An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government

An Open Letter From ANONYMOUS HACKERS to the UK Government Dear UK government, We are Anonymous. It has come to our attention that you deemed it necessary to arrest five of our fellow anons for their participation in the DDoS attacks against PayPal, Mastercard, and others, that have been carried...

Amazon Web Hosting Company Is now Hosting DNS Service !

Web hosting company has announced that Amazon would have access to the Domain Name System DNS services, the game will give the DNS hosting as well. Thus, Route 53 will become part of the web hosting, pay-as-you-go DNS hosting service, which pays the amount of DNS issues can be resolved. DNS is th...

Wikileaks said - No, We Do Not Hack The Icelandic Parliament !

Although some of the United States has accused the Wikileaks to steal data from peer-to-peer file-sharing, the second, was the guest of the payment to the surface in Iceland late last week: that the group informant in some a computer spy planted "in the Parliament building. A brief article in the...

Hacker Fantasy Cyberworld Of Good And Evil : Wikileaks !

What is the future of political protest, as in a highly digitized world? We follow the real-time display via Wikileaks Cablegate. The day of the cables has been convicted for release in major newspapers worldwide, called a "political hack" cut the Wikileaks site with a distributed denial of servi...

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...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

As Uncle Sam Cracks Down on Leaks, A Look At Ten Infamous Insiders

In the wake of Cablegate, the release of hundreds of thousands of pages of confidential diplomatic cables by the whistle blower site Wikileaks, the Obama Administration is cracking down on loose data management practices of the type that made Cablegate possible. But could you spot a malicious...

One-third of malware was created in 2010 !

One-third of existing malware was created in 2010, a report has revealed. Anti-malware laboratory PandaLabs discovered the findings in its 2010 Annual Security Report which detailed a year of huge cyber-crime activity. It revealed that around 34 per cent of the 60 million existing viruses that ha...

'Anonymous' Hacktivists Attack African Government Sites !

"Anonymous," the shadowy hacktivist group that's attacked PayPal, the record industry and the Church of Scientology, has upped the ante: It's now taking on entire countries. The group launched massive distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks on at least eight Tunisian government websites...

WikiLeaks Prompts Federal Agencies to Assess Infosec Programs for Sensitive Data

In response to the embarrassment and perceived threat resulting from the WikiLeaks disclosures in recent months, the Office of Management and Budget has issued a hefty memo with pages of questions that federal agencies must use to conduct an initial assessment of their programs to handle and...

FBI Chases Pro-Wikileaks Hackers !

U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, has asked all countries work together to jointly support track hackers who managed to paralyze the site Wikileaks 'enemy' Wikileaks. Reported by Yahoo News from the Smoking Gun website on Saturday 01.01.2011, FBI showed detailed written statement about the...

Pro-WikiLeaks hackers deface Zimbabwe government websites !

Hacktivists have struck a blow against the regime in Zimbabwe by attacking a number of government websites. The cyber-assault appears to have been in support of newspapers who published secret cables in the ongoing WikiLeaks saga, to the annoyance of the-powers-that-be in the country. Grace Mugab...

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...

4chan back online after being downed by DDoS attacks !

A coordinated DDoS attack from an unknown source temporarily knocked 4chan offline in the latest attack against the high-profile group. The 4chan forum helped to create and cultivate the Anonymous hacker group that has used DDoS attacks against numerous companies in recent months as part of...

Threatpost's Five Security Trends to Watch in 2011

2010 ended with dire predictions about a new age of Internet enabled hacker-activism, but the big story in 2011 will be the explosion in IP enabled, loosely secured, Internet connected stuff. It’s the time of year when all of us gaze into the crystal ball and think of what the next 12 months has ...

Lessons From the WikiLeaks DDoS Attacks

Denial of Service DoS attacks are a common method used to take down Websites, servers, or even sections of the Internet. These attacks typically come in two forms: Distributed DoS DDos and DoS attacks. DDoS create a flood of traffic to a Website, server, or section of the internet that overwhelms...

WikiLeaks.org Website Moves to Web Host ServInt !

Web hosting provider ServInt www.servint.net is apparently hosting WikiLeaks.org According to the hosting history records , ServInt has been hosting WikiLeaks.org since December 18. The controversial whistle-blower site was previously hosted by Silicon Valley Web Hosting, which began hosting the...

Top 7 Key Network Security Trends to Watch in 2011

Network security is on everyone's mind as 2010 comes to an end. Adam Powers, CTO of Atlanta-based Lancope, offers insights into expected trends for 2011. 1. IT Consumerization and Internal Threats The introduction of consumer devices into corporate networks is reshaping security strategies...

Media, Human Rights Sites Suffer With Rise In DDoS Attacks

The recent wave of online actions by supporters and opponents of information leaking site Wikileaks has focused attention on the phenomenon of distributed denial of service DDoS attacks. But a study published by Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society this week concludes that...

WikiLeaks

Many people in the security and privacy communities have been aware of the activities of WikiLeaks for several years now, but in 2010 the group hit the mainstream like a hurricane. First came document dumps that revealed embarrassing details about the way the U.S. has conducted the war in Iraq...