Report: NASDAQ Hackers Spied On Corporate Directors

The hackers who compromised systems belonging to the NASDAQ stock market last year were able to install monitoring software that allowed them to spy on the doings of corporate directors, Reuters is reporting. The news adds critical details to the story of an October, 2010, compromise of Director’...

FBI shut down 18 Child Porn Websites

FBI shut down 18 Child Porn Websites A man was recently indicted on federal charges of running 18 Chinese-language child pornography websites out of his apartment in Flushing, New York. The websites were being advertised to Chinese-speaking individuals in China, in the U.S., and other countries...

Inside the Takedown of the M00p Malware Crew

BARCELONA–As online crime continues to grow in volume and expand in scope, encompassing a massive number of scams and operations around the world, security researchers, lawmakers and others are pushing for better cooperation among law enforcement agencies and the security community in taking down...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The fin...

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked

Thailand Prime Minister Twitter, Facebook accounts Hacked Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's personal Twitter account was hacked yesterday in what officials said was possibly part of a conspiracy to embarrass the government. The false tweets accused her of cronyism and various failures. The fin...

USA Today Twitter Account Hacked By Script Kiddie

USA Today Twitter Account Hacked By Script Kiddie A group calling itself "The Script Kiddies " hacked USA Today's Twitter account this weekend and used it to solicit requests for future targets and even to promote its own Facebook page. Although this recent hack seems like more of a childish pran...

Linux.com down again due to Security Breach

Linux.com down again due to Security Breach Linux Foundation infrastructure including LinuxFoundation.org, Linux.com, and their subdomains are again down for maintenance due to a security breach that was discovered on September 8, 2011. Investigators yet can't elaborate the source of attack...

GlobalSign Set to Resume CA Operations

GlobalSign is still in the process of completing the investigation into whether its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, but the company on Tuesday was ready to resume some of its operations under “high-threat” conditions. The company said that it has found evidence that its main...

GlobalSign Says Web Server Was Hacked, But No Signs of CA Breach

GlobalSign has found evidence that its main Web server was compromised recently, but has not discovered any indications that its certificate authority infrastructure was hacked, contrary to claims by the attacker responsible for the DigiNotar CA hack. The company, which is one of the larger CAs i...

20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital

20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital Last month Stanford University's hospital discovered a massive privacy breach when 20,000 emergency room records appeared online. The records included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, dates of admission and discharge, and billing charges...

20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital

20000 patient records Breach at Stanford Hospital Last month Stanford University's hospital discovered a massive privacy breach when 20,000 emergency room records appeared online. The records included names, diagnosis codes, account numbers, dates of admission and discharge, and billing charges...

GlobalSign Investigation Continues, Some CA Services to Return Monday

UPDATE: A day after suspending the issuance of SSL certificates while it investigates claims that its certificate authority infrastructure was compromised, GlobalSign said that the investigation is still ongoing but that it planned to begin bringing some of its services back online on Monday...

DigiNotar Hacker Says He Has GlobalSign Database Backups, Other Data

As GlobalSign continues the investigation into the claimed compromise of its CA infrastructure, the attacker who says he breached DigiNotar and Comodo said in another message on Pastebin Wednesday that not only did he hack GlobalSign, but he has the private key used to sign the certificate for th...

GlobalSign Stops Issuing Certs As It Investigates Claims of Compromise

GlobalSign, a major certificate authority that was named by the hacker who has claimed credit for the DigiNotar hack as another CA he has compromised, has stopped issuing certificates for the time being while it investigates the claims and determines whether its network has in fact been...

Ice IX, the First Crimeware Based on the Leaked ZeuS Sources

After rumors about the supposed merger between SpyEye and ZeuS, and the public release of the source of the latter, it was logical that the range of possibilities opened up even more for new cybercriminals into the ecosystem of crimeware. Consistent with this, it was only a matter of time for the...

Rethinking DEFCON

For nearly two decades, the DEFCON hacking conference has brought together people with an interest in investigating technology and cracking security. In recent years, however, DEFCON has suffered significant growing pains. Getting between sessions meant pushing through crowds reminiscent of major...

Nokia developer forum Hacked by pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG

Nokia website Hacked by pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG NOKIA , One of the biggest Telecommunications Internet Computer software Company Website hacked by Indian Hacker "pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG" . He Deface the developer.nokia.com sub-domain of NOKIA and also Redirect Another page to Custom Created Page. Hacker...

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack !

Phone Hacker Forced to Disclose name, Who Told Him to Hack ! Court tells private investigator he must identify 'News of the World' executives who asked him to intercept voicemails. A private detective jailed for illegally intercepting voice-mail messages on behalf of a journalist at one of Rupert...

350,000 Epson Korea customers data breached

350,000 Epson Korea customers data breached Epson Korea Co., Ltd. said that hackers had breached the personal data of its 350,000 registered customers last week. An official at the South Korean affiliate of Seiko Epson Corp. said the company has reported the case to the communications regulator. ...

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed

University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee hacked - 75,000 social security numbers exposed University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee was the target. Malicious code was discovered on a document management database server. The university contacted law enforcement and after a month-long investigation realized that t...