Malicious PDF Attack Baiting Defense Industry Victims

There has been a spate of spear-phishing attacks against a number of high-profile targets in the last few months, including RSA and others, and that trend is continuing unabated. Researchers have come across a fresh attack using the familiar malicious PDF attachment that appears to be targeting...

LulzSec Calling It Quits

The shadowy hacking group LulzSec has posted a message saying that it is disbanding after just 50 days. The group posted messages to its Twitter account, and a letter to its followers on Pastebin.com, the online file sharing site. In the letter, the group said it was disbanding so that its member...

Anup Ghosh on Targeted Attacks and the Need for Security Innovation

Dennis Fisher talks with Anup Ghosh of Invincea about the current wave of targeted attacks against high-profile companies such as RSA, the IMF and Citigroup and how the lack of innovation on the defensive side of the fence has made life easier for the attackers. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65...

High-Profile Attacks Drive Renewed Push For Breach Notification Law

With each new day bringing news of another intrusion at a high-profile company or government agency, lawmakers are considering a number of legislative responses to the problem, including a potential bill that would require companies to report breaches within 48 hours and establish penalties for...

Sony CEO Warns "Bad New World" Will See More High Profile Hacks

In the aftermath following April’s mammoth Sony PlayStation Network breach, the company’s Chief Executive warns of a “bad new world” of cyber crime in an interview with The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday. Howard Stringer of Sony Corp. spoke with the newspaper on security, hackers and how the atta...

Source Code is the New Hacker Currency !

Source Code is the New Hacker Currency ! No doubt you've been paying attention to the data breaches pile up lately... but have you noticed a trend? If you wade through the hype and hyperbole, dig into the details of the most prolific intrusions in recent history you'll notice one thing that shine...

Splinter Group Says Document Outs Anonymous Members

The veil surrounding the group Anonymous may be falling, now that a group claiming to have defected from the ranks of the online mischief making group has begun publishing what it claims are the identities of the hacker collective’s leadership and their roles in recent high profile hacks, includi...

More than 3,000 may accept been victims of phone hacking !

Up to 3,000 bodies who may accept been victims of the phone-hacking aspersion will be contacted by police, it has emerged. Officers plan to address to abstracts from politics, showbusiness and action whose names were begin at the bounds of a clandestine detective confined over the scam. The added...

Google Bangladesh website (Google.com.bd) Hacked by TiGER-M@TE

Google Bangladesh website Google.com.bd Hacked by TiGER-M@TE We just got an anonymous tip that Google's been 'hacked' – sure enough, visitors of the company's Bangladesh search site Google.com.bd see a defaced landing page rather than the usual search site. As far as I can tell, www.google.com.bd...

Microsoft to Fix IE 8 XSS Filter Security Problems

On the heels of a Black Hat EU presentation that exposed security problems with the cross-site scripting XSS filter in Internet Explorer 8, Microsoft plans to ship an update to the filter to fix what is hopefully the last remaining attack scenario. During the conference presentation, a pair of...

French Man Arrested for Hacking Twitter

On Thursday, investigators in France arrested an unemployed 25-year old man who appears to have been responsible for the spectacular attacks on Twitter accounts that included those of US President Barack Obama and pop singer Britney Spears. Read the full article. The H Security...