Incident Response and Recovery May Be the Best Defense

By B.K. DeLong The ever increasing list of breaches appearing on the Open Security Foundation’s DataLossDB Web site as well as companies being targeted by the AntiSec movement made up of groups including recently-raided Anonymous, AnonOps, TeaMp0isoN, and now-dormant LulzSec continues to show tha...

South Korean social network hacked, 35 million users Data at risk

South Korean social network hacked, 35 million users Data at risk 35 million users Personal information of a South Korean social network site may have been exposed. Local authorities were quick to blame hack attacks against the Cyworld social networking website and the Nate web portal – both of...

Massive Data Breach of South Korea Portal Affects 35 Million Users

A major provider of Internet services and mobile access in South Korea has been hit by one of the larger data breaches in recent history, resulting in the compromise of personal information belonging to as many as 35 million users. The attack on SK Telecom’s Cyworld site reportedly came from an I...

GAO: The DoD's Plan To Unify Cyber Defenses Looks Like Swiss Cheese

A new report out from the Government Accountability Office GAO warns that the U.S. Department of Defense’s efforts to unify its cyber security operations has serious gaps and that the Department is “unprepared to meet the current threat” of cyber attack. The report, issued on Monday, is an...

CNAIPIC - Italian government hacked by #Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked

CNAIPIC - Italian government hacked by Antisec , Various Confidential documents leaked CNAIPIC - Centro Nazionale Anticrimine Informatico per la Protezione delle Infrastrutture Critiche /National Anti-Crime Computer Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection hacked by Anonymous Hackers for...

Lady Gaga Website The Latest in String of Celebrity Hacks

A collective of hackers known as SwagSec claims to have broken into the UK website of Lady Gaga and made off with information on thousands of registered fans, according to a report from the UK’s Mirror. The hack, just the latest in a string of attacks on high profile artists, was made public afte...

Jawahar Knowledge Center website Hacked & Databse leaked by PCA

Jawahar Knowledge Center website Hacked & Databse leaked by PCA Pakistan Cyber Army PCA admin Shak hack the website of Jawahar Knowledge Center . They Release the Database backup, which is available for Download at . The database includes the password, surname, name, designation, address, phone,...

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach According to Report, Department of Defense and Pentagon is disclosing news of the one of the largest data loss events to date . From investigation, officials to believe the intrusion was orchestrated by a foreign government. The theft of around 24,000...

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach

Pentagon Admits to biggest ever data breach According to Report, Department of Defense and Pentagon is disclosing news of the one of the largest data loss events to date . From investigation, officials to believe the intrusion was orchestrated by a foreign government. The theft of around 24,000...

U.S. House Committee Questions Ability to Secure Wall Street Data

Cyber security experts warned on Thursday that the U.S. government is failing to learn the lessons of past computer and intelligence breaches and often exhibits a careless attitude towards securing the data it keeps. The testimony came in a hearing on Thursday before the U.S. House of...

421 FTP hacked and logins leaked by PiraX hackers

421 FTP hacked and logins leaked by PiraX hackers PiraX hacking Crew today Leak the Username / Passwords of 421 FTP's via Pastebin link. Message By Hackers "The LulzBoat may be sunken but PiraX keeps 'a goin'! Have fun! ". Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to rea...

Anonymous Hacks Booz Allen Hamilton, Nabs Info on 90,000 U.S. Military

The loose hacking collective known as Anonymous resumed its campaign against the U.S. government and companies that do business with it on Monday, releasing a trove of documents from government contractor Booz Allen Hamilton. The release of data, believed to be stolen from systems belonging to th...

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record o...

Lessons from Chicago: Bad Policy, Not Geopolitics, Enables IP Theft

One thing that CME Group, the company that runs the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, wants to make perfectly clear is that it places a “high value on protecting its intellectual property and trade secrets.” That was the clear message from CME following the arrest of an employee for stealing company...

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew

German Federal Police servers Hacked by NN-Crew Hacking Group "NN-Crew" hacked into server used by Germany's Federal Police and stolen a large amount of data used to GPS-track suspects under surveillance. The hacked data published by NN-Crew included several usernames and passwords along with...

Florida election center website hacked

Florida election center website hacked Another data breach at Florida, An anonymous hacker - known as Abhaxas - posted 14 pages of poll worker passwords and voter stats. Data posted here. Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Florida election center website hacked

Florida election center website hacked Another data breach at Florida, An anonymous hacker - known as Abhaxas - posted 14 pages of poll worker passwords and voter stats. Data posted here. Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Breach Loses Information of 34,000

Retail brokerage Morgan Stanley Smith Barney MSSB has notified 34,000 investment clients that some of their data has been lost, including their names, addresses, social security numbers, tax identification numbers and investment income from 2010, according to a report on the Dow Jones newswires...

Security May Be Broken, But All is Not Lost

It’s been an ugly year so far for the security industry. In fact, if you’re looking at it objectively, almost nothing has gone right in the last six months. The long list of attacks this year–including RSA, Sony, Epsilon, Lockheed Martin, Citigroup and many others–coupled with the emergence of...

Pepper (Dating site) hacked by Anonymous #Antisec

Pepper Dating site hacked by Anonymous Antisec One of the Biggest Online dating website Pepper hacked by Anonymous Hackers for Operation Antisec. Huge Data breached, 52000 users/passwords of users leaked by Anonymous on twitter on...