The white hats don’t wear white hats. They wear jeans, shorts, T-shirts and hoodies; many had bike-messenger bags. They have beards of diverse lengths, shaved heads and multiple tattoos. Sometimes, the more eminent, established white hats can be found in khakis.
Hackers associated with the activist group Anonymous took down the U.S. government's anti-scam website OnGuardOnline.gov this week as part of a protest against U.S. efforts to stop illegal online piracy of movies and music.
The OnGuardOnline.gov site was hacked on Tuesday, January 24, and was taken offline until it was secure, the Federal Trade Commission said. The FTC builds the website with content from law enforcement, military, consumer and other U.S. agencies, it said on Thursday.
Prevention is better than a cure, and all that, but what about when an attack isn't preventable? What do organisations do to ensure that they know who hit them? Judging by how long it takes to get answers, I'd say they don't do enough.
Hackers are using QR codes to distribute malware to smartphone owners, says AVG.
Over the last week, Anonymous has launched unprecedented string of attacks on government and business sites around the world, as the anger of the hive that a year ago turned on Egypt’s Mubarak regime turned on governments around the world.
Instead of just launching distributed denial-of-service attacks, cyber-attackers have started hijacking domain names and redirecting traffic from legitimate sites to malicious ones.
The hacker group Anonymous recently managed to hijack the Domain Name System record for CBS.com and redirected all traffic to another Web server that displayed an empty directory structure. It appeared as if the contents of CBS.com had been wiped, but it was actually a different server altogether. CBS.com managed to regain control of its domain after the DNS poisoning attack.
The recent hack against a database full of FTP passwords held by Los Angeles-based web hosting firm DreamHost highlights a growing database breach trend that’s seeing password stores exposed by the boatload. Though these databases contain sensitive authentication information, they’re often left far less protected than databases containing PII.
Just over six months ago, well-known hacker George Hotz, a.k.a. Geohot, joined the straight and narrow and got a day-job at Facebook.
However, word has it that he's already gone. Business Insider reported today that Hotz left Facebook and is back to hacking in his free time.
This time, though, it's legal hacking. Last Saturday, Hotz attended a Backplane hackathon, according to Business Insider. Backplane is a social startup that heralds famous investors like Google's Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt and pop-star Lady Gaga.
Universiti Teknologi Malaysia (UTM)'s computer network in Skudai was disrupted recently after one of its servers was hacked by an unknown source.
The disruption continued for nine hours. Prof Dr Safaai Deris from UTM's Centre of Information and Communication Technology (CICT) said the hacker began penetrating the CICT server on Jan 14.
One "junior member" from the game-hacking site Artificial Aiming and his team of anonymous hackers are going after the anti-cheat service Punkbuster, resulting in multiple reports of Battlefield 3 multiplayer bans.
According to a report from Kotaku, the hackers are "framing" innocent Battlefield 3 players to show their hatred for the anti-cheat software "integrated" into DICE's latest shooter.
