Nokia under scanner of Indian Intelligence Agency for its Push Email service and SMS !

Department of Telecommunication DOT has been asked by The Intelligence Bureau IB0 to stop the messaging services of Nokia in India until they can be monitored. Once again security concerns have clouded Intelligence department's mind and the incident is not first of its kind. Earlier too similar...

Reversing Stuxnet's Rootkit Into C++ , Download !

This is the first time Mr. Amr Thabet from Egypt , student at Alexandria University Faculty of Engineering Mechanical Department , reverse a rootkit. He choose Stuxnet Rootkit as it's a famous virus and begin reversing.. Finally now he convert it into C++ code with a commented IDA Pro v.5.1...

Punjab Education Department E-mail Hacked !!

Hoshiarpur : In an incident that has left teachers in schools in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab face red, the official email address of the school board here has been pirated and pornographic material was distributed to 400 public schools in the district. "We are using this e-mail address to send...

Tech2spider found SQLi Vulnerability in University of Michigan - Department of Human Genetics Website !

Tech2spider Krunal found SQLi Vulnerability in University of Michigan - Department of Human Genetics Website ! News Source : Krunal aka tech2spider | Via Email Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Infected PC Compromises Pentagon Credit Union

The credit union used by members of the U.S. armed forces and their families has admitted that a laptop infected with malware was used to access a database containing the personal and financial information of customers. The Pentagon Federal Credit Union PenFed issued a statement to the New...

Woman arrested in stolen of credit card !

A woman has been arrested on more than two dozen counts of fraud and other charges after using a stolen credit card over the course of about two weeks. Susan J. Hancock, 53, was arrested on 25 counts of fraudulent use of a credit card, 25 counts of computer tampering, fraudulent schemes, theft of...

Joint Director's (Technical Education Department) official mail ID hacked

The Joint Director of Technical Education Department in Palace Grounds has fallen prey to hacking and email fraud. His official email ID was hacked and a number of messages were sent to a number of government employees seeking help. Joint Director R Krishnamurthy said his official email ID create...

Texas Man Indicted for Hacking Eden Prairie Business, Stealing $274,000

A federal indictment unsealed earlier today alleges that a 35-year-old Texas man hacked into the computer network of an Eden Prairie business, stealing approximately $274,000. The indictment, filed in Minneapolis on October 13, 2010, charges Jeremy Parker of Houston, Texas, with one count of...

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Moneybookers Attack

Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes, has claimed responsibility for various Internet attacks against organizations perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks. Today, the group sought to portray itself as more focused on symbolic protest rather than outright disruption. These claim...

India Orders Security Certification for Government Websites After CBI Hack

India has mandated that all government ministries and departments secure their websites with proper certification. This directive follows the hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation CBI website by a group calling themselves the "Pakistani Cyber Army." The National Informatics Centre has be...

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...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

FBI Uses Facebook to Catch Baltimore Terrorist

Gathering evidence on Facebook has become a standard legal practice, so a social sting operation was inevitable. This method led the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI to apprehend a would-be terrorist in Baltimore. An FBI informant initially contacted 21-year-old Antonio Martinez after he...

DHS, NIST, Financial Services Group Form Security Research Partnership

As the finger-pointing and name-calling surrounding the WikiLeaks issue continue in Washington, the White House this week facilitated a cooperative agreement among several key public and private organizations designed to spur joint information security research projects. On Tuesday, the Obama...

Under Attack, Wikileaks Appeals for Help From Mirror Sites

Information leak Web site Wikileaks put out a call for volunteers willing to help the organization host its controversial documents. Claiming that the site was “under heavy attack,” Wikileaks posted an appeal on its Web site looking for individuals willing to help mirror the contents of Wikileaks...

New Rules Enable Military Assistance During Domestic Cyber-Attacks

The Obama administration has revised federal policy, enabling the military to assist during a domestic cyber-attack, reported the New York Times on Oct. 21. Typically, the military cannot deploy units within the country's borders, except for natural disasters, and even then, a presidential order ...

Aardvark Topsite XSS vulnerability

Hi, I found XSS on Aardvark Topsites PHP system. Dork: "Powered by Aardvark Topsites" "SQL Queries" XSS: sitepath/index.php?a=search&q=2220onmouseover3dalertString.fromCharCode88,83,8320par3d22 Can use POST to effect the "email", "title", "u" and "url" parameters either on the same way. Tested...

Inspector General Finds Vulns at US-CERT

A scan of IT systems at US-CERT, the Homeland Security Department’s primary operational cybersecurity agency, found hundreds of vulnerabilities that could allow someone to compromise data, according to a recent inspector general’s report. Read the full article. Government Computer News...

Thumb Drive Attack in 2008 Compromised Classified U.S. Networks

A senior official at the Department of Defense is talking publicly about a 2008 security breach that he claims compromised classified intelligence networks used by the U.S. military. Classified networks used by the U.S. military were the target of a successful attack by a foreign nation in 2008,...

Active Directory Install at DHS Questioned

An audit of the Department of Homeland Security’s Microsoft Windows Active Directory at its headquarters revealed that its implementation failed to fully comply with the department’s security guidelines, and no mechanism was in place to ensure its level of security, DHS’s inspector general said i...