Amid Protests, Egypt Severs Ties to Internet

Amidst growing popular protests, Egypt has been severed from the Internet, according to reports from Intenet monitors and reporters within the country. The Associated Press and Reuters both confirmed reports of widespread outtages within Egypt affecting customers of all of the country’s main ISPs...

Government Sites, Military And Educational For Sale By Hackers !!

A hacker has a number of sites belonging to government agencies, military and educational for sale on internet forums. The discovery was made by Noa Bar-Yosef, a senior security strategist at security vendor Imperva. Bar-Yosef, wrote about it in the company's blog last Friday, noting that prices...

Google Releases Permanent Opt-Out Extension For Chrome

Google has delivered a new tool that enables Chrome users to permanently opt out of ad-tracking cookies in the company’s browser. The new extension gives users the ability to make their choices about not being tracked by online advertisers permanent, at least in Google Chrome. The move by Google ...

Facebook Used Social Authentication To Shield Tunisian Protesters

Faced with the Tunisian government’s efforts to hack the Facebook accounts of protesters, Facebook’s security team stepped up its use of social authentication to help secure protester’s accounts. A new account of the role of the Facebook in aiding widespread protests against the regime in Tunisia...

Government, Military Sites Hacked, Data and Access for Sale

The Web site of the U.S. military’s Communications-Electronics Command CECOM was off line on Monday after reports that access to the site was among those being fenced by hackers in an underground forum. The CECOM home page, cecom.army.mil displayed a message saying the site was “temporarily...

Bases Conversion and Development Authority (BCDA) Website Hacked !!

HACKERS APPEARED to have brought down another government Web site, this time that of the Bases Conversion and Development Authority BCDA. The text "S4UD! 4R$B!AN H4CK3R OWNED YOU" was plastered repeatedly on the homepage along with photos of an unidentified man, child and woman that seemed of...

Brazilian Government website Hacked By KiLLerMiNd (PakCyberHaxors Crew)

Brazilian Government website Hacked By KiLLerMiNd PakCyberHaxors Crew Website link : https://www.juquitiba.sp.gov.br/ Zone-H mirror : News Source : KiLLerMiNd | Via Message Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

OECD said Cyber attacks could create 'perfect strom' !!

Attacks on computer systems now have the potential to cause global catastrophe, but only in combination with another disaster, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development OECD said in a report on Monday. The study, part of a wider OECD project examining possible "Future Global Shock...

High Profile Education, Government Sites Hacked

The Web sites of some of the nation’s top universities were discovered to be serving up links to bogus online stores offering everything from popular software by Microsoft to student visas and Viagra, according to a report from security firm zScaler. Portions of Websites belonging to Harvard...

Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...

US Enhancing Online Security !

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced this month plans to create a National Program Office to help foster an environment in which sensitive online transactions can be carried out with greater levels of trust. The announcement was mad...

Is The Tunisian Government Hacking Facebook Accounts?

The government of Tunisia may have chosen an odd way to combat protesters: Hacking into their Facebook accounts. This appears to have gotten the attention of the hacker group Anonymous, which is siding with the protests. The past month has seen many large-scale uprisings in the North African...

Samyak Tejawat found vulnerability in this Italian government site !

Samyak Tejawat 13 year old found vulnerability in this Italian government site ! Whole database can be extracted. Mr. Samyak Tejawat inform the admins of site about this venerability, Hope it will be fixed soon : SQLi vuln. link =...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

Protests and Website Hackings in Tunisia !

We are concerned about demonstrations that have occurred over the past few weeks in Tunisia, which we understand to be the result of social and economic unrest. We encourage all parties to show restraint as citizens exercise their right of public assembly. We have also conveyed our views directly...

North Korean government's official Twitter account hacked !

The North Korean government's official Twitter account has apparently been hacked, with the feed displaying a string of messages derogatory of leader Kim Jong-il and heir apparent Kim Jong-un, the South Korean Yonhap news agency has reported. The four most recent messages posted on Saturday morni...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Italian Government's website !

SQL Injection Vulnerability in Italian Government's website ! Site Penetrate By : GodOfPain , Lord TittiS , SYSTEMOVERIDE 1 Site And Server Info Website link : Bug Url: Can't Publish Powered By: ASP.NET Server Detail: Microsoft SQL Server 2000 - 8.00.2039 Intel X86 Server Name: WEB-VSQL1\INST1...

'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...

Kerala Computer Emergency Response Team launches operations !

The Kerala Government has announced the launch of the Computer Emergency Response Team, Kerala CERT-K as the nodal agency for monitoring various cyber security related incidents in the State. Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan formally announced the launch of operations today. The agency will...

Fei Ye and Ming Zhong (Transmeta, Sun Microsoystems, NEC and Trident Microsystems)

Ye and Zhong were alleged to have obtained trade secrets, including designs for super integrated circuit chips from a variety of Silicon Valley firms through a front company, Supervision, Inc. a/k/a Hangzhou Zhongtian Microsystems Company Ltd. The two posed as legitimate businessmen interested in...