The PSN Security Breach Timeline !

For more than two weeks, the PlayStation Network has been offline. PlayStation 3 and PSP owners have been unable to connect to the Internet, play games online or download new titles. Sony's working on a fix, user data has been compromised, and everyone has something to say on the matter. However,...

Reality TV Show X-Factor Spills Data On 250,000 Hopefuls

Reality TV hopefuls are prepared to bare all for a chance at insta-celebrity. But prospective contestants for the new Simon Cowell show X-Factor probably didn’t expect that their names, e-mail addresses and phone numbers to be up for grabs. Alas, that’s how it turned out after a network breach at...

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details !

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details ! The FBI is reportedly investigating after hackers broke into Simon Cowell's computer network. Details of more than 250,000 X Factor entrants are said to have been stolen and Simon and bosses at American TV network Fox, are said to be scared that the thieve...

Sony Says Additional 25m Customers Exposed in Breach

A breach that started with the PlayStation Network has also affected Sony Online Entertainment’s 25 million customers, the company acknowledged on Tuesday. The electronics giant posted a press release on the Website of its Sony Online Entertainment division that provided additional details behind...

Holes in FBI cyber security !!

About a third of the FBI agents working on cyber investigations lack the networking and counterintelligence expertise to investigate national security intrusions, the Justice Department's inspector general concluded in a new report. The report said the FBI's practice of rotating agents among...

Department of Homeland Security Out to Get PSN Hackers !

Department of Homeland Security Out to Get PSN Hackers ! The external intrusion into the PlayStation Network has led to undoubtedly the worst fiasco in the PlayStation universe since the ApocalyPS3 of 2010. If the readers are like us, then we're all not only sick of the PSN being down but are als...

Audit Finds FBI Doing a Poor Job with Cyber Investigations

A U.S. Department of Justice audit of the FBI’s ability to investigate cyber intrusions concluded that the agency is not doing an adequate job. The audit, which reviewed 36 field agents in 10 FBI offices across the country found that the agency’s cyber investigations are hampered by difficulties...

Coreflood Takedown Raises Questions About Offensive Actions Against Botnets

For just about as long as there have been botnets, there’s been an ongoing discussion in the security and law-enforcement communities about the legality and ethics of taking proactive steps to disrupt the botnets’ operations and even to remove the bots from infected machines. Until very recently,...

FBI vs Coreflood botnet

FBI vs Coreflood botnet The FBI's unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet—comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines—appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earli...

FBI Warns of Massive Wire Fraud Scams

The FBI is warning businesses about an ongoing spate of attacks that are stealing millions of dollars from companies through unauthorized bank transfers to Chinese companies. The fraudulent wire transfers are not a new tactic, but the FBI says the current round of attacks is notable in that...

FBI cracks International Bot Network !

FBI cracks International Bot Network ! The Department of Justice and FBI declared that it has cracked a network of hackers, who have infected almost 2 million computers with a harmful "bot" program, Coreflood that steals private and monetary data from computers. Identified as a "bot" network- as...

DDOS attack on Change.org from China !

DDOS attack on Change.org from China ! Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attack originating from China after the site hosted a call urging Chinese authorities to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. The attacks, which starte...

DOJ Shuts Down Botnet, Disables Infected Systems

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Wednesday that they had taken actions to disable an international botnet of more than two million infected computers that was stealing corporate data including user names, passwords and financial information. Thirteen unnamed “John Doe” defendent...

Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members

IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General...

FBI busts $465,000 credit card scam !

Federal investigators arrested and indicted a former Bridgeport resident who they say orchestrated a scam in which foreign nationals applied for and received credit cards on which they charged up to $465,000 worth of goods before leaving the country with the banks holding the tab. A federal grand...

How Did 50 Female Celebrities Get Hacked ?

Jessica Alba, Scarlett Johansson, Christina Aguilera Reportedly Hit; Some Had Nude Photos FBI agents are reportedly closing in on a ring of hackers thought to be responsible for stealing nude photos and videos from at least 50 female celebrities. According to TMZ.com, the ring broke into the...

FBI tracking hackers who targeting Vanessa Hudgens &other celebs !

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI is reportedly investigating a hacker ring that is targeting phones and computers of celebrities and stealing nude photos and other personal items. The probe stems from nude photos of Vanessa Hudgens that were recently leaked online, reports the New York Dai...

Kevin Mitnick's latest Book : Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker !

Kevin Mitnick's latest Book : Ghost in the Wires - My Adventures As The World's Most Wanted Hacker ! Kevin Mitnick, the world's most wanted computer hacker, managed to hack into some of the country's most powerful - and seemingly impenetrable - agencies and companies. By conning employees into...

HBGary E-mails: DuPont, Other Firms Hit In Aurora Attack

Emails unearthed by the HBGary hack reveal that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of chemical company, DuPont, and more than a dozen others high profile Western firms in late 2009 as part of a wide-scale hack since dubbed “Operation Aurora.” The revelations, gleaned from leaked e-mail,...

Cyber crime Complaints in US Fell by 10% in 2010 !

The U.S. agency that tracks complaints of criminal activity on the Internet reported Thursday that fewer people complained about Internet fraud in 2010 than in the previous year. The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 runs a Web site where victims can report details of any cyberfraud. It shares...