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Robert Butyka, the 26-year old Romanian hacker known as Iceman, famous for breaching into several NASA-owned servers, was indicted by US prosecutors after Romanian courts sentenced him to three years in prison.
According to Antena3, LA prosecutors want the hacker to face another trial in Los Angeles, where he is cha... |
10 February 2012
04:15 GMT |
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CNN is running a story on account hacking in iTunes and how Apple has failed to address the matter over the years. A security researcher suggests there's a good chance Apple isn't even trying to fix the problem. The report highlights a few complaints from Apple forum posters, such as this one from a user i... |
7 February 2012
12:11 GMT |
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Hackers around the world moves on with SEPO, an Eastern European hacker that considers himself to be a gray hat that turns into a black hat if corrupt companies, governments, or Anonymous targets are involved. He is known for targeting major African and Middle Eastern companies and financial institutions such as the ... |
5 February 2012
08:46 GMT |
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As promised, we return with more information on the story of the famous grey hat hacker TinKode, who is apparently a 20-year old student that didn’t spend too much time in class and even failed IT Fundamentals, the only exam he attended. According to a statement of the Romanian Directorate for Investigating O... |
1 February 2012
11:04 GMT |
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TinKode, the famous grey hat, was arrested today in Romania by the Directorate for Investigating Organized Crime and Terrorism (DIICOT), being accused of hacking into some major US websites.
His real name is Manole Răzvan Cernăianu, but for most people in the world he’s known as TinKode, the hacker that manage... |
31 January 2012
11:23 GMT |
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Our Hackers around the world series featured a great interview the other day with 13-year-old Australian hacker s3rver.exe, and after hearing his story, we concluded that he may be the youngest hacker in the world, without counting the ones that consider themselves ethical hackers.
For those who don’t know, s3... |
30 January 2012
14:31 GMT |
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The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a man from Latvia after suspecting him of running an online fraud scheme in which he manipulated the prices of more than 100 New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq securities, causing a total loss of $2 million (1.4 million EUR).
According to a SEC press release, t... |
30 January 2012
10:57 GMT |
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Three apparently “very bright kids”, students at the Palos Verdes High School in California, were arrested after being suspected of hacking into their teachers’ computers to change grades. Besides computer hacking, they’re also accused of breaking into the school at night to steal physical cop... |
28 January 2012
05:18 GMT |
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After in May 2011 the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) revealed the fact that an Online Blue Army had been established with the purpose of improving China’s ability to defend its military networks, now it seems that the project is taking shape. According to ECNS, the country’s military experts claim ... |
20 January 2012
08:46 GMT |
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Researchers came across an Argentinian veterinary supplier website that had been compromised and exploited to the maximum by cybercriminals.
Kaspersky Lab experts found that not only was it redesigned to spread malicious Brazilian Trojans that targeted bank accounts, but it may also have been probed by a Russian hac... |
18 January 2012
09:50 GMT |
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An Indonesian hacker that goes by the name Direxer, part of the Code Security forum, breached the security of more than 100 websites belonging to the government of Kenya, defacing them to prove their lack of protection.
According to Daily Nation, the list of victim sites includes the ones of the ministries of Educa... |
18 January 2012
08:43 GMT |
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After admitting that the Indian hacker called YamaTough managed to obtain the source code for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2, the company came forward with another statement to say that the source code for some of their Norton products was leaked as a result of a hacking operation that ... |
18 January 2012
03:04 GMT |
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A few days ago we’ve heard of a complaint being filled at a California court in which Symantec was accused of commercializing useless products that scare consumers into thinking their computers were full of errors. After hearing about the case, the Indian hacker Yama Tough published the Norton Utilities source ... |
14 January 2012
07:26 GMT |
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Members of Teamgreyhat (TGH) managed to breach the website of India’s most famous self-proclaimed ethical hacker, Ankit Fadia. Ankit Fadia offers Ankit Fadia Certified Ethical Hacker (AFCEH) certificates to those who take his courses on ethical hacking, where he gives lectures on security tools, techniques and... |
10 January 2012
11:44 GMT |
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Tweets coming from resounding names in the iOS hacker community seem to confirm some exciting progress on the A5 front. However, the leader of the Chronic Dev Team, Pod2g, is said to inform that the latest jailbreak can’t be released to developers for testing.
The iPhone Dev Team’s Musclenerd kicks it of... |
10 January 2012
07:32 GMT |
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If up until recently botnets and other hacking tools were advertised only on underground forums where all the parties went through great lengths to hide their identities, now it seems that even YouTube has become a great place to advertise malicious products.
F-Secure researchers came across a video in which a you... |
7 January 2012
04:47 GMT |
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The security solutions provider came forward with another statement saying that the Indian hackers managed to obtain source codes for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 and Symantec Antivirus 10.2.
After media outlets began picking up the news that Indian hackers managed to obtain the source code of a Symantec produc... |
6 January 2012
09:13 GMT |
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A group of Indian hackers claim to have obtained the source code for Symantec’s Norton Antivirus, the 2006 version. Experts report that if the claims were true, it could give cybercriminals the opportunity to create new malware that incorporates mechanisms to better avoid security solutions. Infosec Island has... |
6 January 2012
03:45 GMT |
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Facebook prides itself in its hacker culture. It's also looking to hire as many talented engineers as possible. In an effort to marry the two perhaps, Facebook is running a Hacker Cup in which the world's best hackers compete to solve the problems laid before them in the simplest and fastest way.
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5 January 2012
04:43 GMT |
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After long coding sessions, developers Steven Troughton-Smith and TheMudKip have managed to bring iPad applications to the Apple TV. Some of the apps run as if they were specifically created for the set-top-box and big screen.The developers said they achieved this by replacing the entire springboard, and their develo... |
3 January 2012
04:27 GMT |
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Instead of sending a subscription email to 300 of their customers, New York Times sent it to around 8 million people, initially rushing to deny that the messages are genuine.
On Wednesday morning a lot of people woke up to see an email from the Times asking them to reconsider their decision to cancel their home deli... |
29 December 2011
08:23 GMT |
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A hacker known as w3bd3vil posted a message on Twitter a couple of days ago claiming that he found a vulnerability in the 64-bit version of Windows 7 that could be taken advantage of using Apple’s popular web browser Safari. “<iframe height='18082563'></iframe> causes a BSoD... |
21 December 2011
03:21 GMT |
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Since black hat hackers that consider themselves to be hacktivists have been in the attention of the media lately, breaching the infrastructures of governments and major companies to prove their point, I thought it would be a great opportunity to find out not only about their operations, but also about the life of su... |
17 December 2011
08:01 GMT |
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Chronic Dev member Pod2g has confirmed in a blog post that his untethered exploit for iOS 5.0.1 is undergoing rigorous tests and that the finished hack will be out in a matter of ‘days’.Keeping fans posted on his progress, the hacker begins with an apology for being silent lately. “I had to organize... |
16 December 2011
13:31 GMT |
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Recently I had the opportunity to chat with Radware’s VP of Security Solutions, Carl Herberger, and he had some interesting views regarding the never-ending battle between security experts and hackers, especially when it comes to cloud-based systems.
“From antivirus software to firewalls and intrusion de... |
13 December 2011
10:21 GMT |
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After recent events, one of the members of black hat collective contacted me and we had a chat about online security and the issues that make a website weak for hackers. Recently, hackers showed that many banks, credit unions and even sites belonging to the United Nations are highly vulnerable so I asked him what cou... |
9 December 2011
13:41 GMT |
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A cybercriminal nicknamed LuCkY from the Indian hacker collective Indishell managed to deface dawn.com, the biggest Pakistani news site. While the main page remains unharmed, a subdomain hosts a picture and a message from the attacker. “Mod_security At High Level, 56 alexa in Pakistan , 3,500 worldwide , Pakis... |
8 December 2011
10:59 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, a hacker best known for pirating Apple’s iOS and Mac operating systems, is now on the DoD’s for providing invaluable advice on cyber security.NATO is bringing in la creme de la creme in the hacking community to gain protection for its information systems.Miller was invited to the conferenc... |
8 December 2011
04:26 GMT |
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David Noel Cecil, also known as Evil, pleaded guilty to unauthorized modification of restricted data, the authorities believing him to be the one behind the Platform Networks hack.
When he was arrested, the police believed the suspect to be a threat to the National Broadband Network (NBN), reports the Central Wester... |
7 December 2011
08:29 GMT |
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The PwnDev crew are proud to release the second beta version of their infamous jailbreak tool, Ac1dSn0w. Beta 2 works with Mac OS X Lion and Snow Leopard, includes some legal updates, fixes some ramdisk issues, and removes the boot logo.“I’m pleased to announce that we’ve just released Beta 1 of Ac1... |
6 December 2011
05:09 GMT |
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Belmin Vehabovic, a 15-year old who allegedly is an XSS expert, discovered a cross-site scripting vulnerability on one of Twitter’s developer pages.
The Hacker News reports that Vehabovic found the flaw on the developer’s page where the “Follow Button” and its functionalities are described.
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5 December 2011
03:41 GMT |
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As it turns out, the DHS was right when they claimed that the water pump incident was a simple failure and nothing more. The founder and owner of Navionics Research, and the one who helped set up the Illinois utility's SCADA systems was actually the one who accessed the systems from Russia, during one of his vac... |
1 December 2011
05:33 GMT |
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A Bosnian man was arrested by the federal police’s cybercrime unit after they discovered he was owning and distributing more than 1,5 million images and 10,000 videos which featured child abuse.
Help-Net informs that the suspect acquired the large quantity of media content, found by the police during a raid, n... |
25 November 2011
07:29 GMT |
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United Arab Emirates authorities arrested a hacker after discovering that he hacked Xbox 360 consoles so they could be used to play pirated games.
According to ITP, he even set up a website on which he was offering pirated games but also his services as a professional console cracker, this being one of the clues tha... |
25 November 2011
04:33 GMT |
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Environmental experts are focusing their attention on effective means of defending their work and privacy, after an unknown hacker succeeded in breaking into 5,000 personal emails exchanged between leading experts. They say this initiative might have a significant impact upon the public opinion, as it tries to unde... |
24 November 2011
04:28 GMT |
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A hacker named Pete and going by the name of plamoni on Twitter has picked up where Applidium left off and created a dedicated proxy server for Siri that allows you to speak out custom commands that Siri will understand and even act on.Applidium is a team of France-based developers who messed around with the code ins... |
21 November 2011
04:57 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, the famous security expert who has been able to hack pretty much every Apple device known to man, is being denied use of his developer license for security research purposes after showcasing a type of malware that the App Store review board failed to detect and unknowingly approved.Miller reportedly f... |
8 November 2011
03:22 GMT |
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A well known hacker group has released a cracked version of Battlefield 3, the latest first person shooter from developer DICE and publisher Electronic Arts, which does not need to use the Origin service in order to work.The well known pirate collective known as Razor 1911 has managed to get into the executable and s... |
2 November 2011
05:24 GMT |
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Square Enix has taken a firm stance on the hackers that managed to leak out an early preview build of its upcoming Deus Ex: Human Revolution video game, and engaged in a lawsuit against 15 Italian individuals that have been tracked down and arrested. Deus Ex: Human Revolution is one of the most anticipated games of ... |
7 July 2011
04:50 GMT |
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An 18-year old teenager was arrested in Greece for allegedly hacking into websites and systems belonging to the Interpol, the Pentagon, the FBI and the NSA back in 2008 and 2009.The teenager was taken into custody by police officers from his home in Agios Dimitrios, one of Athens' working-class districts, where ... |
8 June 2011
12:20 GMT |
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The legal battle between video games hardware maker Sony and George “Geohot” Hotz, the hacker that was part of a group which penetrated the security systems of the PlayStation 3 home console, has come to an end via an out-of-court settlement and the details of the agreement between the two sides have now ... |
13 April 2011
07:11 GMT |
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An IT expert pleaded guilty to charges stemming from the theft of virtual poker chips from social game developer Zynga and their reselling on the black market.Ashley Mitchell, 29, of Little Park Road, Paignton, UK, stands accused of four counts of converting criminal property and one count of obtaining unauthorised a... |
2 February 2011
11:52 GMT |
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Intel has officially introduced its newly redesigned “Sandy Bridge” processors at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, effectively allowing those who had signed a non-disclosure agreement to start testing them against Mac OS X, and post their findings.
Codenamed "Sandy Bridge," the... |
6 January 2011
04:41 GMT |
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The PlayStation 3 hacking debate continues, even after Sony tried to patch up the vulnerabilities of the system through firmware updates, as the team that hacked the Nintendo Wii many years ago, fail0verflow, has just revealed that it has obtained the PS3's "private cryptography key."
For those of us less tec... |
30 December 2010
20:31 GMT |
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A California man used targeted social engineering attacks to trick over 200 women and girls into installing malware that gave him complete control over their computers, including webcams and microphones.The man selected his targets from a popular social networking website and sent them private messages, posing as the... |
4 November 2010
04:18 GMT |
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Andrew Auernheimer, a key member of Goatse Security, has been arrested on a number of felony charges that are unrelated to the group’s exploitation of an AT&T security hole that exposed the email addresses of tens of thousands of iPad 3G owners. Auernheimer, also known as “Escher,” or “Weev&rd... |
18 June 2010
05:13 GMT |
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Various sources have covered the story of a security breach in AT&T's website that exposed the personal information of numerous iPad 3G customers. According to these reports, some 114,000 user accounts were compromised, including those of CEOs, military officials, and top politicians. AT&T then issued an apology... |
15 June 2010
10:10 GMT |
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Charlie Miller, a researcher for the Baltimore-based Internet Security Evaluators, has discovered new vulnerabilities in Apple’s Mac operating system, particularly mentioning the Preview application. As many as 30 such critical bugs (20 of which are present in Snow Leopard’s Preview) have been found by th... |
19 March 2010
08:03 GMT |
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Indian police forces in the state of Tamil Nadu have their hands full with a recent online banking fraud cyber-crime they are currently investigating. After previously arresting three hackers for illegally rerouting funds from a local businessman's bank account, police have arrested another person believed to be... |
11 March 2010
10:06 GMT |
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It seems that Apple is taking steps in keeping jailbroken devices from accessing the iTunes App Store, the place where Apple customers can legally download and use applications on an iPhone, or iPod touch. While not confirmed as widespread, the banning is done per Apple-ID, suggesting Apple has begun to make investig... |
15 February 2010
05:47 GMT |
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