Turkish Hackers Threaten To Break Into Armenian State Agency Websites

Turkish Hackers Threaten To Break Into Armenian State Agency Websites The Turkish hacker group had attacked FC Spartak Moscow’s official website.The Turkish hacker group named Ayyıldız (Moonstar), which had attacked FC Spartak Moscow’s official website—after Yerkramas newspaper of the Russian Armenians had ran an article entitled “Spartak fans will wave Armenia’s and Artsakh’s [Nagorno-Karabakh Republic] flags in Istanbul”—had threatened to break into Armenian state agency websites, too.The group...

Oracle Fixes Java Zero-Day Flaw, Users Advised to Download Patch

Oracle Fixes Java Zero-Day Flaw, Users Advised to Download Patch Although few people expected it (many hoped), Oracle has released an out-of-band patch to address the zero-day flaw that affects Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 7. Since attacks that rely on this vulnerability have already been spotted, the company advises users to immediately apply the patch.The patch addresses a number of three different, but related, bugs that don’t affect standalone desktop applications or servers. However, they...

Android Malware Owners Fined by UK Regulatory Body

Android Malware Owners Fined by UK Regulatory Body PhonepayPlus, the organization that regulates all premium rate phone services in the UK, has ordered a Russian company – Connect Ltd – to pay a fine and refund users after researchers highlighted the fact that an application it owned was attempting to trick Android users into signing up to expensive mobile services.Developers create malicious applications that sign up users to shady mobile services and send SMS to premium rate numbers. When security...

Unknown Virus Disrupts World’s Second Largest Liquefied Natural Gas Company

Unknown Virus Disrupts World’s Second Largest Liquefied Natural Gas Company Another mysterious virus hits the Middle East. This time, the victim is RasGas – a Qatar-based company that’s considered to be the second largest liquefied natural gas (LNG) producer in the world, after Qatargas.According to Arabian Oil and Gas, the virus disrupted the company’s offices, forcing them to shut down their systems, including the public-facing website rasgas.com. The organization’s representatives state...

Scientists Warn of Brain Hacking Via BCI Gadgets

Scientists Warn of Brain Hacking Via BCI GadgetsIf you're already skeptical about brain-computer interface (BCI) technology you'll probably be laugh twice as hard at the notion that hackers could potentially hack brainwave-scanning products like NeuroSky's Necomimi Brainwave Cat Ears or Mattel's MindFlex Duel game to steal your very thoughts.And you'd be right to be so dubious—up to a point. Yes, true mind-reading is still the stuff of science fiction. But BCI really...

Local UK Police Site Hacked, Personal Details Dumped Online

Local UK Police Site Hacked, Personal Details Dumped Online Part of a Hertfordshire Police web site has been hacked, with the attacker uploading his stupid treasure trove of IP addresses and phone numbers of officers online.Hertfordshire Police says the stolen data was hosted externally on a database associated with some sort of Neighbourhood Watch scheme, so the hacker wasn’t exactly setting his sights particularly high. The police site has been taken offline while staff investigate what was accessed...

50 EU Government sites Hacked & Defaced By Robot Pirates

Paksitani hacker name Cfr and Dr Ninja From Robot Pirates hacked 50 government sites. EU Governement servers are consider as one of most secure servers in world and it is defiantly not easy to break security of server like these. This also raise lot of question for security experts that how much more security is need in cyber space.The list of impacted sites was published on Pastebin yesterday, but at press time, most of them still weren’t restored.Hacked site says:" Game is...

US Air Force is spending $10 million For Hacking

The US Air Force is spending $10 million on an effort to hack into opponents’ computer networks to “destroy, deny, degrade, disrupt, deceive, corrupt or usurp” their ability to use the Internet to their advantage.The ability to hack into networks is part of a list of the military’s “Cyberspace Warfare Operations Capabilities” that it wishes to acquire, reports Wired.Instead of giving the ability to conduct cyber strikes solely to the White House, the Air Force wants its Trojans and worms to be available...

Cyber attack takes Qatar's RasGas offline

RasGas, the second largest producer of Qatari LNG after Qatar Petroleum, has been hit with an "unknown virus" which has taken the company offline. A RasGas spokesperson confirmed that “an unknown virus has affected its office systems" since Monday 27 August. RasGas confirmed the situation by fax yesterday. “RasGas is presently experiencing technical issues with its office computer systems,” said the RasGas fax seen by Oil & Gas Middle East, dated 28 August. “We will inform you when our...

RedHack Lashes Out at Anonymous Turkey (AnonsTurkey)

The members of the now-infamous RedHack collective are displeased with the fact that Anonymous Turkey (AnonsTurkey) is relying on the Anonymous name “for their personal interests.” The hacktivists released a statement to ensure that everyone understands that they’re not against Anonymous, but they’re against the teenagers who run AnonsTurkey. “Relationship between Redhack and Anonymous goes back to the time of 4chan in 2005. We continue to be in solidarity with active and true hackers...

Researchers Unable to Link Mysterious Wiper Malware to Flame

Researchers Unable to Link Mysterious Wiper Malware to FlameAfter further analyzing the traces of the mysterious Wiper malware, researchers are still unable to precisely determine how it works. They also haven’t been able to find a clear link between it and Duqu, Stuxnet or Flame.Back in April, the Iranian Oil Ministry reported sightings of a destructive piece of malware that attempted to extract information and then wipe it from the infected devices, hence the name Wiper.Kaspersky...

Phishers Promise Woolworths Gift Certificates in Return for Sensitive Information

Phishers Promise Woolworths Gift Certificates in Return for Sensitive Information Last week we reported about the existence of a Facebook scam that was trying to trick users into visiting various websites by promising them $500 gift vouchers from Woolworths. Now, the Australian supermarket chain’s reputation is once again used in a malicious campaign.It all starts with an email entitled “Customer Satisfaction Survey” which reads: You have been selected to access the Woolworths 5 questions Survey...

Intuit Security Tool Spam Campaign Making the Rounds Once Again

Intuit Security Tool Spam Campaign Making the Rounds Once Again Around one and a half years ago, malicious emails claiming to originate from Intuit attempted to convince recipients that they need to install a piece of software in order to access their QuickBooks accounts, giving them a three-day deadline to comply.It seems that this spam campaign has been reinitialized in an attempt to steal sensitive information from Intuit customers. Here’s what these emails look like: You will not be able...

Times reporter arrested over police blogger hacking

Times reporter arrested over police blogger hackingSenior executives at The Times newspaper could be questioned by police investigating allegations of computer hacking after a former reporter was arrested on suspicion of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice. Patrick Foster, 28, a former media reporter at Rupert Murdoch’s paper, was arrested at his North London home this morning for allegedly hacking into the email account of an anonymous police blogger named Nightjack in 2009.The Times subsequently...

HostDime Hacked By 1337

HostDime Hacked By 1337Official forum of HostDime has been Hacked by 1337. The Pakistani Hacker posted a message about there security on there forum by posting a thread. The hacker had told that the site was not able to be defaced due to the .htaccess file which was added in the admincp file. The .htaccess file had spasific I.P address to be accessed to the admincp. Therefor the site was not able to be defaced. If the hacker had gotten into the admincp, the story might have been totally different.HostDime...

Latest Java software opens PCs to hackers: Experts

Latest Java software opens PCs to hackers: Experts BOSTON: Computer security firms are urging PC users to disable Java software in their browsers, saying the widely installed, free software from Oracle Corp opens machines to hacker attacks and there is no way to defend against them. The warnings, which began emerging over the weekend from Rapid7, AlienVault and other cyber security firms, are likely to unnerve a PC community scrambling to fend off growing...

Hackers release one million bank, web account details

Hackers release one million bank, web account details A hacking group has released one million records and accounts from banks, government agencies and other sources.The group, calling itself Team GhostShell posted compromised databases from a Chinese mainframe, a US stock exchange mainframe and access points to three or four Department of Homeland Security servers among other sources.Security analysts have confirmed that the data released includes at least 30,000 records, with data including...

Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again

Hackers allegedly breached Saudi Aramco again Saudi Aramco, the national oil company of Saudi Arabia and the biggest oil company in the world, has issued a statement announcing that it has restored all its main internal network services that were impacted in a recent cyber attack which affected about 30,000 workstations - a number that corresponds with that shared by the Cutting Sword of Justice, the hacker group that took credit for the breach.The company's primary enterprise...

Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in Sony Pictures breach

Second accused LulzSec hacker arrested in Sony Pictures breach (Reuters) - A second suspected member of the clandestine hacking group LulzSec was arrested on Tuesday on charges he took part in an extensive computer breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment, the FBI said.Raynaldo Rivera, 20, of Tempe, Arizona, surrendered to U.S. authorities in Phoenix six days after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles returned an indictment charging him with conspiracy and unauthorized impairment of a protected computer.If...

Hack on Saudi Aramco hit 30,000 workstations, oil firm admits

Hack on Saudi Aramco hit 30,000 workstations, oil firm admits  Analysis Saudi Aramco said that it had put its network back online on Saturday, 10 days after a malware attack floored 30,000 workstations at the oil giant.In a statement, Saudi Arabia's national oil firm said that it had "restored all its main internal network services" hit by a malware outbreak that struck on 15 August. The firm said its core business of oil production and exploration was not affected by the...

Cambridge University Investigates Hacking Claim

Cambridge University investigates hacking claimThe university says it is taking preventative measures against the claimsContinue reading the main storyRelated StoriesJournalist held in hacking probeEcuador: UK Assange 'threat' overThe University of Cambridge has launched an investigation after a group claimed to have hacked into its software systems.The group named NullCrew said it had targeted several university departments and broken into databases.The network is linked to the computer hacking...

Customers still 'in the dark' on cyber crime, warns EU agency

Cyber crime worth billions of euros is going unreported because companies are failing to admit to security breaches, according to a paper released Tuesday (28 August) by the EU's internet security agency.Cyber-crime worth billions is going unreported, says the EU's internet agency In "Cyber incident reporting in the EU" the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) highlighted a series of regulatory gaps in EU cyber laws. In its conclusions, ENISA admitted that although "large...