The vigilante Internet hackers called Anonymous blocked the website of Peru’s police who fight against computer crime, a officials said Monday. View full post on Security News Headlines – Yahoo! News View full post on National Cyber Security
Epic Minecraft TNT Explosion 5000+ TnT Blocks
5000 TnT blocks and a bored man. View full post on National Cyber Security
Syria Blocks Protesters’ Text Messages Containing Sensitive Terms
Like us on Facebook By narrowing down modes of communications with filters, the government has effectively minimized protesters’ ability to organize and fuel dissent. However, AdaptiveMobile has denied any involvement in the human rights violations carried out using its equipments. In a statement to TheJournal.ie, AdaptiveMobile refuted the Bloomberg report…
Judge blocks release of pardoned inmates
By the CNN Wire Staff CNN.com JACKSON, Miss. — A Mississippi judge Wednesday evening issued a temporary injunction forbidding the release of any more prisoners pardoned or given clemency by outgoing Gov. Haley Barbour, whose actions created an uproar. The pardons include four convicted murderers and a convicted armed robber…
Facebook blocks 6 lakh hacking attempts daily
LONDON, UK: Social networking website Facebook has said it prevents at least 6,00,000 attempts every day by hackers trying to break into user accounts, using stolen usernames and passwords. View full post on facebook hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Sony blocks PSN accounts after suspected hacks
Sony suspended 93,000 user accounts on several of its gaming and entertainment networks after unauthorised login attempts on those accounts, it said Wednesday. The attempts occurred on the PlayStation Network, Sony Entertainment Network and Sony Online Entertainment, and the company says that bulk login information likely acquired from other sources…
Apple blocks malware-as-PDF threat but new attack emerges
Apple has quietly added detection for the recent malware attack that used PDF files as lures to trick Mac OS X users into downloading a malicious Trojan dropper. The detection was added into the rudimentary XProtect.plist malware blocker built into Mac OS X. The malware, flagged as a trojan dropper, installs downloader component that…
Microsoft’s IE9 Blocks Almost All Social Malware, Study Finds
A study prepared by NSS Labs concludes that Microsoft’s Internet Explorer 9 blocks virtually all socially engineered malware, far more than rival browsers. The study was designed to examine one aspect of security: how a browser handled a malicious URL, such as one received in a posting on a social…
