Anonymous Hackers target website of Russian court that sentenced Pussy Riot

The website of the Moscow district court that sentenced three members of the band Pussy Riot to jail has been attacked by hackers posting anti-Putin messages. As well as the anti-Putin slogan Anonymous Russia posted an appeal for the band's release as well as a video clip of one of the band's...

FinFisher spyware found running on computers all over the world

FinFisher, a software application used by law enforcement agencies for surveillance, appears to be far more widespred than originally thought.Sold by British company Gamma Internationl Gmbh, FinFisher secretly monitors computers by turning on webcams, recording everything the user types with a...

Nepalese Government Sites Hacked, Serving Zegost Malware

Researchers have uncovered another in an ongoing series of targeted attacks against government agencies and activists, this time an attack that compromised a pair of Nepalese government web sites with code that exploits a Java vulnerability to install a backdoor on vistors’ machines. The attacker...

Alleged Anonymous hacker arrested for Facebook threat

Hong Kong police said Sunday they had arrested a 21-year-old man believed to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous, after he reportedly said on social networking site Facebook that he would hack several government websites. "The Internet is not a virtual world of lawlessness," a...

Experts Say Better Security Rests on Cooperation, More Data

LAS VEGAS–Reflecting on the successes and failures in the industry in the last 15 years, a panel of security experts at Black Hat said that while defenses have gotten better, attackers have as well and there is a long way to go before defenders have the upper hand. If that ever happens, they said...

Feds Show Up at DEF CON and Black Hat, But This Time to Talk, Not Snoop

LAS VEGAS–The Black Hat conference is now officially an adolescent, and like most in that age group, it has gone through some growing pains in its life. Once criticized for giving too much of a platform for offensive research, and then, after its sale a few years ago to a media conglomerate, ding...

A school/government CMS default background account password-loophole warning-the black bar safety net

Author:Exp1oITs Not a Oday Today went to zone-h submitted to the Black page, find foreign a hacking the Black page all the Chinese gov site. So see, a lot of government and school station there is this problem, should not back door. However, the government so do not mind let us Heavenly good...

Open letter to the Australian people from Mother of Julian Assange

There have been numerous public statements made about WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange that are factually inaccurate.Prime Minister Julia Gillard said about WikiLeaks, "It's illegal." Attorney General Nicola Roxon said my son "fled Sweden." The media repeatedly states, "Assange is...

Obama will control internet, signs Emergency Internet Control

Barack Obama has signed an executive order that could hand control of the internet to the U.S. Government, in the event of a natural disaster or terrorist attack. "The federal government must have the ability to communicate at all times and under all circumstances to carry out its most critical a...

Blackshades RAT Pops Up in Attacks on Syrian Activists

They just do not stop having targeted malware attacks in Syria. Just a few days after the author of the Dark Comet RAT announced he was shutting down development and sales of the tool, partly because it was used in attacks by the Syrian government, experts have found that pro-government attackers...

Dark Comet RAT Tailored For Attacks On Gamers, Governments

Researchers analyzing the Dark Comet remote access Trojan RAT program say that data from more than 400 campaigns suggests the malicious program is being used for a wide range of jobs, from attacks on online gamers, to potential hacks of air force bases and government Web sites. In the blog entry,...

Indian Officials Get Training from Hackers who cracked CERN's IT system

Two Argentina-based cyber security experts - Chris Russo and Fernando Viacanel, who claimed to have cracked the security code of IT systems involved in the discovery of 'God Particle', today conducted training sessions for Indian government officials. Both the hackers are partners of IT security...

DarkComet RAT Flames Out

The author of DarkComet, one of the more notorious remote administration tools in use today, has said that he is ending development and sales of the tool after finding out that DarkComet was used by the Syrian government in attacks against anti-government activists. DarkComet is one of a handful ...

Most of What You've Read About DNSChanger Is Wrong. Here's How.

If you’ve been scanning the headlines or watching the evening news, you may have heard that tens of thousands of Internet users in the U.S. – hundreds of thousands around the world – will be cut off from the Internet on Monday, July 9, after servers set up at the bequest of the U.S. government go...

Wikileaks to Publish Almost 2.5 Million 'Syria Files'

Whistle blower website Wikileaks announced Thursday that it would publish nearly 2.5 million e-mails from 680 agencies in Syria over the next two months. In a press release on the organization’s site, Wikileaks’ founder Julian Assange claimed “the material is embarrassing to Syria,” and “Syria’s...

Library of Congress Owned

There are a number of US government branches, offices, and agencies that, by their very nature, have giant targets painted on their computer networks. America’s national library would not seem to be among that lot, but alas, not even the Library of Congress could escape the ire of hackers this...

GAO Calls out the FDIC

It’s not always malicious hackers and purported state actors that expose weaknesses in government systems. Sometime it’s other government agencies as well. This was the case when federal watchdog, the Government Accountability Office, audited and subsequently called out the Federal Deposit...

Another Year, Another Round of Hacks

On the Fourth of July last year, we published a slideshow of 10 hacks targeting US government-affiliated networks. It’s a year later, and, oddly enough, people have continued to attack government networks. Such hacks are unsurprising, in part because plenty of people are none too fond of the U.S....

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan Japan's legislature has approved a bill revising the nation's copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in...

Assange's Asylum In The Balance, Researcher Warns Ecuador's Deliberations Are Vulnerable To Online Snooping

With Wikileaks founder Julian Assange anxiously awaiting word from the government of Ecuador on his request for political asylum, a security researcher warns that the country’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which is handling the Assange asylum request, is using a video conferencing system that is...