The shadowy computer hacker group Anonymous said Wednesday it attacked the websites of three major Brazilian banks over the past few days to protest widespread inequality in Latin America's leading economy. View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
High School Hackers Arrested for Changing Grades
Three juniors at Palos Verdes High School are accused of hacking into their school’s grading system. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security
Brazil Hackers Attack Second Bank Website In Brazil
Websites of one of Brazil's largest banks succumbed to cyber attacks Tuesday, the second to fall victim to such attacks in as many days. View full post on lulzsec hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Facebook rewards hackers who find bugs
Tal Be'ery was happy helping Facebook fight hackers for free. In 2010, when the computer security professional was looking into how identity thieves, spammers and other con artists used fake Facebook profiles to mount… View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National…
DARPA-Funded Hacker’s Tiny $50 Spy Computer Hides In Offices, Drops From Drones
A prototype of O’Connor’s $50 F-BOMB with its case open. (Click to enlarge.) Even more embarrassing than a student discovering your GPS tracking device on his car, as the FBI found out last year, is having to ask him to give the expensive piece of equipment back. So security researcher…
Israeli hackers deface Iranian Government websites
An Israeli group has claimed responsibility for the defacement of several Iranian Government websites as the tit-for-tat digital war between hackers in the Middle East shows no sign of waning. The Israeli ‘IDF Team’ attacked websites belonging to the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education, and an English-language TV…
Hackers use videoconferencing cameras to spy on boardroom meetings
Teleconferencing vendors say they’re trying to strike the right balance between security and usability after security researchers found they could dial in to the conference lines of major companies and manipulate video cameras to spy on boardrooms. HD Moore and Mike Tuchen revealed their research for security company Rapid7 on…
Hackers target Government websites
The websites of the Departments of Justice and Finance were both taken offline, for a time early today, in an apparent cyber attack. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hackers target Government websites
The websites of the Departments of Justice and Finance were both taken offline, for a time early today, in an apparent cyber attack. View full post on cyber attack – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Hackers crack DreamHost customer database
Web hosting firm DreamHost reset the FTP and shell access passwords for all of its customers on Friday after detecting unauthorised activity within one of its databases. “One of DreamHost’s database servers was illegally accessed using an exploit that was not previously known or prevented by our layered security systems…
