The Twitter page of the Associated Press was temporarily suspended after an apparent hacker posted the false news of a White House attack where President Obama was injured. More...
Despite Yahoo's efforts to fix 'vulnerabilities', mail users have continued to see their accounts hacked. The company says two isolated security holes have been rectified, but the problems persist. More...
We have heard from many companies who have stated that they have been hacked by foreign entities. If you are keeping a list at home of the companies who have been infected, add Apple to the list. More...
Parts of the NBC.com website got hit by a cyber attack today, with the hackers defacing some of the pages with messages that related to November 5th's Guy Fawkes Day. More...
Reports are coming in that a number of Diablo III accounts on Battle.net have already been hacked and taken away from their rightful owners. Blizzard has yet to comment. More...
Microsoft's online store in India has been compromised and passwords related to that site have been exposed. As of 12PM EST, the site was still offline. More...
Lady Gaga's Twitter account today repeatedly promised free iPad 2s for all of her followers, as part of what seems to be a targeted hack of her account, and that of singer Nelly Furtado. More...
Microsoft has clarified a report by the UK tabloid newspaper The Sun claiming that some Xbox Live accounts were "hacked" into, stating that some account users have been victims of "phishing" scams. More...
After a busy day for Lulzsec, the hacking group have now set sail the Lulzboat and began to fire their Lul-cannons at Minecraft. The group managed to take down: Minecraft servers, Escapist Magazine, EVE Online, FinFisher... More...
The Escapist has become the next victim of attacks perpetrated by hacking group 'LulzSec', after they managed to bring the site down and apparently cause chaos for the system administrators. The group tweeted the following... More...
It seems that a day doesn't go by without another big company being hacked and having data stolen. Previously it was Codemasters and now it appears as though Epic games has fallen victim to a... More...
Things just do not seem to be going Sony's way these last few weeks. First their entire PlayStation Network was hacked with information stolen and quickly leaked onto the Internet, then when the service was... More...
For a week now, Neowin has been actively reporting on Sony’s PlayStation Network as many gamers find that they’re unable to connect. As reported by Sony themselves, the reason for the downtime was because of... More...
Just yesterday Sony released a firmware update for their PS3 console which was reported to have banned Call of Duty: Black Ops hackers from the Playstation Network. Today, the encryption has been broken and signing... More...
The popular online speed trap tracker, Trapster, has issued an email to its 10 million registered members, citing that their passwords may have been hacked. The mobile application is available on a number of smartphones,... More...
DeviantART, the worlds largest social network for artists, has had one of their databases exposed. This latest breach comes in the shadows of McDonald's member database and Gawker database exposures in the past two days. DeviantART... More...
Following the previous week of DDoS attacks and the database leak of Gawker, McDonald's has fallen victim to a similar fate. McDonald's is now warning customers that signed up for any promotions or registered at... More...
Remember last week when we told you about the bounty placed on the Kinect requesting someone to release open source drivers? And remember how that challenge was completed very shortly thereafter? Well now the first... More...
Late last week it was reported that a New-York based company; Adafruit Industries were offering $2000 to any individual or group that could develop an open source Kinect driver hack that could bring the technology... More...
Reports coming from Thenextweb indicate that YouTube was compromised earlier today, this time the attacker or attackers were targeting Justin Bieber videos. This isn't the first time users on the Internet have teamed up and... More...
Reports are flying in through Twitter, App Store reviews and on various forums around the web indicating that some users recent purchase history on iTunes have shown some fraudulent activity on Apps and books being... More...
If giving Android phones to developers prior to their launch has any perks, it's the following: early access allows hackers more time to find exploits within the system. Obtaining root access to the Linux driven... More...
Computerworld reports that three websites affiliated with the US Treasury department have been infected with code that distributes malware to visitors. Roger Thompson, a researcher at AVG, discovered on Monday that three domains belonging to... More...
A college student indicted for hacking into former Alaskan Governor Sarah Palin's Yahoo email account while she was the Republican nominee for Vice President was convicted on Friday by a Tennessee jury, according to Cnet.com.... More...
Gamers had their revenge this week as the infamous implementation of Ubisoft's "always-on" DRM, released with Assassin's Creed 2, was successfully circumvented by the hacking group Skidrow. The new DRM system, now included in every... More...
Kotaku reports that the Xbox Live account of Larry Hyrb, director of programming for Xbox Live, was hacked late last night. Known as 'Major Nelson', Hyrb is an influential industry leader in the gaming world,... More...
According to Reuters, a 25 year old Frenchman successfully hacked into President Obama and Britney Spears' Twitter accounts. Using Twitter administrator passwords, the man was able to break into virtually anyone's account. Thankfully, the hacker... More...
The Pwn2Own hacking contest is well under way today and the iPhone has fallen victim to a previously undisclosed Safari flaw. Security researchers Vincenzo Iozzo and Ralf Philipp Weinmann demonstrated hacking into an iPhone by luring... More...
ABC News is reporting Christopher Tarnovsky did what was thought to be virtually impossible; he managed to hack TPM (Trusted Platform Module) chips. Regarded as the industry's most secure chips, computers and servers holding classified... More...
When you're a celebrity or a high profile citizen, it's not uncommon to be targeted by selfish individuals looking to make a dollar at your expense. It's possible that Steve Jobs has fallen victim... More...
It seems Twitter is still having its share of security trouble, because according to Cnet, a person by the name of Hacker Croll was able to hack into a Twitter administrator account, by guessing the... More...
Many people may remember Charlie Miller from last year's event where he successfully hacked a MacBook and was able to take control over it within seconds, walking away with the MacBook and the grand prize.... More...
The increasingly popular music streaming service Spotify has revealed that it was the target of malicious hackers at the end of 2008. The Swedish based company issued a statement on its blog yesterday warning "along... More...
The Internet job web site, Monster.com was attacked by hackers again for the second time since 2007. In this instance hackers have stolen user data directly from the database, including user ID's, passwords, email addresses,... More...
Many users got a shock when checking some twitter accounts like, Foxnews, Britney speaks, Barrack Obama, and many others. An attacked launched against celebrity twitter accounts is inserting crude headlines such as "Breaking, Bill... More...
Swiss researchers have demonstrated keystrokes can be recorded wirelessly from wired keyboards by analysing the electromagnetic signals produced by every key press. Martin Vuagnoux and Sylvain Pasini, researchers from the Lausanne Security and Cryptography Laboratory,... More...
After Mac was hacked in 2 minutes at the CanSecWest Conference, it was now the time for Vista to get hacked on the 3rd day. Vista's security was compromised through the popular 3rd... More...
It may be the quickest $10,000 Charlie Miller ever earned. He took the first of three laptop computers -- and a $10,000 cash prize -- Thursday after breaking into a MacBook Air at the... More...
When Apple announced the release of the iPhone for the UK, it also announced that iPhone and iPod touch firmware version 1.1.2 would be released at the same time. Released today, firmware 1.1.2 closes the... More...
It arrived in a blaze of publicity and had frenzied gadget fans queuing for days before its launch last month. But just weeks after Apple's iPhone was unleashed on American shoppers, researchers say they have... More...
Looks like its time to cancel another card...Valve is still not responding to this as of yet, how wonderful. Valve's Steam content distribution system has apparently been hacked. The culprit allegedly got deep enough into... More...
The Web site for computer parts manufacturer ASUStek Computer has been hacked and has been serving up attack code that exploits the recently patched .ANI Windows vulnerability. The exploit is hidden in an HTML element... More...
There's already an RFID security brouhaha brewing in Washington, and if some people have their way, it won't be the last legal fight waged in the nation's capital over use of the wireless technology. The... More...
The Web site of Miami's Dolphin Stadium, which plays host to Super Bowl XLI on Sunday, was hacked between January 26 and 28, security company Websense reported, and until approximately 11 a.m. PST Friday was... More...
With Christmas fast approaching, Santa Claus reached out for a little help from Stopbadware.org this week. The consumer advocacy group said it was approached by an Incline Village, Nevada, man who has legally changed his... More...
Instead of the usual description of Kevin Mitnick, his consulting services and books, the famed hacker's Web site on Sunday displayed a vulgar message. Online vandals, apparently operating from Pakistan, broke into the computer hosting... More...
While Microsoft talked up Windows Vista security at Black Hat, a researcher in another room demonstrated how to hack the operating system. Joanna Rutkowska, a Polish researcher at Singapore-based Coseinc, showed that it is possible... More...
The ongoing Digg versus Netscape spat has apparently escalated into a hacking attack against America Online's Netscape.com social media Web site. Virus researchers at Finnish security vendor F-Secure discovered the Netscape.com hack during research work... More...
Apple's Korean online store has been defaced by a hacker. The attack, carried out by someone working under the name "Dinam," who claimed in his post to be Turkish, was brought to the attention... More...
Thanks medion for this news posted in Back Page News on our forums... The hack is a modified firmware of the Xbox 360Hitachi-LG GDR-3120L DVD-ROM drive (the security in... More...