Archive for the ‘Hackers’ Category

Duqu Worm Command & Control Servers Scrubbed

Hackers erase all data from Duqu C&C servers, close spy operationThe hackers behind the Duqu botnet have shut down their spying operation and erased all data on the 12 known command & control servers that were used to control all computers infected with Duqu on October 12, 2011 as per Kaspersky Lab, a Moscow-based security firm. [...]

Nokia Developer Community website hacked

As the hacker war rages on all over, another corporate giant bites the dust. Hackers accessed Nokia’s Developer community prompting the mobile giant to shut down the community section of the developer site. The hacker who calls himself “pr0tect0r AKA mrNRG” posted this message on the website:

LOL, Worlds number 1 mobile company but not spending a dime for a server security! FFS patch your security holes otherwise you will be just another antisec victim. No Dumping, No Leaking!!

Gmail at risk with fake Google certificate

According to media reports, a fake Google.com certificate which allows the means to impersonate Gmail and other Google products has been published online. The fake certificate is “valid for *.google.com” which allows attacker to impersonate Google services and launch an attack against users using their networks. The certificate was stolen from an SSL certificate issued [...]

iPhone security flaw discovered

Apple iPhone is a mobile device which has taken the mobile industry by storm, especially with the new versions which are much better than the previous ones. The sheer market size of the device rivals only a few others with a whopping 23 million devices being used worldwide. With such a huge number of iPhone’s [...]

Baidu.com hacked by ICA

The hacker group that claimed responsibility for taking down Twitter last month has now attacked Baidu.com, China’s largest search engine. Baidu.com went offline on Monday and had an image that said “This site has been hacked by Iranian Cyber Army”. This is the second attack in 2 months from the same group. The method used [...]

Citibank attacked by Russian Hackers

A theft of tens of millions of dollars have been reported stolen from Citibank by hackers using Russian made software which was tailored to launch an attack on Citibank. The security breach at the major U.S. bank was detected mid-year based on traffic from Internet addresses formerly used by the Russian Business Network gang, The [...]

Twitter goes down for 30 minutes

Popular micro-blogging site twitter.com went down for thirty minutes on 18th December, 2009. A group of hackers calling themselves the Iranian Cyber Army gained access to the twitter.com Domain Name Servers. All visitors to Twitter were being redirected to a webpage which claimed that hack was by the Iranian Cyber Army. “DNS records work like [...]

BarackObama.com 0wned or was it?

A few days ago it was reported that the U.S President’s campaign web site www.barackobama.com was hacked through an SQL Injection attack on the server. An SQL injection attack is used to gain administrator access to the database after which the attacker can do whatever he wants with it. Websites with discussion forums and databases running in [...]

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