Deluge of Election-Related Spam, Threats Begins

It was only a matter of time before the inevitable wave of malicious, election-tinged spam began to rain down upon internet users. In the wake of last week’s presidential debate between President Barack Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, it appears the floodgates have opened. According to ...

Attorney General Holder Announces Probe Into Cyberwar Leaks

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an assignment to the U.S. District Attorneys to start an investigation into possible leaks of classified information, presumably by individuals within the Obama administration who recently spoke anonymously about the administration’s ties to the...

FBI Investigating Election Tampering Following Arrest of CSUSM Student

The FBI is investigating whether federal law violations took place following allegations a candidate for student body president at California State University San Marcos stole some 700 student identities in an attempt to alter election results. Third-year business student Mark Weaver was arrested...

Anonymous Deface page - "POPE is not welcome, out out!!!!!"

Anonymous Deface page - "POPE is not welcome, out out!!!!!" Anonymous blocked access to two websites linked to the upcoming visit to Mexico by Pope Benedict XVI. Anonymous Hispano, the hackers succeeded in temporarily knocking the websites offline and defacing them with their own message: "Hacked...

Elections 2012 and DDoS attacks in Russia

Vitaly Kamluk As Eugene Kaspersky had written earlier, we were expecting new DDoS attacks on resources covering the Russian presidential election. So, as the country went to the polls on 4 March, we were on the lookout for new DDoS attacks. We were surprised to hear a news report from one mass...

DDoS Attacks Hit Russian Media Sites in Advance of Elections

While Russians prepare for their presidential election on March 4, attackers already are ahead of the game, having begun a series of DDoS attacks against several media sites and at least one site belonging to a candidate. The attacks are coming from several different botnets, but so far haven’t h...

Russian Parliamentary Election Marred by DDoS Campaign

Yesterday was election day in Russia, and the occasion brought with it a coordinated campaign reportedly designed to silence some specific groups. A report from GlobalVoices.org details a massive wave of DDoS attacks against blogging platforms, election watchdog Websites, and various independent...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees sa...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees sa...

Citing Crisis, Senate Leader Puts Cybersecurity Bill On 2012 Agenda

Citing a looming crisis over lax computer security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that the Senate will debate cybersecurity legislation. The move comes despite the lack of a coherent Senate plan and could set up a showdown with House Republicans over the government’s role in...

Microsoft Research Proposes E-Voting Attack Mitigation

Microsoft Research has proposed a mitigation for a known potential attack against verifiable electronic voting machines that could help prevent insiders from being able to alter votes after the fact. The countermeasure to the “trash attack” involves adding a cryptographic hash to the receipts tha...

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...

Election commission & Society of aircraft engineers of pakistan Hacked By Imm0rt4l5

Election commission & Society of aircraft engineers of pakistan Hacked By Imm0rt4l5 Hacked Url : https://www.ecp.gov.pk/viewpressreleasenotific.aspx?id=1374&typeid=2 Mirror : Hacked Url : Mirror :...

Malaysiakini - Malaysia's Most Popular News Website Shutdown's after cyber attack !

Malaysiakini - Malaysia's Most Popular News Website Shutdown's after cyber attack ! It has been reported that Malaysia's most popular news website Malaysiakini https://www.malaysiakini.com has been hit by cyber attack from 11 AM afternoon shutting the website down. The attack created a stir when...

Microsoft Windows SMB mrxsmb.sys Remote Heap Overflow (CVE-2011-0654)

A heap buffer overflow vulnerability has been reported in the Microsoft Windows Server Message Block SMB implementation. The SMB Protocol is a network file sharing protocol that is implemented in Microsoft Windows. A remote attacker may exploit this vulnerability to create a denial of service...

MS Windows Server 2003 AD Pre-Auth BROWSER ELECTION Heap Overflow

Exploit for windows platform in category dos / poc MS Windows Server 2003 AD Pre-Auth BROWSER ELECTION Remote Heap Overflow Release date: 2011-02-14 Author: Cupidon-3005 Greet: Winny Thomas, Laurent Gaffie, h07 Bug: Heap Overflow Remote Exploitability: Unlikely Local Exploitability: Likely Contex...

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 - AD BROWSER ELECTION Remote Heap Overflow

MS Windows Server 2003 AD Pre-Auth BROWSER ELECTION Remote Heap Overflow Release date: 2011-02-14 Author: Cupidon-3005 Greet: Winny Thomas, Laurent Gaffie, h07 Bug: Heap Overflow Remote Exploitability: Unlikely Local Exploitability: Likely Context: Broadcast, Pre-Auth Mrxsmb.sys, around...

Fine Gael website Hacked by Anonymous hackers !

Ireland's main opposition party confirms that the personal details of up to 2,000 people have been compromised by the attack Ireland's main opposition party's website has been hacked into by a group which has recently come to prominence for attacks on companies related to the WikiLeaks controvers...

Massive Denial Of Service Attack Severs Myanmar From Internet

The nation of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, found its access to the Internet severed by a massive denial of service attack, according to a report by Arbor Networks. The source or motivation of the attack isn’t known, but it is believed that the distributed denial of service DDoS attacks have...