Punjab Education Department E-mail Hacked !!

Hoshiarpur : In an incident that has left teachers in schools in Hoshiarpur district of Punjab face red, the official email address of the school board here has been pirated and pornographic material was distributed to 400 public schools in the district. "We are using this e-mail address to send...

Hackers hack into University of Sydney !!

A hacker has targeted the University of Sydney in order to show administrators their faulty security practices, but the matter has triggered an investigation. An internal email sent by vice-chancellor Michael Spence says the university has already hired "two of Australia's leading web security...

ZDNet Security Blogger Goes Missing in Bulgaria

A prominent blogger and security researcher, Dancho Danchev, has gone missing and security publications, including Threatpost.com, are asking for help in locating him. Danchev, who contributed regular posts to ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, part of CBS Interactive, has been missing since late October...

Fine Gael website Hacked by Anonymous hackers !

Ireland's main opposition party confirms that the personal details of up to 2,000 people have been compromised by the attack Ireland's main opposition party's website has been hacked into by a group which has recently come to prominence for attacks on companies related to the WikiLeaks controvers...

Thurston sees largest identity theft case in the county's history !!

An Olympia-area man has been arrested in what the Thurston County Sheriff's Office says is the largest identity-theft case in the county's history. More than 1,000 victims statewide had their driver's licenses, credit cards and Social Security numbers stolen, according to the Sheriff's Office...

DeKalb website hacked !

It appeared briefly this week that all DeKalb County's properties were owned by a hacker. The county's property appraisal website was hacked and listed every property owner as "Hacked by Red xD," CEO's spokesman Burke Brennan confirmed for The Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Brennan insisted none o...

Beware : Google illegally collected private info !

Police confirmed Thursday that Google, the world's largest online search engine operator, illegally collected and stored personal data sent over unsecured Wi-Fi wireless networks here while creating the localized version of its online mapping service. Korea and 15 other countries, including the...

Kerala cyber police closing in on software theft culprits !

Thiruvananthapuram, Jan 5 IANS The cyber wing of the Kerala Police Wednesday claimed it had got vital clues about the theft of software source codes and intellectual property data from a Kochi-based IT company. The investigation is progressing on the right track, V.K. Ajith Mohan of the police...

Microsoft Warns Of Security Hole in Windows Graphics Engine

Microsoft issued an advisory to Windows users about a security vulnerability in a common Windows component that could be used by remote attackers to run malicious code on machines running the Windows XP, Vista and Windows Server 2003 operating systems. The company said on Tuesday that it is...

Cyber crime trail leads to Winona State students !

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation dubbed "Operation eMule" has led federal agents to a pair of 22-year-old foreign-exchange students in Winona who are suspected to be part of a sophisticated cyber crime ring based in Vietnam that has been misusing the identities of countless...

Popular Indian news portal - indiablooms.com Hacked By PakBugs !

Popular Indian news portal www.indiablooms.com, the online version of the national news agency India Blooms News Service IBNS, was hacked by the Pakistani hackers on Sunday afternoon. "Pakistani Hackers- Your site has been Hacked" said the redirected page of the site which was hacked around India...

FBI raids ISP in Anonymous DDoS investigation !

Authorities in the U.S. and Germany have raided Internet Service Providers in hopes of tracking down the hackers who launched distributed denial of service DDoS attacks against Web sites such as Visa.com, PayPal.com, and Mastercard.com earlier this month. In documents posted Wednesday to the...

Its 3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down !

3rd week after attack & still CBI website remains down ! The website of the much sought-after Central Bureau of Investigation CBI continues to remain inactive, three weeks after it was hacked into by the so-called Pakistani Cyber Army. As a result, many have been badly hit, particularly the media...

Texas Man Indicted for Hacking Eden Prairie Business, Stealing $274,000

A federal indictment unsealed earlier today alleges that a 35-year-old Texas man hacked into the computer network of an Eden Prairie business, stealing approximately $274,000. The indictment, filed in Minneapolis on October 13, 2010, charges Jeremy Parker of Houston, Texas, with one count of...

India's Gov't Websites Still under Cyber Attacks !

Cyber crime experts in India are warning about the security flaws of many government websites, claiming the recent cyber attacks by Pakistani hackers have spurred little action in terms of enhanced cyber security. "Websites like that of Income Tax of India has loopholes and it can be hacked...

Thousands of Social Security Numbers Stolen in New York Data Breach

Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City reports that a subcontractor, who was working for the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance on computer infrastructure upgrades, illegally...

Police Change Approach to Phone Hacking Case Involving Andy Coulson

The police have changed their approach to a phone hacking incident that could affect Andy Coulson. Coulson, the media adviser for the Prime Minister, was previously an editor for the News of the World. The police have taken steps to halt the flow of information that could implicate high-ranking...

Hackers Steal Customer Data from McDonald's Partner Database

McDonald's is collaborating with law enforcement after malicious hackers infiltrated another company's database and stole information about an unknown number of the fast-food chain's customers. McDonald's has alerted potentially affected customers via email and through a message on its website. "...

Genesco Inc. Confirms Payment Card Data Breach in U.S. Stores

Specialty retailer Genesco Inc. announced on Friday that it experienced a criminal intrusion into the part of its computer network that processes payment card transactions. Some card details might have been compromised. However, the company quickly secured the affected network segment and express...

Dutch Arrest 16 Year Old for Wikileaks Attack

Dutch authorities issued a statement Thursday saying that a 16 year old boy has been taken into custody for involvement in attacks against the Web sites of Mastercard and Visa. The boy, who was not named, was due to be arraigned by a judge in Rotterdam on Friday. The arrest is the first known...