It looks like the government-sponsored Chinese hackers that have gotten a lot of attention in the past few months, so much so that they went quiet for a while, are back with new methods but targeting the same things.
According to a report by security firm Mandiant, seen by The New York Times, the attacks a... [read more >>] While the Syrian government is busy shutting down the Internet in the country when it suits it, it's also busy fighting a war online as well.
Granted, the only things getting hurt are Twitter accounts, but the Syrian Electronic Army has been busy hacking sites and taking over Twitter accounts, with r... [read more >>] Four men associated with the LulzSec hacker group have been sentenced by a British court. All received prison terms, though Mustafa al-Bassam, who was a minor at the time, got a suspended sentence. Others will only serve a portion of their sentence in prison. Jake Davis, known as Topiary in the group, who ... [read more >>] A few hours ago, the following tweet was posted from the official Sky News Newsdesk Twitter account: “Colin was here.”
Twitter users didn’t appear to be surprised by the message, considering that the Twitter accounts of numerous major media organizations were hijacked in the past period b... [read more >>] Normally, when the government wants phone records from an organization, it notifies them in advance and they enter negotiations. However, that hasn’t happened in the case of the Associated Press.
The US Justice Department secretly subpoenaed the phone records of AP reporters and editors for a period ... [read more >>] Moxie Marlinspike, the famous security researcher who up until recently worked for Twitter, says he has been contacted by representatives of Mobily, one of the two telecoms companies operating in Saudi Arabia, about a new surveillance project. “Having published two reasonably popular MITM tools, it&r... [read more >>] Last week, US authorities charged 8 individuals believed to be involved in a scheme in which fraudsters withdrew a total of $45 million (€34 million) from ATMs all around the world. Prosecutors haven’t named the targeted companies. However, Times of India has learned that the companies targeted ... [read more >>] Earlier today, a hacker that goes by the name of Hyst3ria (@Hyst3riaKMS) has notified us that he has breached the official website of Romania’s National Authority for Qualifications (anc.gov.ro), a public institution coordinated by the country’s Ministry of Education, Research, Youth and Sports.... [read more >>] United States prosecutors have charged 8 individuals suspected of being involved in a massive cybercrime ring that caused losses of $45 million (€34 million) to financial institutions from all over the world in a matter of hours. The 8 suspects are believed to be the New York cell of an international ... [read more >>] The Dutch Public Prosecution Service has announced that the man suspected of launching a distributed denial-of-service (DDOS) attack against the systems of Spamhaus has been extradited to the Netherlands. The man, identified as 35-year-old SK, is believed to be Sven Olaf Kamphuis, aka CB3ROB, the own... [read more >>] |
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