The home Trojan-banker known as Shylock has updated with new functions. It is noticed that Shylock is now capable of spreading using the popular Voice over IP service and software application, Skype. This allows the malicious Trojan-banker to infect more hosts and continue to be a prevalent threat, according to CSIS Security Group. Shylock is one […] Continue reading → 
Social networking giant Facebook has opened registration for its third annual Hacker Cup, set to begin from January 25. The Facebook Hacker Cup is an annual worldwide programming competition where hackers compete against each other for fame, fortune, glory and a shot at the coveted Hacker Cup. The Facebook Hacker Cup, of which the top […] Continue reading → 
It is recommended that users should disable the Java program in their Web browsers, because it remains vulnerable to attacks that could result in identity theft and other cyber crimes. Some browsers by default have disabled the JAVA Program. On Sunday, Oracle released a security update that addresses two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in Java that […] Continue reading → 
The hacker goes by the handle @An0nGhost have hacked & defaced 39 Israeli websites with an operation called #FreePalestine, #OpIsrael by giving warning message to Israeli Govt. AnonGhost was in news by hacking 327 Web sites from all around the world. The sites include a range of websites, taxi service, movie studio, Jewish Israel, Israeli dating site, Israeli […] Continue reading → 
Anonymous, hacked two subdomains of MIT’s site and left it defaced, with a tribute and justice for the Internet activist, Aaron Swartz. They also mocked at the certain US laws and call for to reform these laws that led to the Aarons suicide. Deface Page: Hacked domain: http://rledev.mit.edu/aaron.html http://cogen.mit.edu/aaron.html The hackers ask the government to […] Continue reading → 
The 26 year old, Aaron Swartz, Reddit co-founder, co-developed RSS, Internet activist, Programmer, a hacker committed suicide in his Brooklyn apartment, on Friday. He was accused of stealing nearly 500 million articles from an MIT archive and was set to be trialed in February. Swartz, 26, left no note before his Friday morning death in the seventh-floor apartment […] Continue reading → 
Sony Music, the musical home of Michael Jackson, have won their legal battle against two British hackers who stole unreleased songs recorded by the music legend. Hackers were sentenced to 100 hours of community service by England’s Leicester Crown Court on Friday. Two British hackers, James Marks, Twenty seven years old and James McCormick 26 years old were arrested in 2011 for […] Continue reading → 
Official website of one of the biggest telecommunication operator in Pakistan hacked by Xpired. The Hacker didnot deface the main index of the site, but added a page “/x.html” at the cache directory. The page is still on the server, while writing this post. Targeted Site URL: http://www.telenor.com.pk/cache/x.html There is not specific message on hacked […] Continue reading → 
The hacker goes by the handle @Gevolus from Brazilian Cyber Army have hacked into the subdomain of US Department of Defense. which is Non-Lethal Weapons Program, leaked its highly sensitive database and pasted on pastebin. The hacker announced this hack on its official twitter account. The targeted site which is attacked by the hacker is “http://jnlwp.defense.gov”. The range of Sensitive information […] Continue reading → An independent vulnerability researcher, Sow Ching Shiong, found a way to change the password of any facebook username without knowing his last password. Facebook have fixed this very critical vulnerability. This flaw allow an attacker to change any facebook user’s password easily. Facebook have a recovery page for compromised accounts “https://www.facebook.com/hacked”. when clicked, it redirected to another page“https://www.facebook.com/checkpoint/checkpointme?f=[userid]&r=web_hacked”the […] Continue reading →