FBI and computer scientists team up to catch hackers

FBI's Cyber Division has a new and sharper focus on cyber-intrusion ,"You are one click from compromising your network" FBI said. Giving priority to the labeling of suspects follows claims by the Pentagon that the military now has the capability to single out and retaliate against hackers. FBI ov...

Barrett Brown charged with Internet threats, retaliation, conspiracy charges

A Dallas man linked to the worldwide hacking group Anonymous is accused of threatening to ruin an FBI agent's life in online postings. Barrett Lancaster Brown, 31, of Dallas, was indicted on one count of making an Internet threat, one count of conspiring to make restricted personal information of...

Swedish Sites Attacked in Retaliation for Police Raid on Web Host

Several Web sites in Sweden, including the nation’s central bank and two government affiliates, were hit with attacks this week, supposedly in retaliation for a police raid on an Internet company tied to The Pirate Bay, the world’s largest file sharing site. That site also was offline until...

NSA Director Says Agency Should Not Monitor Private Networks

The hysteria in Washington regarding the comprehensive infiltration of U.S. government and civilian networks by China has gotten to the point now that the director of the National Security Agency is saying in open Congressional hearings that his agency, the U.S. Cyber Command and others should be...

Anonymous Retaliates for Arrests, Defaces Panda Labs

Hackers associated with the Anonymous and the Antisec movement claim to have compromised and defaced various Panda Labs’ websites earlier today. The hack comes one day after the news broke of the indictment of five core LulzSec hackers on various counts of hacking and other related charges. As...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

U.S. Shuts Down Megaupload File-Sharing Site, Anonymous Retaliates With DDoS Attacks

A day after the Internet was abuzz with protests of the proposed SOPA and PIPA anti-piracy bills, the Department of Justice took a major action against many of the top executives of Megaupload, a popular file-sharing site that the government says was the basis for an “international organized...

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network

Syrian Hackers Deface AnonPlus - Anonymous Social Network After the hacking gang Anonymous took credit for defacing Syria's Ministry of Defense website, a Syrian group retaliated on Monday by posting gruesome photos on Anonymous embryonic social network. The defacement of AnonPlus...

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials

Colombian Anonymous Hackers reveal personal data of Colombian police officials Colombian Anonymous Hackers announced that they had sent spam bombs to some 250 officials of Colombia's national Police https://colombiareports.com and revealed personal data of employees of the National Police invitin...

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast

Video Presentation on Stuxnet by Hungry Beast In June last year, a computer virus called Stuxnet was discovered lurking in the data banks of power plants, traffic control systems and factories around the world. Pandora's box has been opened; on the new battlefield the aggressors are anonymous, th...

January, 2011: Geohot and Fail0verflow Lawsuit

One thing that doesn’t puff up a company’s standing with its customers is planting stealth spying software on their computers. The other is making a point of taking them to court for liking your platform too much. Witnesss the fallout after Sony filed suit against George Hotz and fellow members o...

HBGary: Silence, Sloppy Reporting Hyped Anonymous Hack

After months of almost total silence, security firm HBGary issued a statement to counter what it claims were inaccurate media reports about a February security breach that spilled thousands of e-mail messages onto the Internet. The letter, published on HBGary’s Web site and positioned as an “Open...

Indian Cyber Army Hacks OGRA Website in Retaliation

In a troubling trend of tit-for-tat website defacements, a group of Indian hackers known as the ‘Indian Cyber Army’ hacked the Oil & Gas Regulatory Authority OGRA website www.ogra.org.pk on Saturday. The website was later restored by the site administrators. The message left on the OGRA page stat...

Microsoft Windows Vista2008 - NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel Use-After-Free

Microsoft Windows Vista2008 - NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel Use-After-Free Windows Vista/Server 2008 NtUserCheckAccessForIntegrityLevel Use-after-free Vulnerability Intro: Due to hostility toward security researchers, the most recent example being of Tavis Ormandy, a number of us from the...