Hackers Hit Former U.S. Military Chief

According to reports, the hackers targeted personal computers retired Admiral Mike Mullen, the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The FBI is hunting for foreign hackers. Mullen is currently teaching WWS 318: U.S. Military and National and International Diplomacy and will teach an unnam...

Why you should try to join some of the underground hacker forums that are out there

Even if you are considered to be a white hat hacker, you are always still walking a fine line between being a bad guy and a good guy in many people eyes. There are a lot of people out there who believe that there should be no hacking at all being done and everyone who does it should be considered...

New U.S. drone hacked by IRAN ? Reality or propaganda?

It's known, drones are privileged vehicles for reconnaissance and attacks, technology has achieved level of excellence and their use is largely diffused, that's why defense companies are providing new solution to make them increasingly effective. But the incredible amount of technological...

Researcher Owns Internal Network after Victim Opens Email

Security researcher Bogdan Calin found that he could remotely compromise the internal networks of users with default or weak router passwords merely by compelling them to open a legitimate looking email on their iPhone, iPad, or Mac. Writing for the Acunetix blog, Calin explains that he has found...

PlugX is Becoming Mature

By Dmitry Tarakanov Recently, a new Remote Administration Tool has been discovered that started appearing here and there in targeted attacks. This tool is “PlugX”. Researchers have even tracked someone suspected of creating that malware – one of the members of the Chinese hacking group NCPH, whic...

English Defence League Donors Information Leaked by Hackers

3 Days ago "English Defence League" was hacked and Defaced by "ZCompany Hacking Crew". Today same hacking crew expose a list of 25 people who give Donations to EDL. Leaked information include Donator's Names, addresses and Email addresses, posted in a note. Hackers said,"If you donate to EDL and...

ClubHack 2012 Hacking and Security Conference

Carrying reputation of being India's choicest and oldest hacker's conference, Team ClubHack proudly brings the 6th edition of ClubHack Hacking and Security Conference with more exciting activities. ClubHack 2012 hacker's convention will be held from Nov. 30th to Dec 3rd, 2012 in Pune, India...

English Defence League defaced by ZCompany Hacking Crew

ZCompany Hacking Crew members hack and deface English Defence League official website https://englishdefenceleague.org,a far-right British organization . Deface page include text "Fuck Zionist Jews! – Boycot israel! – Fuck the American Government! - Fuck fascist Organizations like EDL" and a...

Art of twitter account hacking, now or never !

Phishing is most commonly perpetrated through the mass distribution of e-mail messages directing users to a fraud web site or services. These professional criminals daily find new ways to commit old crimes, treating cyber crime like a business and forming global criminal communities. Another late...

United Socialist Party of Venezuela's twitter account hacked

LulzSec Peru hack the official twitter account @partidopsuv of the United Socialist Party of Venezuela PSUV, in the evening hours of Thursday. Hackers start twitting from hacked account, "No to communism. Corrupt Chavez get out." In a blog post Party people announce that their twitter account is...

Pizza Hut defaced, Authorities denies theft of 240000 Credit Cards

Yesterday Australian Pizza Hut website was compromised by a hacking group going by the name of 0-Day and Pyknic. Hackers defaced the website and claim that they made off with 260,000 Australian credit card numbers. Hack was 1st noticed by Whirlpool Forum users. But a Pizza Hut spokeswoman said th...

UNESCO Etxea website hacked by #NullCrew

Hacking group NullCrew deface UNESCO Etxea website unescoetxea.org, which is an internationally oriented NGOs working for the culture of peace, sustainable human development and human rights, at local and global levels. Deface page reads, "Welcome to the new front page of unesco etxea You have be...

UK Ministry of Defence hacked by NullCrew

The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence website www.qhm.mod.uk hacked by two Null Hacking Crew members @OfficialNull and @Timoxeline and They extracted data published online. The data dump include 3400 email addresses and passwords from Ministry of Defence portal. Hackers trying to trend...

Report Details Coca-Cola Cyber Attack That Never was Disclosed

In an exclusive report, Bloomberg News outlines a month-long, systematic attack on Cola-Cola’s computer systems that may have influenced the failed $2.4 billion acquisition of a Chinese juice company. The FBI knew about it. Coca-Cola knew about it. But shareholders were kept in the dark. The Coke...

Russian Underground Cybercrime market offering sophisticated services

Security firm Trend Micro recent analyses the Russian crimeware markets and has found that malware tools and services range from one-time packages which cost just pennies to sophisticated packages and services which cost purchasers thousands of dollars per month. If you want to buy a botnet it wi...

Illiterate Ethiopian kids hack Motorola Xoom

About five months ago, OLPC Project started a little experiment. They chose a village in Ethiopia where the literacy rate was nearly 0% and decided to drop off a bunch of Motorola Xooms there. The One Laptop Per Child project started as a way of delivering technology and resources to schools in...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Spills 2.5 M Russian Records

As part of what it’s calling “Project Blackstar,” the hacking collective Team Ghostshell posted approximately 2.5 million records it claims belong to Russian individuals who work across the political, educational and law enforcement spectrum online earlier this morning. With the project, detailed...

[BackBox Linux] Version 3.0

BackBox is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu Desktop, and designed for performing penetration testing, incident response, computer forensics, and intelligence gathering. It uses the Xfce desktop environment, and is developed by Raffaele Forte and a small but dedicated team. This release includ...

400 million new variants of malware created in a year

Symantec provide overview and analysis of the year in global threat activity via its Internet Security Threat Report ISTR, with a exclusive details that 400 million new variants of malware were created in 2011, which is an average of 33 million new variants of malware a month, or an average of on...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating 2nd Birthday

One of the most awaited occasions in a year is your birthday, same way we are today celebrating 'The Hacker News' 2nd Birthday week from on 28th October-3rd November 2012. Originally founded on 1st November 2010 by Mohit Kumar, 'The Hacker News' was the very First dedicated Hacking and Security...