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China Cert: China Under Severe Cyber Attack

According to a report released Tuesday by China national computer monitoring center China’s cyber security has come under increasingly severe threats amid a variety of safety risks. Between September 2012 and February 2013, 85 websites belonging to government agencies and high-profile private companies were hacked. Of these attacks, 39 were traced back to the United […] Continue reading →

Jeep Twitter account hacked after Burger Kings

The official Twitter account of Jeep, the world-renowned brand of American automobiles, has been hacked on tuesday after Burger Kings account hijacking. Yesterday, Burger King fell victim to a similar attack. At the time, the hacker tried to trick everyone into thinking that Burger King was sold to McDonalds. It looks like big brands are not […] Continue reading →

OWASP Top 10 2013 Application Security Risks Released

The OWASP (Open Web Application Security Project) Top Ten is a list of the 10 most dangerous current Web application security flaws, along with effective methods of dealing with those flaws. The OWASP TOP 10 has been designed to raise awareness about crucial security threats faced byorganisations. The datais based on 8 companiesspecialising in application […] Continue reading →

Facebook hacked by Java Zero Day exploit

Facebook - a social networking giant with one billion active users said on Friday that it has been attacked by an unidentified group of hackers in January, fortunately no user information was compromised during the attack. What is really interesting is the level of sophistication of the malware based attack that eluded security defense, it […] Continue reading →

US Enegery department under Cyber Attack

The Energy Department has been under massive cyber-attacks, as a result information of its hundreds of employees has been stolen, the officials are not positive over theft of secret information, According to report. The FBI is now investigating the attack in which hackers penetrated into 20 workstations and about 14 computer servers in the Washington […] Continue reading →

Avast announces Bug Bounty Program

Avast announced the launch of the company’s new security bug bounty program, according to a recent post on avast. Avast will be offering bounties to security researchers for disclosing vulnerabilities in its products. We at Avast take this very seriously. We know that being a market leader (Avast has more users than any other AV […] Continue reading →

Hackers Find Zero-Day Vulnerability in Internet Explorer

Hackers have found yet another security flaw in Internet Explorer that would allow them to install malicious software on vulnerable computers. Security company FireEye reports that the issue was discovered after the Council on Foreign Relations website got hacked, as the page was specifically compromised to exploit the flaw. The attacks are made via Adobe […] Continue reading →

Windows 8 Will Be Harder to Hack – Security Expert Says

Windows 8 has already been attacked by hackers who wanted to activate the operating system at no cost, but there’s no doubt it’s one of the most secure Windows iterations released so far. according to post at softpedia. Microsoft uses this argument to promote Windows 8 with every single occasion, while security companies across the globe […] Continue reading →

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