FBI Cyber Division put 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers in wanted list

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, and involved in cyber attacks against western media organizations are now in the FBI's wanted list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning of cyber attac...

FBI Cyber Division put 'Syrian Electronic Army' Hackers in wanted list

The Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-regime hacker group that emerged during Syrian anti-government protests in 2011, and involved in cyber attacks against western media organizations are now in the FBI's wanted list. The Federal Bureau of Investigation has issued an alert warning of cyber attac...

Government to Release Hundreds of Documents Related to NSA Surveillance

In response to a lawsuit by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Department of Justice is preparing to release a trove of documents related to the government’s secret interpretation of Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act. The declassified documents will include previously secret opinions of the...

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso Discuss the NYT Attack, News of the Week

Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso discuss the big stories of the last couple of weeks, including the Syrian Electronic Army’s attacks against the registrar for the New York Times and Twitter, and the release of Facebook’s first transparency report. Download: digitalunderground124 Subscribe to the...

Inside the Response to the New York Times Attack

Late Tuesday morning, one of the engineers in CloudFlare’s San Francisco office saw a message on Twitter saying that the New York Times Web site was down. Minutes later, more messages appeared, as security researchers and others began looking into the situation and realized that someone may have...

New York Times, Twitter and Huffington Post Domains hijacked by Syrian Electronic Army

Media companies including the New York Times, Twitter and the Huffington Post has been unavailable since Tuesday after the external malicious attack by a group of hackers supporting Syrian President Bashar Assad. For the second time this month, the New York Times' website has gone down. "The New...

Syrian Electronic Army Hack Results in Compromise of Domain Data For NY Times, Twitter

The Syrian Electronic Army, a group known for attacking high-profile media sites in the last year or so, has in the last few hours compromised the domain information for a large number of sites, including the New York Times home page and some of Twitter’s domains. Security researchers say that th...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks the Outbrain service; Washington Post, CNN suffers

After months of disrupting the Twitter accounts of major U.S. media outlets, The Syrian Electronic Army Leader Says that they won't Stop hacking. Just two days before SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army and readers on certain stories being...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Washington Post

One day after the New York Times Web site was offline for several hours due to what experts speculated was an attack, the site of the Washington Post was hacked, apparently by the Syrian Electronic Army. Officials at the Post said that the attack followed closely on the heels of the SEA hacking t...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks the Outbrain service; Washington Post, CNN suffers

After months of disrupting the Twitter accounts of major U.S. media outlets, The Syrian Electronic Army Leader Says that they won’t Stop hacking. Just two days before SocialFlow, a social media optimization platform was hacked by Syrian Electronic Army and readers on certain stories being...

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications Multiple Vulnerabilities in Karotz Smart Rabbit Published: 08/01/13 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/, formerly Mindscape, formerly Violet Product: Karotz Version affected: 12.07.19.00 Product description: Karotz is...

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 - Multiple Vulnerabilities Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-021: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Karotz Smart Rabbit Published: 08/01/13 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/, formerly Mindscape, formerly Violet Product: Karotz Version...

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 Hijacking / Cleartext Token

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-021: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Karotz Smart Rabbit Published: 08/01/13 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/, formerly Mindscape, formerly Violet Product: Karotz Version affected: 12.07.19.00 Product description: Karotz is the...

Karotz Smart Rabbit 12.07.19.00 - Multiple Vulnerabilities

Trustwave SpiderLabs Security Advisory TWSL2013-021: Multiple Vulnerabilities in Karotz Smart Rabbit Published: 08/01/13 Version: 1.0 Vendor: Electronic Arts http://www.ea.com/, formerly Mindscape, formerly Violet Product: Karotz Version affected: 12.07.19.00 Product description: Karotz is the...

NSA’s #XKeyscore program could read Facebook Chats And Private Messages

According to a new report revealed by NSA leaker Edward Snowden, The National Security Agency has a secret program that allows it to see just about everything a person does on the Internet. An NSA tool called DNI Presenter, used to read the content of stored emails, also enables an analyst using...

Viber's Apple App Store account hacked; Description changed by hackers

Last week, we exclusively reported that the popular messenger Viber was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, and Support page was defaced with the message, "The Israeli-based - Viber is spying and tracking you." Today we found that Viber's Apple App Store description has been defaced as well. Th...

Viber's Apple App Store account hacked; Description changed by hackers

Last week, we exclusively reported that the popular messenger Viber was hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army, and Support page was defaced with the message, “The Israeli-based - Viber is spying and tracking you.” Today we found that Viber’s Apple App Store description has been defaced as well. Th...

Hackers Demonstrate Car Hacking using a laptop

Computer geeks already knew it was possible to hack into a car's computerized systems and finally, two U.S. hackers - Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, sponsored by the Pentagon's research facility DARPA recently demonstrated just how easy it is for malicious hackers to physically hijack a modern...

Hackers Demonstrate Car Hacking using a laptop

Computer geeks already knew it was possible to hack into a car's computerized systems and finally, two U.S. hackers - Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, sponsored by the Pentagon's research facility DARPA recently demonstrated just how easy it is for malicious hackers to physically hijack a modern...

House Rejects Amendment to Sever NSA Data Collection Funding

By a narrow dozen votes, the U.S. House of Representatives yesterday failed to pass an amendment to the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2014 that would have severed funding for the NSA’s phone record surveillance program turned out by Edward Snowden. The amendment, put forth by Rep...