National program for Cyber army to be launched in India

National program for Cyber army to be launched in India Increasing attacks on cyberspace in India has brought several professionals and experts from the Industry, in support with the Government of India to jointly form a national level program to identify credible and valuable information securit...

APEC Host Committee Spear-Phished by China

An Analysis published earlier this month by Kahu Security raises the possibility that the hack of systems used by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation host committee was the result of a spear phishing attack with links back to the Chinese mainland. As Threatpost reported yesterday, computers...

Failed AT&T Hack Attempt Targeted One Million Customers

AT&T announced Monday that hackers made an “organized and systematic attempt” to gain access to nearly one million of their customers’ online accounts. According to a Bloomberg report, the phone company assured customers in an e-mail their accounts were intact. “We do not believe that the...

Anonymous Hacks, Leaks E-mails, Voicemails of California Special Agent

Calling it a form of “electronic civil disobedience,” hacktivist group Anonymous took aim at a special agent from the California Department of Justice on Friday. The group spilled 38,000 e-mails containing “computer forensics techniques, investigation protocols as well as highly embarrassing...

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ?

Is it hard to crack full Disk Encryption For Law Enforcement ? If you'd rather keep your data private, take heart: disk encryption is a lot harder to break than techno-thriller movies and TV shows make it out to be, to the chagrin of some branches of law enforcement. MrSeb writes with word of a...

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...

Hacker Claims He Breached Texas Water Plant

A hacker claims to have breached a water utility in Texas and has posted reputed screenshots online to prove it. The water plant targeted by the hacker, who uses the alias “Pr0f”, is in the Harris County city of South Houston. In a post on Pastebin, Pr0f said his actions were in response to what ...

Costin Raiu on Duqu, Stuxnet and Targeted Attacks

Dennis Fisher talks with malware researcher Costin Raiu about the investigation into Duqu, the likelihood that it was written by the same team as Stuxnet, whether a government is behind its development and what mistakes the authors made. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

FBI To Probe California University Hack That Changed Student's Grades

More than 60 current and former students at Santa Clara University had their academic records hacked into and grades changed – for the better, according to a letter posted to the school’s site on Monday by university president Michael Engh. The note claims that there was unauthorized access to th...

Valve подтвердила взлом Steam

Компания Valve разослала пользователям своего сервиса Steam письмо, в котором говорится, что причиной недавнего отключения форумов стала хакерская атака. Ранее представители Valve не комментировали эту информацию. Как сообщается в письме, хакеры взломали не только форум сервиса, но также смогли...

Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking

Possible Credit Card Theft in Steam Website Hacking Valve CEO Gabe Newell has contacted all users of the Steam game distribution platform to let them know that the company has suffered a security breach. Right before going offline, users saw a new category in the forum that directed them to open ...

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down

Operation Ghost Click by FBI - Online advertising scam taken Down A gang of internet 'cyber bandits' who stole $14 million after hacking into at least 4 million computers in an online advertising scam have been arrested following a joint investigation by the FBI and Nasa. Six men are in custody i...

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns Anonymous Hackers have successfully hacked the neo-Nazi website and published the database of its 16000 membership application database containing personal data of some applicants from all around the country. The hack w...

Crime-Ring Orchestrators Plead Guilty to Fraud, Face Four Years

A pair of Ukrainian Nationals is each facing a four year, eight month sentence after pleading guilty at London’s Croydon Crown Court on October 31 to charges of conspiracy to defraud. According to a London Metropolitan Police report, the 29 year-old Yuriy Konovalenko also known as Pavel Klikov an...

Volatility 2.0 - Advanced Memory Forensics [With Video Demonstration]

Volatility 2.0 - Advanced Memory Forensics With Video Demonstration The Volatility Framework is a completely open collection of tools, implemented in Python under the GNU General Public License, for the extraction of digital artifacts from volatile memory RAM samples. The extraction techniques ar...

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server

Duqu Trojan found in Indian Server Last week we update you about Duqu when Symantec said it had found a mysterious computer virus that contained code similar to Stuxnet, a piece of malware believed to have wreaked havoc on Iran's nuclear program. Two workers at a web-hosting company called Web...

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...

Japanese Parliament Struggling To Address Hack, Data Theft

The fallout from a targeted attack on computers belonging to members of the Japanese House of Representatives continued on Tuesday, with claims that both servers and PCs on the House network were infected with a password stealing Trojan, and reports that House members had taken to storing sensiti...

The Mystery of Duqu: Part Two

Our investigation and research of Duqu malware continues. In our previous report, we made two points: there are more drivers than it was previously thought; it is possible that there are additional modules. Besides those key points, we concluded that unlike the massive Stuxnet infections, Duqu...

Microsoft's official Youtube channel hacked

Microsoft 's official Youtube channel hacked It appears that someone has hacked into Microsoft's account on Youtube and removed all videos. As can be seen in the picture, there are currently no videos at all anymore see the red arrow in the screenshot and the comment about the website is not "Wis...