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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
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 11:42 pm
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
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 11:46 am
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
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 11:23 am
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
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 10:35 am
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
Date Published: May 30, 2012 - 10:07 am
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 "
Date Published: May 28, 2012 - 12:30 am
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. The group said the
certificate was
Date Published: May 22, 2012 - 7:59 pm
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. F-Secure
Date Published: May 22, 2012 - 10:47 am
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.
Date Published: May 22, 2012 - 10:29 am
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
Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 7:32 pm
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. 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
Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 12:02 pm
IBM Research domain hacked and defaced 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
Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 11:40 am
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Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 11:27 am
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
Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 11:06 am
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
Date Published: May 20, 2012 - 10:50 am
