An Indian hacking group responsible for leaking Symantec source code claim to be in possession of a database of login credentials for US Government agencies.
Accounts, seen and reported by infosec island, included 68 username and password sets acquired after the group claimed to have hacked the Indian Ministry of External Affairs and the National Informatics Centre. The agencies did not comment when asked to respond to the claims.
A group of Indian hackers has offered support to an American man who filed a lawsuit against Symantec Corp by publishing source code from a 2006 version of Norton Utilities, a software program at the heart of the legal dispute.
A spokesman for the group, which is known as "Lords of Dharmaraja," released more than 13,000 files that were part of the product's source code late on Friday. "Pass it on to forensics and win the lawsuit," YamaTough said via Twitter.
iOS jailbreakers who happen to own an iPhone 4S or iPad 2 may be going through withdrawal. After all, it’s been a while. The iPhone 4S has been locked down since its birth in October while the iPad 2 only had one brief summer fling with a jailbreak. The dry spell, however, may be about to end. Hacker extraordinaire pod2g has announced that the untethered jailbreak for iOS 5.0.1 (on devices running the A5 chip) should be available in a matter of days.
A Calgary security expert — not a hacker — is the only person who could have put child pornography on his computer, the prosecution argued in court Thursday.
Daniel Clayton, 30, is charged with accessing, possessing and distributing child pornography.
Researchers and attackers have had no shortage of mobile platforms and devices to sink their teeth into in recent years, thanks to the explosion of iOS and Android phones and tablets in the consumer and enterprise markets. Now, the spotlight is slowly beginning to turn in the direction of RIM, and specifically its BlackBerry PlayBook tablet.
Whenever I see another "cyberchallenge" getting play in the press, I think our priorities are screwed up.
HACKERS in China rifled the computers of DuPont at least twice in 2009 and 2010, hunting for the secrets that made the company one of the world's most successful chemical makers.
But investors would have learned nothing on the subject from DuPont's regulatory filings, or from those of other companies victimised by hackers. The documents DuPont submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission over the period don't identify hacking as even a significant risk, much less reveal what two US intelligence officials later said was a successful case of industrial espionage.
Intelligence analysis publisher Stratfor is back online (though their servers seem somewhat taxed at the moment), following a hack over Christmas which resulted in the theft of personal information, including credit card information, of some of the company’s subscribers. The company is providing identity theft protection for its affected customers through identity protection company CSID.
A memo that triggered a U.S. investigation into a possible cyber-attack by Indian military intelligence is probably a fake, but it is clear from leaked documents that serious security breaches did take place.
A little-known hacker group, 'Lords of Dharmaraja', began posting the documents last year, but only drew widespread attention after the anti-virus software firm Symantec confirmed on Saturday that a segment of its source code had been accessed by the group.
