Philippine court suspends Anti Cybercrime law

The Philippine Supreme Court on Tuesday suspended implementation of Republic Act 10175 or the Cybercrime Prevention Act for 120 days, while it decides whether certain provisions violate civil liberties. The law, signed last month, aims to combat Internet crimes such as hacking, identity theft,...

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...

For the LULZ of it, I apologize to Lulzsec

Note : This Article Cross posted from our Magazine's 13th Issue - August 2012 called "BOTNET | The Hacker News Magazine", Written by Ann Smith Executive Editor, The Hacker News Magazine. You can Download full magazine free here. Shame on me. When someone mentioned Lulzsec I would slightly bristle...

Scientific Linux Security Update : gfs2-utils on SL5.x i386/x86_64

Multiple insecure temporary file use flaws were discovered in GFS2 user level utilities. A local attacker could use these flaws to overwrite an arbitrary file writable by a victim running those utilities typically root with the output of the utilities via a symbolic link attack. CVE-2008-6552 Thi...

Open letter to the Australian people from Mother of Julian Assange

There have been numerous public statements made about WikiLeaks and its editor-in-chief Julian Assange that are factually inaccurate.Prime Minister Julia Gillard said about WikiLeaks, "It's illegal." Attorney General Nicola Roxon said my son "fled Sweden." The media repeatedly states, "Assange is...

Report: Strategic Web Compromises Behind Recent Hack of Amnesty, Others

A recent string of Web site hacks at Amnesty International and other NGOs are evidence of a campaign of cyber espionage directed against human rights orgnaizations, according to a report from The Shadowserver Foundation. In a report on Tuesday, the Foundation said that its members had witnessed a...

Stolen Certificates Found in Malware Possibly Targeting Tibetan Groups

The recent trend of attackers using stolen digital certificates to make their malicious executables look legitimate is continuing unabated, with researchers now having come across a series of variants of the Etchfro Trojan that are using certificates taken from several companies and issued by...

Design/Logic Flaw

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.1 Bundle 9 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Human Resources...

CVE-2012-0521

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.1 Bundle 9 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Human Resources...

CVE-2012-0521

CVE-2012-0521 affects Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.1 Bundle #9, specifically the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component. The vulnerability is described as unspecified with unknown vectors but allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality in Human Resources-related data. The CVSS base m...

CVE-2012-0521: Undefined Security Weakness

Unspecified vulnerability in the PeopleSoft Enterprise HCM component in Oracle PeopleSoft Products 9.1 Bundle 9 allows remote authenticated users to affect confidentiality via unknown vectors related to Human Resources...

Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest

Anonymous Hackers target F1 website in Bahrain GP protest Anonymous a collective who have hacked or taken down websites for social comment purposes, have turned their attention to the official Formula 1 website Formula1.com, taking it offline on Friday. The group also attacked F1-racers.net where...

Phone based denial-of-service (DoS) attack on MI6 Anti-terrorism Agency

Phone based denial-of-service DoS attack on MI6 Anti-terrorism Agency +attack+on+MI6+Anti-terrorism+Agency.jpg The Hacking group, 'TeaMp0isoN' said they targeted counter-terrorism officers at MI6 with a barrage of phone calls for a period of 24 hours, which meant nobody else could get through. By...

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...

BlueCross BlueShield to Pay $1.5m for HIPAA Violation

Blue Cross Blue Shield of Tennessee agreed to pony up $1.5 million to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services HHS for a HIPAA violation in 2009, according to a ComputerWorld report. This payment is the settlement of a violation of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act...

'The Consortium' Just Called the Movement a 'SLUT '

'The Consortium' Just Called the Movement a 'SLUT' I'm disappointed. At the pinnacle of one of the greatest and most innovative political movements the world has ever seen, you have the new hackers group named "Consortium" bringing the movement to a new low and quite frankly, an embarrassment. Wh...

VulnCheck KEV: CVE-2011-10033

The WordPress plugin is-human = v1.4.2 contains an eval injection vulnerability in /is-human/engine.php that can be triggered via the 'type' parameter when the 'action' parameter is set to 'log-reset'. The root cause is unsafe use of eval on user-controlled input, which can lead to execution of...

Occupy Obama's Google+ ,Chinese Internet Users Flood G+ Page

Occupy Obama's Google+ ,Chinese Internet Users Flood G+ Page Many Chinese have taken up a call to "Occupy Obama's Google+" over the weekend in the style of Occupy Wall Street in order to feel "close" to the popular world leader as well as air some of their views. Hundreds of Chinese have flooded ...

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012

WikiLeaks suspect Bradley Manning nominated for Nobel Peace Prize 2012 A spokesman for the Nobel Peace Prize jury says 231 nominations have been submitted for this year's award, with publicly disclosed candidates including WikiLeaks whistle-blower Bradley Manning may be among the hundreds of...

Pakistani Government Looking For Homegrown URL Blocking System

According to a request for proposals from the government’s National ICT Information and Communications and Technologies R&D Fund, the government is struggling to stay on top of growing Internet and WEb use and is looking for a way to filter out undesirable Web sites. “Many countries have deployed...