Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked

Six National Television Stations of Iran Hacked Co-Cain Warriors hackers today hack into 6 National Television Stations of Iran including Broadcasting Elam Center, IRIB Kermanshah Center, IRIB Kerman and 3 more. Hacker upload the deface page on their server and announce the day as "HappY 7Sin Day...

Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC

Another DDOS tool from Anonymous - HOIC A new DDoS tool from Anonymous called high-orbit ion canon or HOIC come into light. Attackers are constantly changing their tactics and tools in response to defender's actions. HOIC is an Windows executable file. Once started, you will be presented with the...

Behind The Mask, Accused LulzSec Members Left Trail Of Clues Online

When the long arm of the law reached in to arrest members of Anonymous’s senior leadership on Tuesday, speculation immediately turned to the identities of the six men behind the Guy Fawkes mask. With the benefit of hindsight, it turns out that many had been hiding in plain site, with day jobs,...

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network

Anonymous Hackers targets Turkish Prime Ministry Network Unidentified hackers have broken into the website of the Turkish government claimed to be Part of Anonymous Group of Hackers. The hackers aimed to access official documents on government correspondence but were prevented from doing so by...

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack !

Facebook down for two hours across Europe, May be DDOS attack ! In a DDoS attack, hackers deliberately render servers inaccessible by overloading them with traffic. Such a barrage aimed at DNS servers can make it impossible to connect users to a website when they type the address. Where as facebo...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system

DDOS attack on LIME's Internet system LIME says the majority of the customers experiencing degradation in their broadband services over the past few days are now back online and connecting at normal speeds. LIME says the type of attack is known in technology circles as a distributed denial of...

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition

Censorship - Global Concern : THN Magazine March Edition It is March Madness at The Hacker News as we release the latest edition of our magazine which gives internet security a thorough look and and a fascinating read. Pierluigi Paganini gives a great interview on the woes of internet security an...

UPDATE: Interpol Operation Leads to Arrest of 25 Suspected Anons

Interpol announced yesterday that they had taken part in an international operation that led to the arrests of 25 alleged members of the Anonymous hacker collective. The not-arrested members of Anonymous reportedly lashed back with a stinging DDoS attack on Interpol’s website. The so-called...

Debate Over Active Defense and Hacking Back Crops Up at RSA

SAN FRANCISCO–The growing stream of attacks in recent years against government agencies, critical infrastructure, utilities and other vital networks has led to an increasingly heated debate around the concept of active defense and targeting the people and groups behind those attacks. That debate...

Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain

Spain Police under Anonymous attacks after another Arrests in Spain Anonymous attacks Official Site of the National Police after the arrests of suspected Anonymous hacktivists. The Spanish branch of the group has reported that six hacktivists have been arrested in Spain over the past few days. Th...

Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles

Anonymous Hackers Develop WebLOIC DDOS Tool for Android Mobiles These Days Anonymous Hacker Group using a new tool WebLOIC. This tool is even easier to use than LOIC DDOS tool, requiring no download, it sends requests using Javascript in the user's browser. Just like LOIC, it is a quick path to...

DDoS Attacks Hit Russian Media Sites in Advance of Elections

While Russians prepare for their presidential election on March 4, attackers already are ahead of the game, having begun a series of DDoS attacks against several media sites and at least one site belonging to a candidate. The attacks are coming from several different botnets, but so far haven’t h...

Indian Stock Market next target of Bangladesh Hackers

Indian Stock Market next target of Bangladesh Hackers Bangladesh Cyber Army hackers released a Youtube video mentioning their next attack would be on Indian Stock Market, in order to Protesting the killing of another Bangladeshi citizen on Border by BSF. Bangladesh Cyber Army has attacked 3...

Anonymous Hackers target Nasdaq website

Anonymous Hackers target Nasdaq website Websites of exchange operators Nasdaq and BATS have been attacked by hackers over the last 24 hours, causing ongoing disruptions for those trying to use the sites. Sites was down because of distributed denial-of-service attack from a group of Anonymous...

Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other

Indian and Bangladeshi Hackers destroying Cyber Space of Each Other They Call it "Cyber war" - but In actual they are destroying Cyber Space of their own Country by Defacing Sites for a matter that can't be solved by Ministry like this. The cyber attacks was started two days back from both sides...

Cia.gov Tango Down - #FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous

FuckFBIFriday by Anonymous, cia.gov Tango Down ! Anonymous has struck again at Central Intelligence Agency, The site went down about 3:10 p.m. apparently under a massive distributed denial of service DDOS attack. No specific reason for the attack was announced, nor were any specific groups or...

DDoS Attacks Take on Political Motivations as Attackers Evolve

DDoS attacks come in all shapes and sizes, and in a lot of cases, the victims of the attacks don’t much care who is executing the attack or why. They just know that their network is being overwhelmed with junk traffic. But the last year has seen a major volume of politically motivated attacks, an...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

Loic JavaScript Distributed Denial of Service

A denial of service vulnerability has been reported in all web servers. The vulnerability is due to the server's inability to handle multiple incoming requests within a short period of time. Remote attackers may exploit this issue by rapidly sending a large number of HTTP requests to the server...