Roman Andreev wins Facebook Hacker Cup 2012

Roman Andreev wins Facebook Hacker Cup 2012 25 of the world's best hackers gathered for Facebook's 2nd annual Hacker Cup event being held at its offices in Menlo Park. Roman Andreev from Russia completed one problem correctly in 1 hr 4 min and won Facebook's Hacker Cup to get his name placed on a...

Google Launches New Privacy Policy to Worldwide Criticism

Search giant Google rolled out a sweeping new privacy policy on Thursday, despite continuing opposition from countries in Europe and Asia to the changes. The company announced a sweeping revision to dozens of overlapping privacy plans in January and set March 1st as the date on which the new,...

Data Stealing Malware on Internal Computer of Japan Space Agency

Data Stealing Malware on Internal Computer of Japan Space Agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA announce that their computer has been infected with a virus, leading to a possible leak of data on its H-II Transfer Vehicle HTV the craft popularly known as Konotori that hauls cargo for the...

Japan developing cyber weapons for Counter Attacks

Japan developing cyber weapons for Counter Attack Japanese technology firm Fujitsu is developing a 'seek and destroy' virus which could identify and combat hacking and other cyber threats in a more effective way. The weapon is the culmination of a 179 million yen three-year project entrusted by t...

Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Core Security - Corelabs Advisory http://corelabs.coresecurity.com/ Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass 1. Advisory Information Title: Apple OS X Sandbox Predefined Profiles Bypass Advisory ID: CORE-2011-0919 Advisory URL:...

Hackers Hit Japanese Parliament, Nab Log-ins and E-mails

Hackers believed to be working for the Peoples Republic of China hit computers in Japan’s Parliament with a virus according to reports from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Government computers and a server used by three members of the lower house were targeted by a sustaine...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

Report: Japan Fesses Up to First Cyber Attack on Defense Industry

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHI, Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters. The attack, first discovered in early August, is believed to have...

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...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

PlayStation Network Full Restoration by End of Week, Except in Japan

More than a month after suffering an “external intrusion” that shut down the PlayStation Network PSN, Sony announced today that it will fully restore PSN services by the end of the week in most countries. However, PSN users in Sony’s native Japan will have to wait, as the Japanese government awai...

Japan Keeps PlayStation Network Dark, Citing Security Concerns

Sony’s PlayStation Network began a gradual restoration process on Saturday following a hack that brought about nearly a month of downtime. But in Sony’s home country of Japan, an official says the government will keep the network dark until it is convinced that the company has taken adequate step...

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million users personal info hacked in Japan !

Sony 3rd massive leak - 100 million user's personal info hacked in Japan ! Personal information on a total of 100 million people has possibly been hacked and leaked from online game and other Internet services provided by the Sony Group worldwide, sparking fears that it could develop into the...

Remote DoS Flaw in BIND Fixed in New Version

The Internet Systems Consortium released an advisory today informing BIND users that certain types of queries to name servers can cause the servers to crash and create a denial-of-service condition. This remotely exploitable bug only affects BIND users with the Response Policy Zones RPZ feature...

Waves of Tsunami Spam Continue

There has been no respite from the tsunami of scam-emails taking advantage of the natural disaster-nuclear meltdown combo punch that is hitting Japan, according to research from Kaspersky Labs. As pleas for charitable donations for victims of the magnitude 9 earthquake in northern Japan fill the...

Website collecting donations for Japan hacked !

Hackers took down the website of a Tennessee nonprofit that was collecting donations for Japan and replaced the home page with profanity. Japan-America Society of Tennessee executive director Leigh Weiland said hackers broke into the site sometime Wednesday night. The group's web-hosting company...

Experts Warn Of Japan Earthquake, Tsunami Spam

As the Pacific Rim braces for deadly Tsunami’s spawned by today’s magnitude 8.9 earthquake in Japan, the SANS Internet Storm Center says users should be on the lookout for a different kind of Tsunami: scam e-mail and Web pages looking to turn curiosity about the events in Japan into illicit gain...

Nintendo 3DS also got Hacked Within 24 Hours after Release !

The new Nintendo 3DS didn't last 24 hours in Japan before hackers jailbroke the device to support Revolution For DS R4 flash cards that play old Nintendo games. Although R4 cards were built for Nintendo DS, the hackers show how they can use the storage cards to run homebrew and older Nintendo gam...