Walk This Way

The British Comedy troupe Monty Python famously joked about the strange strides emanating from the farcical Ministry of Funny Walks. But even normal looking walks can be quite distinctive. According to researchers at Shinshu University in Tokida, Japan, computers aided by 3D image processing...

US Judge Postpones Death Sentence For Ghost Click Machines

A Federal Judge acceded to a request from the U.S. Attorney’s Office to extend the operation of Domain Name System servers that are the last lifeline to the Internet for hundreds of thousands of machines infected by the DNSChanger malware, following a bust of the group controlling the infected...

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...

Google, Advertising Companies, Found Bypassing Safari Privacy Settings

Google and several other advertising companies have allegedly been evading the privacy controls of Apple’s Safari browser by placing a special kind of tracking code on a handful of sites, according to new research done by Stanford grad student Jonathan Mayer. To follow up on Mayer’s work,...

2013 Federal Budget Includes Nearly $800M For Cybersecurity

President Obama is asking for $769 million to fund information security initiatives via the Department of Homeland Security in 2013. That amount is nearly twice what DHS asked for last year to fund its cybersecurity work. “The Administration proposes $769 million to support the operations of the...

NASA Hacker Arrested in Romania

Razvan Manole Cernaianu, perhaps better known as Tinkode, the hacker who gained notoriety after allegedly compromising a number of websites, including those of NASA, the European Space Agency, and Sun Microsystems, was recently arrested in Romania. According to a statement released by the Romania...

Officials Claim China, Not India, Behind E-Mail Hack of U.S. Commission

It appears that hackers in China – not India as previously suspected – were behind the apparent leak of e-mails last week from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. It was widely reported last Monday that the Commission, initially created in 2000 to supervise trade and oversee...

Slideshow: Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs

VIEW SLIDESHOW Ten Tips For Protecting Your Devices From Seizure By U.S. Customs Fourth amendment be damned. With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your...

Fourth Amendment be damned

With U.S. Customs agents increasingly interested in the contents of digital devices like iPhones, iPads and laptops, The Electronic Frontier Foundation has issued guidance for getting your mobile device across the border safely and protecting the data on it should it get seized. The Fourth...

Hackers from China Target, Hit U.S. Chamber of Commerce

A band of hackers from China was able to gain access to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and retrieve information on the organization’s employees for over a year before they were discovered in May 2010, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. The hackers infiltrated Chamber of Commerc...

Iranian engineer hijack U.S. drone by GPS hack [Video Explanation]

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems GPS. The technique, known as "GPS...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks

Government organised 12 Chinese Hacker Groups behind all Attacks About 12 different Chinese groups largely directed by the government there, do the bulk of the China based cyber attacks stealing critical data from U.S. companies and government agencies, according to U.S. cyber security analysts a...

Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

Carrier IQ Controversy Spawns Lawsuits

The ongoing controversy about Carrier IQ’s software has now entered the courts. Mobile phone users around the country have filed a number of lawsuits in response to allegations that Carrier IQ’s software tracks consumers illegally. Among these suits is a class action filed in California against...

Key House Hearing on SOPA Bill Set For Today

All eyes will be on Capitol Hill this morning when the House Judiciary Committee holds a key hearing on the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act, which has drawn wide opposition from a variety of groups and companies for its broad language supposedly designed to prevent copyright infringement. Th...

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds

Hacker selling compromised websites gets hacked by d33ds A hacking group called d33ds broke into the online shop of a rival hacker who sells unauthorized access to high-profile websites and data. A hacker calling himself Srblche, also offered information stolen from websites belonging to the U.S...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda" in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wor...

A Doomsday Worm - The Sputnik of 2011

We had an Interesting Article by "Paul F Renda " in our The Hacker News Magazine's November Edition. We would Like to share this article with our website readers also. You can Download November Issue Here. This is a theoretical prima to bring out a discussion about whether an Internet doomsday wo...

Hackers Interrupt U.S. Government Satellites

Hackers interfered with two U.S. satellites on four separate occasions in the last few years, according to a draft of a report from the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission obtained by Bloomberg BusinessWeek on Thursday. The attacks are believed to have been orchestrated from China...