Byzantine Hades

Byzantine Hades is a code name given to a wide ranging and persistent group of network intrusions into U.S. military, government, and corporate systems. The operations can be broken down into three sub-categories: Byzantine Candor, Byzantine Anchor and Byzantine Foothold. Information on the hacks...

Titan Rain

Hacks against the Defense Department and other U.S. agencies stretching back to 2003 were codenamed Titan Rain by investigators. The attacks, which breached hundreds of networks, including Departments of State, Energy and Homeland Security, were coordinated from Chinese computers, investigators...

Buckshot Yankee

Then-U.S. Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn III called it “the most significant breach of U.S. military computers ever” and “a network administrator’s worst fear” when, in 2008, a silently operating, rogue program infiltrated classified U.S. military networks. The infection began at a...

U.S. Backs Research Into What Makes Cyber Criminals Tick

The following is an exclusive Threatpost interview with Samuel Weber, Program Director for the National Science Foundation’s Trustworthy Computing Program. The interview took place on Monday, June 27, 2011 at the RFIDSec 11 Conference on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. The...

Wikileaks - We help you safely Get the Truth !

Wikileaks - We help you safely Get the Truth ! Note : The Article is Taken from "The Hacker News Magazine" - June Edition. Download Magazine here.. The United States Department of Justice has left no stone unturned in their ruthless attempts to uncover or fabricate evidence against Wikileaks...

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms.Lulz announced...

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers

Lulzsec Hackers Break Into U.S. Senate Computers The loosely organized hacker group Lulz Security broke into a public portion of the Senate website but did not reach behind a firewall into a more sensitive portion of the network, Martina Bradford, the deputy Senate sergeant at arms.Lulz announced...

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt It's the second time Google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on China . On 1st of June we have Reported that : Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia. This time Google says unknown hackers from Jinan, China, a ci...

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt

Chinese hackers having aim to Spying on U.S. Govt It's the second time Google has blamed a major computer hacking scheme on China . On 1st of June we have Reported that : Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia. This time Google says unknown hackers from Jinan, China, a ci...

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia

Chinese Hacker Cracks Hundreds of Gmail Accounts of U.S. & Asia Hackers around the world are gaining more attention than usual in the last few months. Now Google has added another announcement to the pile that hundreds of Gmail accounts have been hacked recently. Now, Google affirms that the...

China-Based Attacks Targeted Gmail of U.S. Officials, Activists

Search giant Google has again sounded the alarm about sophisticated attacks emanating from mainland China and targeting officials within the U.S. and Asian governments, as well as human rights activists and journalists. Samples of some of the messages posted on an independent researcher’s blog...

Hackers broke into Lockheed Martin networks & U.S. defense contractors !

Unknown hackers have broken into the security networks of Lockheed Martin Corp and several other U.S. military contractors, a source with direct knowledge of the attacks told Reuters. They breached security systems designed to keep out intruders by creating duplicates to "SecurID" electronic keys...

Report: Norwegian Military Hit by Cyber Attack in March

The Norwegian military has admitted it was hit by a “massive” phishing cyber attack in March, according to a report from Techworld.com. The attack began in an e-mail sent to select members of the defense ministry from what appeared to be another Norwegian government agency. An enclosed attachment...

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense (DoD), Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ?

Exclusive Report : Is Department of Defense DoD, Pentagon, NASA, NSA is Secure ? Over the past couple of weeks there has been a series of discussions around why the U.S defense and Intelligence agencies are moving so quickly to adopt cloud computing. Are there any Security Holes in their Security...

Report: Google May Face $500m Fine Over Rogue Pharma Ads

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that search giant Google is close to reaching a settlement with the U.S. Justice Department over an investigation of the company’s policy of running ads from online pharmacies that operate outside U.S. borders and in violation of U.S. law. Google has not made ...

Sony Apologizes, Offers $1 Million Insurance After Hacking !

Sony Corp. 6758 Chairman Howard Stringer apologized and offered U.S. customers of PlayStation Network and Qriocity online entertainment services a year of free identity- theft protection after the system was crippled by hackers. Japan's biggest consumer-electronics exporter will offer a $1 millio...

Malware and Spam Campaigns Related to Bin Laden Not Finding Many Takers

As has become their custom, attackers and malware authors jumped on the death of Osama Bin Laden Monday, using black hat SEO, Facebook scams and Twitter spam. However, unlike other recent major news events, the attempts to lure people into clicking on malicious links or downloading Trojaned files...

U.S., Russian Officials Work to Define Cybersecurity Terms

The Cold War ended more than two decades ago, but Russia and the U.S. are still rivals. Now the two countries have agreed to some rules of the road for the next theater of conflict: cyber warfare. The two countries have released the first ever Critical Terminology Foundations – a kind of rules of...

Apple Admits to Bugs, Denies Tracking iPhone Users

Apple finally sounded off on its phone tracking imbroglio on Wednesday telling iPhone customers that “it’s the location, stupid.” The company claims its tracking feature is designed to collect data on cell towers and wifi hotspots, not users. After more than a week of silence, the notoriously...

Hacker Pleads Guilty To Theft of 600K Credit Cards, Could Get 10 Years

A 26 year-old Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court in Virginia to the theft of hundreds of thousands of credit cards and a years-long fraud scheme that netted him more than $100,000 in illicit profits – money he used to buy himself a BMW and luxury clothing. Rogelio Hackett of Lithonia,...