Two-year-old vulnerability in JBoss Application Servers enables Remote Shell for Hackers

Cyber security of many organizations being attacked at an extremely high rate this month, well another alarming cyber crime report become public today. A widely unpatched and two years old critical vulnerability in JBoss Application Server AS that enable an attacker to remotely get a shell on a...

Two-year-old vulnerability in JBoss Application Servers enables Remote Shell for Hackers

Cyber security of many organizations being attacked at an extremely high rate this month, well another alarming cyber crime report become public today. A widely unpatched and two years old critical vulnerability in JBoss Application Server AS that enable an attacker to remotely get a shell on a...

Singapore police arrested six men for allegedly hacking Prime Minister and President websites

A Singaporean hacker calling himself the "The Messiah" was arrested in Kuala Lumpur last Monday for hacking into a Singaporean government website over two weeks ago - from a Kuala Lumpur apartment. James Raj 35 charged with hacking of Ang Mo Kio town council website and posting a symbol associate...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Quotation Email Messages on November 4, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31644 First Published: 2013 November 6 18:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product quotation request for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipien...

Twitter Underground for Phony Follower Accounts Thriving

Buying Twitter followers is standard practice for celebrities, politicians, startups, and even so-called social media experts who want to boost their online Q Score. So it shouldn’t be surprising that hackers have noticed this market opportunity and are building a formidable underground business...

Department of Energy Susceptible to Attack

An audit of the Department of Energy has shown that 29 new weaknesses emerged on the agency’s networks this year in addition to 10 existing that the DoE failed to fix after a 2012 audit. The audit, undertaken by the Office of Inspector General and the Office of Audits and Inspections, revealed...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating 3rd Anniversary

The World's First Dedicated Hacking and Cyber Security News platform - 'The Hacker News' is celebrating its 3rd Anniversary today. When we began our journey 5 years back as a Small Local Community of few Hackers and Researchers, we had the dream of providing the Hacking Community with World's fir...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Scanned Document Delivery Notification Email Messages on October 28, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 31515 First Published: 2013 October 29 15:10 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a scanned document for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to open...

DDoS Attacks, Attacks from Asia/Pacific Up in Q2

Three-quarters of the world’s attack traffic emanates from source IP addresses in Indonesia and China, according to Akamai’s latest quarterly State of the Internet report. The report is a deep dive into traffic trends crossing the Cambridge, Ma.-based company’s network during the second quarter...

NSA Chief, General Alexander defends US surveillance programs as a Noble Mission

On Wednesday, Chief of National Security Agency NSA, General Keith Alexander defended US surveillance programs as part of a Noble Mission to protect the nation. He said that the collection of bulk phone records by U.S. Intelligence agencies are essential to preventing terrorist attacks. He...

Fear of NSA PRISM : Indian Government may ban US email services for official communication

The Indian Government is planning to ban the use of US based email services like Gmail for official communications to increase the security of confidential government information. The recent disconcerting reports that that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an...

New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down. "The New...

New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down. "The New...

Hacker reported vulnerability in Kaspersky website; Demonstrated malware spreading technique

The cyber Security Analyst 'Ebrahim Hegazy' @Zigoo0 Consultant at Q-CERT has found an "Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability" in the website of the giant security solutions vendor "Kaspersky". Ebrahim, who found a SQL Injection in "Avira" website last month, this time he found a Unvalidated...

Hacker reported vulnerability in Kaspersky website; Demonstrated malware spreading technique

The cyber Security Analyst 'Ebrahim Hegazy' @Zigoo0 Consultant at Q-CERT has found an "Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability" in the website of the giant security solutions vendor "Kaspersky". Ebrahim, who found a SQL Injection in "Avira" website last month, this time he found a Unvalidated...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent "disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

National Security threats to be detailed at 'The Hackers Conference' 2013 | #THC2013

The recent “disconcerting" reports that India was being spied upon by American intelligence agencies has opened an all new chapter in the cyber security space. The revelation that the Indian embassy in the US was among the list of 38 diplomatic missions which were being spied upon by American...

[MISP v2.1] Malware Information Sharing Platform

The problem that we experienced in the past was the difficulty to exchange information about targeted malwares and attacks within a group of trusted partners, or a bilateral agreement. Even today much of the information exchange happens in unstructured reports where you have to copy-paste the...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Product Purchase Order Email Messages on August 13, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30399 First Published: 2013 August 13 18:01 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a product purchase order for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipient to...

Chinese Hackers Caught by US water control system Honeypots

A notorious Chinese hacker collective known as APT1 or Comment Crew, possibly linked to the Chinese Army, have been caught red handed breaking into a fake United States water control system i.e. known as a Honeypot. Kyle Wilhoit, a researcher with security company Trend Micro has just revealed th...