[SECURITY] Fedora 20 Update: ghdl-0.31-1.fc20

GHDL is a VHDL simulator, using the GCC technology. VHDL is a language standardized by the IEEE, intended for developing electronic systems. GHDL implements the VHDL language according to the IEEE 1076-1987 or the IEEE 1076-1993 standard. It compiles VHDL files and creates a binary that simula te...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: ghdl-0.31-1.fc19

GHDL is a VHDL simulator, using the GCC technology. VHDL is a language standardized by the IEEE, intended for developing electronic systems. GHDL implements the VHDL language according to the IEEE 1076-1987 or the IEEE 1076-1993 standard. It compiles VHDL files and creates a binary that simula te...

Visa Europe Cross Site Scripting

Visa Europe Official Website Vulnerability ============================================= Published Report: 07/02/2014 Credits: Advanced Information Security Corporation, USA Severity: High/Critical OWASP TOP 10 CVSS: 7.0 Type: Web Application / Reflected Cross-Site Scripting Attack. Author:...

Facebook domain hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

On the 10th Anniversary of Social networking website Facebook, the hacker group 'Syrian Electronic Army' claimed that they managed to hack into the administrator account of the Facebook's Domain Registrar - MarkMonitor. The hacking group changed the Facebook Domain's contact information to a Syri...

eBay and PayPal UK website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A pro-hacker group, aligned with president Bashar al-Assad, very well known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA has again gained the media attention by adding the popular sites, i.e. eBay UK and PayPal UK to its victim list. After targeting websites of various media agencies, government organizations a...

Navy's Cyberwar Expert - New Director of NSA, replacing Gen. Keith Alexander

It is very clear that when we talk about Intelligence and Surveillance, the first name comes to our mind is the U.S National Security Agency NSA and, the second is Gen. Keith Alexander, the Director of NSA..GEEK behind the massive surveillance Programs. Many documents revealed by the former NSA’s...

Syrian Electronic Army Hits CNN, Microsoft

Just like it’s done time and time before, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA broke into yet another media outlet late last week, hacking a handful of social media accounts belonging to CNN, including seven Twitter accounts and two Facebook accounts. CNN admitted the accounts were compromised in a pos...

XtremeRAT Malware Used in Targeted Attacks Against Israel

Espionage malware used in attacks against Israel, as well as Syrian activists, in the last 18 months has been linked to a new attack against Israel’s Civil Administration, the country’s governing body in the West Bank. Researchers at Seculert reported today that samples of XtremeRAT, a...

CNN's Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

A well-known pro-Syrian hacker group known as Syrian Electronic Army SEA, aligned with President Bashar al-Assad, who successfully attacked The New York Times, Huffington Post, and Twitter, BBC, National Public Radio, Al-Jazeera, Microsoft, Xbox, Skype and responsible for cyber-attacks against...

Oversight Board Calls NSA Metadata Collection Illegal

Another independent review board investigating the National Security Agency’s collection of phone records metadata has come down hard on the program, calling it illegal, recommending the government end the program, and questioning its effectiveness in ferreting out terrorists. The Privacy and Civ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Electronic Invoice Attachment Email Messages on January 19, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32488 First Published: 2014 January 21 21:04 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Portuguese-language spam email messages that claim to contain an electronic invoice for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convinc...

Syrian Electronic Army kept their promise; Microsoft's Office blog hacked

Yesterday Night Microsoft has faced another targeted attack by the Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The SEA group is popular for its advance phishing attack and using the same technique they also hacked into the Official Twitter...

Syrian Electronic Army's own website got hacked by Turkish hacker

Oops.. Hackers got Hacked! The Syrian Electronic Army, who has hacked hundreds of High Profile targets in 2013-14, today they got hacked by a Turkish hacker. Turkguvenligi, a Turkish hacker told The Hacker News that he hacked and defaced the official website of the hacking group SEA sea.sy and...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Microsoft Social Media Accounts

Just a few days after it hacked Microsoft’s Skype blog and Twitter account, the Syrian Electronic Army SEA took to some of the company’s other social media accounts over the weekend, hacking both its @MSFTNews and @XboxSupport Twitter handles along with the company’s official blog. It all started...

Microsoft Official Blog and Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

It could be the worst day ever for Microsoft's patch management and Incident response team. A group of pro-Syrian hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' has successfully compromised the official Twitter account of the Microsoft News @MSFTNews, Xbox Support. They also defaced the Microsoft's TechNet blo...

NSA Metadata Program Likely Not Cost-Effective, Researchers Say

While much of the coverage of the surveillance programs revealed by Edward Snowden have focused on the legality and constitutionality of the collection of metadata and Internet traffic in the name of counter-terrorism and national security, the question of whether these programs are actually cost...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Skype Twitter Account With Anti-Surveillance Message

The Syrian Electronic Army took advantage of the relative calm of New Year’s Day to make a loud statement about the NSA’s surveillance program and Microsoft’s alleged participation in it. The group compromised the Twitter account and blog of Microsoft’s Skype service and posted anti-surveillance...

Skype's Official Twitter, Facebook and Blog Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army

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Google Kills Privacy Feature

UPDATE: Google has removed a pivotal privacy feature from its Android operating system that gave users the ability to deny permissions in and regulate information collection attempts by installed applications. The feature, which users could control with a tool called AppOps Launcher, first appear...

EFF Argues For Search Warrant Requirement to Get Cell Location Data

With each day bringing new information about the way that intelligence agencies and law enforcement are tracking the activities and movements of U.S. citizens, the issue of when these organizations can legally obtain such data has become a major one. Now, a case that seemingly has little connecti...