Lax Security to Blame for NASDAQ Hack

The cyber attack on the NASDAQ OMX Group late last year was the result of shoddy security, according to a new report via Reuters. Computers running NASDAQ’s Director’s Desk, the software that was breached, had faulty firewalls, missing security patches and were running outdated software, like...

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked

Bangladesh Supreme Court website hacked The official website of the Supreme Court was hacked yesterday.Information technology experts of the court, however, recovered it around 8:00pm. According to the message posted on the site, the hackers identified themselves as "Bangladeshi UnderGround Hacke...

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns

Anonymous Hackers hack neo-Nazis website & leak personal info of 16,000 Finns Anonymous Hackers have successfully hacked the neo-Nazi website and published the database of its 16000 membership application database containing personal data of some applicants from all around the country. The hack w...

Israeli Military, Intelligence Sites Down After Threat by Anonymous

The Websites of Israel’s Mossad and Shinbet intelligence services as well as the Israel Defense Forces IDF site were knocked offline today following a Nov. 4 threat by Anonymous. However, members of the group may not be to blame. On Nov. 4, members of Anonymous threatened a cyber-attack in...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Report: French Nuclear Company Areva Hit by Virus

French nuclear power group Areva was the target of a cyber attack in September, according to a recent post on the website of French business magazine L’Expansion. There were conflicting reports about the incident, which raises the specter of nation-backed spying. Some accounts, including one from...

Anonymous DDOS Oakland police site after violence

Anonymous DDOS Oakland police site after violence Cyber activists associated with Anonymous have targeted the Oakland Police Department OPD and other law enforcement agencies that participated in a controversial crackdown against OccupyOakland protestors. A DDOS distributed denial-of-service atta...

Like Enterprises, Government Agencies Are Struggling With Security

WASHINGTON–The U.S. government has a lot of money. Not as much as it used to have, of course, but still, it has a lot. It also has a lot of computers and servers and routers and other things that move and store data. In fact, they have so many that they don’t really know what all of them are doin...

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker A Pakistani hacker "KhantastiC haX0r" today hack into the official website of India's leading telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BSNL. This is not 1st time when BSNL become victim of any cyber attack. Pakistani Hackers hit...

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker

India's leading telecom Company BSNL hacked by Pakistani Hacker A Pakistani hacker "KhantastiC haX0r" today hack into the official website of India's leading telecom Company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited BSNL. This is not 1st time when BSNL become victim of any cyber attack. Pakistani Hackers hit...

Mitsubishi Hack May Have Yielded Defense, Nuke Secrets

A report claims the recent hack of Japanese Defense Contractor Mitsubishi Heavy Industries may have led to the theft of sensitive data related to weapons systems and nuclear reactors. The report, on the Website of The Asahi Shimbun, cites unnamed sources as saying that malware planted on servers...

Hackers Hit Japanese Parliament, Nab Log-ins and E-mails

Hackers believed to be working for the Peoples Republic of China hit computers in Japan’s Parliament with a virus according to reports from The New York Times and Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Government computers and a server used by three members of the lower house were targeted by a sustaine...

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack !

Japan under Heavy Cyber Attack ! In last two days several Cyber attacks breach corporate and National Security of Japan. First, Japanese parliament hit by cyber attack from China according to Report. A server located in China was used for the attack on the Japanese Lower House. This led to an...

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet

Beware - Gaddafi malware on Internet As is not unusual when big news breaks, malware authors try to take advantage of the situation.A global computer virus that hides in an email about Gaddafi's death has been detected by Norman. The malware was caught in its worldwide network of spam traps. The...

Report says : US considered cyber war on Libya

Report says : US considered cyber war on Libya Officials in the US Obama administration considered compromising Libya's government computer networks to block early-warning data gathering and missile launches on NATO war planes during the American-led strikes, but decided against it, according to...

Report: Air Force Struggled For Weeks With Malware In Drone Fighter Systems

A troubling and persistent virus infection at Creech Air Force base was kept secret from senior Air Force cyber security officials for weeks while IT staff in the affected unit at Creech struggled to eradicate the infection, according to a report by Wired.com. The Air Force’s cyber security...

Pro-Syrian 'Electronic Army' Hacks Harvard University Site

Hackers from the Syrian Electronic Army SEA vandalized Harvard University’s website Monday morning, presenting visitors to the Ivy League university’s homepage with an image of Syrian president Bashar al-Assad dressed posed in front of the nation’s flag in full army regalia. The image was...

Report: Japan Fesses Up to First Cyber Attack on Defense Industry

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MHI, Japan’s primary defense contractor, recently suffered a data breach that may be the first major cyber-attack on Japan’s defense industry to be publicly disclosed, according to a report from Reuters. The attack, first discovered in early August, is believed to have...

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers

Department of Homeland Security warns Anonymous Hackers The Department of Homeland Security is beginning to take Anonymous and other non-professional cyber-attackers more seriously as it issues a warning about potential attacks. The 2 September security bulletin from the DHS National Cyber-Securi...