Hackers Hit Alabama, Mexican Government Websites

Hackers with Anonymous have taken credit for targeting government websites for Alabama and Mexico. The group claimed Friday to have hacked several Alabama police and government servers and stolen personal information on more than 46,000 people, including social security numbers, license plate...

38 Bangladeshi Government sites Defaced by Indian Hackers

38 Bangladesh Government sites Defaced by Indian Hackers Indians hacking Group "Indishell" took down 38 Bangladeshi government websites on Saturday, including ministry of the ministries are communications, youth and sports, primary and mass education , Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. The Defac...

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker #OpWeeksPayment

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker Citigroup has confirmed its consumer banking sites were temporarily offline Friday because of what a bank spokesman referred to as temporary outages. Hackers with Anonymous have claimed to be behind the attacks. The operation behind the attacks...

Privacy Fail: Is Uncle Sam Encouraging Bad Security?

CANCUN, MEXICO – A prominent privacy activist says that leading software vendors, and the U.S. government are failing the public when it comes to Internet privacy, and that big changes are needed to prevent consumers from criminals, advertisers and government spies. Christopher Soghoian, a...

Denial-of-Service Malware Campaign

US-CERT is aware of public reports of ongoing distributed denial-of-service attacks against entities in the government and private sector. According to the reports, these attacks are being attributed to the hacker group Anonymous. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to do the following to...

CityVariety SQL Injection

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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,...

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files "Give me liberty or give me death" is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks,...

Formalized IT Security Policy Now Required for Government Prime and Sub-contractors

This month the GSA announced an IT security mandate for government prime- and sub-contractors that requires them to have a formalized IT security plan that includes periodic audits. Many government sub-contractors, large and small, will benefit from a third-party compliance program review so they...

Officials Claim China, Not India, Behind E-Mail Hack of U.S. Commission

It appears that hackers in China – not India as previously suspected – were behind the apparent leak of e-mails last week from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. It was widely reported last Monday that the Commission, initially created in 2000 to supervise trade and oversee...

SOPA in US and Censorship in India: A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom !

SOPA in US and Censorship in India : A cocktail to destroy Internet Freedom ! As US senators mull over the SOPAStopping Online Piracy Act and PIPAProtecting Intellectual Property Act bills, the world stands witness to a historic moment. Almost all big IT companies like Google, Wikipedia, Facebook...

100 Kenya government websites breached by Indonesian hacker

100 Kenya government websites breached by Indonesian hacker An Indonesian hacker on Tuesday attacked and defaced more than 100 Kenya government websites Among the ministries affected include the Ministries of Local Government, Livestock, Environment, Fisheries, Housing, and Industrialisation in a...

The Undead "Corporations" by Patti Galle

The Undead "Corporations" by Patti Galle The Hacker News Editor "Patti Galle" share her views about Corporations in THN Magazine December Edition. We would like to share same article with our blog Readers. Enjoy the interesting read : Corporations are soulless entities possessing privileges and t...

Japanese Space Agency Loses Data After Computer Infection

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA is the latest high profile government agency in that country found to be infected with a computer virus. According to a JAXA press release, information stored on an employee computer terminal as well as system information accessible to the employee...

Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

Update: Hacking Group TeaMp0isoN Claims Breach of T-Mobile

The hacking group TeaMp0isoN claims to have compromised Web servers used by T-Mobile, and absconded with account information for company employees, including members of T-Mobile’s media team. The group used a post on its official Twitter account taking responsibility for the attack, which targete...

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday

Hacker will release full Norton Antivirus code on Tuesday A hacker with code name of 'Yama Tough' announce via Twitter that on Tuesday he will leak the full source code for Symantec Corp's flagship Norton Antivirus software which is 1,7Gb src. Last week Yama Tough has released fragments of source...

Identify devices at risk of search

Searches and seizure is not limited to personal computers or laptops. Any device that stores data is fair game for Customs and Border Protection or Immigration and Customs Enforcement ICE Agents. This includes all computers, laptops, tablets, mp3 and mobile media players, digital cameras,...

Adobe Acrobat / Reader Image Processing Integer Overflow

No description provided by source. Adobe Acrobat and Reader Image Processing Integer Overflow Vulnerability APSB12-01 Twitter : http://twitter.com/vupen I. BACKGROUND --------------------- "Adobe Acrobat and Reader are the global standards for electronic document sharing. They are used to create,...

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

Microsoft launching Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed Microsoft is to offer a real-time intelligence feed of botnet and e-crime data to public and private sector subscribers, according to security company Kaspersky. Currently, Microsoft is testing a real-time feed to distribute informatio...