Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1

Bypass SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1 A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered DeSOPA. The Firefox...

Homeland Security Warns SCADA Operators Of Internet-Facing Systems

In the wake of the hack of water and sewer infrastructure operated by a Texas community, the Department of Homeland Security is again warning owners and operators of critical infrastructure to take note of SCADA and industrial control systems that may be accessible from the Internet. DHS’s...

DHS Report Debunks Claim That Illinois Water System Was Hacked

The United States Department of Homeland Security cried foul yesterday morning, debunking claims from both the Illinois Statewide Terrorism and Intelligence Center STIC and Applied Control Solutions that a water station in Illinois was hacked earlier this month. A flurry of reports late last week...

Hackers destroyed a pump used by a US water utility

Hackers destroyed a pump used by a US water utility Hackers destroyed a pump used by a US water utility after gaining unauthorized access to the industrial control system it used to operate its machinery. Five computer screenshots posted early Friday purport to show the user interface used to...

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm

Computerized Prison doors hacked with vulnerabilities used by Stuxnet worm Security holes in the computer systems of federal prisons in the United States can effectively allow hackers to trigger a jailbreak by remote control. The discovery of the Stuxnet worm has alerted governments around the...

Researchers Warn of Prison Hacks, Opening Cell Doors

In news that seems like it could be lifted from an old 24 or Prison Break plotline, authorities are concerned by new research that claims hackers could remotely open the cell doors of federal prisons. In addition to staging a jailbreak, hackers could sabotage a prison’s intercom system and...

First Ever Joint EU-US Cyber War Game Starts

Despite extreme upheaval and rampant infighting caused by the European debt crisis, the EU and U.S. are banding together today in Brussels and shifting its focus toward cyber security. The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be...

India Seizes Equipment Linked to Duqu Attack

Officials in India have seized components from a server as part of an investigation into the Duqu Trojan, according to a report. According to Reuters, two workers at Web Werks, a web hosting company based in Mumbai, said the country’s Department of Information Technology took the equipment after...

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine

Man-in-the-Middle Remote Attack on Diebold Touch-screen Voting Machine The Vulnerability Assessment Team VAT at the U.S. Dept. of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois has managed to hack a Diebold Accuvote touch-screen voting machine. Voting machines used by as many as a quarter of...

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool (CSET)

Department of Homeland Security Releases Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET The Cyber Security Evaluation Tool CSET is a Department of Homeland Security DHS product that assists organizations in protecting their key national cyber assets. It was developed under the direction of the DHS National...

Massachusetts Inaugurates New Cyber Security Center

Hundreds of business leaders and academics joined Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and Attorney General Martha Coakley to launch the state’s Advanced Cyber Security Center ACSC, one of the first of its kind in the nation. Speaking at the local headquarters of the MITRE Corporation, Patrick an...

Did The September 11th Attacks Blind Us To A Digital Pearl Harbor?

It was December 8, 2000 – the waning days of the Clinton Administration. Richard Clarke, a member of President Clinton’s National Security Council, was addressing attendees at SafeNet 2000, a conference sponsored by Microsoft Corp. that brought together computer security experts from around the...

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack

Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games...

Former DHS Cybersecurity Chief Reitinger Named Sony CISO

Former Department of Homeland Security cyber-security chief Philip Reitinger has been named as the new executive vice president and Chief Information Security Officer of Sony Corporation. In his new position, Reitinger will be in charge of global information security and privacy at the electronic...

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to take Anonymous and other non-professional cyber-attackers more seriously as it issues a warning about potential attacks. The 2 September security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Securi...

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios The portable radios used by many federal law enforcement agents have major security flaws that allowed researchers to intercept hundreds of hours of sensitive traffic sent without encryption over the past two years, according to a new study being release...

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios

$30 Child Toy is enough to hack FBI Radios The portable radios used by many federal law enforcement agents have major security flaws that allowed researchers to intercept hundreds of hours of sensitive traffic sent without encryption over the past two years, according to a new study being release...

Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Emails leaked by #Antisec Anonymous

Department of Homeland Security DHS Emails leaked by Antisec Anonymous One of the Anonymous - @AnonWorldUnite today leaked the DHS emails on internet. He tweeted "A Wild Leak Has Appeared! : AntiSec AnonOps Leak LulzSec Anonymous " The link given in the Twitter post is a link to a WordPress blog...

How I Taught the Senate To Hack

What happens when 20-something Beltway wonks put down their Blackberries and start getting real about hacking? Chris Wysopal can tell you. The security expert and former L0pht member is just back from D.C., where he took on the job of teaching Senate staffers on the Homeland Security and...

300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu

300 Military and Government Accounts leaked by P0keu In a tweet , P0keu posted a link to PasteBin which appears to be e-mail accounts and passwords of 300 military and government accounts used the same password as their actual e-mails, then the contents of their e-mail account will also be expose...