineer living in Cupertino, California when, in 2008, he became the first person sentenced for a violation of the U.S.’s Economic Epionage Act of 1996. Meng had worked as an engineer for Quantum3D, a defense contractor that makes visual simulation software used f...

Thai Netizen Network calls for review of cybercrime laws !

The Thai Netizen Network has issued a statement calling for a review of Thai cybercrime laws in light of curbs on free speech and has issued a book for netizens to help them safeguard their privacy and circumvent censorship at the same time. Supinya Klangnarong, co-ordinator of the Thai Netizen...

Abuse of social networking sites misused among youth in Kochi !

while engaging in online social networking sites seemed to have yielded little results, if the statistics and current trends are any indication. The Cyber Cell of the City Police has received more than 40 complaints of abuse of social networking sites like Orkut and Facebook this year itself. In...

Man Arrested for Hacking Girl's Social Media and Posting Lewd Messages

A 29-year-old man was arrested on Tuesday for hacking into a girl's social networking profile, altering her photos, and posting inappropriate messages. The police apprehended Pramod Nana Bavdekar from his home in Andheri, seizing his computer and hard disk as evidence. The incident began on...

Lawmakers, Scholars Warn Against Reactionary Anti-WikiLeaks Legislation

The WikiLeaks disclosures this fall that have precipitated so much controversy and agita among national security officials and politicians should not be used as a springboard for new, more restrictive laws, lawmakers, attorneys and policy analysts said in a House hearing Thursday. In fact, the...

Recent WikiLeaks-Related Cyberattacks Prompt Call for Policy Changes

In New York on Sunday, lawmakers urged President Obama to expand the U.S. State Department’s foreign policy mechanisms to address crime and security on the Internet. They cited recent attacks on companies severing ties with WikiLeaks as a main reason for these changes. At Symantec's New York City...

Introduction to Cyber Law of India !

In Simple way we can say that cyber crime is unlawful acts wherein the computer is either a tool or a target or both Cyber crimes can involve criminal activities that are traditional in nature, such as theft, fraud, forgery, defamation and mischief, all of which are subject to the Indian Penal...

Alleged Mega-D Botnet Controller Pleads Not Guilty

The man accused of running the Mega-D spam-spewing botnet has pleaded not guilty to charges that he was using the botnet to send millions of spam messages a day, some of them laden with malware. Oleg Nikolaenko was arraigned in U.S. District Court in Wisconsin on Friday on charges that he violate...

WWWThreads Cross Site Scripting

www.eVuln.com advisory: XSS vulnerability in WWWThreads php version Summary: http://evuln.com/vulns/155/summary.html Details: http://evuln.com/vulns/155/description.html -----------Summary----------- eVuln ID: EV0155 Software: n/a Vendor: WWWThreads Version: 2006.11.25 Critical Level: low Type:...

CBI Website Hacked: Pakistani Group Claims Responsibility

The Central Bureau of Investigation CBI confirmed on Saturday that its website was hacked. The CBI has registered a case under the Information Technology Act. "It has come to the notice of the CBI that its official website was unauthorizedly accessed and defaced during the night of December 3 and...