Lolz ! I've won three million Euros from Bill Gates !

Excuse me for typing breathlessly, faithful Naked Security reader, but I have some incredible news to share. I have just been informed that I have won three million Euros from none other than the Bill Gates Foundation! I had no idea that the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which normally fight...

Selena Gomez's Twitter and Facebook Accounts Hacked !

Selena Gomez has warned fans to ignore a series of hateful messages posted on her Twitter and Facebook.com pages, after her online accounts were targeted by hoaxers. The Wizards of Waverly Place star's pages on the social networking sites were taken over by hackers earlier this week. Imposters...

North Korea YouTube and Twitter Accounts Hacked !

In what some might call a rather bold action, hackers have managed to gain access to the Twitter and YouTube accounts of North Korea. This may come across as something unusual, particularly to those of you who already know that the people of North Korea have no internet, computers and pretty much...

Rumors of Facebook shutting down !

Rumors of an impending Facebook shutdown had the site's millions of users in a panic Saturday as they wondered who would take their number one procrastination tool away. The Internet rumor was sparked by a report from the "Weekly World News," a website which also includes a story insisting "Alien...

U.S. investigators demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account from court !

U.S. investigators have gone to court to demand details about WikiLeaks' Twitter account, according to documents obtained Saturday -- the first revelation about the criminal case Washington is trying to build against those who leaked classified U.S. documents. The U.S. District Court for the...

North Korean government's official Twitter account hacked !

The North Korean government's official Twitter account has apparently been hacked, with the feed displaying a string of messages derogatory of leader Kim Jong-il and heir apparent Kim Jong-un, the South Korean Yonhap news agency has reported. The four most recent messages posted on Saturday morni...

Millions of Honda/Acura owners affected by hacked Honda database !

The Japanese motor company, Honda, today issued an alert to U.S. customers concerning a security breach resulting from a hacked database. The database that was managed by a third-party marketing group contained confidential information, including names of car owners, personal e-mail addresses, an...

Urdumela.com Database owned By KiLLerMiNd {PakCyberHaxors Crew}

Urdumela.com Database owned By KiLLerMiNd ! Login as Admin: Database: Vip Account: Found this article interesting? Follow us on Twitter  and LinkedIn to read more exclusive content we post...

Internet Meltdowns of 2010 You Need to Know

In what has become a yearly tradition, it's now time for us to present 10 of the most noteworthy incidents on the Internet from this past year. As you'll see, 2010 has been very interesting. Just like previous years, we have included problems ranging from website outages and service issues to...

Now Google Is Going To Have To Pay $8 Billion To Buy Twitter (GOOG)

There used to be a time when people swooned at the idea of Google having to spend $1 billion to acquire Twitter. Now it's going to have to be a lot more than that. Twitter just raised $200 million at a $3.7 billion valuation. Assuming its newest backer, Kleiner Perkins, wants to more-than-double...

Metasploit 3.5.1 adds Cisco device exploitation !

Metasploit now enables security professionals to exploit Cisco devices, performs passive reconnaissance through traffic analysis, provides more exploits and evaluates an organization's password security by brute forcing an ever increasing range of services. This latest release adds stealth...

Anonymous Claims Responsibility for Moneybookers Attack

Anonymous, a loosely affiliated group of Internet vigilantes, has claimed responsibility for various Internet attacks against organizations perceived as hostile to WikiLeaks. Today, the group sought to portray itself as more focused on symbolic protest rather than outright disruption. These claim...

Former Hacker Li Jun Donates to Panda Research Center

In 2006, Li Jun, a Chinese man, was jailed for creating the ‘Fujacks’ worm. Recently, he appears to be attempting to rehabilitate his public image by making a donation to a panda research center in China. Li Jun was arrested in February 2007 and charged with writing and selling the "Panda Burning...

Avast antivirus website Hacked by h311 c0d3 !

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Massive Hack At Gawker Yields Trove of Passwords

A massive hack of systems belonging to online publishing giant Gawker Media has put gigabytes of sensitive information related to Gawker founder Nick Denton and the company’s operations online. But a trove of millions of hashed account passwords could be an even bigger problem for untold numbers ...

Nmap for Android Phones !!

droidmap is an android application for root users that implements some functions of NMAP in a GUI in Android. This program comes with installer scripts for the installation of the required NMAP application that must be run to install the program to your phone. Please note that the installation...

Week in Security: More Wikileaks Fallout, Cybersecurity Buzz and Browser Updates

The words “cyber war” were in the headlines this week, as controversy and debate about the leak of confidential diplomatic cables by Wikileaks reached a fever pitch. As speculation turned to the fallout from the ongoing publication of documents, the U.S. government laid the groundwork to prevent...

WordPress Twitter Feed Plugin 'url' Parameter Cross Site Scripting Vulnerability

The Twitter Feed Plugin for WordPress is prone to a cross-site scripting vulnerability because it fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input. SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2010 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective...

Twitter Locks Out Wikileaks DDoS Group As Attacks Spread

Twitter has suspended the account used by Anonymous, an umbrella group of online hacker-activists that have claimed responsibility for denial of service DoS attacks on Visa, MasterCard, Paypal and a host of other public and private entities who have taken action against Wikileaks and its founder,...

Understanding the Dangers of Stuxnet in Industrial Control Systems

Stuxnet is a sophisticated virus specifically designed to attack supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA systems manufactured by Siemens, a German industrial giant. These systems are commonly used to manage water supplies, power plants, and other industrial facilities, making the worm...