Lady Gaga Website The Latest in String of Celebrity Hacks

A collective of hackers known as SwagSec claims to have broken into the UK website of Lady Gaga and made off with information on thousands of registered fans, according to a report from the UK’s Mirror. The hack, just the latest in a string of attacks on high profile artists, was made public afte...

Microsoft Offers $250k Reward for Rustock Information

Microsoft is now offering a $250,000 reward to help track down the people behind the notorious Rustock botnet. The company, which helped take down the botnet several months ago, said that it already has some good information on the crew behind the network and is now looking for information to bri...

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew Hacking Group "NN-Crew" hacked into server used by Germany's Federal Police and stolen a large amount of data used to GPS-track suspects under surveillance. The hacked data published by NN-Crew included several usernames and passwords along with...

U.S. Secret Service Investigating Fox News Hack after Obama Messages

HED: U.S. Secret Service investigating Fox News Hack after Obama assassination messages posted DEK: The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were...

Fox News Caught Sleeping After Twitter Account Hacked

UPDATE: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network was caught sleeping on Independence day after unknown assailants compromised its @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account early Monday and sent a string of messages claiming U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot and killed – a macabre display on the U.S.’s...

Unisys/DHS Hack

A congressional investigation was launched after hackers compromised a number of Homeland Security computers and transferred sensitive data to several Chinese language Web sites. The investigation deemed that Unisys, a government contractor that had been hired to secure the department’s systems,...

Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center

Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center Indonesian and Australian police officially launched a joint project called the Cyber Crime Investigation Center. The center was officiated by Indonesian National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo and Australian Federal Poli...

Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center

Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center Indonesian and Australian police officially launched a joint project called the Cyber Crime Investigation Center. The center was officiated by Indonesian National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo and Australian Federal Poli...

FBI searches LulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio

FBI searchesLulzSec suspect home in Hamilton, Ohio The investigation into the LulzSec hacking team continues, with news that FBI agents have searched a house in Hamilton, Ohio. FBI investigation believed to have been fuelled by interviews with Ryan Cleary, but did not lead to charges. Federal...

LulzSec Calling It Quits

The shadowy hacking group LulzSec has posted a message saying that it is disbanding after just 50 days. The group posted messages to its Twitter account, and a letter to its followers on Pastebin.com, the online file sharing site. In the letter, the group said it was disbanding so that its member...

Alleged LulzSec Member Arrested. CIA, Sony Hacks At Issue

UK authorities have arrested an 19 year-old from Essex, England who is believed to be a member of the anarchic group Lulzsec following an investigation by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and British intelligence. The unnamed man was arrested for violations of the UK’s Computer Misuse Act...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind

UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...

ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack

ADAG Group ChairmanAnil Ambani 's email under phishing attack Some Unknown hackers attempted a phishing attack in May on Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani's email ID. The hacking case is now being investigated by the cyber crime cell of Mumbai police after ADAG officials...

Citigroup Breach Now Reportedly Affecting More Than 360k

More than 360,000 North American credit cards were exposed in May when an attack on Citigroup infiltrated that company’s card account management website according to a report by IDG News. The breach exposed the names, account numbers, and contact information of account holders, but not other...

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt It's the second time Google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on China . On 1st of June we have Reported that : Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia. This time Google says unknown hackers from Jinan, China, a ci...

Rustock Author May Be Former Google Hopeful

As Microsoft’s crusade against the Rustock botnet continues, a new article from Brian Krebs claims the formerly prolific botnet’s author may be a self-described mathematician and software engineer who once sought employment from Google. According to Krebs, who cites court documents filed by the...

Sony Reply to Congress : We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Us !

Sony Reply to Congress : We Still Don't Know Who Hacked Us ! Updates from the latest answers submitted by PlayStation executive Kaz Hirai, responding to the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing, and Trade. Hirai and this subcommittee last discussed PSN...

Q&A: Database Security Expert David Litchfield

With all of the talk around the importance of web and application security, why is there so little focus on the corporate databases, which store the most valuable data? Last week, at the annual Computer Enterprise and Investigations Conference, Threatpost had the opportunity to sit down with note...

NIIT Technologies GIS subsidiary's server hacked by Tigers of Indian Cyber (TIC)

NIIT Technologies GIS subsidiary's server hacked by Tigers of Indian Cyber TIC A server belonging to NIIT GIS Limited, an NIIT Technologies subsidiary, was compromised last week using a SQL injection attack by a hacking group calling itself the 'Tigers of Indian Cyber' TIC. TIC posted the...