United Nations Rules in Favor of WikiLeaks Founder Julian Assange

VICTORY! As a result of the legal action against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by both British and Swedish Governments, he has been arbitrarily detained by the United Kingdom and Sweden since his arrest in London over five years ago. However, Assange filed a complaint against both the...

Kim Dotcom loses Fight Against Extradition to the US

Internet millionaire and Megaupload founder Kim Dotcom and his three associates are eligible for extradition to the US to face criminal charges over massive copyright infringement on Megaupload now-shuttered, the court has ruled citing "overwhelming" evidence. On Tuesday afternoon, New Zealand...

Police Can't Force You To Unlock Your Phone, It violates Fifth Amendment Rights

Can the Cops can make you unlock your iPhone? ..."NO" According to a recent Federal Court’s ruling, it is not okay for police to force suspects to unlock their phones with a passcode. And, doing so would be a violation of your Fifth Amendment Rights in the US Constitution. The ruling came as the...

Malware And Hacking Forum Seized, Dozens Arrested

The FBI and other law enforcement agencies have arrested more than 70 people suspected of carrying out cyber criminal activities associated with one of the most active underground web forums known as Darkode. Darkode, also used by notorious Lizard Squad, was an online bazaar for cyber criminals...

Feds Detail Shutdown of Cybercrime Forum Darkode

Officials worldwide this week culminated an 18-month effort to take down Darkode, a cybercrime forum where hackers fraternized, shared malware, credit card information and more. The campaign, dubbed Operation Shrouded Horizon, resulted in the arrest of 28 hackers and 27 house searches across 18...

The Pirate Bay Founders Free Of Criminal Copyright Case

The four co-founders of The Pirate Bay, the world’s most popular torrent website, have been cleared of charges alleging criminal copyright infringement and abuse of electronic communications in a Belgian court. The Pirate Bay co-founders Gottfrid Svartholm, Fredrik Neij, Peter Sunde and Carl...

France May Offer Asylum to Edward Snowden and Julian Assange

In wake of the latest revelations about the National Security Agency NSA global spying on country’s leaders, France may decide to offer political asylum to whistleblowers Edward Snowden and Julian Assange, as a "symbolic gesture." Former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who is facing criminal...

Travel Site Viator Claims 1.4 M Implicated in Breach

Travel website Viator.com is in the middle of notifying approximately 1.4 million of its customers that their personal information – payment card data included – may have been compromised. The San Francisco-based company, which specializes in expert curated travel suggestions, announced the breac...

TripAdvisor's Viator Hit by Massive Data Breach Affecting 1.4 Customers

TripAdvisor's Online travel booking and review website Viator has reportedly been hit by a massive data breach at its that may have exposed payment card details and account credentials of its customers, affecting an estimated 1.4 million of its customers. The San Francisco-based Viator, acquired ...

PHPCart Input Validation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13406/info PHPCart is prone to a remote input validation vulnerability. The issue exists because the software fails to sufficiently sanitize URI parameter data that is employed when computing product charges. A remote...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Shipping Charges Notification Email Messages on May 20, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34305 First Published: 2014 May 20 16:05 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a shipping charges notification from UPS for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

18-Year-Old Student Arrested for Hacking School Computers to Change Grades

An 18-year old Miami University student is facing charges for allegedly breaching the school's computer system to change grades for himself and four other students. Jose Bautista appeared before a judge Friday after he was arrested Thursday by the Miami School Board Police after the principal of...

Amazon Web Services Combing Third Parties for Credentials

Amazon Web Services is actively searching a number of sources, including code repositories and application stores, looking for exposed credentials that could put users’ accounts and services at risk. A week ago, a security consultant in Australia said that as many as 10,000 secret Amazon Web...

Microsoft charges FBI for your Information; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices

Till now we all were aware about the truth that tech companies gave legal access to user data on the government's request, but we were unaware that well known tech companies also charge the government for providing data. Syrian Electronic Army SEA, the pro-hacker group, who had compromised...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Charges Notification Email Messages on March 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33273 First Published: 2014 March 11 16:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a change in bank charges from the Bank of Italy for the recipient. The text in the email messag...

Experian Sells Data to Identity theives

The credit bureau Experian appears to have sold an unknown amount of highly sensitive personal information to a Vietnamese national who maintained an online identity theft service, according to a long-running investigative report published by Krebs on Security reporter Brian Krebs. Experian, whic...

Hacking Ring Steals $300 Million, 160 Million Card Numbers

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey is expected to further discuss charges today against five hackers who allegedly stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers and netted more than $300 million over the course of seven years in what could be the largest cybercrim...

Edward Snowden files has blueprint of NSA surveillance programs

Edward Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States, but he has insisted that they not be made public, including the blueprints of NSA surveillance program. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardia...

British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

Privacy of Millions of HTC devices at risk

More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install softwa...