UK Authorities Charge Suspected LulzSec Member for DDoS Attacks

A 19 year-old UK man was charged on Wednesday for the role he played in attacks on the UK’s Serious Organized Crime Agency SOCA as well as UK’s British Phonographic Industry BPI and International Federation of the Phonographic Industry IFPI, according to a statement released by the Metropolitan...

Lady Gaga's Twitter Account Hacked !

Lady Gaga's Twitter Account Hacked ! Oh snap! Lady Gaga's Twitter account was hacked on Wednesday and as a result, the Mother Monster has threatened to involve the authorities in the matter. Don't fuck with Gaga's digital rights. And come to think of it…to hack the Twitter account of the world's...

SSL and the Future of Authenticity

In the early 90’s, at the dawn of the World Wide Web, some engineers at Netscape developed a protocol for making secure HTTP requests, and what they came up with was called SSL. Given the relatively scarce body of knowledge concerning secure protocols at the time, as well the intense pressure...

DDoS Attacks On LiveJournal Target Russian Anti Corruption Blogger

Unknown attackers have launched distributed denial of service attacks on a long list of blogs hosted on the social media site LiveJournal, including the blog of a prominent anti-corruption blogger in Russia. The attacks, which began on March 24, initially targeted the LiveJournal addresses...

Microsoft Builds Legal Weapon to Take Apart Botnets

The take-down of the Rustock botnet in March gave Microsoft another head for its mantle: two in just the last year. That’s an impressive take for any private firm, and one of a string of actions against bot networks in recent years. But security experts say that the company’s success in building ...

The Problem of Issuing Certs For Unqualified Names

The recent attack on Comodo and several of its associated registration authorities has spurred quite a bit of re-examination of the way that the Web’s certificate authority infrastructure works–or doesn’t. One interesting result of this work is that the folks at the Electronic Frontier Foundation...

Comodo Says Two More Registration Authorities Compromised

Officials at Comodo have acknowledged that an additional two registration authorities affiliated with the company have been compromised in the wake of the high-profile attack on the company that was disclosed last week. However, no forged certificates were issued as a result of the new attacks. I...

Phony SSL Certificates issued for Google, Yahoo, Skype, Others

UPDATED: A major issuer of secure socket layer SSL certificates acknowledged on Wednesday that it had issued 9 fraudulent SSL certificates to seven Web domains, including those for Google.com, Yahoo.com and Skype.com following a security compromise at an affiliate firm. The attack originated from...

Nasdaq systems were hacked last year !

Federal authorities are investigating a computer advance at the aggregation that runs the Nasdaq banal exchange, the Wall Street Journal arise Friday. According to the report, which cites bearding sources, Nasdaq OMX Group computers were compromised ancient over the accomplished year, but the...

PMB Services <= 3.4.3 SQL Injection Vunerability

Exploit for php platform in category web applications ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Exploit Title: PMB Services = 3.4.3 Remote SQL Injection Author : Luchador Date : 29-01-2011 Location : Algeria Site : http://vbspiders.com Critical Lvl : Dangerous...

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...

Julian Assange: The Man Behind WikiLeaks

Who is Julian Paul Assange? Julian Paul Assange is the lean, tall, and pale 39-year-old Australian hacker at the heart of WikiLeaks. This whistle-blowing website gained attention after revealing thousands of secret Afghan battlefield reports, making Assange a target for U.S. authorities. The Enig...

Pakistan Cyber Army Opts One Sided Cease Fire, Invites Indians for the Same !!

Pakistan Cyber Army has shown the grace with one sided cease fire. In return they hope that their Indian counterparts will act the same way, said an email sent to News Channels. However, PCA warned the Indians that Pakistan Cyber Army has all the capabilities to retaliate and hack-back their...

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities !

Indishell.in Locked By Domain Provider on complaint of Government Authorities ! Email Send Via Domain Provider to Indishell Owner : On Mon, Dec 6, 2010 at 4:44 PM, [email protected] [email protected] wrote: Hello, Dear Customer . We have Received a Complaint From The Government...

Bredolab Botnet Crackdown Could Have Wide Impact

A Dutch cyber crime unit has disrupted the operation of the Bredolab botnet and arrested an Armenian man believed to be the operator of the global malware distribution hub. In a statement on Monday, the Dutch Public Ministry said that the country’s High Tech Crime Team THTC, working in cooperatio...

firefox/nss: doesn't handle IP-based wildcards in X509 certificates safely

Mozilla Firefox before 3.5.14 and 3.6.x before 3.6.11, Thunderbird before 3.0.9 and 3.1.x before 3.1.5, and SeaMonkey before 2.0.9 recognize a wildcard IP address in the subject's Common Name field of an X.509 certificate, which might allow man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL serve...

DEBIAN-CVE-2010-1192

libESMTP, probably 1.0.4 and earlier, does not properly handle a '\0' character in a domain name in the subject's Common Name CN field of an X.509 certificate, which allows man-in-the-middle attackers to spoof arbitrary SSL servers via a crafted certificate issued by a legitimate Certification...

Fraudulent eBay Cookie-Code Stuffer Busted

Federal authorities are charging a Las Vegas man with marketing a so-called “cookie-stuffing” operation, enriching himself and others while defrauding eBay along the way. Read the full article. Wired...

Sweden Will Handle NASA, Cisco Hacker

The prosecution of a Swedish man charged with breaching the computer networks of NASA and Cisco Systems and making off with sensitive source code will be transferred to Swedish authorities, US federal prosecutors said Monday. Read the full article. The Register...

Tor Directory Queries Information Disclosure Vulnerability - Linux

Tor is prone to an information disclosure vulnerability. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...