BSNL telecom server hacked by Anonymous Group against Section 66A of IT Act

The Homepage of BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited http://www.bsnl.co.in/ was hacked today morning by hacking group Anonymous. BSNL is an Indian state-owned telecommunications company, the largest provider of fixed telephony and fourth largest mobile telephony provider in India, and is also a...

National Telecommunications Commission website defaced

Another Halloween hack, National Telecommunications Commission NTC was hacked Thursday noon, showed a pop-up message saying "Sh4d0wFiendh4x0r and Wizkidl33t were here!" and would later redirect to another page ntc.gov.ph/halloween displaying the hacker's message - "hello and welcome: presented by...

Bank Fraud Suspects Net $1M in Citibank Casino Scheme

Fourteen individuals were charged late last week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Glendale, Calif. Police Department found they were behind a scheme that extracted more than $1 million from Citibank cash-advance kiosks in Southern...

New Verizon Marketing Initiative May Violate Users' Privacy

Verizon has drawn the ire of its customers and privacy advocates this week because a new initiative launched by the telecom company may violate users’ privacy. A new marketing program dubbed Precision Market Insights extracts information about Verizon’s customers on Android and iOS platforms...

Philippine court suspends Anti Cybercrime law

The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended implementation of Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act for 120 days, while it decides whether certain provisions violate civil liberties. The law, signed last month, aims to combat Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft,...

We Are Being Held in Cyber Handcuffs

Hello my Princes of Peace, Warriors of the Revolution, Princesses of the cause, I want you to take two minutes and watch this video: This video is the epitome of the ignorance and arrogance of governments all over the world in response to our cyber war revolution. As you will see, the power peopl...

Anonymous Brings Government Sites Offline in Philippines to Petition Cybercrime Law

The National Telecommunications Commission NTC of the Philipines has asked for assistance from law enforcement after a handful of government sites in the country, including the NTC’s site, were brought offline this morning in a hack allegedly carried out by PrivateX, an offshoot of the hacktivist...

Call Of Duty Cross Site Scripting

Exploit Title: callofduty xss Date: 13.08.2012 Author: TayfunBasoglu Tested: BackTrack 5 Platform: Php https://profile.callofduty.com/p/login.act?redirectUrl=XSS "; alert"TayfunBasoglu";" https://profile.callofduty.com/p/login.act?redirectUrl= "; alert"TayfunBasoglu";"...

Library of Congress Owned

There are a number of US government branches, offices, and agencies that, by their very nature, have giant targets painted on their computer networks. America’s national library would not seem to be among that lot, but alas, not even the Library of Congress could escape the ire of hackers this...

Microsoft Names Two Alleged Zeus Botnet Operators

Three months after initially disrupting the Zeus botnet, Microsoft officials have named two of the people who they think are behind the malware network, a pair of Ukrainians who already are sitting in jail in the UK. From the beginning of the anti-Zeus operation, which became public in March,...

Report: TeamP0ison Hacker "TriCk" Pleads Guilty For Hacking Tony Blair's E-mail

TeamP0ison hacker and newly minted 18 year-old Junaid Hussain of Birmingham, England – a.k.a “TriCk” pleaded guilty last week to hacking charges for a string of attacks on some of the U.K.’s leading political figures, including former Prime Minister Tony Blair, according to a published report in...

Twitter Denies Hacktivists Behind Severe Outage

Twitter officials say it was a “cascading bug” and not the handiwork of hacktivists that brought down the microblogging site today in two separate outages. “This wasn’t due to a hack or our new office or Euro 2012 or GIF avatars, as some have speculated today,” Mazen Rawashdeh, the company’s vice...

FTC Bares Teeth, Levies $800k Fine Against Data Brokerage Firm

In a first-of-its-kind ruling, the Federal Trade Commission FTC told data brokerage firm Spokeo it has until tomorrow to hand over $800,000 to the Treasurer of the United States. The ruling came in a case addressing the sale of personal Internet information for the purpose of job applicant...

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily Since 9/11, the Agency has been able to "spy" on electronic communications without the need for court-approved warrants. The group has a large complex in Utah that cost $2 billion and holds the data. In 2006 the New York Times...

Malware Poses as US Department of Justice Violation Notice

Posing as the US Department of Justice DoJ, a new variant of the Citadel Malware called Reveton is responsible for a ransomware campaign that attempts to extort $100 from its victims. The infections are occurring after users are lured to a drive-by download site where a dropper installs the Citad...

Fat Finger Error Lands Welsh Health Board $114K Fine

An e-mail gaffe and a spelling mistake by a doctor led to a breach of the UK’s Data Protection Act last year, according to a press release by the Information Commissioner’s Office today. The Aneurin Bevan Health Board ABHB in South Wales was fined £70,000 about $114,000 USD after it mistakenly se...

UK Govt. Investigating London Marathon Data Breach That Spilled Info On 38,000

The UK Information Commissioner’s Office ICO said it is looking into a possible data breach of the Website used by organizers of the London Marathon – major, international sporting event that attracted more than 37,000 runners for the 37th running on April 22nd. According to a BBC report, the hom...

Stealing Corporate Data Doesn't Violate Federal Computer Fraud Law

In a ruling that could be felt throughout the business world, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in California ruled that a man did not violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA after pilfering contacts from the client database of his former employer to help jumpstart his competi...

UK Teen, TeaMp0isoN Member, Arrested For 'Phone Bomb' Attack

A British teenager believed to be the hacker TriCk, a founding member of TeaMp0isoN has reportedly been arrested after launching a denial of service attack against an anti-terrorism hotline in the UK. The 17 year-old, a resident of Birmingham in the UK, was arrested on April 12 in connection with...

Wired: Courts Back Government After Tech Company Challenges National Security Letter Gag Rule

Wired’s ThreatLevel blog is digging into the story of technology companies pushing back against the government’s use of super-secret National Security Letters NSLs to collect information on “persons of interest” to the FBI earlier this year. According to the Wired account, an unnamed company – ve...