Power failure Across India, Hit by Malware Attack

India’s Northern power grid crashed on Monday morning wreaking havoc at airports, railway and metro stations, hospitals and across traffic congested roads, its worst power outage in a decade.Indian power infrastructure under attack: India losing out millions in just hours same snag developed within just 24 hours of recovery reports say the system is infected by sophisticated malware.Malware is spreading; today more than 67 crore people are without power. Cyber analysts suspect "PAK"- CHINA nexus...

16 Arrested for hacking Globe Telecom system

MANILA, Philippines – Sixteen people, including several South Korean nationals, have been arrested by police for allegedly hacking into the Globe Telecom’s system to make unbilled international calls.Director Samuel Pagdilao, Chief of the Criminal Investigation and Detection Group (CIDG), said in a statement Tuesday that nine Koreans and several Filipino suspects have been apprehended through successive raids in Pasig, Manila, and Mandaluyong cities.He said they belong to a cybercrime group that...

European Cyber Security at the Mercy of Chinese Hackers

Europe is “Under the watchful eye of Chinese pirates”, writes Libération,which picks up on a Bloomberg feature report on computer security breaches. The American press agency reveals that a group of Chinese cyberspies – which has been tracked by an American collective (that includes academics, companies that have been targeted by Chinese espionage and computer security experts) – succeeded in infiltrating a large number of institutions and companies last year.The group  linked to the Chinese...

NullCrew Breaches Yale DataBases

A hacker group known as NullCrew claims it obtained the personal information of 1,200 Yale students and staff members from University databases.University spokeswoman Elizabeth Stauderman ’83 LAW ’04 confirmed that hackers obtained files containing personal information from participants in the Yale Initiative to Strengthen Teaching in Public Schools on July 17, but she said only 450 accounts were affected. NullCrew claims it gained access to social security numbers, names, addresses and phone numbers,...

Cell phone battery catches fire, burns hacker's tail at Defcon

Freak incident leads to cell phone battery lighting a real fire under a man's backside. Hotel room key-card saves him.LAS VEGAS -- A cell phone battery spontaneously caught fire today, burned through a Defcon attendee's back pants pocket, and fell on the floor, creating burn spots on a carpet and leaving a burn-hole in the attendee's chair. The man, who asked not to be identified, was not harmed but his trousers were ruined. He told CNET that he was sitting in a session at Defcon around 11:30...

8.7 million mobile customers hacked in South Korea

SEOUL — South Korean police have arrested two hackers who stole personal data of 8.7 million customers of the nation’s second-biggest mobile operator, the company said.KT said the hackers — formally arrested on Sunday — had stolen data such as customers’ names, phone numbers and residential registration numbers for five months since February and sold the information to telemarketing firms.“The number of affected people account for nearly a half of about 17 million customers of ours,” a KT spokesman...

Official fb Accounts of Garanti Bankası, Denizbank, Renault Turkey, Ülker, Nokia Turkey, Burger King and Acun.com Hacked

The official Facebook accounts of several companies were hacked on Thursday night by a group of hackers trying to promote the terrorist Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).The pro-PKK hackers changed the Facebook profile pictures of the following companies: Garanti Bankası, Denizbank, Renault Turkey, Ülker, Nokia Turkey, Burger King and Acun.com. They placed the picture of Abdullah Öcalan, the jailed leader of the terrorist PKK organization, on the profiles instead. The digital marketing agency...

Hacker who swindled $3m held in Dubai hotel

According to media reports, the incident came to light when a UAE trader who lost $3million filed a complaint with Dubai Police. The victim, who had business connections with the said Chinese firm, received an email from the company requesting him to transfer $3million to its account. He duly transferred the amount because he was used to dealing with huge sums of money with the company. He never confirmed with the officials in China if they received the amount because such transactions were...

Statement From Jeremy Hammond, Alleged Hacker

I remember maybe a few months before I was locked up I went to a few noise demonstrations a the federal jail MCC Chicago in support of all those locked up there. Prisoners moved in front of the windows, turned the lights on and off, and dropped playing cards through the cracks in the windows. I had no idea I would soon be in that same jail facing multiple trumped up computer hacking “conspiracies.”Now at New York MCC, the other day I was playing chess when another prisoner excitedly cam e up as...

2 Million OS X Mountain Lion Copies Sold in 48 Hours

Apple’s latest Mac platform release, the OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, has seen great response from users right from the start.The Cupertino-based company managed to sell two million copies of the new OS X in only 48 hours after the official launch, in line with the success last year’s Lion platform registered.The new platform release comes with an appealing price tag, namely $19.99, which has certainly contributed to its success.Moreover, the platform was offered for free to all those who purchased...

Carly Rae Jepsen Hacked, Naked Photos Stolen

On Wednesday, the “Call Me Maybe” hit-maker told the police that the hacker stole her nude photos and tried to sell them to the media.These are not the fake ones that have surfaced the internet few months ago; these are actually the real ones that have never seen before.. and the Canadian-born singer is desperately trying to secure it down.TMZ reports that Jepsen’s camp received an anonymous tip about the photos back in March… and immediately called the Vancouver Police Department to report the...

Anonymous Rattles A Chinese Web Giant

Anonymous may be best known for knocking websites offline or stealing data, but one faction of the movement is subverting figures of power in a more circumspect way — by trawling through documents and computer code.The sub group Anonymous Analytics released a damning report yesterday about Qihoo, the Chinese web giant that claims to be the No. 1 provider of Internet and mobile security products and services in China, as measured by its user base.Qihoo distributes antivirus software called 360 Safeguard...

NSA Turns To Hackers To Make Internet Secure From Cyber Attackers

The National Security Agency has sought the help of professional hackers to render the World Wide Web more secure.Reports from the PCWorld and Reuters indicate that General Keith B Alexander, Director, National Security Agency sought the help of hackers while addressing the Defcon hacker conference in Las Vegas July 27.Speaking at the conference, General Alexander said: “This is the world’s best cybersecurity community. In this room right here is the talent our nation needs to secure cyberspace,”...

Anonymous Australia Leak Partial Data From AAPT for #OpAustralia

Anonymous Australia Leak Partial Data From AAPT for #OpAustralia They have leaked 3 bits of this data which comes as a very partial leak compared to the main data they are said to have. So far they have leaked 128 accounts with data such as usernames, passwords, emails and other personal information. The leak also has other information from a 137 business accounts which data contains abns, acns, company names, employee counts and other information such as spending. The leak was just announced...

Ice Cream Sandwich now on one in 10 Android devices

Ice Cream Sandwich is now installed on more than 10 percent of Android devices, according to Google.Data collected by the search-turned-mobile giant during the 14-day period that ended yesterday shows that version 4.0 of Google’s mobile operating system is now present on 10.9 percent of all devices. The data was collected from Android devices that accessed Google Play, the Android application store, during the two-week period.The latest stats, which come less than a week after Android 4.1 Jelly...

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry official website fell victim to a cyber-attack

Turkey’s Foreign Ministry said on July 3 that its official website fell victim to a cyber-attack, as a local hacker group published what it said were the identities of foreign diplomats serving in Turkey on the internet, reports AP. State-run TRT television identified the group as RedHack, which staged similar attacks on several other government websites earlier this year. The TV station reported that the group obtained and published the images of ID cards issued by the ministry for the diplomats,...

BackTrack 5 R3 Release on Aug 13th, 2012

The BackTrack Development team will be releasing an R3 revision of our Penetration Testing distribution in 2 weeks. This release focuses on bugfixes and over 50 new tool additions – making it the most potent revision yet. We have released a BT5 R3 preview in BlackHat Vegas for the enjoyment of conference attendees, which can be found in their delegate bags.  The DVD contains a BT5 R3 Gnome, 32 bit edition – burnt as an ISO (as opposed to an image). We will be taking in our last bug reports...

Skype co-operating closely with Intelligence Agency to help them spy on users

Skype is co-operating more closely with  Intelligence Agency to help them spy on users. This is also red alert for hacker and companies private plans.  They all are under monitoring.The online phone service, used by friends and families to keep in touch but also favoured by political dissidents and criminals, is making online chat and other user information available to police, according to The Washington Post. Surveillance of the audio and video feeds remains impractical,...

Twitter Down reported hours after Google Talk crash

Hours into a global Google Talk outage that left users unable to use the instant messaging client, it appears Twitter has gone down as well.In a message to users, the company said: "Howdy folks, looks like we're experiencing a small interruption of Twitter.com and some mobile clients."It is not yet known what caused the fault. Users that could access the service reported that shortened URL links included in tweets were not working properly.The micro-blogging site appears to be experiencing a service...

Microsoft Names Two Zeus Botnet Operators

Three months after initially disrupting the Zeus botnet, Microsoft officials have named two of the people who they think are behind the malware network, a pair of Ukrainians who already are sitting in jail in the UK.From the beginning of the anti-Zeus operation, which became public in March, Microsoft officials and lawyers from other organizations, including NACHA, have been trying to identify the dozens of John Does named in the initial legal complaint. Those efforts hadn’t met...

Facebook offer Bug bounty To hackers, who find flaws in its systems

Several companies already reward 'white hat' hackers who responsibly report flaws in their web services, but Facebook is apparently going a step further with payments to those who find vulnerabilities in their internal systems Facebook and Google have for some time offered bounties to hackers who find vulnerabilities in their public-facing systems, but now the social network has gone a step further by offering to reward hackers who find and report flaws in Facebook's corporate network. According...

Anonymous could be criminals hiding in plain sight

'Anonymous could be criminals hiding in plain sight' - security expert Hostile governmenns could be posing as Anonymous - expert Users could give data to criminals under hacktivism guise Time for people to go "old school" to make a difference Anonymous hack it again: steals ISP user data from AAPT THE people claiming to be from Anonymous could be wolves in sheeps clothing - but not in the way you think, an Australian internet security expert has warned. Photo Credits: Tim Pierce...

Apple appeared at Black Hat Security conference

Apple will give the hacking community a peek under the hood of iOS this week, with the company’s first-ever presentation at the Black Hat security conference.Bloombergs Jordan Robinson first reported the Apple appearance, which is scheduled for Thursday. Dallas De Atley, manager of Apples platform security team, will give the presentation.Black Hats website describes the session: Apple designed the iOS platform with security at its core. In this talk, Dallas De Atley … will discuss key security...

Defcon 20: Skillz, Thrillz & got Feelz for the whole Hacker Family

You might not think that a hacker conference in Sin City in the summer is the best place to take the kids. But if you want them to learn some skills, know their digital rights and have some fun, I can’t think of any place better. Oh, and there’s some stuff for us big kids too. Defcon, which turns 20 this year, runs Friday through Sunday, following the more corporate Black Hat conference, the newsy parts of which are tomorrow and Thursday.Black Hat organizers had a rocky start to their week with...

‎400+ site Got Hacked and Defaced by 8lack 3y3s

3xp1r3 Cyber Army back again with fresh attack. This hacking group is really active in these days and already hack about 1,500+ sites in this month.Bangladeshi hacking Group name as "3xp1r3 Cyber Army" hacked 400+ sites by 8lack 3y3s of different countries include lot of amount of Australian sites. These kind of attacks are clearly showing how much awareness about security is need in cyber world. 3xp1r3 Cyber Army already hack a 7,000+  sites and we can see all info of hacked sites on there...

Australian Death Threat Text Scam under Investigation

Thousands of Australians have received a "death threat" text, demanding they pay 5,000 Australian dollars ($5,140, £3,311) or face being murdered.The scale of the scam has surprised the police authorities.At a press conference in Queensland, Det Supt Brian Hay said: "Do not respond. Delete it immediately and don't panic... because that's what they prey upon."The fraud is believed to be the work of an organised crime gang.Huge scale The message, which began to hit people's phones on Monday, reads:...

Hackers force Iranian nuclear facilities to blast AC/DC after Cyber Attack

A person inside the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran (AEOI) claimed this week in an email to a security researcher that a fresh hack is affecting two facilities, causing vital equipment to shut down and then playing AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” on lab computers at maximum volume “during the middle of the night.”Mikko H. Hypponen, chief research officer for the cybersecurity firm F-Secure, explained on the company’s website that he received an email from an unknown person within the AEOI who wanted...

200+ Site Got Hacked by 8lack 3y3s

Bangladeshi hacking Group name as "3xp1r3 Cyber Army" hacked 200+ sites by 8lack 3y3s of different countries include lot of amount of Australian sites. These kind of attacks are clearly showing how much awareness about security is need in cyber world. 3xp1r3 Cyber Army already hack a 7,000+  sites and we can see all info of hacked sites on there zone-h.The list of impacted sites was published on Pastebin yesterday, but at press time, most of them still weren’t restored. While...

Hollowood Hacker to be sentenced

The Jacksonville man who hacked into the emails of Hollywood celebrities could face up to six years in prison for his crimes and pay more thousands of dollars to his victims.The victims who were hacked include Scarlett Johanson and Christina Aguilera, just to name a few.His nickname has become The Hollywood Hacker. 35-year-old Christopher Chaney admitted to being sorry for hacking into the online accounts of stars like Christina Aguilera and Scarlett Johanson.But despite the fact that Chaney has...

Hacker Will Expose Potential Security Flaw In Four Million Hotel Room Keycard Locks

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap hardware, that tiny round hole might offer access to your room just as completely as your keycard. At the Black Hat security conference Tuesday evening, a Mozilla software developer and 24-year old security researcher named Cody Brocious plans to present a pair of vulnerabilities he’s discovered in...