Armitage Update : Graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit

Armitage Update : Graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for securi...

38 Bangladeshi Government sites Defaced by Indian Hackers

38 Bangladesh Government sites Defaced by Indian Hackers Indians hacking Group "Indishell" took down 38 Bangladeshi government websites on Saturday, including ministry of the ministries are communications, youth and sports, primary and mass education , Trading Corporation of Bangladesh. The Defac...

Carberp Trojan Commits Financial Fraud on Facebook

A new iteration of the Carberp trojan is targeting Facebook users, but unlike most Facebook attacks that attempt to pinch login credentials, this one is trying to steal money by fooling users into handing over an e-cash voucher. According to a report from Trusteer’s Amit Klein, the Carberp trojan...

UPDATE – Stuxnet Expert: Analysis Shows Design Flaw, Not Vulnerability Sunk Siemens

MIAMI–The world’s foremost expert on the Stuxnet worm said an analysis of source code for a critical component of the malware prove that Iran’s nuclear program was the target, and that attackers were able to exploit weak design in Siemens software, rather than having to exploit a software...

Japanese Space Agency Loses Data After Computer Infection

The Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency JAXA is the latest high profile government agency in that country found to be infected with a computer virus. According to a JAXA press release, information stored on an employee computer terminal as well as system information accessible to the employee...

Update: Zappos Says 24 Million Customers Affected By Data Breach

UPDATE: Online retailer Zappos said that its network has been compromised and attackers were able to access personal information belonging to more than 24 million of its customers. Zappos said that its database that contains customers’ credit card numbers was not compromised, however. “We were...

New SEC Guidance May Impact Corporate Disclosure

As companies begin submitting their regulatory filings and financial reports from 2011, the SEC is pushing for more comprehensive data breach, cyber attack, and general risk-assessment disclosures. As it stands, companies not only downplay the severity of hacking and other Internet-borne threats ...

Israeli Official Compares Cyber Attack to Terrorist Operation

Israeli authorities are investigating a cyber attack Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon described as being akin to a “terrorist operation.” The declaration by Ayalon comes after a hacker named “0xOmar” leaked the details of thousands of credit card numbers belonging to Israelis onto the Interne...

Hackers Release More Stratfor Breach Data

The hackers behind the attack on Stratfor released more data swiped from the firm on the Internet, including credit card data and e-mail addresses. The disclosure of more information Dec. 29 came less than a week after the initial news broke about the hack. On Pastebin, links were posted to...

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked

New Zealand agencies can be next target after US host was hacked Sensitive information about the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet and other New Zealand agencies can be the next target after US host was hacked. US intelligence firm Stratfor had its website hacked by activist group Anonymou...

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Not Again! Duqu Hits Iran

Pity poor Iran. They can’t catch a break. After cleaning up the mess Stuxnet wreaked on their nuclear ambitions, the Middle Eastern country admitted in November that a number of machines across multiple industries were infected with Duqu. While academic arguments raged over whether similarities i...

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet?

US ,Israel or Russia , Who is Behind Stuxnet ? Initially After Symantec did a little reverse engineering on the now infamous Stuxnet worm, many started pointing the finger at the US and Israel, especially since it was concluded that the piece of malware was designed to target a specific version o...

Biggest Pakistan News site Dawn.com hacked by LuCkY

Biggest Pakistan News site Dawn.com hacked by LuCkY Indian hacking Group "Indishell" hackers once again hit Pakistani cyber space. This time LuCkY from Indishell team deface the biggest Pakistani News site Dawn.com Alexa Rank : 3540. He also post Database Info ie. Database Name - archiveswpress...

UN Says Old Server, Old Data Exposed In TeamP0ison Hack

In the wake of a highly visible hack of its network infrastructure, a spokeswoman for the United Nations Development Programme UNDP says that hackers from the group TeamP0ison compromised an unpatched server and that e-mail addresses and account passwords exposed in the attack were outdated. Staf...

Hacking Group TeamP0ison Leaks Email, Passwords for UN Staff, Government Officials

The e-mail addresses and account passwords for more than one thousand United Nations staff and other users of a UN development Web site were leaked online by the hacking group TeamP0ison, which has been linked to past attacks on governments in the U.S. and India. The information, comprising was...

Possible Data Breach Involving APEC Host Committee

Dozens of members of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation summit’s host committee who submitted to background checks ahead of a meeting with President Obama may have been the victims of a data breach, according to an Associated Press report. An unknown individual gained unauthorized access to...

Hacker Claims He Breached Texas Water Plant

A hacker claims to have breached a water utility in Texas and has posted reputed screenshots online to prove it. The water plant targeted by the hacker, who uses the alias “Pr0f”, is in the Harris County city of South Houston. In a post on Pastebin, Pr0f said his actions were in response to what ...