Researchers Claim CIA Was Behind 11-Year-Long Hacking Attacks Against China

Qihoo 360, one of the most prominent cybersecurity firms, today published a new report accusing the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency CIA to be behind an 11-year-long hacking campaign against several Chinese industries and government agencies. The targeted industry sectors include aviation...

Cryptocurrency Hacks Still Growing — What Does That Mean for the Industry?

Though once synonymous with underground networks and black hat hackers, bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies have gone mainstream over the past two years. In 2017, we saw the skyrocket of bitcoin to an all-time high of close to $20,000 followed by a significant decline the following year. But beyon...

0-Day Flaws in Vanilla Forums Let Remote Attackers Hack Websites

A security researcher has publicly disclosed two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Vanilla Forums, an open source software that powers discussion on over 500,000 websites, which could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to fully compromise targeted websites easily. Discovered by Polish...

WikiLeaks Reveals 'Marble' Source Code that CIA Used to Frame Russia and China

WikiLeaks published hundreds of more files from the Vault 7 series today which, it claims, show how CIA can mask its hacking attacks to make it look like it came from other countries, including Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. Dubbed "Marble," the part 3 of CIA files contains 676 source code...

You believe that there is no vulnerability in the code? Americans are Research-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Internet of everything era, in addition to People's lives provides a convenient, also brought many security risks, more and more devices more vulnerable to hacking attacks. There is no possibility of the birth of a cannot is the invasion code? DARPA-the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agenc...

Russian Lawmaker's Son Convicted of Stealing 2.9 Million Credit Card Numbers

The son of a prominent Russian lawmaker has been found guilty in the United States of running a hacking scheme that stole and sold 2.9 million US credit card numbers using Point-of-Sale POS malware, costing financial institutions more than $169 Million. Roman Seleznev, 32, the son of Russian...

Oracle Ordered to Publicly Admit Misleading Java Security Updates

Security issues have long tantalized over 850 Million users that have Oracle's Java software installed on their computers. The worst thing is that the software was not fully updated or secure for years, exposing millions of PCs to attack. And for this reason, Oracle is now paying the price. Oracl...

​Facebook launches ThreatExchange for Sharing Cyber Security Threats

Social Networking giant Facebook has just launched a new platform called ThreatExchange, which is designed to mount a coordinated defense against cybercrime. Many security professionals rely largely on manual methods for collecting, analyzing, and consuming information about latest cyber security...

Pirate Bay Founder Gottfrid Svartholm sentenced to 2 years in Sweden

The Pirate Bay co-founder Gottfrid Svartholm Warg was sentenced to two years in jail by Nacka district court, Sweden on Thursday for hacking into computers at a company that manages data for Swedish authorities and making illegal online money transfers. In Sweden, He is also involved in another...

China Publicly Claims to Be the Victim of U.S. Cyberattacks

On Thursday the Chinese government, long considered the aggressor in highly publicized U.S. cyberattacks, publicly spoke about being the victim. Two of its military Web sites were attacked an average of 144,000 per month and two-thirds of those strikes came from the United States, according to a...

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of "TeamPoison", a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism un...

Anonymous plans to take down Great Firewall of China

Anonymous plans to take down Great Firewall of China Anonymous plans to launch more attacks on Chinese government Web sites in an effort to highlight corruption and push for human rights improvements. While they managed to deface well over 500 sites we are now hearing they aren't finished yet and...

Twitter releases data to Law Enforcements for criminal inquiry

Twitter releases data to Law Enforcements for criminal inquiry Twitter handed over subscriber information yesterday for one Twitter account indirectly tied to the Occupy Boston protest, ending a court battle fought behind closed doors as Boston law enforcement investigated hacking attacks on the...

1.8 Million Accounts Hacked from Square Enix Japanese Game Company

1.8 Million Accounts Hacked from Square Enix Japanese Game Company Square Enix stated yesterday that somebody "may have gained unauthorized access to a particular Square Enix server" and took its members service offline in both Japan and the U.S. Today, the company clarified that 1.8 million...

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day

Biggest Independent Russian Election site Hacked on election day Popular Russian media websites, the major LiveJournal social network and the website of the country's biggest independent election watchdog, were inaccessible in hacking attacks for several hours on Sunday in what their employees sa...

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms.Lulz announced...

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms.Lulz announced...

10 Lessons From The Pwn2Own Hacker Contest

The recent CanSecWest Pwn2Own contest saw successful hacking attacks against Microsoft Internet Explorer 8, Mozilla Firefox and Apple’s Safari and iPhone products. Now that the dust has settled and the vendors are starting to patch the vulnerabilities, Threatpost editor Ryan Naraine takes a look ...

Microsoft Downplays Zero-Day IIS Issue

MS accepts there is an “inconsistency” in how IIS 6 handles semicolons in URLs, but it denies that this lends itself to hacking attacks. Read the full article. The Register...