Report: Google May Face $500m Fine Over Rogue Pharma Ads

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that search giant Google is close to reaching a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over an investigation of the company’s policy of running ads from online pharmacies that operate outside U.S. borders and in violation of U.S. law. Google has not made ...

Sony Apologizes, Offers $1 Million Insurance After Hacking !

Sony Corp. 6758 Chairman Howard Stringer apologized and offered U.S. customers of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online entertainment services a year of free identity- theft protection after the system was crippled by hackers. Japan's biggest consumer-electronics exporter will offer a $1 millio...

October, 2006: 9.6 million Sony batteries recalled after reports of overheating

This was just the first in what would prove to be a string of embarrassments to the Japanese firm over the manufacture of laptop batteries. It began with reports in both Japan and the U.S. about Sony-manufactured lithium ion batteries that were overheating and, in some cases, bursting into flames...

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details !

Hackers steal 250,000 X Factor Details ! The FBI is reportedly investigating after hackers broke into Simon Cowell's computer network. Details of more than 250,000 X Factor entrants are said to have been stolen and Simon and bosses at American TV network Fox, are said to be scared that the thieve...

Sony Says Additional 25m Customers Exposed in Breach

A breach that started with the PlayStation Network has also affected Sony Online Entertainment’s 25 million customers, the company acknowledged on Tuesday. The electronics giant posted a press release on the Website of its Sony Online Entertainment division that provided additional details behind...

U.S. federal lab linked to Stuxnet breached !

A federally funded U.S. lab that is suspected to have been involved in finding the vulnerabilities in Siemens SCADA systems used by the Stuxnet worm has shut down the Internet connection for its employees following the discovery of a breach into the facility's systems. The Oak Ridge National...

DDOS attack on Change.org from China !

DDOS attack on Change.org from China ! Change.org, an online petitioning platform, has come under an ongoing distributed denial of service DDoS attack originating from China after the site hosted a call urging Chinese authorities to release artist Ai Weiwei from custody. The attacks, which starte...

HBGary: Silence, Sloppy Reporting Hyped Anonymous Hack

After months of almost total silence, security firm HBGary issued a statement to counter what it claims were inaccurate media reports about a February security breach that spilled thousands of e-mail messages onto the Internet. The letter, published on HBGary’s Web site and positioned as an “Open...

WordPress.Com Hacked, Hacker root the Server !

WordPress.Com Hacked, Hacker Root the Server ! The parent company that operates WordPress, made an announcement this morning that it has hacked, resulting what the company said was a low-level root break-in to several of their servers. The company warned that potentially anything on those servers...

Hugh Grant's Turns Snitch

Hugh Grant went all mafia informant when he concealed a microphone on his persons in order to out former News of the World journalists that had been involved in a rather shady phone-hacking scandal. Evidently, News of the World has, for some time, been implicated in a phone-hacking scandal whereb...

Hackers steal Dell 1000's customer information !

Hackers steal Dell 1000's customer information ! The personal information of thousands of Australians has been stolen by hackers who raided a US-based database company, in what some experts are calling the biggest data theft in US history. Dell Australia says customer data was "exposed" by an...

HBA Crew (german carder forum) get hacked !

Now it's official: HBA-crew v2, was hacked! Ip 'were logged, Database is public! An official statement is as early as the first April before. But was it so funny but not that it was serious: Hi, Now we can not hide it anymore. geloaded Since yesterday evening by a leak in the server the entire...

Report: NSA Looks Into NASDAQ Hack

The National Security Agency has joined in a cyber forensic investigation off a major attack on NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc. which operates the NASDAQ stock exchange, according to a report on Wednesday by Bloomberg. As reported by Threatpost, the tech-heavy stock exchange was discovered to be infiltrat...

National Security Agency (NSA) to Investigate Nasdaq Hack

The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency's precise role in the investigation hasn't been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks ma...

Sophisticated Attack Yields Data On IEEE Members

IEEE, the world’s leading society for technical professionals, has warned some 800 members that their credit card and personal information may have been stolen. The FBI has been notified of the breach. The group disclosed the November, 2010 breach in a letter to the New Hampshire Attorney General...

European Union Parliament Under Cyber Attack !

Following on the heels of a sophisticated cyber assault against the European Union's Commission and External Action Service, reports have surfaced that the EU Parliament's information systems are also being targeted in an attack. Officials indicate that the attacks have successfully penetrated th...

Chinese hackers suspected in compromise of Australian PM's computer

Chinese hackers suspected in compromise of Australian PM's computer The parliamentary computers of Prime Minister Julia Gillard and at least two other senior ministers are suspected of being hacked. Ms Gillard's parliamentary computer, along with those of several cabinet ministers including Forei...

Thousands of Bank of America Accounts Hacked !

Thousands of Bank of America customers' account information could be in jeopardy after a major security breach. Christy Clark went to a Royal Oak drug store Friday, but when her debit card was declined, she knew something was wrong. "I was very embarrassed," Clark said. She went straight to the...

Former employee held for hacking server of BPO unit in Hyderabad !

A former software professional on Saturday was arrested for allegedly hacking the server of a city-based BPO company, where he previously worked, police said. The hacker identified as Shaik Mahammad Ghouse Bhasa allegedly secured unauthorised access to the computer systems of M/s IVOICE Network...

HBGary E-mails: DuPont, Other Firms Hit In Aurora Attack

Emails unearthed by the HBGary hack reveal that Chinese hackers compromised the networks of chemical company, DuPont, and more than a dozen others high profile Western firms in late 2009 as part of a wide-scale hack since dubbed “Operation Aurora.” The revelations, gleaned from leaked e-mail,...