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(LiveHacking.Com) – A recent study has shown that world-wide 17% of all the computers have no anti-virus software installed and surprisingly the USA is one of the worse countries. Ranked in the bottom 5, 19.32% of USA consumers have no basic security software, of any kind, installed. This compares to the top ranked country of [...]

What is the Deep Web? A first trip into the abyssThe Deep Web (or Invisible web) is the set of information resources on the World Wide Web not reported by normal search engines.According several researches the principal search engines index only a small portion of the overall web content, the remaining part is unknown to the majority of web users. What do you think if you were told that under

New Jersey mayor arrested for hacking recall website The FBI last week arrested the mayor of the northern New Jersey town of West New York, together with his son, on charges of hacking into a website and a related email account that called for the mayor's recall. Felix Roque, 55, the mayor of West New York, N.J., was arrested with his son, Joseph Roque, 22. They were released on $100,000

NSA intercepting 1.7 billion American electronic communications daily Since 9/11, the Agency has been able to "spy" on electronic communications without the need for court-approved warrants. The group has a large complex in Utah that cost $2 billion and holds the data. In 2006 the New York Times revealed that the Bush administration was eavesdropping on the electronic communications of Americans

Flame Malware - 21st Century Massive cyber attack on Iran A massive, highly sophisticated piece of malware has been newly found infecting systems in Iran and elsewhere and is believed to be part of a well-coordinated, ongoing, state-run cyber-espionage operation. The Flame computer virus not only stole large quantities of information from various Iranian government agencies, but apparently even

Hackers took control of two satellites for few minutes According to a US report recently claimed that hackers had managed to interfere with two military satellites, but one expert argues the amount of energy required would be too great for ordinary hackers. The hackers took control of the Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1 satellites for a grand total of 12 minutes and two minutes respectively. One might

(LiveHacking.Com) – Iran’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CCCERT) has released a tool which can detect and remove the Flame worm which is being described as “the most sophisticated cyber weapon yet unleashed”. This is the first time a tool has been released to tackle the malware which according to a report from CrySys Lab was first spotted in Europe [...]

(LiveHacking.Com) – Alberto Ortega, a vulnerability researcher at AlienVault and author of PenTBox (a set of security tools written in Ruby), has discovered a new denial of service vulnerability in Apple’s iOS. The problem, which occurs in the Safari web browser, has been seen to manifest itself on iOS 5.0.1, 5.1.0 and 5.1.1 and affects [...]

A new piece of malware called “Flame” has been uncovered by Kaspersky Lab and is thought to be part of a well-organized, state-run cyber espionage operation affecting Iran, Israel and other Middle Eastern countries. Because the new malware seems to attack computer mainly in the Middle East and because of the specific software vulnerabilities exploited, analysts [...]

A day after messing with servers maintained by Reliance Communications, Anonymous, an international hacker collective, defaced two websites belonging to BJP on Sunday. Through its Twitter account (@opindia_back) it announced that www.mumbaibjp.org and www.bjpmp.org.in were hacked by the group. After the hacking, the group posted a message to web users, asking them to organize protests against "

If you attended the Hackbloc/SDS Workshop Series this weekend (or missed it), you can grab copies of the presentation materials here. The DDoS Workshop will be online Monday morning. Note that the original presentations require OpenOffice (openoffice.org) or LibreOffice to open. If you don't have that, you can download the PDF version which contains all the same information but is not editable. FOIA/Public Records Workshop Presentation: https://hackbloc.org/sites... Sample Request: https://hackbloc.org/sites... Audio Recording: https://hackbloc.org/sites... Communications Security Workshop (Tor + Pidgin/Web Chat Encryption + Cryptocat) Communications Security Workshop (Original Presentation): https://hackbloc.org/sites... Commuications Security Workshop (PDF Formatted): https://hackbloc.org/sites... Links:...

(LiveHacking.Com) – During the last Olympic Games it was estimated that China was subjected to approximately 12 million online attacks per day. In preparation for the upcoming 2012 games in the United Kingdom, the  Department of Homeland Security’s National Cybersecurity and Communications Integration Center has posted a report warning that criminals and ‘hacktivists’ could use the 2012 Olympics as [...]

(LiveHacking.Com) – Google has released Chrome 19.0.1084.52 for Windows, Linux and Mac and in doing so it has fixed two Critical security vulnerabilities and patched nine other High priority security related bugs. Historically Google are quick to release new versions of its web browser and release frequent incremental updates to the current stable version of Chrome to patch [...]

(LiveHacking.Com) – The use of two-factor authentication has grown as the simple username & password method has proved to be insufficient for more sensitive systems. From online banking to employee access to business networks two-factor authentication is become more the norm, even Google optionally offers two step authentication to its service like Gmail. In two-factor authentication a [...]

NASA SSL Digital Certificate hacked by Iranian Hackers Iranian hackers 'Cyber Warriors Team' announced in an online post that it compromised an SSL certificate belonging to NASA and subsequently accessed information on thousands of NASA researchers. A space agency representative revealed that they’re currently investigating the incident.<!-- adsense --> The group said the certificate was

Zeus 2.x variant includes ransomware features Cybercriminals are getting more sophisticated, as reports are coming in that hacker coders have successfully merged a ransom trojan with a Zeus malware successor called Citadel. A notorious malware platform targeting financial information has added a new trick to its portfolio a digital version of hijack and ransom.<!-- adsense --> F-Secure

Anonymous hacks Bureau of Justice and leaks 1.7GB of data Anonymous has apparently hacked the United States Bureau of Justice Statistics and posted 1.7GB of data belonging to the agency on The Pirate Bay. This is a Monday Mail Mayhem release. Online statements attributed to Anonymous said they were responsible for the security breach and that the files they obtained include emails.<!-- adsense -

(LiveHacking.Com) – One of the most ubiquitous tools used by network administrators, system administrators and security specialists alike has received an update. Nmap has been updated to version 6.0 and brings a wealth of new features including full IPv6 support. Since there are no more IPv4 address available the inevitable move to IPv6 is starting [...]

(LiveHacking.Com) – Researchers at Trend Micro discovered a potential vulnerability in Yahoo! Mail. They discovered emails sent to Yahoo! addresses that contained JavaScript in the From: field that attempted to launch a Document Object Model (DOM)-based cross-site scripting attack. Although the Trend Micro researchers were unable to replicate the attack they contacted Yahoo! who in response have strengthened [...]

Call for Articles : THN Magazine June 2012, Malware Edition The Hacker News is calling for our June Magazine on the issue related to MALWARE. We'd like to see an analysis of the history of these most worrying viruses and the contemporary usage in cyber espionage and cyber warfare. It would be interesting to analyze the impact of the malware diffusion in the private sector and in government

Bogus Facebook apps spreading Android malware Third-party Android markets have traditionally been the main source of infection since the Android boom, as they are less strict than the genuine Play when it comes to bouncing malware. <!-- adsense --> Today Gmanetwork reports that, Users of mobile devices running Google's Android OS were warned over the weekend against a new fake app of the social

IBM Research domain hacked and defaced <!-- adsense -->Hacker collective group dubbed Kosova Hacker Security or in other word KHS targeted IT giant & multinational technology and consulting corporation IBM. In this attack KHS successfully hacked into the official site of IBM Researcher (http://researcher.ibm.com). Hackers claims that, site had a SQL injection & remote code execution

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Quebec Liberal Party and Education Ministry websites take down in massive Cyber Attack Two provincial government websites as well as Quebec Liberal Party and Education Ministry websites went down early Saturday morning and remained inaccessible for most of the day. No one has claimed responsibility for the downed sites but Twitter was full of rumours on Saturday pointing to Anonymous, the loose

Anonymous hater takes credit for Pirate Bay and Wikileaks Ddos Attack WikiLeaks and Swedish BitTorrent file-sharing site Pirate Bay were reportedly battling Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks for several days earlier this week. The user, who goes by the Twitter handle @AnonNyre, has been riling up members of the hacktivist group and supporters of TPB with a series of angry posts on

Anonymous Hackers attack Indian government over file-sharing ban Anonymous Hackers has turned its attention to India, taking down the web sites of the Supreme Court, the country’s two major political parties and several government sites in retaliation for a court injunction which led to the blocking of several video sharing and bit torrent sites.<!-- adsense --> Anonymous tweeted saying that

Hundreds of people are blocking a street in Milano protesting for the eviction of a skyscraper of 32 floors they were occupying. Torre Galfa, near Stazione Centrale, has been taken the 5 of May by Macao, a group of artists, video makers, journalists, immaterial workers to make a new arts center, to strengthen relationships between art and society and protest against abandoned buildings. The tower, quite new, was abandoned since 1996 in a town were many new skyscrapers are built for the Expo 2015 and nobody knows if they will ever be used. For 8 days thousands of people came in Torre Galfa, a huge space freed for performances, lectures, workshops, ideas, and also where everybody restlessly worked to make the place safe and warm. Also academies, universities and intellectuals wanted to get a chance to help the creation of Macao. Macao was experimenting a partecipative process (and is still doing that in the street) that was changing the concept of art and culture, fighting precarious...