Hackers

A hacker named Steven has posted a video of Ice Cream Sandwich running on the Kindle Fire, along with more information in the XDA Developers forums. The hack is incomplete, lacking support for audio, Wi-Fi, the accelerometer and the light sensor. Also, transitions look a bit choppy, but it's a start.

The hacker plans to start an open source project for Ice Cream Sandwich on the Kindle Fire, and will post his code to it. This was only a matter of time, considering the Android 4.0 code is open source.

Several Russian news outlets and organisations have claimed they were subject to distributed denial of service attacks, which they say were designed to silence them during the country's Duma elections.

The radio station Echo of Moscow said on Monday that its site had come under attack on Sunday. The station has complained to the government over the DDoS attack, asking for the freedom of the media to be protected.

Adobe is patching a critical zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader and Acrobat that could enable an attacker to take control of an affected machine.

The vulnerability exists in Adobe Reader X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe Reader 9.4.6, and earlier 9.x versions for UNIX, and Adobe Acrobat X (10.1.1) and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh, Adobe explained in a security advisory.

Hackers calling themselves the Bangladesh Cyber Army have targeted the websites belonging to Bahrain-based top publishing house Al Hilal including Gulf Daily News (GDN) and some of its sister publications.

Security measures meant they were unable to tamper with the GDN's website, but they managed to change the homepages of four other publications early yesterday, replacing them with a logo and messages that read 'you will never stop us' and 'be ware [sic] - we are here - danger zone'.

Hackers continue to launch attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Oracle's Java software in record numbers, Microsoft announced earlier this week.

Citing research from a recent report, Tim Rains, a director in the company's Trustworthy Computing group, said that up to half of all attacks detected and blocked by Microsoft's security software over a 12-month period were Java exploits.

A UN department has been hacked, but officials say the data stolen was out of date.

The hack saw 100 passwords and logins taken from a UN Development Programme (UNDP) server and leaked online.

If your IPv6 strategy is to delay implementation as long as you can, you still must address IPv6 security concerns right now.

If you plan to deploy IPv6 in a dual-stack configuration with IPv4, you're still not off the hook when it comes to security. And if you think you can simply turn off IPv6, that's not going to fly either.

In a joint effort, US and Philippines authorities managed to arrest four members of a hacker collective that are suspected to have attempted a hack on AT&T.

The investigation that led to the arrest of the Filipinos started back in March when the FBI requested the aid of Criminal Investigation and Detection Group's Anti-Transnational and Cyber Crime Division (CIDG-ATCCD) concerning a hacking operation that targeted the wireless services provider AT&T.

The Australian Government has rejected efforts to create legal safeguards for ethical hacking, according to a UNSW researcher.

Researcher Alana Maurushat was among several security professionals to raise the idea during the recent reviews of Australia’s cybercrime laws.