Microsoft Fixing 11 Vulnerabilities for December Patch Tuesday

Microsoft announced today that it plans on shipping seven bulletins, five critical, two important, for the December edition of its monthly patch Tuesday security bulletin release cycle. The year’s last scheduled batch of patches will address 11 vulnerabilities in all currently supported operating...

South Carolina Data Breach Casts Spotlight on Lack of Encryption, Stolen Credentials

South Carolina governor Nikki Haley said a mouthful this week when she spilled a dirty industry secret that Social Security numbers are generally not encrypted by state agencies. Reeling from a Department of Revenue data breach that leaked 3.6 million Social Security and credit card numbers as we...

Judge Rules Against Consumers' Claims in PlayStation Hack Lawsuit

A Southern California judge has rejected several key claims in a class-action lawsuit filed in response to Sony’s handling last year of a data breach that left millions of users at risk. In a ruling released by Courthousenews.com, U.S. District Court Judge Anthony Battaglia ruled users did not ha...

We Are Being Held in Cyber Handcuffs

Hello my Princes of Peace, Warriors of the Revolution, Princesses of the cause, I want you to take two minutes and watch this video: This video is the epitome of the ignorance and arrogance of governments all over the world in response to our cyber war revolution. As you will see, the power peopl...

meetOne Insecure Transport / Information Disclosure

SUMMARY meetOne, currently in Germany in the Top 50 social apps of the iTunes Store, has multiple vulnerabilities and has been found guilty of stealing Apple iPhone address books and abusing the e-mail addresses there for spam. Apple Inc. is ignoring the data theft and it seems even supressing...

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan

Anonymous Hacks Japanese Government Websites against Anti-Piracy Laws in Japan Japan's legislature has approved a bill revising the nation's copyright law to add criminal penalties for downloading copyrighted material or backing up content from a DVD. The penalties will come into effect in...

EU Officials, Privacy Agencies Attempt to Clarify Cookie Rules

Officials in Europe this week are hoping to set clearer rules for online advertisers with new guidelines that are supported by the continent’s leading digital privacy agencies. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, agencies from the European Union’s EU member countries met last week...

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ?

Google's rogue engineer want to Stumble WI-FI Networks on Globe ? European privacy regulators said Wednesday that they were considering reopening their inquiries into Google's collection of personal e-mails and Web searches for its Street View service. Google's public version of events of how it...

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home

Anonymous vs Britain's Home Office - Operation Trial At Home As announced during last days Anonymous has launched a Distributed Denial of Service DDoS against several UK government websites. A massive recruiting campaign is started on social media, a call to arm to protest the extradition of U.K...

U.S. Ambassador claim to be hacked by Russians

U.S. Ambassador claim to be hacked by Russians Michael McFaul, the U.S. ambassador to Russia, took to Twitter Thursday night to accuse Russian media organization NTV of hacking his cell phone and email account. "I respect the right of the press to go anywhere & ask any question. But do they have ...

Money Mules, Not Customers, The Real Victims of Bank Fraud

Money mules – the accomplices who help move stolen funds – may be the real victims of online banking scams, not the bank customers who are the ostensible targets of fraudsters, according to new research from Microsoft. In a paper that turns conventional thinking about online banking crime on its...

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet

Twitter, As secondary publisher could be sued for an illegal tweet If a Twitter user posts an illegal tweet, they could get sued, but Twitter could be sued itself as a secondary publisher according to Zack Whittaker. Legal analysis site Out-Law published a very interesting, theoretical piece, whi...

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet

Call for Paper - DEF CON Rajasthan March 2012 Meet DEF CON Rajasthan - March 2012 Jaipur Meet, Call For Papers is now officially Open and will close on March 10, 2012. DEF CON Rajasthan DC91141 is a DEF CON Registered group of people interested in exploring technology and it implications in...

For Protest Against #SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson

For Protest Against SOPA 68 Website hacked By Dinelson Dinelson deface 68 Websites for Protest Against SOPA and PIPA. List of all Hacked site is posted here. A protest to a Congressional bill called SOPA caused quite a stir on Wednesday as thousands of websites protested SOPA with blacked-out...

White House Wades into Piracy Legislation Debate

Officials with the Obama administration said the White House will not support anti-piracy bills that endanger cybersecurity or freedom of expression on the Web. In a post Saturday on the White House blog, three top technology officials for the administration – Victoria Espinel, intellectual...

Israeli Firm Denies Gear Sold To Iran Is For Surveillance

An Israeli technology firm says it it looking into accusations made in a published report by Bloomberg that its software was sold to Iran, even as it denies claims in the report that its technology can be used for surveillance. The Israeli firm Allot Communications issued a statement on Friday th...

EU Audit Forces Changes To Facebook Privacy Policies

An audit of Facebook’s operations by the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner in Ireland will result in major changes to the way the social networking giant manages user data. The 143 page report, issued on Wednesday, calls on Facebook to give users more control over how their personal...

Sen. Franken Demands Answers From Carrier IQ on Mobile Tracking

The fallout from the controversy surrounding the presence of Carrier IQ’s software on millions of mobile devices on several different platforms has now reached Washington. Sen. Al Franken on Thursday sent a letter to the company, demanding answers to a series of questions about the software and i...

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites

Anonymous attack on Israeli government & security services websites Several Israeli government websites crashed on Sunday in what appeared to be a cyber-attack by Anonymous hackers. The websites of the IDF, Mossad and the Shin Bet security services were among the sites that went down, as well as...

Google Report Shows It Complied With 93% of U.S. Law Enforcement Data Requests

Google complied with 93 percent of the requests for user data that it received from U.S. law enforcement agencies through the first six months of this year. In the latest update to its Transparency Report, Google for the first time not only disclosed the number of requests that it receives, but...