China and the U.S. have agreed to work together on cyber security, with the two countries setting up a working group to deal with the issue, U.S Secretary of State John Kerry said on Saturday in Beijing.
An Oregon farm products company is suing its own bank to recover losses after a phishing attack saw $223,500 transferred to accounts in the Ukraine over a period of three days in 2010.
A group of Turkish hackers going with the handle of ReZK2LL Team has contributed their part for #OpIsrael by hacking 134 Israeli sites from 6th April to 12th April 2013. The group left their deface page along with a simple note in support of Palestine on all hacked websites “Hacked by ReZK2LL Team, Free Palestine , K2ll33d – Ala Manai […]
Hackers from HighTech Brazil HackTeam have hacked and defaced the official website of SriLankan Ministry of Finance & Planning, Treasury of SriLanka (www.treasury.gov.lk). The site is left with a deface page and a message which does not explain the reason for attack site. Hackeado Por HighTech Brazil HackTeam! No/One, Crazy Duck, Otrasher, L34NDRO, AlfabetoVirtual Libero!! Learners of Curiosity.. Link of hacked […]
Maxney hacker from TurkishAjan hacking group has contacted me with his new hack in which 4 official sub-domains of Taiwan-based manufacturer of computer hardware products Gigabyte Technologies (gigabyte.com) have been defaced, as a result huge database with employee and sales records have been leaked online. The hacker contacted me on Twitter about his latest hack. Hacker left his […]
Technology companies including Cisco and IBM are backing an Open Group programme to protect computer hardware from threats such as spyware added to components in the supply chain.
A group going with the handle of The Ajan Turkish hackers collectively have hacked and defaced the official website of Bosnian & Herzegovina’s Ministry of Defence (www.mod.gov.ba). The group left their deface page along with a message in Turkish and English language in support of Palestine and against the Israeli occupation of Gaza strip. The message […]
A group of Algerian hackers going with the handle of Algerian to The Core has hacked and defaced 90 Israeli websites, marking their presence in #OpIsrael. Hackers who contacted me via email explained that reason for hacking these sites was to be a part of #OpIsrael. All 90 websites were left with deface page, lyrics of a […]
60,000 Android apps were removed from Google’s Play app store this February. Categories such as personalization (ringtone apps) were targeted heavily, with 12,277 deletions.
A new Global Center for Cyber Security at the University of Oxford will coordinate international work on cyber threats and cyber security. The Center will receive £500,000 ($766,000) in UK government funding every year.
Utility companies have been warned not to share information such as email addresses on company websites, after a spear-phishing attack on an American electricity company.
More than half of British companies could be at risk of cyber attack, after a survey found that IT departments had not begun the process of migrating from Windows XP- with just a year left before Microsoft stops offering support for the ageing OS.
The idea that we might ‘think’ passwords instead of typing them sounds like science fiction – but a team of UC Berkeley School of Information researchers has proved that it can work, using existing ‘mind reading’ headsets.
Introducing a detailed analysis of Win32/Gapz malware in a new white paper titled: Mind the Gapz: The most complex bootkit ever analyzed?
Up to 81% of computer security professionals reuse passwords across multiple applications, violating security best practice
PayPal has warned of a looming security crisis if new top-level domains such as .bank are brought into use later this year.
Representative Mike Rogers, Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, said that Congress needs to act quickly, in an interview with NBC this week. The websites of major U.S. banks have been offline for 249 hours in the past six weeks, due to a series of sustained cyber attacks by an unknown foreign group.
Up to 600,000 gamers at risk as emails and other details stolen from online zombie game
Fears of cybercrime have become a major concern for many businesses – with security spending rising at four out of ten firms, a UK survey has found.
Employees bringing their own devices to work is a security headache for most companies – even, it seems, the U.S. military. A report issued by the U.S. Department of Defense’s Inspector General last week pinpointed serious security failings around 14,000 commercial devices used by soldiers and civilians.
Most security professionals have enough to deal with thanks to insecure passwords – but AT&T seems to want its users to keep them clean, too. The “password restrictions” page for AT&T users says, “The password can’t contain the words “password”, “admin”, “pa$$w0rd” or other common words. The password can’t contain obscene language.”