Proxy Service a Front for Malware Distribution

Hundreds of thousands of users who signed up for an inexpensive proxy service called Proxybox.name got quite a steal alright. They ended up installing a Trojan horse linked to a botnet first detected last summer. Researchers at Symantec reverse engineered the Backdoor.Proxybox malware and unearth...

Hacker group RedHack faces up to 24 years in prison for terrorist crimes

As part of an investigation launched by Başsavcıvekilliği in Ankara on March 20 arrested seven people, including college students. 13 of the indictment prepared by the prosecutor's office in Ankara Was adopted by the High Criminal Court. Court has accepted an indictment against RedHack, a Turkish...

Harvard Carr Center for Human Rights Policy Hacked, Password was "DOG" ?

Harvard's Carr Center for Human Rights Policy website www.hks.harvard.edu/cchrp/ was hacked last week and then silently fixed by the administrator without giving Reply/Credit to the Whitehat Hacker who reported the vulnerability. The Hack incident was performed in 3 Phases as described below: Pha...

Hackers disrupt Interpol website against Anti-Islam film

A hacker group "Kosova Hacker's Security" based in the Middle East take down Interpol website yesterday. According to claim of Hackers, they are doing this cyber attack on a law enforcement agency to show their protest against the controversial Anti-Islam film, Innocence of Muslims. According to...

Internet freedom : Anonymous Brings Philippines Government Sites Offline

Hacker groups that are against the controversial Cybercrime Prevention Law for its effect on the country's freedom of expression defaced 11 more government websites since 11 p.m. Monday A message which said, "Hacked by M4N1L4 PR1D3, PHILIPPINE CYBER ARMY AND -=TheFamilyPride=-," appeared on the...

Team Ghost Shell Claims to Publish Records from Thousands of Universities

Lashing out against what they believe is a hopelessly broken international education system, the hacker collective Team Ghostshell published some 120,000 records from a number of the world’s top universities. They are calling the operation “Project WestWind.” In a post on Pastebin, the group...

Microsoft FixIt Will Address IE Zero-Day Vulnerability

With Internet Explorer users still exposed to as many as four active exploits of a zero-day vulnerability in the browser, Microsoft Tuesday night said it will release a FixIt in the next couple of days that will address the issue. A FixIt is an automated tool provided by Microsoft that diagnoses...

Security in a Serious Way - The Hacker News Magazine September 2012 Edition

Hey faithful readers and people interested in Internet Security! Enjoy our - The Hacker News Magazine September 2012 Edition ,Issue 14 packed full of computer security issues and a great interview with a young hacker who defines the world of hacking and the future. Let us know what you think and...

Anonymous member Barrett Brown Arrested by FBI

Anonymous hacker Barrett Brown was arrested by the FBI last night, his apartment raided while he was in the middle of a live TinyChat session. For those that may not be familiar with Brown, he came to some notoriety last year for allegedly mounting an operation against the Zeta drug cartel in...

WhatsApp vulnerability can be misused for Spreading Malware

A Cross site scripting XSS vulnerability in WhatsApp website reported to The Hacker News by Edgard Chammas. WhatsApp is one of the most famous cross-platform mobile messaging app for iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, Windows Phone and Nokia used to send text, video, images, audio b/w Whatsapp users...

Go Daddy CEO Denies Hackers Behind Major Outage

The CEO of Go Daddy said Tuesday internal issues, not a denial of service attack, left millions of hosted sites offline for several hours yesterday. In a statement, interim chief executive Scott Wagner said an internal investigation into the outage concluded no outside attack took place. “The...

Ankit Fadia site again Hacked and Suspended by Hosting provider

Another Funny news, today India's most popular but Self Claimed Hacker - Ankit Fadia's website just got hacked by a 17 Year old kid Kul Verma. His official Website got hacked and seems like his Hosting Provider has suspended his website on noticing something not correct with his site. Hacker hack...

#Antisec Hackers hack FBI laptop and leak 12 Million Apple Device Records

The hacker group AntiSec released a file of a million and one UDIDs unique device identifiers which it claims to have hacked it off an FBI computer via a Java vulnerability. UDIDs are unique IDs for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch devices. They said they obtained the file in March by hacking into the...

Al Jazeera News network website hacked by Pro-Assad hackers

The official website of one of the biggest Arabic-language news network "Al Jazeera" got hacked just now by Pro-Assad hackers called "Al-Rashedon". If your miss the deface page, please have a look to mirror of it Here. Deface page designed with Dark color as shown in image and have some message i...

How Hacker culture contributed to rise of United States economy

How Hacker culture has contributed to the rise of the United States economy and one possible reason why it is now in decline… by Paul F. Renda, Author at The Hacker News Magazine This article is about how hacker culture has benefited the economy of the United States. It represents the creative,...

Sony Mobile website hacked by NullCrew

Another Cyber attack on Sony this year, Hacking group called "NullCrew" hack into one of the biggest site of Sony mobile website www.sonymobile.com and leak complete database on Internet. Nullcrew releasing their hack dumps from their official twitter account @OfficialNull. The dump of database...

Second LulzSec Member Arrested for Sony Pictures Attack

A Tempe, Arizona man was arrested Tuesday for allegedly taking part in the June 2011 attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc.’s network, in which passwords and other personal data was stolen from one million user accounts. Raynaldo Rivera, 20, was charged with conspiracy and unauthorized...

BOTNET - The Hacker News Magazine August 2012 Edition Released

Hello faithful readers and new comers to our magazine! We are very sorry to have missed publishing the July issue, however, we were busy at work putting on the THE HACKERS CONFERENCE in Delhi, India. We had a fantastic turn out and professional, informative speakers. We plan to have another...

Mariposa botnet creator goes on trial

26-year-old Slovenian hacker known as Iserdo stands thought to have been behind the Mariposa botnet is on trial in Slovenia, charged with having masterminded an international cybercrime gang. At its height, the Mariposa botnet infected up to 12.7 million PCs, with more than half of the Fortune...

Alleged Anonymous hacker arrested for Facebook threat

Hong Kong police said Sunday they had arrested a 21-year-old man believed to be a member of the international hacker group Anonymous, after he reportedly said on social networking site Facebook that he would hack several government websites. "The Internet is not a virtual world of lawlessness," a...