Microsoft to Release Emergency Fix for ASP.NET DoS Flaw

UPDATED Microsoft on Thursday plans to release an emergency out-of-band update to address a vulnerability in ASP.NET that could allow an attacker to consume all of the resources on a vulnerable server with a single specially designed HTTP request. The vulnerability affects a wide range of Web...

Train-switching system can be vulnerable to DDoS attack

Train-switching system can be vulnerable to DDoS attack Hackers who have shut down websites by overwhelming them with web traffic could use the same approach to shut down the computers that control train switching systems, a security expert said at a hacking conference in Berlin. Prof. Stefan...

DeSopa Firefox Add-On Lets Users Circumvent SOPA Restrictions

As the public debate over the merits and drawbacks of the SOPA bill continues, consumers and privacy advocates already are looking for ways to get around the provisions in the proposed anti-piracy law that they see as unreasonable and oppressive. In one example, a developer has published an...

Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1

Bypass SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1 A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered DeSOPA. The Firefox...

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC ZHC Disastar ZCompany Hacking Crew Hackers from Pakistan today hack the Server of Indian National Congress Party ,one of the two major political parties in India and deface their Official website with Message as shown in above image...

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC

Indian National Congress Party Official Website Hacked by ZHC ZHC Disastar ZCompany Hacking Crew Hackers from Pakistan today hack the Server of Indian National Congress Party ,one of the two major political parties in India and deface their Official website with Message as shown in above image...

Report: Obama Administration Considered Libyan Cyber-Offensive

The Obama Administration reportedly debated kicking off its latest war-effort in Libya with a cyber-offensive targeting the Qaddafi regime’s air-defense infrastructure, according to a report from the New York Times. The details of the Obama Administration’s plan remain classified, but the Times...

House GOP Task Force Favors Private Incentives, Fewer Regulations for Cybersecurity

A House GOP task force called on Congress this week to adopt voluntary incentives – rather than federal requirements – to get private companies to further develop their cyber security. The GOP proposes a combination of tax credits, grants, insurance and rules set by non-regulatory agencies as a w...

The George Washington Institue for Sustainability hacked by Cocain TeaM

The George Washington Institue for Sustainability hacked by Cocain TeaM The George Washington Institue for Sustainability website got hacked and defaced by Cocain TeaM hackers. Mirror of hack available on Zone-H. The George Washington University is located four blocks from the White House and was...

Philippines Congress hacked by BashCrew for #AntiSec

Philippines Congress hacked by BashCrew for AntiSec The Philippians Goverment has become the latest target in the antisec operation with a hacker crew known by BashCrew, Congress.gov.ph being hacked and having some data leaked. The leak has personal information, emails, contact numbers etc via...

Philippines Congress hacked by BashCrew for #AntiSec

Philippines Congress hacked by BashCrew for AntiSec The Philippians Goverment has become the latest target in the antisec operation with a hacker crew known by BashCrew , Congress.gov.ph being hacked and having some data leaked. The leak has personal information, emails, contact numbers etc via...

Schmidt: White House Feels 'Very Positive' About Prospects of Data Breach Bill Passing

Howard Schmidt has been the White House cybersecurity coordinator for nearly 18 months now, and in that time has helped develop and shape the Obama administration’s policies and thinking on cybercrime, online privacy and cybersecurity. In the second part of a recent interview with Threatpost edit...

Indian Congress Party & Ebay Nepal Websites are vulnerable to Hackers !

Indian Congress Party & Ebay Nepal Websites are vulnerable to Hackers ! MaDnI member of Pak Cyber Army found Serious Sql injection vulnerabilities in two famous sites, first is Ebay Nepal sites and 2nd is of Indian Congress Party : https://www.congress.org.in , The Detail of vulnerable links are...

Apple, Google to Testify at Smart Phone Tracking Hearing

After a bruising series of revelations about location tracking features on mobile devices running their operating systems, Apple and Google will send executives to Capitol Hill to talk to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law about cell phone privacy. Guy L. “Bud”...

US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack !

US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack ! A U.S. congressional committee has asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information on customers of its PlayStation Network. The network, which serves as an e-commerce and...

Congress to Apple: You Got Some Splainin to do

In a letter to the chairman of the Federal Trade Commission, Jay Inslee D-Wash. expressed concerns regarding recent revelations that Apple products have been continuously tracking and recording user location information with questionable consent and without an easy way to opt out of such tracking...

Anti-computer hacking bill coming in U.S. Congress !

Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in the U.S. Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ.O and at oil and gas companies. "Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, wh...

'SMS of Death' Attacks Can Crash the Simplest of Phones

Malicious text messages can crash many types of mobile phones, including devices by Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and LG, according to a presentation given at the Chaos Communication Congress hacking conference this week in Berlin. Nicknamed ‘SMS of Death,’ the attacks were outlined by Collin...

Chaos Communication Congress

Berlin, Germany One of the security world’s most venerable conferences, the Chaos Communications Congress CCC is an annual gathering for hackers sponsored by the Chaos Computer Club. First held in 1984, the event now draws thousands of hackers, intellectuals, academics and Utopians to snowy Berli...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.canadianislamiccongress.com

Security researcher alexalghisi, has submitted on 07/11/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.canadianislamiccongress.com, which at the time of submission ranked 7628365 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on...