On Wednesday morning a car bomb was set off at Microsoft HQ in Greece, there were no injuries and no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the security guards were evacuated first though More...
Nokia's Developer website has been hacked by an unknown group, and user information such as email addresses were stolen. This continues the wave of hacking around the globe in 2011. More...
As promised a few members of the hacker group Anonymous joined a real world protest in San Francisco on Monday after it hacked into the BART rapid transit web site. More...
It would appear that League of Legends, the popular MMO title from Riot Games, has been attacked again. While little information is currently available, it appears that the game has been hacked to offer 'free'... More...
Fighting the war on terrorism, the British way? Yes indeed. Trust the British Secret Intelligence Service, or the MI6, to have a strange sense of humour while infiltrating a serious threat to humanity on the... More...
At the beginning of this year in February, there were reports of an attack on three Canadian federal government departments by unknown perpetrators originating from China. The initial report described a breach of the internal... More...
The PlayStation Network may be on its way to recovery, but it seems online criminals are continuing to wage war with Sony and its properties. Late last week, we reported on an attack on So-net,... More...
Another weekend's going by without any hint on the gamers' side over the status of the PlayStation Network, despite a brief memo to developers yesterday and a few whispers over the restoration of the internal... More...
At Google’s I/O 2011 conference, Google co-founder Sergey Brin has used harsh words to criticize Microsoft’s Windows operating system, outlining why Google is tackling Microsoft in the heavily one-sided OS market. Captured by GeekWire during... More...
Sony will begin to restore services on its Playstation Network later this week following a cyber attack in April that caused Sony to shut down the online service. According to a press release on the... More...
Documents relating to the G20 summit held in Paris last month came under attack in December from unknown sources. The French finance ministry has begun an investigation into the attack, according to the BBC, and... More...
Recent reports have surfaced about an attack that was able to access two key Canadian government departments, which may have lead to confidential information being stolen. The attacks happened last month, but as the CBC... More...
Twitter is facing a worm this morning that, according to Mashable, is “spreading like wildfire.” The attack comes from tweets advertising acai berries and link to sites with URLs containing “acainews.” While the exact nature... More...
Facebook is the holder of more personal data than most people will want to admit or feel comfortable sharing, so when an exploit hits the popular service, users should take notice. The newest exploit attacks... More...
The many computer systems found within modern day cars are vulnerable to attack, according to a team of researchers from the University of California-San Diego and the University of Washington. Amongst other things, the researchers... More...
A report released today by Sophos entitled "Social Security" reveals some startling information about the number of attacks by viruses and spammers on popular social networking sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. 57% of users reported... More...
A report from Reuters is stating that Google is looking to see if the recent hack into its services was possibly assisted by an employee or employees from Google China. The report... More...
Facebook users have been targeted by a large-scale spam attack that informs them that their password has been reset, and that the attached zip archive contains their new password. Instead of a new password, users... More...
Key-logging malware could be behind the recent web mail attack that saw thousands of email addresses and their associated passwords leaked online, according to one security expert. Amichai Shulman, from security firm Imperva, believes that... More...
A study carried out by brand specialist MarkMonitor has reported that abuse of the World's top brands, through practices such as cyber-squatting and phishing, is rising. The most common form of abuse is still cyber-squatting,... More...
Russia launched another cyber warfare attack against the small country of Kyrgyzstan. A distributed denial of service attack (DDOS) took place against the country in January of 2009. The ip traffic has now... More...
Branded by some as "hacktivism", the conflict between Israel and Palestine has spilled onto the web, with activists from both sides defacing websites, taking over computers and shutting down Facebook groups, according to a report... More...
The Internet Storm Center, which tracks online threats, warned Wednesday that a worm is infecting vulnerable Web sites with a database attack. Though relatively small by Web attack standards with about 4,000 reported infected sites,... More...
Security researchers have spotted malicious code that triggers a critical vulnerability in the Chinese version of Windows 2000, and warned non-Chinese users to expect attacks. Symantec confirmed that the proof-of-concept code publicly posted to the... More...
We apologize for getting caught with our pants down today, but our friends at Digg and Reddit have been slamming our forum with traffic over the last few hours. Our servers buckled under the pressure,... More...
A mass attack ongoing for the past month against Linux Apache Web servers has become increasingly successful because its break-in method makes use of an automated password and installation process, according to a security researcher... More...
Security researchers have released attack code that will crash Windows XP and Vista PCs that are susceptible to a recently patched bug in the operating system. The code was released yesterday to security professionals who... More...
Online criminals are exploiting a flaw in the Microsoft Office Access database to install unauthorized software on computers, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) warned Monday. In its brief warning, US-CERT offered few... More...
Today Neowin suffered yet another attack on its forums and main news pages. An exploit allowed the attacker to place an iframe linking to a website that prompts visitors to download a plug-in. Not content... More...
A hacker has released attack code that could be used to exploit a critical bug in some versions of the Windows operating system. Microsoft patched the flaw, which affects older versions of Windows, on Oct.... More...
A security researcher has published a proof-of-concept exploit for a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The researcher, known only as 'Cyanid-E', unveiled his creation in a posting to the Full Disclosure security mailing list on... More...
A wave of attacks in the UK, Germany, and the United States from Chinese-based computers had the Chinese foreign ministry issuing an official denial that their government had been involved. Afterwards, officials from New Zealand... More...
A year-old bug in QuickTime that, when paired with Firefox allows, hackers to hijack PCs and Macs now has Mozilla Corp. scrambling for a fix, the company's chief security officer said Wednesday. According to Petko... More...
The Aladdin eSafe Content Security Response Team (CSRT) has uncovered new details surrounding the eBay botnet attack first discovered on Monday. Researchers have found that the attack is primarily targeted at UK users of eBay... More...
According to digital security firm Symantec, as many as 1.6 million records belonging to several hundred thousand people from Monster.com Worldwide's job search service may have been stolen by the trojan horse Infostealer.Monstres in a... More...
Mozilla is working on patching its Firefox browser after a hacker posted details of a flaw that could let criminals run unauthorized software on a victim's machine. The flaw lies in Firefox's URL handler component,... More...
Italy is suffering from a barrage of remote attacks launched from hundreds of compromised websites, security experts have warned. Researchers at Symantec reported that attackers have injected 'iframe' tags within the HTML files on compromised... More...
Spammers have been taking over unsuspecting computer users' machines for years in order to send out unwanted e-mails, but recently they have been getting even more aggressive. The SANS Institute (SysAdmin, Audit, Network, Security) recently... More...
An apparent hack attack has taken place on the EA servers. Players were reporting the "top 6 players" by score were not the regular top players. The hack is also visible in the bf2s.com website... More...
New software has been published on the Internet that could be used to exploit a known flaw in Internet Explorer. The code, which was posted Monday to the Milw0rm.com Web site, exploits a recently patched... More...
Google's PC search software is vulnerable to a variation on a little-known Web-based attack called anti-DNS pinning that could give an attacker access to any data indexed by Google Desktop, security researchers said this week.... More...
Security experts are warning of a spam e-mails regarding a phishing attack targeting gamblers on the PartyPoker website, the world's largest online poker site. The e-mail warns of news about 'legislation' affecting online poker players,... More...
According to Henry Gonzalez, senior security researcher for Websense, an attack that targeted online customers of at least 50 financial institutions in the U.S., Europe and Asia-Pacific was shut down this week. The pharming attack... More...
Cisco has posted a Security Response on its Web site which describes the 77 routers that are vulnerable to a new form of attack. Researchers at security company Symantec first warned users about the new... More...
According to a recent study at the University of Marlyand, hackers attack computers every 39 seconds. At the 37th Annual IEEE/IFIP International Conference on Dependable Systems and Networks, the research team confirmed the already known... More...
Although hackers launched an unusually powerful attack on the Internet that lasted as long as 12 hours on Tuesday, the hacker attack seems to have gone unnoticed by most Internet users. Experts said the hackers... More...
With its February security patches now two weeks away, Microsoft is warning of another critical flaw in its Office software. This time Excel is the target. Microsoft confirmed late Friday that its spreadsheet software is... More...
Microsoft's security response team has launched an investigation into reports of a zero-day attack against a previously unknown vulnerability affecting its ever-present Microsoft Word program. The Redmond, Wash.-based software maker said it's aware of "very... More...
Administrators should consider restricting access to sites such as YouTube and MySpace because they have the potential to deliver malware that has been embedded inside video files. Over the past year, a number of serious... More...
Hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Internet Explorer, and they've released code that could be used to attack users of Microsoft Corp.'s popular browser. The vulnerability is similar to a bug that Microsoft patched... More...