An oversight by the police who did not summon cyber-crime unit investigators to submit evidence establishing how a youth hacked his friend’s Hi5 social media account, led to the same youth being acquitted of all charges due to lack of evidence. View full post on cyber crime hacking – Yahoo!…
Iran blocking SSL-secured Internet, claims Tor Project
The Iranian government has severed some citizens’ connections to secure websites and services, including Twitter and Google’s Gmail, according to reports by Iranians and network experts. Starting yesterday, people who said they live in Iran began describing problems reaching websites secured with SSL (secure socket layer), which is used to…
Hacker group ‘Anonymous’ claims it broke into Ala. government websites, stole personal info
MONTGOMERY, Ala. – Computer hackers claiming to be from the loose-knit group known as Anonymous say they have broken into several Alabama law enforcement and government websites and have stolen the personal information for more than 46,000 people. In an online news release Friday, the group claimed to have taken…
Swagg Security claims Foxconn hack over poor working conditions
Hackers from Swagg Security claimed to have stolen internal data from Apple supplier Foxconn, and leaked the information online, in response to media reports of poor working conditions at the electronics manufacturer’s factories in China. The hacker group announced the attack in a Twitter message yesterday, and also leaked data…
Anonymous claims to have released Symantec’s pcAnywhere source code
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec’s pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. “It happened so recently that we’re still in the process of…
Anonymous claims to have released Symantec’s pcAnywhere source code
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec’s pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. “It happened so recently that we’re still in the process of…
Anonymous claims to have released Symantec’s pcAnywhere source code
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec’s pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. Symantec could not immediately comment on whether the hackers had indeed released the source code of its product. “It happened so recently that we’re still in the process of…
Anonymous Claims to Have Released Source Code of Symantec’s PcAnywhere
Hacker group Anonymous claimed late Monday that the source code of Symantec's pcAnywhere had been uploaded on The Pirate Bay site. View full post on anonymous hacker – Yahoo! News Search Results View full post on National Cyber Security
Symantec backtracks from Google Android malware claims
Symantec has backtracked from assertions last week that 13 Android apps distributed by Google’s Android Market were malicious, and now says that the code in question comes from an aggressive ad network that provides revenue to the smartphone programs. The security firm’s new stance was in line with that taken…
Accused Kelihos botmaster Andrey Sabelnikov claims innocence
Andrey Sabelnikov, the Russian man accused by Microsoft of creating and operating the Kelihos spam botnet, proclaimed his innocence last week. Microsoft said that Sabelnikov, a programmer who lives in St Petersburg “created, operated and controlled the Kelihos botnet,” which at its peak comprised an estimated 45,000 compromised Windows PCs….