June 2011 – Epic Games & Codemasters Hacks

Happening almost simultaneously with the hacks at Nintendo, Bethesda, and other firms, the Epic Games hack spilled email addresses and encrypted passwords online and prompted the company to reset all of its users’ passwords. Codemasters had it bad too: their breach exposed the personal informatio...

Why Hackers Can't take down DNS root servers ?

Why Hackers Can't take down DNS root servers ? Interpol Chief Ronald Noble on Friday warned that a group of hackers might try to shut down internet service tomorrow. The hacking group, Anonymous, is protesting against several reasons including the crash of Wall Street and irresponsible leaders...

After Parting Ways With Anonymous Target Barr, Former Employer Goes Dark

The Web site of Sayres and Associates was offline Tuesday, just days after news broke that the firm had parted ways with Aaron Barr, Anonymous’s most famous victim. The reasons for the site’s disappearance, and for Barr’s departure are unclear. The site, sayresandassociates.com, could not be...

Woohooo! After #SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on #SOPA, #PIPA

Woohooo! After SopaBlackout, Congress Postpones Action on SOPA, PIPA A big hurrah to you!!!!! We've won for now SOPA and PIPA were dropped by Congress today. The votes we've been scrambling to mobilize against have been cancelled. When the entire Internet gets angry, Congress takes notice. Both t...

FCC to Investigate BART Wireless Blackout

The FCC is launching a probe into the August 11, 2011 decision by San Francisco’s Bay Area Rapid Transit BART to cut-off wireless communication services in their tunnels to disrupt planned protests. The investigation comes almost four months after BART operators used a wireless blackout to dampen...

Libyan authorities restrict internet access !

The Libyan government could pull the plug on the country's internet as protests sweep the country. On Friday and Saturday night the country experienced a near black-out, with continued patchy access this week, according to a Google Transparency Report. Libya has had periods of partial or total...

Egypt Back Online

After almost a week without Internet access, Egypt blinked back online Wednesday, according to report published by Renesys. As of one PM Wednesday, Cairo time, the country’s main Internet Service Providers ISPs appear to have restored their service, providing Net access to the strife torn middle...

Facebook Owned 42% of Egyptian Web Traffic Before Blackout

How important a role did Facebook play in the popular revolution that swept Egypt last week? According to data from security firm zScaler: it was very important. Fully 42% of the country’s Web surfing on January 27, the day before Egypt’s main ISPs abruptly severed ties to the Internet. Activity ...

Low: Red Hat Security Advisory: libvirt security and bug fix update

Updated libvirt packages that fix two security issues and three bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having low security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores, which give detailed severity ratings...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.series-megaupload.com

Security researcher BlackOut, has submitted on 21/06/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.series-megaupload.com, which at the time of submission ranked 10942 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 05/07/2010. It ...