Titan Rain

Hacks against the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies stretching back to 2003 were codenamed Titan Rain by investigators. The attacks, which breached hundreds of networks, including Departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, were coordinated from Chinese computers, investigators...

Researchers Discover the World's Most Complicated Piece of Malware

Researchers from Kaspersky Labs claim to have discovered the most sophisticated piece of malware available on the Web. Detected by their antivirus product as TDSS, the Trojan employs a number of methods to avoid detection, including the use of encryption between the botnet command and control...

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers

TDSS rootkit infects 1.5 million US computers Millions of PCs around the world infected by the dangerous TDSS 'super-malware' rootkit as part of a campaign to build a giant new botnet. The report is presented by researchers from security firm Kaspersky Lab. TDSS also known as 'TDL' and sometimes ...

HP computers FTP hacked by HexCoder

HP computers FTP hacked by HexCoder UPDATE : We have verified that this is just a anonymous FTP user access to ftp.hp.com . There is nothing like hack. Pakistani hacker HexCoder may try this to get attention. Anyway the access is available for all with : Host : ftp.hp.com Username : anonymous...

HP computers FTP hacked by HexCoder

HP computers FTP hacked by HexCoder UPDATE : We have verified that this is just a anonymous FTP user access to ftp.hp.com . There is nothing like hack. Pakistani hacker HexCoder may try this to get attention. Anyway the access is available for all with : Host : ftp.hp.com Username : anonymous...

Hackers attack on Norwegian military Computers

Hackers attack on Norwegian military Computers The Norwegian security police is investigating a hacker attack that zoned in on military computers shortly after Norway joined the Libya air campaign in March. The army says about a hundred computers were targeted in the attack, where staff received ...

FBI vs Coreflood botnet

FBI vs Coreflood botnet The FBI's unprecedented effort to behead the Coreflood botnet—comprised of millions of hacked Windows machines—appears to be working, at least for now. The bureau has tracked a dramatic decline in the number of pings from the botnet since the takedown operation began earli...

New Stars Malware Said to Target Iran

The Iranian government says it is being targeted by a new piece of malware aimed at its federal computers. The disclosure comes a few months after the country’s nuclear facility was hit by the Stuxnet worm, kicking off a frenzy of cyberwar hysteria and speculation. The new attack on Iran is the...

DOJ Shuts Down Botnet, Disables Infected Systems

The U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI said on Wednesday that they had taken actions to disable an international botnet of more than two million infected computers that was stealing corporate data including user names, passwords and financial information. Thirteen unnamed “John Doe” defendent...

Mariposa: December, 2009

The takedown of the Mariposa botnet is an example of both the possibilities and complications facing law enforcement around the world as they work to stamp out botnets. A cyberlaw enforcement success story, the take down of Mariposa by Spanish authorities in December, 2009, followed months of wor...

Bredolab: October, 2010

At its height, the Bredolab botnet numbered more than three million hosts and was responsible for 30 million infections and 3.6 billion spam e-mails daily.The global botnet was brought down by the Dutch cyber crime unit, which seized the command and control infrastructure used by the botnet and,...

FBI raids on 40 Anonymous hackers !

The FBI would have conducted 40 raids yesterday and seized the computers of members of the loosely organized group of hackers known as Anonymous. Several members have posted their stories in online forums, including images of kicking in doors. The FBI has seized every computer in every house and...

Thousands of Social Security Numbers Stolen in New York Data Breach

Thousands of Social Security numbers have been stolen from the computers of a New York state agency. The Social Security Administration in New York City reports that a subcontractor, who was working for the Office of Temporary Disability Assistance on computer infrastructure upgrades, illegally...

Audit: NASA Fails To Properly Wipe Data From Discarded Drives

A recent internal audit at NASA, the U.S. space agency, found significant weakness in the way the agency disposes of IT equipment, including evidence that used hard drives containing sensitive NASA data may have been sold to the public on the secondhand market. The audit focused on the Johnson an...

CBI Website Hacked by Pakistani Cyber Army, NIC Security Questioned

The recent hacking of the Central Bureau of Investigation's CBI website by a group called the 'Pakistani Cyber Army' has raised concerns about the security measures of servers maintained by the National Informatics Centre NIC. The NIC is responsible for government server maintenance. While the NI...

Hacker blackmailed women into making porn movie !!

A CALIFORNIA man has been charged after he allegedly hacked into more than 100 computers to look for sexually explicit photos that he then used to blackmail his victims into handing over homemade sex tapes. Luis Mijangos, 31, was charged with extortion after he allegedly infected more than 100...

Fedora Update for ocsinventory-agent FEDORA-2010-16334

Check for the Version of ocsinventory-agent OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for ocsinventory-agent FEDORA-2010-16334 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2010 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or...

Don't use public computers

Do not use public computers to log on to your personal accounts. No airport internet machines, no hotel business center, nothing. I know how many times you really need to check your email from a friend’s computer – just don’t do it. You have no idea what’s running on that machine...

Infected computers

So many times I hear people around me saying “hey, my computer is infected, but it’s okay, I can still do my things.” You can still do your things, but who knows who else is doing their thing, intercepting your browsing sessions or logging every key that you press. That includes, all of your...

How to Avoid Getting Your Twitter Account Hacked

“All upcoming Guns N’ Roses dates are officially canceled. Please contact your place of purchase for any refunds.” No Guns N’ Roses fan ever wants to see this text. And especially when it’s published on Axl Rose’s official Twitter account, it’s a guaranteed recipe for disaster. This is not the...