Emerging APT Mounts Mass iPhone Surveillance Campaign

A recently discovered, mass-targeted watering-hole campaign has been aiming at Apple iPhone users in Hong Kong – infecting website visitors with a newly developed custom surveillance malware. The bad code – the work of a new APT called “TwoSail Junk” – is delivered via a multistage exploit chain...

Iran Has Shut Off its Internet

Iran has gone pretty much entirely offline in the wake of nationwide protests. This is the best article detailing what's going on; this is also good. AccessNow has a global campaign to stop Internet shutdowns. TITLE EDITED TO REDUCE CONFUSION...

Disabling Security Cameras with Lasers

There's a really interesting video of protesters in Hong Kong using some sort of laser to disable security cameras. I know nothing more about the technologies involved...

Hackers deface Saudi ‘Davos in the Desert’ site against Khashoggi’s death

By Waqas The official website of Saudi Arabia's Future Investment Initiative ‘Davos in the Desert’ was hit by a cyber attack in which hackers defaced its homepage to protest the brutal murder of The Washington Post's journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey and killings of innocent civilians in Yemen...

Amazon Comes Under Fire for Facial Recognition Platform

Facial-recognition technology has long been touted as a useful tool for law enforcement, but the ability of systems like Amazon’s Rekognition platform to identify large numbers of people at once in a single video or still frame has raised the hackles of privacy advocates. The American Civil...

DDoS attacks in Q3 2017

News Overview In the third quarter of 2017, the trends of the preceding quarters continued to develop further. The number of DDoS attacks in China, the United States, South Korea and Russia increased, which were reflected in the statistics we gathered for botnets. A sharp surge in the number more...

Book Review: Twitter and Tear Gas, by Zeynep Tufekci

There are two opposing models of how the Internet has changed protest movements. The first is that the Internet has made protesters mightier than ever. This comes from the successful revolutions in Tunisia 2010-11, Egypt 2011, and Ukraine 2013. The second is that it has made them more ineffectual...

Anonymous Hackers Claim to Identify the Cop Who killed Mike Brown in Ferguson

Members of the international hacker collective Anonymous have claimed they have identified the Ferguson, Missouri law enforcement officer involved in the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, an unarmed teenager killed on Saturday, which sparked days of protest and raised racial tensions. The hacktivi...

Joomla com_bayesiannaivefilter Component <= 1.1 Inclusion Vulnerability

No description provided by source. Pablin77 - XTech Inc Group combayesiannaivefilter Mambo Component Remote File Inclusion mosConfigabsolutepath Discovered By Pablin77 contact: Pablin77 at Argentina dot com Lebanon-Israel...STOP! No War!!! peace, that's all This is a massive cyber-protest, we are...

Rise in website Defacement attacks by Hackers around the World

Last week we noticed a rise in cyber attacks particularly - website Defacement attacks on many governments and organizations of different countries by the hackers around the world. Targeted countries include Singapore, Mexico, Philippines, Australia, Egypt, United States, Syria and many more. Out...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

Anonymous hackers deface United States Sentencing Commission website

Anonymous hackers deface the official website of U.S. Sentencing Commission website ussc.gov on Friday under a new campaign called "Operation Last Resort" in memory of Reddit co-founder Aaron Swartz and also threatening to release a massive WikiLeaks-style exposure of sensitive U.S. government...

Payback, Indonesian president website defaced

Hackers crew Jember Hacker terrorists JHT deface the official website of Indonesian president https://www.presidensby.info with a message reads, "This is a PayBack From Jember Hacker Team". Hackers deface website of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono SBY apparently in protest at growing corruptio...

Payback, Indonesian president website defaced

Hackers crew Jember Hacker terrorists JHT deface the official website of Indonesian president http://www.presidensby.info with a message reads, “This is a PayBack From Jember Hacker Team”. Hackers deface website of president Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono SBY apparently in protest at growing corruption...

Acer Domains Defaced and 20k Credentials leaked

While Exploring Zone-H , today we found that Turkish Ajan Hacker Group hacked into few Acer Indian domains and Deface the sites. Hacker also dump the complete data of 20,000 users and upload the file on a file sharing website. 6 sub domains are reported to be hacked 24 hours before and having...

Anonymous Takes Down NISD Over Student Tracking

Hacker group Anonymous claims he took down North-side Independent School District's website www.NISD.net on Saturday to protest the district's use of tracking badges. On Sunday, Nov. 25, the same hacktivist released a statement via Pastebin giving the school district "1-3 days" to meet with paren...

Anonymous Threatens to Shutdown Facebook - Dude, do you have any Idea ?

Do you believe that it is possible to shut down Facebook with a cyber attack on 5th November 2012, which is not even organised in a proper way ? Few activists on internet threatened to shut down Zynga and Facebook, after the gaming giant announced it was laying off five per cent of its work force...

Anonymous hacks 20 million accounts to promote Operation Jubilee

Anonymous hackers claimed that they compromise over 20 million user accounts worldwide this year to promote Operation Jubilee. Large community web sites were targeted to gain access to users' contact information. Many administrators denied that their databases were at risk while all their data wa...

IslamToday - Islamic magazine website Hacked

Hacker going by name "VenomSec" hacked the website of one of the biggest Islamic magazine IslamToday https://magazine.islamtoday.net/ is an online magazine which is operated from Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia and He leaked the database of the site also on a note in Pastebin. At the time of...