Old-School Attack Nabs Joint UK-French Drone Plans

Forget about data stealing trojans. Unidentified thieves got a hold of top secret plans for a joint French-British drone aircraft project the old fashioned way: by snatching an executive’s briefcase at a Paris train station. An executive from the French defense contractor Dassault Aviation had th...

Azerbaijan Arrests Iranian terror group, Iranian Hackers hit Azerbaijan Sites

Azerbaijan Arrests Iranian terror group, Iranian Hackers hit Azerbaijan Sites The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan said Tuesday that it had disrupted a suspected terrorist group working for Iran's secret services. The people were gathering intelligence and had acquired a large number of...

Anonymous leak 400 Mb Documents from US Army Intelligence Knowledge Network

Anonymous leak 400 Mb Documents from US Army Intelligence Knowledge Network Anonymous claim to hack Intelligence Knowledge Network IKN Portal of United States Army - ikn.army.mil. Hackers dump around 400 Mb of Data on Rapidshare in two parts : https://rapidshare.com/files/665225777/Documents1.zip...

Leak Site Cryptome.org Hacked, Running Blackhole Exploit Kit

The Web site of information leak site Cryptome was compromised earlier this month and infected with the Blackhole exploit kit, according to documents posted on the site. The site, which posts a wide range of open source intelligence and leaked documents, was compromised on February 8 and had its...

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a better way to spy on Facebook and Twitter users. The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so...

FBI Looking for App to Monitor Twitter and Facebook For Threat Data

The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data...

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files

Julian Assange interview on Spy Files "Give me liberty or give me death" is a statement made famous by Patrick Henry but could easily have been stated by the new patriot of justice, Julian Assange. Julian Assange is a journalist and activist best known as the founder and public face of WikiLeaks,...

Microsoft Readying Real Time Hosted Threat Intelligence Feed

New York City – Microsoft has proven that it can take down huge, global botnets like Kelihos, Rustock and Waldec. Now the company is ready to start making the data it acquires in those busts available to governments, law enforcement and customers as a real time threat intelligence feed...

US become victim of Indian spy unit, Apple & RIM deny their role !

US become victim of Indian spy unit, Apple & RIM deny their role ! A recently leaked memo reveals that American and Canadian based company's Apple, Research in Motion and Nokia may have helped the government of India spy on U.S. agencies in order to receive larger shares of the overall Indian cel...

Did Apple, RIM and Nokia Help The Indian Government Spy On The U.S.?

Documents purportedly lifted from Indian government servers contain explosive allegations: that leading Western firms including Apple Corp., Research in Motion and Nokia provided the government with secret access to mobile devices their mobile operating systems- access that the Indian government...

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials

Anonymous expose email addresses of British military staff & Nato officials Anonymous Hackers expose email addresses of 221 British military staff with encrypted passwords, including those of defence, intelligence and police officials as well as politicians and 242 Nato advisers. "Civil servants...

Hackers leak the Source Code for Symantec Product

Hackers leak the Source Code for Symantec Product A group calling itself the Lords of Dharmaraja posted an Adobe document online Wednesday that it claimed was a glimpse of the source code for the internet security software. But Symantec spokesman Cris Paden said "no source code was disclosed" in...

Coviello: '2012 Will Be the Year of Resiliency'

I just came back from a five-week trip of meeting with customers around the world and never in my entire career have CEOs and corporate boards been as interested in security as they are now. The common theme throughout these conversations was that we are facing a new reality – one of persistent,...

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers

US Chamber Of Commerce Hit by Chinese Hackers A group of hackers in China breached the computer defenses of America's top business-lobbying group and gained access to everything stored on its systems, including information about its three million members. The hackers may have broken into the...

CheckPoint Firewall-1 SecuRemote Topology Service Hostname Disclosure

This module sends a query to the port 264/TCP on CheckPoint Firewall-1 firewalls to obtain the firewall name and management station such as SmartCenter name via a pre-authentication request. The string returned is the CheckPoint Internal CA CN for SmartCenter and the firewall host. Whilst...

Report: Iran Claims To Have Hacked, Then Hijacked Stealth Drone

A report on the Web site of the Christian Science Monitor claims that Iran exploited a long-known vulnerability in the GPS navigation system of the U.S.’s RQ-170 Sentinel drone to force it into landing safely within Iran. The report, Thursday, cites an Iranian engineer that is part of a team that...

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised

Breach confirmed in GlobalSign, SSL certificates not compromised GlobalSign said on Tuesday that the SSL certificate and key for www.globalsign.com may have been exposed after a hack on an external server in September. However, the company said that after investigating the breach it has found no...

Social network poisoning - They are Following you Everywhere !

Note : This Article is taken from Most Comprehensive and Informative IT Security Magazine by The Hacker News - December Edition Download Here "Be Social" is the imperative of the last years. We live alternative lives, weave dense networks of relationships; we feel the irrepressible urge to be par...

Combination of Eyes and Algorithms Wins $50K Prize In DARPA's Shredder Challenge

Scientists for the Pentagon’s far-out research branch, DARPA, weren’t sure that anyone would be able to collect the $50,000 prize when they announced their Shredder Challenge to find ways to reassemble shredded documents just over a month ago. This week – just 33 days later – they had a winner...

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability

The Spy Files: Wikileaks expose Mobile Phone, Email Hacking capability Wikileaks has released dozens of new documents highlighting the state of the once covert, but now lucrative private sector global surveillance industry. According to Assange, over 150 private sector organisations in 25 countri...