Chinese Hackers hit New York Times and Wall Street Journal

The New York Times says Chinese hackers probably working for the military or Chinese government have carried out sustained attacks on its computer systems, breaking in and stealing the passwords of high-profile reporters and other staff members. For the last four months, Chinese hackers have...

Hacker Claims Compromise of IT Recruiter

A hacker affiliated with a group called TeamGhostShell claims he hacked into a website servicing IT professionals seeking jobs on Wall Street, and in doing so compromised the personal information of thousands of job applicants, according to a ComputerWorld report. A hacker identifying himself as...

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector

Botnets, DDoS attacks as weapon against financial sector DDOS attacks against the financial sector almost tripled during the first quarter of this year, according to DDoS mitigation specialist Prolexic. The firm also reported a 3,000 per cent quarter-on-quarter increase in malicious packet traffi...

Global Payments Inc. Acknowledges Breach

Following previous announcements from Visa and Mastercard, electronic credit card processor Global Payments Inc. acknowledged late Friday that its system was breached earlier this year. Global Payments announced via press release that a portion of its processing system had been compromised in ear...

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,...

Report: Anonymous Targets Neo-Nazis

The Anonymous Internet collective’s campaign against groups with whom they disagree surged into 2012 with “Operation Blitzkrieg,” which is targeting Neo-Nazi groups in Germany. Their latest effort includes a Wikileaks-style Website, Nazi-leaks.net, to uncover and expose the identities of...

Russian hackers hit Twitter with automated hashtags tweets

Russian hackers hit Twitter with automated hashtags tweets Russian hackers have taken aim at Twitter in recent days to hamper communication between opposition activists as outrage against the conduct of last week's general elections grows. The pro-government messages were generated by thousands o...

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data Anonymous, the Internet "hactivist" group, today, apparently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, hacked into several different police databases and leaked sensitive personal data, among them passwords, names,...

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data

Occupy Wall Street : Anonymous Hackers Publish Law Enforcement Data Anonymous, the Internet "hactivist" group, today, apparently in support of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, hacked into several different police databases and leaked sensitive personal data, among them passwords, names,...

Aaron Barr's Strange Trip To (Occupy) Wall Street

It was an “Elvis Meets Nixon” kind of moment: former HBGary Federal CEO Aaron Barr sporting blue hair and posing in front of a van sporting the Wikileaks logo down at New York’s Zuccotti Park, home of the Occupy Wall Street protest. What was he doing there? It’s complicated. In an interview with...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street dem...

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests

Hackers leak Citigroup CEO 's personal data after Occupy Wall Street arrests The mobile phone number and home address of Vikram Pandit, the chief executive of Citigroup, have been placed on the web by hacking group CabinCr3w in retaliation for the cuffing of protesters at an Occupy Wall Street...

Informant Says Hacks, Threats Followed Release Of Occupy Wall Street E-Mail

Thomas Ryan, the independent security consultant who released a trove of e-mail communications from the Occupy Wall Street protesters, said he has been the target of numerous hacks and has received death threats after revealing information on the protestors plans to authorities. In a conversation...

Pizza Delivery For Mr. Blankfein? Group Outs Goldman Sachs CEO In Occupy Wall Street Protest

The ongoing Occupy Wall Street protests spilled into the digital realm, as a group linked to the Anonymous hacking collective spilled information about Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein, along with e-mail addresses for much of the investment bank’s senior leadership. The ongoing Occupy Wall Stree...

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer's Personal Info

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer 's Personal Info The Anonymous activist collective today released personal information about a New York police officer who is believed to have sprayed pepper spray on women protesters on Wall Street. The group released phone number,...

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer's Personal Info

Anonymous Hackers Release alleged pepper spray NYPD Officer's Personal Info The Anonymous activist collective today released personal information about a New York police officer who is believed to have sprayed pepper spray on women protesters on Wall Street. The group released phone number,...

U.S. House Committee Questions Ability to Secure Wall Street Data

Cyber security experts warned on Thursday that the U.S. government is failing to learn the lessons of past computer and intelligence breaches and often exhibits a careless attitude towards securing the data it keeps. The testimony came in a hearing on Thursday before the U.S. House of...

Joint Strike Fighter hack

The Department of Defense’s costliest weapons program ever was allegedly no match for hackers as spies broke into the Pentagon’s $300 billion Joint Strike Fighter JSF project in 2007. Details continue to be scarce to this day but former U.S. officials claim the attacks can be traced back to China...

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can't believe you're in this video !

New Facebook Scam : WTF I can't believe you're in this video ! If you happen to get a new wall post from your friend saying "WTF I can't believe you're in this vid" or "ROFL i cant believe youre tagged in this video" Its a new scam spreading on Facebook. Don't open or click on this link else it...

A wish wall program word insertion vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

| Just looking at a portal of time to sweep a long, long time, and finally found a wishing wall, and then dig the source code. The 0day a wish wall program word insertion vulnerability Also looking for a long time, finally found the source after download nothing can be used to. The 0day a wish wa...