Indian government get access to BlackBerry messages

Indian government get access to BlackBerry messages After a battle lasting almost two years, BlackBerry maker Research In Motion has knuckled under to the Indian government, giving security forces in that country access to private instant messages. RIM decided to set up Blackberry servers that we...

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. The hacker had previously pleaded not...

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days

Al-Qaeda websites hacked and remains down for past 12 days Al-Qaeda's main internet forums have been offline for the past 12 days in the longest sustained outages of the sites since they began operating. Several online forums frequently visited by al-Qaeda operatives were downed over the course o...

Internet #Censorship : CISPA - Newest Cyber Security Bill

Internet Censorship : CISPA - Newest Cyber Security Bill If you download and distribute copyrighted material on the Internet, or share any information that governments or corporations find inconvenient, you could soon be labeled a threat to national security in the United States. That's the aim o...

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech

Anonymous Exposes data of 10,000 Civic Democrats from Czech Last week, Hackers posted on the internet the private data of Czech Prime Minister Petr Necas, including the numbers of his three mobile telephones, after a series of cyber attacks on government web sites. Hacker groups Anonymous and...

Arms Race In Zero Days Spells Trouble For Privacy, Public Safety

Editor’s Note: This is the second of a two-part podcast with independent security researcher Chris Soghoian. In the first part of our podcast with independent security researcher Chris Soghoian, we talked about the way that the proliferation of “free” applications have forced consumers into the...

Chinese hacker targeting Indian government and Tibetan activists Sites

Chinese hacker targeting Indian government and Tibetan activists Sites Websites of Indian government and Tibetan activists in the country are under attack in a cyber attack campaign engineered by a Chinese hacker, working with one of the world's largest e-tailers Tencent. The cyber criminal in...

#GlobalRevolution : Chinese Government sites defaced by Anonymous China

Chinese Government sites defaced by Anonymous China @AnonymousChina Hackers taking down and defacing various Chinese government web sites. Hack is the part of operation GlobalRevolution by Anonymous. The page is like other defacements with ASCII text, a message to the government in question and...

FBI Cyber Chief Says U.S. Losing War Against Hackers

FBI Cyber Chief Says U.S. Losing War Against Hackers FBI is struggling to combat cyberattacks by hackers. "We're not winning," FBI executive assistant director Shawn Henry said. Four top government cybersecurity officials have basically come out to say America is getting her hiney kicked in...

NSA Director Says Agency Should Not Monitor Private Networks

The hysteria in Washington regarding the comprehensive infiltration of U.S. government and civilian networks by China has gotten to the point now that the director of the National Security Agency is saying in open Congressional hearings that his agency, the U.S. Cyber Command and others should be...

Oxford University launches Cyber Security Centre

Oxford University launches Cyber Security Centre Cyber crime is not going away. As the world becomes ever more interconnected and dependent on networks, laptops and personal handheld devices, the opportunities are just too great. The personal information stored on such devices credit card...

EFF Says Cyber Security Bills Open Door To Government, Corporate Abuse

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF is sounding alarms about a collection of overly vague cyber-security bills making their way through Congress. EFF looked at two bills making their way through Congress: The Cybersecurity Act of 2012 S. 2105, sponsored by Senator Joseph Lieberman I-CT of...

Experts Tell Senate: Government Networks Owned, Resistance Is Futile

Network security experts from across the U.S. government told a U.S. Senate Armed Services Subcommittee Tuesday that federal networks have been thoroughly penetrated by foreign spies, and that current perimeter-based defenses that attempt to curb intrusions are outdated and futile. Speaking befor...

Casa Presidencial website defaced by Latinhack

Casa Presidencial website defaced by Latinhack The Casa Presidencial website was in temporary control of hackers on Sunday. The minister explained that the hack was noticed while doing a backup of the site. The cyber-attack was attributed to a group called Latinhack, whose members have perpetrate...

Pakistani Hackers attacks 31 government and 46 educational institutions Websites

Pakistani Hackers attacks 31 government and 46 educational institutions Websites Maharashtra police said, websites of more than 46 educational institutions and 31 government websites based in the district were allegedly hacked by a group reportedly based in Pakistan. KhantastiC, a hacker who...

Australia's first national cyber security competition Announced

Australia's first national cyber security competition Announced Australia's first national cyber security competition, the 2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge, was launched today by broadband minister Senator Stephen Conroy. If you are an undergraduate with top cyber problem-solving skills th...

Pro-Syrian Malware Targets, Impedes Activists

The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF warned this week that political activists in Iran and Syria are being targeted in malware attacks disgised as Adobe Flash Player updates on Youtube. In a blog post by the EFF’s Eva Galperin and Morgan Marquis-Boire on Thursday said the attacks occur after...

BBC Persian TV hacked by Iranian government

BBC Persian TV hacked by Iranian government According to BBC News, today Iran hacked BBC Persian TV . This is not the first time the Iranian government has tampered with the BBC's Persian service, Zdnet Report. The Reason behind this attack is part of a broader attempt by the government to disrup...

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous

Tunisian Islamist Website Hacked by Anonymous The Facebook page of Hizb Ettahrir, an Islamist political party that is legally unrecognized in Tunisia, was hacked last night by a Tunisian group claiming affiliation with the international cyber activist collective Anonymous. "We are fighting you...

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends

Chinese spied on NATO officials using Facebook Friends An online scam has been exposed in which senior British military and government officials were tricked into becoming Facebook friends with someone masquerading as U.S. Admiral James Stavridis, NATO's Supreme Allied Commander and lead officer ...