NIST, Maryland Plan New Cybersecurity Center

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST announced plans Tuesday to break ground on a new center that will be committed to cybersecurity research. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will be built near NIST’s Gaithersburg, Md., campus in hopes of strengthening the...

2013 Federal Budget Includes Nearly $800M For Cybersecurity

President Obama is asking for $769 million to fund information security initiatives via the Department of Homeland Security in 2013. That amount is nearly twice what DHS asked for last year to fund its cybersecurity work. “The Administration proposes $769 million to support the operations of the...

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...

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from Security Affairs - Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security...

Two More Arrested in Connection with Megaupload

The saga of Megaupload continued over the weekend with the arrests of 39 year-old Sven Echternach, of Germany, and 32 year-old Andrus Nomm, of Estonia. The popular file-sharing site was shut down by the Department of Justice last week and its founder and CEO, Kim DotCom, was arrested in his home ...

For Protest Against #SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson

For Protest Against SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson Dinelson deface 68 Websites for Protest Against SOPA and PIPA. List of all Hacked site is posted here. A protest to a Congressional bill called SOPA caused quite a stir on Wednesday as thousands of websites protested SOPA with blacked-out...

U.S. Shuts Down Megaupload File-Sharing Site, Anonymous Retaliates With DDoS Attacks

A day after the Internet was abuzz with protests of the proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills, the Department of Justice took a major action against many of the top executives of Megaupload, a popular file-sharing site that the government says was the basis for an “international organized...

SOPA: The Folly of Capitol Hill

The ongoing controversy surrounding the SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills in Congress has produced a lot of things: misunderstanding of what the bills would do; silly rhetoric from trade groups supposedly defending content creators; confusion on Capitol Hill; and a clear demonstration of how...

Facebook distributing White Hat Debit Card to Bug Bounty Winners

Facebook distributing White Hat Debit Card to Bug Bounty Winners Polish IT security portal Niebezpiecznik.pl, which recently published an image of a bug bounty card given to Szymon Gruszecki, a Polish security researcher and penetration tester. Neal Poole, a junior at Brown University, has report...

Akiva Webboard SQL Injection

Hey, this is my first time that i report a vulnerability to a mailing list. The problem on the Akiva Webboard is, that you can login as Administrator with admin'-- SQL Injection and if you go to the adminprofil you can see the Adminpasswort in the HTML code. The current version is 9. I do only kn...

FTC Gives Refunds to Rogue Antivirus Victims

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is sending reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people victimized by a rogue antivirus scam. According to the FTC, the checks are the result of the settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint the FTC filed in 2008. As part of the...

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked The official website of the Supreme Court was hacked yesterday.Information technology experts of the court, however, recovered it around 8:00pm. According to the message posted on the site, the hackers identified themselves as "Bangladeshi UnderGround Hacke...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data. A hacker calling himself Srblche, also offered information stolen from websites belonging to the U.S...

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers

CapitalOne Bank taken down by Anonymous hackers Anonymous Hackers claim to taken down the official website of CapitalOne Bank. Currently Site is showing message on Homepage that "Site under maintenance". In a pastebin release Anonymous Hacker wrote "ya know.. every guy Fawkes day companies go hir...

First Ever Joint EU-US Cyber War Game Starts

Despite extreme upheaval and rampant infighting caused by the European debt crisis, the EU and U.S. are banding together today in Brussels and shifting its focus toward cyber security. The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be...

Crime-Ring Orchestrators Plead Guilty to Fraud, Face Four Years

A pair of Ukrainian Nationals is each facing a four year, eight month sentence after pleading guilty at London’s Croydon Crown Court on October 31 to charges of conspiracy to defraud. According to a London Metropolitan Police report, the 29 year-old Yuriy Konovalenko also known as Pavel Klikov an...

NJStar Communicator 3.00 MiniSMTP Buffer Overflow

This module exploits a stack buffer overflow vulnerability in NJStar Communicator Version 3.00 MiniSMTP server. The MiniSMTP application can be seen in multiple NJStar products, and will continue to run in the background even if the software is already shutdown. According to the vendor's...

India Seizes Equipment Linked to Duqu Attack

Officials in India have seized components from a server as part of an investigation into the Duqu Trojan, according to a report. According to Reuters, two workers at Web Werks, a web hosting company based in Mumbai, said the country’s Department of Information Technology took the equipment after...

Top Government Security Officials Call For Secure OS Development

WASHINGTON–One of the keys to addressing the widespread security threats facing both private and government networks is to develop more secure operating systems from the ground up and not rely on trying to secure existing ones, top CIA and Pentagon information assurance officials said. The federa...