'The Onion' Twitter Account Hacked via Phishing Attack

The hacktivist group Syrian Electronic Army SEA briefly took over the Twitter account of the satirical news publication The Onion, posting a series of anti-Israeli joke stories and an anti-Obama meme image. In a post on The Onion tech team's GitHub blog, the fake news site explains that the Syria...

How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked the Onion

A pro-Syrian regime hacker collective known as the Syrian Electronic Army SEA recently compromised the Twitter, Google Apps and other accounts belonging to The Onion, a long-running satirical news publication in the U.S. Like The New York Times before it, The Onion published a fascinating...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijacks The Guardian's Twitter Accounts

The Guardian's Twitter accounts have been taken over by pro-Syrian government hackers 'Syrian Electronic Army' , who previously targeted the Associated Press BBC, al-Jazeera, the Qatari government and National Public Radio in the United States, as well as France 24 TV. "We are aware that a number...

Obama Expands Surveillance to Critical Infrastructure

A little-known policy through which the Departments of Justice, Defense, and Homeland Security offered prosecutorial immunity to companies that helped the U.S. military monitor Internet traffic on the private networks of defense contractors has reportedly been expanded by Executive Order to inclu...

Syrian Hackers Hijack AP Twitter Tweet Obama Injured by Bomb

Twitter is facing increased pressure to beef up authentication for users after the hijacking of another high-profile account yesterday caused some temporary tremors on the stock market. The social network has reportedly been testing two-factor authentication internally; Twitter lags behind Google...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Hacked Twitter account of The Associated Press posted bogus report of attack at White House

The Associated Press Twitter account has been hacked,and posted a bogus post about explosions at the White House and Barack Obama is injured. Within a few minutes, Twitter suspended the account, and Julie Pace, the chief White House correspondent for The A.P., announced at a White House briefing...

Justice Department Backs Closing Loophole For Government E-mail Snooping

The U.S. Justice Department on Tuesday joined a chorus of privacy advocates supporting changes to a 1986 law that currently allows the government to review some emails without a warrant. The Electronic Communications Privacy Act was created before commercial e-mail existed, let alone became a...

Two Texas Bills Could Shape Mobile Privacy

Two bills introduced in Texas this week could refine mobile privacy in the state and tweak how law enforcement can request sensitive information from cell phones going forward. A press release from the Texas Electronic Privacy Coalition TxEPC credits Bryan Hughes, a Republican from the town of...

Browsers Standing Up For User Privacy

Mozilla chief privacy officer Alex Fowler relayed a vivid anecdote last week during RSA Conference 2013 that illustrates the lengths third parties such as advertisers, data brokers and others who traffic in users’ online behavior will go to track you once you land on a website. Fowler said that i...

Paypal Bug Bounty #19 - Persistent Web Vulnerability

Document Title: =============== Paypal Bug Bounty 19 - Persistent Web Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=681 PayPal Security UID: ezb441cy Release Date: ============= 2013-03-02 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-ID:...

OpenEMR 4.1.1 Shell Upload

?php / OpenEMR 4.1.1 ofcuploadimage.php Arbitrary File Upload Vulnerability Vendor: OpenEMR Product web page: http://www.open-emr.org Affected version: 4.1.1 Summary: OpenEMR is a Free and Open Source electronic health records and medical practice management application that can run on Windows,...

Syrian Electronic Army Hijack Sky News's Twitter & Facebook Accounts

Syrian Electronic Army strike again! This time hacking group hijack Twitter accounts and a Facebook page of Sky News Arabia and also hack their Emails. The accounts affected were the channel's main twitter handle @skynewsarabia and the @skynewsarabia account used for cultural and entertainment...

Court: Government Need Not Justify Warrantless Data Requests

A Virginia appeals court on Friday denied a right-to-access order filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir and computer security researchers Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp. The denial confirms ...

Malware Infects US Power Plants through USB Drives

The US Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Emergency Response Team has released a report, which stated that two American electrical power plants were compromised late last year and has identified a number of glaring electronic vulnerabilities. Some unknown malware infected two power plants...

Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Improper Authorization Vulnerability

Overview This advisory provides mitigation details for a vulnerability affecting the Schneider Electric MiCOM S1 Studio Software. Independent researcher Michael Toecker of Digital Bond has identified an improper authorization vulnerability in the MiCOM S1 Studio Software using the Microsoft Attac...

Outdated version of WordPress leads to MasterCard Hack

On tip of a readers, yesterday we came across a new MasterCard hack, performed by Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers was able to breach MasterCard Blog https://insights.mastercard.com and make a new blog post on the website with title "Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army" on January 5, 2013. For now...

Outdated version of WordPress leads to MasterCard Hack

On tip of a readers, yesterday we came across a new MasterCard hack, performed by Syrian Electronic Army. Hackers was able to breach MasterCard Blog https://insights.mastercard.com and make a new blog post on the website with title "Hacked By Syrian Electronic Army" on January 5, 2013. For now...

Kordil EDms 2.2.60rc3 - SQL Injection

Kordil EDms 2.2.60rc3 - SQL Injection Exploit Title: Kordil EDMS v2.2.60rc3 SQL Injection Vulnerability Date: 12/05/2012 Exploit Author: Woody Hughes Vendor Homepage: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kordiledms/ Software Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/kordiledms/files/latest/download Versio...

Small Medical Offices Biggest Risk to Patient Data Security, Privacy

Small physician practices, much like their small commercial business counterparts, have been the primary source of health care related data breaches, according to an analysis of breaches from 2009 to October 2012 released today by the Health Information Trust Alliance HITRUST. These smaller medic...