Syrian Electronic Army Hits CNN, Microsoft

Just like it’s done time and time before, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA broke into yet another media outlet late last week, hacking a handful of social media accounts belonging to CNN, including seven Twitter accounts and two Facebook accounts. CNN admitted the accounts were compromised in a pos...

UniCredit Bank Cross Site Request Forgery / Cross Site Scripting / Shell Upload

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Server Misconfiguration discloses passwords of all Barracuda Network Employees

Security expert Ebrahim Hegazy has found a Password disclosure vulnerability in Barracuda update servers which allows to gain access to employee credentials. The Egyptian information security advisor Ebrahim Hegazy@Zigoo0 has found a Password disclosure vulnerability in one of Barracuda update...

South Korea defense bans Smartphones for data security

South Korea's Ministry of National Defense is banning its employees from using the smart phones inside of the ministry's building in a bid to prevent military data leaks. At present, the only way to ensure sensitive corporate and Defense data is not lost is to provide employees with devices owned...

South Korea defense bans Smartphones for data security

South Korea’s Ministry of National Defense is banning its employees from using the smart phones inside of the ministry's building in a bid to prevent military data leaks. At present, the only way to ensure sensitive corporate and Defense data is not lost is to provide employees with devices owned...

South Carolina Data Breach Casts Spotlight on Lack of Encryption, Stolen Credentials

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said a mouthful this week when she spilled a dirty industry secret that Social Security numbers are generally not encrypted by state agencies. Reeling from a Department of Revenue data breach that leaked 3.6 million Social Security and credit card numbers as we...

Anonymous hackers threatened Zynga For Mistreating Employees

Hacking Group Anonymous has threatened to target Zynga, according to a post on the group's official news channel and a since-deleted YouTube video but it was removed because it was considered a "violation of YouTube's policy on depiction of harmful activities" which suggests that the social game...

Attackers Go Phishing for Payroll Workers With Java CVE-2012-1723 Exploit

The Java CVE-2012-1723 vulnerability is suddenly the golden child of bugs. The flaw, which Oracle patched in June, has been the target of several pieces of malware and Web-based attacks of late, and now researchers say there is a phishing scam targeting payroll and HR employees that involves and...

Federal Commission Phished, Employees' Information Leaked

The U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission CFTC, an independent federal agency that helps regulate futures and option markets, was hit with a data breach last month according to an e-mail statement from the Commission that circulated online late last week. The e-mail confirmed an attacker was...

Skimmers Hit Patrons of Wrigley Field, Chicago Restaurants

Six individuals were charged late last week with “skimming” more than $200,000 from victims who used their credit or debit cards at Wrigley Field and other Chicago restaurants. A press release from Illinois’ Attorney General Lisa Madigan on Friday alleged that Joseph Woods, 32, was the scheme’s...

Phishers Bait City Workers in Seattle With Phony Speeding Tickets

Hundreds of government employees in Seattle, Washington received fraudulent emails yesterday that appeared to be traffic violation notifications but were, in fact, vehicles for infection by malicious software. According to the Microsoft Malware Protection Center and the Seattle Police Department,...

SP Toolkit - Open Source Phishing Education Toolkit

SP Toolkit - Open Source Phishing Education Toolkit A new open source toolkit makes it ridiculously simple to set up phishing Web sites and lures. The software was designed to help companies test the phishing awareness of their employees, but as with most security tools, this one could be abused...

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked

UMP French Political Party got hacked & personal information leaked The personal data of several political parliamentarians, ministers, Minister of UMP French Political Party employees were released online by an unknown source. The leak contain the details of Bernard Accoyer, Lionel Tardy, Jean...

Researchers Analyzing Attack Patterns With Cloud-Based Malware Data

BARCELONA–Successful targeted attacks against companies such as RSA, Google and others have made huge splashes in the news in the last year or two and drawn a lot of attention to the phenomenon. But it’s not just the successful attacks that are interesting, security researchers say. In many cases...

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees

Thehacker12 Dumps Logins for 20,000 Customers and U.S. Employees ThEhAcKeR12 has hacked into an events management company and obtained sensitive information belonging to 20,000 individuals, many of whom were United States government employees or contractors. Hacker posted an Excel spreadsheet...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that t...

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots Hacking crew team TriCk – TeaMp0isoN today hack and deface the blog website of BlackBerry against London riots, One of the leading Mobile Company. They post a message also on homepage, as given below . Also There were calls on...

Hackers release usernames, passwords of several FOX.com affiliate employees !

Hackers release usernames, passwords of several FOX.com affiliate employees ! Hackers Post complete Usernames/Password of Fox.com users at :...

Anonymous Hackers message to LunarPages for removing personal page of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar al-Gadaffi !

Anonymous Hackers message to LunarPages for removing personal page of Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar al-Gadaffi ! NOTE : One More Press Released By Anonymous Hackers on there official site/Facebook/Twitter. We are Publishing This news, just as the Media of "Hacking Field" . These is No relation...

'Spear phishing' latest ploy to steal data !

Consumers wary about protecting data stored on their computers should get used to hearing the term "spear phishing." It's the latest and most ingenious method yet to deliver malicious software that gives criminals control of a person's computer, with a tactic that involves developing emails which...