The Hacker News Magazine - Anniversary Edition - November Issue 06

The Hacker News Magazine -Anniversary Edition - November Issue 06 In November of 2010 the team at The Hacker News finally achieved our ultimate goal of launching an online News Portal and Magazine addressing the tricky and complicated world of hackers and hacking. In our first year The Hacker New...

The Hacker News (THN) 1st Anniversary Celebration

The Hacker News THN 1st Anniversary Celebration It has been a wonderful "HACK" filled year as we disseminated security and hacking information around the world. We are grateful for our loyal readership and welcome new readers and contributors. Let's face it. Hacking isn't going away and growing...

Fortune 500 Gets "F" In Social Engineering Hacking Test

It was another year, another “F” for the top, U.S. firms targeted in the annual Social Engineering Capture the Flag CTF Contest at the DEFCON hacking conference, according to a report released on Monday. Some of the U.S.’s top firms, including Apple Computer, IBM, AT&T, McDonald’s and retail gian...

Facebook "Trusted friends" Security Feature Easily Exploitable

Facebook "Trusted friends " Security Feature Easily Exploitable Last week Facebook announced that in one day 600,000 accounts possibly get hacked. Another possible solution for Facebook to combat security issues is to find 3 to 5 "Trusted friends ". Facebook will be adding two new security featur...

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker A Pakistani hacker "KhantastiC haX0r" today hack into the official website of India's leading telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BSNL. This is not 1st time when BSNL become victim of any cyber attack. Pakistani Hackers hit...

Report: Hacks From China Shuttered UK Firm, Cost Economy $43 billion

The head of the UK Ministry of Defence’s Cyber Security Program says that targeted attacks have already caused the premature demise of a UK wind turbine maker, and has cost the country $43 billion in lost economic growth already. In an interview with The Telegraph, Major Gen Shaw said that a firm...

The Hacker's Choice releases SSL DOS Tool

The Hacker's Choice releases SSL DOS Tool German hacker group "The Hacker's Choice" officially released a new DDoS tool. The tool exploits a weakness in SSL to kick a server off the Internet. Establishing a secure SSL connection requires 15x more processingpower on the server than on the...

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet As is not unusual when big news breaks, malware authors try to take advantage of the situation.A global computer virus that hides in an email about Gaddafi's death has been detected by Norman. The malware was caught in its worldwide network of spam traps. The...

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC ZHC Disastar ZCompany Hacking Crew Hackers from Pakistan today hack the Server of Indian National Congress Party ,one of the two major political parties in India and deface their Official website with Message as shown in above image...

Famous VPN service Proxpn compromised

Famous VPN service Proxpn compromised proXPN is one of the famous VPN client based on OpenVPN Service, today hacked by hacked named "TurkisH-RuleZ". The Server is seems to be Compromised in this Hacking case. Compromised url is h and Mirror of Hack is available here...

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika

More than 10,000 Facebook account hacked by TeamSwaSTika Another group of Hackers, self titled Team Swastika, have caused panic amongst Facebook users after releasing the details of 10,000 accounts onto popular text sharing site, Pastebin. Pastebin, usually used to share source code, has frequent...

Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security

Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security The man, who is currently facing up to 121 years behind bars, has been charged with 26 counts of identity theft, wire-tapping and unauthorised access to protected computer.Chaney, who has been in contact with TMZ for the last two years, has contacted...

Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security

Miley Cyrus Needs A Lecture on Cyber Security The man, who is currently facing up to 121 years behind bars, has been charged with 26 counts of identity theft, wire-tapping and unauthorised access to protected computer.Chaney, who has been in contact with TMZ for the last two years, has contacted...

Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, Porn Posted

Sesame Street YouTube Channel Hacked, Porn Posted On Sunday afternoon, some of the world's worst lowlifes decided to hack the Sesame Street YouTube channel and replace some of the videos with pornographic clips. For about 20 minutes yesterday, visitors to the YouTube channel of the popular...

Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit

Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit THN is launching a Wireless Hacking series of blog posts where we will talk about a lot of tools and techniques. We hope this will be fun and informational for all of our readers. The series will be based on the SecurityTube Wireless Security...

Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit

Launching Wireless Hacking Series for Fun and Profit THN is launching a Wireless Hacking series of blog posts where we will talk about a lot of tools and techniques. We hope this will be fun and informational for all of our readers. The series will be based on the SecurityTube Wireless Security...

Suspect in "Hackerazzi" Case Says He Will Plead Guilty

A 35 year-old Florida man is facing a lengthy prison term after being arrested in connection with high profile hacks of the Web-based email accounts of more than 50 celebrities, including Hollywood ingenue Scarlett Johansson. According to a copy of the indictment PDF, Christopher Chaney of...

Hcon's Security Testing Framework (Hcon STF) v0.1beta

Hcon's Security Testing Framework Hcon STF v0.1beta After the first demo of Hfox, many people asked about a Chromium based framework for penetration testing/ethical hacking. After 3 months of work and research, and some input from AJ, the following tool has been developed for the arsenal of Hcon'...

Hcon's Security Testing Framework (Hcon STF) v0.1beta

Hcon's Security Testing Framework Hcon STF v0.1beta After the first demo of Hfox, many people asked about a Chromium based framework for penetration testing/ethical hacking. After 3 months of work and research, and some input from AJ, the following tool has been developed for the arsenal of Hcon'...

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars

Operation Hackerazzi : FBI arrests alleged Hacker for Stealing naked photos of Hollywood stars FEDERAL officials on Wednesday arrested a 35-year-old Florida man,Christopher Chaney and charged him with 26 counts of cyber-related crimes against Hollywood stars following an 11-month federal probe...