Hacker Group Breaches Library of Congress Site, Publishes Passwords

A group of hackers claims to have breached the official website of the Library of Congress, America’s national library. The group claiming responsibility, BlitzSec, decried the wildly unpopular US Congress and said it used a SQL injection attack to access the Library of Congress Website’s back en...

Hackers Hit Alabama, Mexican Government Websites

Hackers with Anonymous have taken credit for targeting government websites for Alabama and Mexico. The group claimed Friday to have hacked several Alabama police and government servers and stolen personal information on more than 46,000 people, including social security numbers, license plate...

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...

Tor anonymity will become illegal with SOPA acts ?

Tor anonymity will become illegal with SOPA acts ? The Stop Online Piracy Act SOPA is the newest attempt by Congress and corporations in the United States to regulate the Internet. SOPA's proponents include the Motion Picture Association of America and the Recording Industry of America. They view...

Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1

Bypass SOPA Stop Online Piracy Act DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1 A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered DeSOPA. The Firefox...

Internet Pioneers, Security Experts Send Letter to Congress Blasting SOPA

A group of engineers, networking specialists, security experts and other specialists deeply involved with the Internet’s development and growth have sent a letter to lawmakers criticizing the highly controversial SOPA and PIPA bills and imploring them not to pass the legislation, which they say...

Citing Crisis, Senate Leader Puts Cybersecurity Bill On 2012 Agenda

Citing a looming crisis over lax computer security, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said on Wednesday that the Senate will debate cybersecurity legislation. The move comes despite the lack of a coherent Senate plan and could set up a showdown with House Republicans over the government’s role in...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists

British police issue warning to Anonymous, Lulzsec and other internet hacktivists The Metropolitan Police have taken the unusual step of using Twitter to send a message to anyone considering supporting internet attacks against companies and governments.A message posted on the Met Police's officia...

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...

Schmidt: White House Feels 'Very Positive' About Prospects of Data Breach Bill Passing

Howard Schmidt has been the White House cybersecurity coordinator for nearly 18 months now, and in that time has helped develop and shape the Obama administration’s policies and thinking on cybercrime, online privacy and cybersecurity. In the second part of a recent interview with Threatpost edit...

Obama Cybersecurity Chief: Other Nations Key To Securing Cyberspace

This is the first part of a two-part Threatpost interview with Howard Schmidt, White House cybersecurity coordinator, about the challenges of international cooperation, the proliferation of cybercrime and what can be done to address those issues. Look for part two tomorrow. The Obama administrati...

Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts on the Sony Data Breach and National Cybersecurity

Dennis Fisher and Paul Roberts talk about the data breach of the Sony PlayStation Network, Sony’s response to the attack and whether the recent legislation proposed by the White House and its new cyberspace strategy will have any effect. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital...

Trinity College Dublin Reports Data breach !

Trinity College Dublin Reports Data breach ! A file containing the names of students and staff of Trinity College Dublin, along with their addresses, ID numbers and email addresses, was "inadvertently" made accessible on a local network, the college said. TCD said today it had reported the incide...

US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack !

US Congress wants answers from Sony on PlayStation hack ! A U.S. congressional committee has asked Sony Computer Entertainment to explain several issues surrounding the massive potential leak of information on customers of its PlayStation Network. The network, which serves as an e-commerce and...

Report: U.S. Is Hyping Threat Of Cyber War

A new report suggests that lawmakers, policy wonks and corporations are sensationalizing the risk of cyber attacks far beyond the actual threat. The inflation of cyber security threat, like the inflation of the threat of Communism during the Cold War, or terrorist acts in the wake of the 9/11...

Europe prepares for war with botnets !

EU cyber security agency ENISA has warned that ISPs, end users and governments all have a role to play in stopping the global menace of botnet-related cyber crime. Botnets, such as the one that uses the infamous Zeus malware to infect machines, are growing in scope and scale, and ENISA has releas...

#Anonymous : An Open Letter To Broadcast Music, Inc.

Anonymous : An Open Letter To Broadcast Music, Inc. Anonymous Hackers just Release a new open letter for Broadcast Music , as shown Below : To: Broadcast Music, Incorporated Greetings from Anonymous, As you have no doubt gathered from various media outlets and our own information disseminated...

Anti-computer hacking bill coming in U.S. Congress !

Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in the U.S. Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ.O and at oil and gas companies. "Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, wh...

SA-CONTRIB-2011-004 - Multiple Vulnerabilities In Multiple Contributed Modules

Versions affected and proposed solutions OG Forum for Drupal 6.x OG Forum creates a forum per organic group and restricts viewing forum nodes by group membership. OG Forum does not properly implement access controls on private forums it creates, which can lead to a private group's forums becoming...