FBI arrested 19-Year-old Hacker for Sextortion; allegedly Hacked into Miss Teen USA's Webcam

A College 19-year-old college student and Hacker from Temecula, California has been arrested for hacking the webcams of Miss Teen USA 'Cassidy Wolf' and other women to extort nude photos and videos from them. Earlier this year Cassidy Wolf received an anonymous email in which the sender claimed t...

[vFeed & vFeed API] The open source cross-linked local vulnerability database

vFeed is an open source naming scheme concept that provides extra structured detailed 3rd parties references for a CVE entry. While the emergence of the Open Standards helped undeniably to shape a new way to communicate about vulnerabilities1, the new vFeed is adding an intelligent structured xml...

NASDAQ Patches Reported XSS Vulnerability

A NASDAQ representative confirmed this morning that a cross-site scripting vulnerability on the exchange’s website discovered by an ethical hacker has been patched. The issue was reported on Sept. 2 by Ilia Kolochenko, chief executive of High-Tech Bridge, a Swiss penetration testing company...

Anonymous Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking Police websites

An Anonymous Hacker and Online hacktivist who was responsible for hacking into the City of Springfield's website and others Police websites has been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. John Anthony Borell III, a 22-year-old man from Ohio with the online handle @ItsKahuna started advertising h...

Anonymous Hacker 'Kahuna' sentenced to 3 years in prison for hacking Police websites

An Anonymous Hacker and Online hacktivist who was responsible for hacking into the City of Springfield’s website and others Police websites has been sentenced to 3 years in federal prison. John Anthony Borell III, a 22-year-old man from Ohio with the online handle @ItsKahuna started advertising h...

19-year-old Argentine Hacker arrested for stealing $50,000 monthly

Argentinian police have arrested a 19-year-old "superhacker" who was making $50,000 a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, by targeting international money transfer and gambling websites. Police say it took them a year to close in on the teenager, who was part of a six-strong gang whi...

19-year-old Argentine Hacker arrested for stealing $50,000 monthly

Argentinian police have arrested a 19-year-old "superhacker" who was making $50,000 a month, working from his bedroom in Buenos Aires, by targeting international money transfer and gambling websites. Police say it took them a year to close in on the teenager, who was part of a six-strong gang whi...

Russian Hacker put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale

A Russian Exploit writer and underground Hacker who goes by the handle "fil9" put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale in an open Exploit Market. Author claims a Zero Day vulnerability in Firefox for Android, which works on Firefox versions 23/24/26 Nightly. The advertisement was spott...

Russian Hacker put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale

A Russian Exploit writer and underground Hacker who goes by the handle "fil9" put up an Android Firefox Zero-Day Exploit for Sale in an open Exploit Market. Author claims a Zero Day vulnerability in Firefox for Android, which works on Firefox versions 23/24/26 Nightly. The advertisement was spott...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

NASA website Hacked; Protest by Hackers against US action on Syria and Brazil Spying

Earlier reports based on Snowden's documents revealed the existence of the NSA's PRISM program, and indicate that the National Security Agency spied on Brazilians. On other End, President Obama said that the Syrian government used chemical weapons on its citizens and The United States may have to...

Vulnerability allowed hacker to Delete any Facebook Photo; Rewarded with $12,500 for reporting bug

Indian Security Enthusiast 'Arul Kumar' recently reported an interesting Facebook vulnerability that allowed him to delete any Facebook image within a minute. Facebook Bug Bounty program rewarded him with $12,500 USD for helping the Facebook Security team to patch this critical loophole in their...

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...

How I Got Here: Jeremiah Grossman

Dennis Fisher talks with Jeremiah Grossman about his days cobbling together old x8s machines, designing Web sites in the heyday of the spinning GIF, becoming Yahoo’s first hacker and then founding WhiteHat Security. Download: 09grossman.mp3...

Phone Hack Could Block Messages, Calls on GSM Networks

By tweaking the firmware on certain kinds of phones, a hacker could make it so other phones in the area are unable to receive incoming calls or SMS messages, according to research presented at the USENIX Security Symposium earlier this month. The hack involves modifying the baseband processor on...

Palestinian hacker, who hacked Zuckerberg's Facebook account to be rewarded with $12,000

The Palestinian hacker 'Khalil Shreateh', who broke into the Mark Zuckerberg's Facebook Timeline to expose a security lapse will be awarded nearly $12,000 but not from Facebook, it will come from an online crowdsourced campaign. The hacker initially used Facebook's whitehat disclosure program, a...

Poison Ivy RAT Spotted in Three New China Attacks

The Poison Ivy remote access Trojan may be old, but it’s not losing favor with nation states that continue to make it the center piece of targeted attacks. Three groups of hackers, reportedly all with ties to China and possibly related in terms of their funding and training, are currently managin...

EMLOG offline writing high-risk security vulnerabilities-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

You emlog user, EMLOG Development Group today confirmed EMLOG 5.1 series of versions exist offline writing interface permission validation is not strict, high-risk vulnerabilities. The vulnerability can lead an attacker can bypass the system user authentication mechanism through the offline writi...

Palestinian Hacker posted vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg's Timeline

A Palestinian Web Developer and Hacker, 'Khalil Shreateh' found an interesting vulnerability in Facebook, that allows hacker to bypass the Privacy settings to make a post on anyone's Timeline / Wall. He was forced to post vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Founder Timeline to prove...

Palestinian Hacker posted vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg’s Timeline

A Palestinian Web Developer and Hacker, 'Khalil Shreateh' found an interesting vulnerability in Facebook, that allows hacker to bypass the Privacy settings to make a post on anyone's Timeline / Wall. He was forced to post vulnerability details on Mark Zuckerberg Facebook Founder Timeline to prove...