Anonymous Hacks Swedish Government in Revenge for 'Pirate Bay' Takedown

An online "hacktivist" group that calls itself Anonymous has claimed responsibility for hacking into email accounts of Swedish government in response to the seizure of world renowned The Pirate Bay website and server by Swedish police last week. Apart from Sweden government officials, the Anonymo...

Sony Hackers Threaten 9/11 Type Attack at Theaters Showing 'The Interview' Movie

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has yet exposed about 200 gigabytes of confidential data belonging to the company from upcoming movie scripts to sensitive employees data, celebrities phone numbers and their travel aliases, and also the high-quality versions of five...

Prices Rising at Illegal Underground Hacking Markets

Underground hacker markets are peddling complete kits to create new identities, elevating in-person fraud scams a tier closer to credit card theft and fraud. Researchers at Dell SecureWorks released an update to 2013 research on black hat markets, noticing a number of noteworthy trends beyond the...

Sony Pictures Scarier Hack — Hackers Leak Scripts, Celebrity Phone Numbers and Aliases

The massive hacking attack against Sony Pictures Entertainment has reached a more scarier phase following another huge leak of sensitive, confidential documents revealing celebrity contact details and upcoming film scripts. The so-called Guardians of Peace GoP group taking responsibility for the...

Operation Cleaver Critical Infrastructure Hacking Attacks

Iranian state-sponsored hackers have been singled out for attacks on critical infrastructure worldwide, including 10 targets in the United States. Security firm Cylance today released an 86-page report on Operation Cleaver that lays out Iran’s hacking capabilities and motivations to attack global...

Syrian Electronic Army Hacks UK based Media Websites

Syrian Electronic Army SEA, a pro-hacker group supposed to be aligned with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has again gain media attention by compromising a number of popular news websites and displayed a Thanksgiving popups informing people that they've been hacked. The Forbes, The Independent,...

Brain Science and Browser Warnings

Browser and other types of security warnings generally don’t stop computer users in their tracks, especially when they’re in the middle of some task. Clicking through them seems to be the accepted response, rather than to halt and evaluate the situation. Researchers at Brigham Young University...

Detekt - scans your Windows computer for traces of known surveillance spyware

Detekt is a free tool that scans your Windows computer for traces of FinFisher and Hacking Team RCS, commercial surveillance spyware that has been identified to be also used to target and monitor human rights defenders and journalists around the world. In recent years we have witnessed a huge...

Detekt — Free Anti-Malware Tool To Detect Govt. Surveillance Malware

Human rights experts and Privacy International have launched a free tool allowing users to scan their computers for surveillance spyware, typically used by governments and other organizations to spy on human rights activists and journalists around the world. This free-of-charge anti-surveillance...

Free open source photo album Piwigo <= v2. 6. 0 SQL injection vulnerability 0day-a vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Piwigo is the world's most famous free open source photo album system by PHP+MySQL architecture. Since the framework build easy, by domestic and foreign developers favor recently, Piwigo = v2. 6. 0 burst critical 0day vulnerability. Vulnerability causes,Piwigo photo album system/piwigo/picture. p...

Parrot Security OS - Friendly OS designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, Privacy/Anonimity and Cryptography

Parrot Security OS is a cloud friendly operating system designed for Pentesting, Computer Forensic, Reverse engineering, Hacking, Cloud pentesting, privacy/anonimity and cryptography. Based on Debian and developed by Frozenbox network. Who can use it Parrot is designed for everyone, from the Pro...

Windows Phone Sandbox Holds Up at Mobile Pwn2Own

The Mobile Pwn2Own hacking contest ended today as did the PacSec Applied Security Conference in Tokyo with hackers unable to gain complete control over a Windows Phone and the latest version of the Android mobile OS. Contest sponsors HP said two competitors, Nico Joly and Juri Aedla, were able to...

Microsoft Office 20072010 - OLE Arbitrary Command Execution

Microsoft Office 20072010 - OLE Arbitrary Command Execution Full exploit: https://github.com/offensive-security/exploitdb-bin-sploits/raw/master/bin-sploits/35216.rar CVE-2014-6352 OLE Remote Code Execution Author Abhishek Lyall - abhilyallatgmaildotcom, infoataslitsecuritydotcom Advanced Hacking...

Rootpipe: you can get Apple Mac OS X Yosemite system the highest authority the serious vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

The Swedish security researchers recently discovered Apple OS X Yosemite system fatal vulnerability. The vulnerability can enable hackers on the target computer, elevated privileges, so that it is possible to obtain a system of the highest access permissions, that is, we usually say that the Root...

FBI Seize Silk Road 2.0 Servers; Admin Arrested

The authorities of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation have announced that they have arrested "Silk Road 2.0" operator Blake Benthall, used the alias "Defcon" in California on Wednesday and charged him with conspiracy to commit drug trafficking, computer hacking, money laundering and other...

Samsung Insists Find My Mobile Service Safe

Samsung this week tried to quell recent reports that its Find My Mobile service is vulnerable to hacking, firing back at NIST National Institute of Standards and Technology who warned last month that the feature could be exploited. In a blog post on the company’s global blog Tuesday, Samsung...

'The Hacker News' Celebrating its 4th Anniversary

Dear THN Readers, 'The Hacker News' is celebrating its 4th Anniversary today and we would like to thank every single Hacker, Researcher, Journalist, Enthusiast who has contributed to our phenomenal growth. When we began our journey 4 years back as a Small Local Community of few Hackers and Securi...

'The Pirate Bay' Co-Founder Found Guilty in Denmark's Largest Hacking Case

The co-founder of The Pirate Bay torrent site Gottfrid Svartholm Warg Anakata and his 21-year-old Danish co-defendant have been found guilty by a Danish court of hacking into systems operated by American IT giant CSC and illegally downloading files. It was the biggest hacking case ever conducted ...

Xiaomi Data Breach — "Exposing Xiaomi" Talk Pulled from Hacking Conference

China’s number one — and the world’s 3rd largest — smartphone manufacturer, Xiaomi, which is trying to make inroads into India’s booming mobile phone market, was found secretly sending users’ personal data, including IMEI numbers, phone numbers and text messages to the web servers back to Beijing...

Windows latest 2 0 1 4 providing the right tools MS14-0 5 8 EXP-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

By CrowStrike found that the use of more than six months of Windows local to mention the right vulnerability MS14-0 5 8CVE-2 0 1 4-4 1 1 3tool have been disclosed. Lift it right the success rate reaches 1 0 0%: The following figure shows that the current user has insufficient permissions cannot a...