Activist Leaks 11,000 Private Messages from WikiLeaks' Twitter Chats

An activist has just leaked thousands of private messages of an organization that's been known to publishing others' secrets. More than 11,000 direct messages from a Twitter group used by WikiLeaks and around 10 close supporters have been posted online by journalist and activist Emma Best, exposi...

Facebook Fixes Vulnerability That Led to Account Takeover, Pays Researcher $16K

Facebook quickly resolved a vulnerability in its Business Manager tool late last month that could have let an attacker take over any Facebook page. Arun Sureshkumar, a security researcher in India, disclosed the vulnerability Aug. 29; a member of Facebook’s security team, Neal Poole, informed him...

Red Line Drawn: China Recalculates Its Use of Cyber Espionage

On Sept. 25, 2015, President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed that neither government would “conduct or knowingly support cyber-enabled theft of intellectual property” for an economic advantage. Some observers hailed the agreement as a game changer for U.S. and Chinese...

Hacker reports Vulnerability in Mr. Robot Season 2 Website

Mr. Robot was the biggest 'Hacking Drama' television show of 2015 and its second season will return to American TV screens on Wednesday 13th of July 2016. However, the new promotional website for season two of Mr. Robot has recently patched a security flaw that could have easily allowed a hacker ...

China Passes Anti-Terrorism Law; Here's What You Need to Know

If you rely on encrypted services to keep your data private and, unfortunately, you are in China, then you are about to be worried. As of now Chinese government could snoop into the operations of technology companies as well as circumvent privacy protections in everyday gadgets. China So-called...

White House Executive Order Declares Cyber National Emergency

U.S. President Barack Obama last week issued an Executive Order declaring a national emergency and deputizing the Treasury Secretary and Attorney General to apply sanctions and other consequences for international actors deemed to have engaged in “cyber-enabled activities” detrimental to U.S...

US Central Command Social Media Accounts Hacked by ISIS Supporters

The official Twitter and YouTube accounts for the US military's Central Command CENTCOM that oversees operations in Central Asia and the Middle East were hacked on Monday by a hacker group claiming association with Islamic State militant group, also known as ISIS. The hacker group, appears to cal...

FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority

The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new...

NSA Director Says Agency Shares Vast Majority of Bugs it Finds

When the National Security Agency discovers a new vulnerability that looks like it might be of use in penetrating target networks, the agency considers a number of factors, including how popular the affected software is and where it’s typically deployed, before deciding whether to share the new...

Barack Obama's Twitter, Facebook, Campaign website and Email Accounts hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

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Email Spam Claims US Attacks Syria and Leads to Malware

A new phishing campaign is disseminating malicious links with emails purporting to come from CNN saying that the United States has initiated military strikes against the embattled regime of Syrian President Bashar al Assad. One such email, obtained by Kaspersky Lab and posted on Securelist, comes...

Former military adviser urged Obama to pardon Gary McKinnon

John Arquilla, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and former military adviser has urged President Barack Obama to pardon the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon and to recruit master hackers to US Cyber Command. Gary McKinnon faced extradition for hacking into Pentagon and Nasa systems, and...

Former military adviser urged Obama to pardon Gary McKinnon

John Arquilla, a professor at the U.S. Naval Academy and former military adviser has urged President Barack Obama to pardon the British computer hacker Gary McKinnon and to recruit master hackers to US Cyber Command. Gary McKinnon faced extradition for hacking into Pentagon and Nasa systems, and...

Hacking United States politics and why India and China won the election

Paul F Renda going to begin a series on hacking the politics in the united states and why India and china won the past Presidential election. This eclectic hacker look will use partial differential equations, game theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and fractals. I am going to show unequivalently tha...

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked !

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked ! Hackers of Team Sector 404 have breached the Spanish Web site for the United Nations Refugee Agency ACNUR. Group claims to be working with Anonymous. Hackers was able to breach site with SQL Injection vulnerability. They leaked...

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked !

Another United Nations Web Site Hacked, Barack Obama info Leaked ! Hackers of Team Sector 404 have breached the Spanish Web site for the United Nations Refugee Agency ACNUR. Group claims to be working with Anonymous. Hackers was able to breach site with SQL Injection vulnerability. They leaked...

Fox News Caught Sleeping After Twitter Account Hacked

UPDATE: Rupert Murdoch’s Fox News Network was caught sleeping on Independence day after unknown assailants compromised its @FoxNewsPolitics Twitter account early Monday and sent a string of messages claiming U.S. President Barack Obama had been shot and killed – a macabre display on the U.S.’s...

Barack Obama Said - I love "The Hacker News" !

Barack Obama Said - I love "The Hacker News" ! Lolz ! Don't get shocked guys , Mr. Barack Obama's official website is venerable with Cross site scripting Xss. I was just surfing through his site, and as usual my mind said to check the site ! He..he..he..he - I got a bug and create this funny link...

Congress Under Constant Barrage of Malware

Congress and other government agencies are under a cyber attack an average of 1.8 billion times a month, a number that has been growing exponentially since President Barack Obama took office. In 2008, security events caused by vectors including worms, Trojan horses and spybots averaged 8 million...

Obama Nominates DHS Intelligence Chief

President Barack Obama has nominated Caryn Wagner to be the Homeland Security Department s intelligence chief, a position that oversees information technology systems designed to share information with federal, state and local officials. If confirmed by the Senate, Wagner would direct DHS Office ...