Hackers Probably Can't Hijack an Airplane with Software

An alarming dispatch from the Hack In The Box security conference in Amsterdam arrived on Wednesday: a hacker says he's found a way to take over airplane controls. That's probably not true. At least according to the Federal Aviation Administration FAA, the European Aviation Safety Administration...

Winnti Cyberespionage Campaign Targets Gaming Companies

A cybercrime gang has been running roughshod over the gaming industry for years using malware signed with valid digital certificates to steal source code and valuable in-game currency for a number of popular online games. Researchers at Kaspersky Lab this morning published a report on the Winnti...

17-year-old alleged Anonymous Hacker charged for unauthorised access

A 17 year old alleged hacker accused of being associated with Anonymous hacker appeared in Parramatta Children's Court on Friday, over multiple unauthorised access crime on the behalf of hacktivist collective Anonymous. The Australian Federal Police AFP issued a statement over the matter, saying...

17-year-old alleged Anonymous Hacker charged for unauthorised access

A 17 year old alleged hacker accused of being associated with Anonymous hacker appeared in Parramatta Children's Court on Friday, over multiple unauthorised access crime on the behalf of hacktivist collective Anonymous. The Australian Federal Police AFP issued a statement over the matter, saying...

URL Redirection flaw in Facebook apps push OAuth vulnerability again in action

In earlier posts, our Facebook hacker 'Nir Goldshlager' exposed two serious Facebook oAuth Flaws. One, Hacking a Facebook account even without the user installing an application on their account and second, various ways to bypassing the regex protection in Facebook OAuth. This time, Nir illustrat...

AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...

AT&T Hacker Andrew Auernheimer sentenced to 3.5 Years in prison

Self-described troll and Grey hat AT&T Hacker Andrew "Weev" Auernheimer, 26, has been sentenced to 41 months in prison for exploiting an AT&T security hole three years ago, and releasing thousands of iPad owners email addresses. According to authorities, they obtained the ICC-ID and e-mail addres...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Facebook hacking accounts using another OAuth vulnerability

Remember the last OAuth Flaw in Facebook, that allow an attacker to hijack any account without victim's interaction with any Facebook Application, was reported by white hat Hacker 'Nir Goldshlager'. After that Facebook security team fixed that issue using some minor changes. Yesterday Goldshlager...

Reserve Bank of Australia Hacked by Chinese malware

If hackers want to get into your computer network, they will find a way. You can make it harder but you can't stop them. According to Australian Financial Review report on Monday, the Reserve Bank of Australia RBA was hacked by hackers who infiltrated its networks and allegedly stole information...

Pakistan Government servers messed up after security breach

Today a cyber attack on Pakistan Government servers crash many Government departments's official websites including Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Economic Affairs & Statistics, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Ministry of Science and...

Pakistan Government servers messed up after security breach

Today a cyber attack on Pakistan Government servers crash many Government departments's official websites including Ministry of Information Technology, Ministry of Railways, Ministry of Economic Affairs & Statistics, Ministry of Interior, Ministry of Religious Affairs, Ministry of Science and...

Hacking Google users with Google's GooPass phishing attack

Google Drive is the new home for Google Docs, that users can access everywhere for Storing files safely. In a recent demonstration hacker successfully performed an attack on Google Docs to trick users to grab their Facebook, Gmail, Yahoo credentials with Credit Card Information. Security research...

Phishers hijacking Facebook Pages using apps

Another phishing campaign come in action recently targeting Facebook accounts and company pages with millions of followers. Phishers continue to devise new fake apps for the purpose of harvesting confidential information. Not a new method, but very creative phishing example in Facebook hacking...

Unofficial Pakistan Intelligence website hacked

While the rest of the world engaged in cyber security conferences and Anonymous operations, an Indian patriotic hacker used the time to attack Unofficial Pakistan Intelligence agency ISI. Hacker going by name "Godzilla" today claimed to hack into one of the server belongs to ISI website...

Unofficial Pakistan Intelligence website hacked

While the rest of the world engaged in cyber security conferences and Anonymous operations, an Indian patriotic hacker used the time to attack Unofficial Pakistan Intelligence agency ISI. Hacker going by name "Godzilla" today claimed to hack into one of the server belongs to ISI website...

Philippines-Malaysia Cyber war over Sabah land dispute

A series of websites defacement has been conducted between Philippines and Malaysia over the dispute in the land of Sabah. Hackers claiming to be part of Anonymous group from Malaysian and Filipino and attacking websites of each other. It was believed that the first online attacks were made by...

ABC hacked after anti-Islam politician Interview

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC is investigating data breach after Lateline interviewed Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A hacker going by the handle "Phr0zenMyst" has claimed to have hacked a web site associated with the ABC television program Making Australia Happy, leakin...

ABC hacked after anti-Islam politician Interview

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC is investigating data breach after Lateline interviewed Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A hacker going by the handle "Phr0zenMyst" has claimed to have hacked a web site associated with the ABC television program Making Australia Happy, leakin...

Hacker raided by FBI after leaking Microsoft next Xbox release information

FBI agents this week raided the home of a Australian hacker who recently leaked a slew of details about Microsoft's next release of Xbox console. "They just took all my computers my hard drives, all of my technology, they took my bank cards, credit cards, bank statements," he said. He had claimed...