Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack

UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after ddos attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service...

UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack

UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after ddos attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service...

ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack

ADAG Group ChairmanAnil Ambani 's email under phishing attack Some Unknown hackers attempted a phishing attack in May on Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani's email ID. The hacking case is now being investigated by the cyber crime cell of Mumbai police after ADAG officials...

ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack

ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack Some Unknown hackers attempted a phishing attack in May on Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani's email ID. The hacking case is now being investigated by the cyber crime cell of Mumbai police after ADAG officials...

Financial Services Industry Report Urges Rethink on Malware

BITS, a financial services industry trade group has published a guide to malicious software and cyber crime that finds many industry attempts to fight the problem haven’t worked. The report calls on financial services firms to cooperate more in fighting malware. The Malware Risks and Mitigation...

Sonu Nigam's email hacked !

Sonu Nigam's email hacked ! Singer Sonu Nigam pressed the panic button when all his friends started receiving random emails, supposedly from him at a time when he was shooting for a TV show. Nigam didn't want to specify the content of the abusive mails but dismissed them saying that they were...

XSS Vulnerability found on Sony PlayStation Store Website

XSS Vulnerability found on Sony PlayStation Store Website XSS Vulnerability found on Sony PlayStation Store Website at https://store.playstation.com/ ,This Vulnerability is posted by someone on a Forum site. The XSS is working on Firefox Browser, Not applicable for Crome Browser. Here in Screensh...

Sony CEO Warns "Bad New World" Will See More High Profile Hacks

In the aftermath following April’s mammoth Sony PlayStation Network breach, the company’s Chief Executive warns of a “bad new world” of cyber crime in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Howard Stringer of Sony Corp. spoke with the newspaper on security, hackers and how the atta...

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked !

Complete ZeuS source code has been leaked On the 23rd of March 2011 we posted a blog about the source code for the infamous crime kit ZeuS Wsnpoem/Zbot being sold on at least two dark market forums see: https://www.csis.dk/en/csis/blog/3176/. This weekend we found the complete source code for thi...

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released !

'The Hacker News' Magazine - Social Engineering Edition - Issue 02 - May,2011 Released ! We are happy to Announce that 'The Hacker News' THN Magazine Issue 02 May 2011 is Out . This time we cover "Social Engineering Edition" . The Index of Content is as Given Below : Social Engineering Opsony By...

U.S., Russian Officials Work to Define Cybersecurity Terms

The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but Russia and the U.S. are still rivals. Now the two countries have agreed to some rules of the road for the next theater of conflict: cyber warfare. The two countries have released the first ever Critical Terminology Foundations – a kind of rules of...

Taiwan Struggles To Combat Attacks From China

Cyber crime, online fraud and copyright infringement are growing rapidly in Taiwan as law enforcement officials, law makers and the courts struggle to stay abreast of the problem, according to a local prosecutor says. In a Webcast presented to students and faculty at Harvard’s Berkman Center for...

China's Cyber Hackers Target Western Firms !

China's Cyber Hackers Target Western Firms ! Sky News has learnt of the growing threat Western governments and corporations are under from hackers based in China. Cyber crime costs the UK tens of billions of pounds every year. The attacks cannot be traced but I have gained access to some of the...

Dept. of Commerce Unveils the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce held a press conference this morning to unveil details surrounding a National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, or NSTIC as they are calling it. While the press conference was somewhat vague in terms of specifics, the initiative appears to be designed to...

Pakistan president's website hacking case adjourned !

Pakistan president's website hacking case adjourned ! A court here has adjourned the case of a man who hacked into the Pakistan president's website and uploaded material defaming Asif Ali Zardari. Additional Sessions Judge Tanveer Meer Wednesday adjourned the cyber crime case, reported the Daily...

Hackers steal Dell 1000's customer information !

Hackers steal Dell 1000's customer information ! The personal information of thousands of Australians has been stolen by hackers who raided a US-based database company, in what some experts are calling the biggest data theft in US history. Dell Australia says customer data was "exposed" by an...

Stolen data may be sold on cyber black market !

Hackers behind what computer security experts believe could be the biggest data theft in US history may be planning to sell the information to cyber criminals for targeted scams. And while the tens of millions of names and email addresses swiped from online marketing firm Epsilon do not appear to...

Bredolab: October, 2010

At its height, the Bredolab botnet numbered more than three million hosts and was responsible for 30 million infections and 3.6 billion spam e-mails daily.The global botnet was brought down by the Dutch cyber crime unit, which seized the command and control infrastructure used by the botnet and,...