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A Playstation 3 hacker says he has released information about reverse engineering hypervisor technology used in the PS3 after his home in Germany was raided earlier this week, reportedly at Sony's request.
Computer hackers working through Internet servers in China broke into and stole proprietary information from the networks of six U.S. and European energy companies, including Exxon Mobil Corp., Royal Dutch Shell Plc and BP Plc, according to one of the companies and investigators who declined to be identified.
Cyber threat fighter, Damballa Inc., has released its
Even as the FBI was conducting its ongoing campaign of surveillance and armed raids against those of us involved in the Anonymous activist collective, that and other "law enforcement" agencies were simultaneously providing resources and work opportunities to a collection of federal contractors, which were themselves engaged in a variety of reckless and unethical activities to which they are now being held to account by the press, if not the government.
A document written by the hackers has clarified what they did and what privacy and security risks they believe the PlayStation 3 poses. The PS3's connection to PSN is protected by SSL. As is common to SSL implementations, the identity of the remote server is verified using a list of certificates stored on each PS3.
Ars Technica has documented the background of the break-in at the US security firm that tried to expose Anonymous but ended up being taken apart itself. The report explains that the attackers' point of entry was a proprietary CMS which was custom-designed for HBGary.
Which is the most popular tactic that cybercriminals uses on their way to infect users with malicious code (malware) and generate yet another botnet?
Security researchers at McAfee have sounded an alarm for what is described as
A security researcher has demonstrated how it might be possible to perform autorun-style attacks against weakly secured Linux PCs.
On Sunday night, cyber vigilantes 'Anonymous' went full throttle against a security firm that claimed to know the identities of the group, which operates "Operation Payback" and reportedly includes members of the "/b/" bulletin board 4chan.org.
Anonymous, the hacker group known for targeting companies that refused to process payments for WikiLeaks, has attacked an American security firm that has been assisting the FBI.
Hackers have repeatedly penetrated the computer network of the company that runs the Nasdaq Stock Market during the past year, and federal investigators are trying to identify the perpetrators and their purpose, according to people familiar with the matter.
Sophos security researchers are warning of a new phishing attack that asks Bank of America customers to update their personal information, including name, address, date of birth, social security number, credit card details and ATM pin.
The source code of an older version of "Kaspersky Internet Security" has been circulated on the internet. The code was created in late 2007 and was probably stolen in early 2008. Names contained in the sources indicate that the stolen code was probably a beta version of the 2008 software package
The title of strangest WTF story of my morning is Plentyoffish CEO Markus Frind recounting how his online dating site got hacked, he and his wife were harassed and someone clumsily attempted to extort his company in the aftermath of the events. If that is in fact what happened
A few young Germans have the world's biggest record companies at their knees. After hacking into the computers of famous recording artists and their managers, they have placed unreleased songs by the likes of Lady Gaga and Shakira on the Internet. Two have been caught, but the others are still at work.
The M&G Online website is now offline in the wake of an attack by Russian hackers. The Mail & Guardian Online, one of South Africa
In the early hours of Saturday morning, panic set in on two large European BitTorrent trackers. ArenaBG and Zamunda, a pair of sites with a history of being targeted by the Bulgarian authorities, were reported down. According to several mainstream media reports, they had been taken offline by the country
French security services provider VUPEN has reported a critical security vulnerability in Opera which could allow crafted web pages to infect Windows systems with malware. The problem is said to be caused by a bug in opera.dll when processing HTML files containing selected elements that have a large number of child elements.
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