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Chinoxy Unblock Facebook – Really??
Chinoxy Unblock Facebook – Really??
Here in China you can't open websites that blocked by the government. Website like Twitter, Facebook, Youtube, and many more that related to social network was blocked. There's so many foreigner here try very hard to unblock the great wall internet censorship. For foreigner that already use Facebook...
Finally Twitter Turns Secure Connections on by Default
Finally Twitter Turns Secure Connections on by Default
Twitter has begun enabling SSL-secured connections as the default method for users to connect to the microblogging service. The company said that it has begun configuring the feature as a default setting for some of its users, allowing users to always sign in to the service by way of an HTTPS connection. SSL...
Users Warned Off PHP 5.3.7 After Bug Discovery
Users Warned Off PHP 5.3.7 After Bug Discovery
Users have been warned to avoid downloading the latest update for the PHP web scripting language following the discovery of faulty components which could pose a security risk. An advisory posted Monday by the PHP Group warned users against installing the 5.3.7 update. The site instead recommends that...
Man Reveals Secret Recipe Behind Undeletable Cookies
Man Reveals Secret Recipe Behind Undeletable Cookies
A privacy researcher has revealed the evil genius behind a for-profit web analytics service capable of following users across more than 500 sites, even when all cookie storage was disabled and sites were viewed using a browser's privacy mode. The technique, which worked with sites including Hulu,...
Credit Card Cabal Collared
Credit Card Cabal Collared
NSW Police has arrested five men responsible for what it describes as an international credit card fraud operation. After investigations that began in 2009, the police executed three search warrants yesterday in metropolitan Sydney, retrieving EFTPOS terminals, computers, cash, mobile phones, skimming...
Windows Phone 7.5: Slurp This Leak at Your Phone Risk
Windows Phone 7.5: Slurp This Leak at Your Phone Risk
The next version of Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system has arrived early for those willing to risk a slapdown by Redmond. A version of the code built by Microsoft and delivered to smartphone-makers this summer has apparently slipped free of the Redmond-OEM loop and was leaked online. The...
Anonymous Targets California’s Infamous BART, Hurts Citizens in the Process
Anonymous Targets California’s Infamous BART, Hurts Citizens in the Process
Hacks come in response to BART trying to quell silent protests   "People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people," the fictional character V infamously remarked in the film V is for Vendetta. Anonymous, a group which borrows its visual...
Software Maker Fingered in Korean Hackocalypse
Software Maker Fingered in Korean Hackocalypse
A devastating attack that exposed the personal information of 35 million South Koreans was perpetrated after hackers breached the security of popular software provider ESTsoft and planted malicious code on one of its update servers, it was widely reported Thursday. Attackers with Chinese IP addresses...
Attack Targeting Open-Source Web App Keeps Growing
Attack Targeting Open-Source Web App Keeps Growing
An attack targeting sites running unpatched versions of the osCommerce web application kept growing virally this week, more than three weeks after a security firm warned it was being used to install malware on the computers of unsuspecting users. When researchers from Armorize first spotted the exploit...
Backtrack 5 Release 1 Pending for 1 Week
Backtrack 5 Release 1 Pending for 1 Week
Actually I've wrote this a few days ago but forget to publish it . Yes for you who waiting for Backtrack 5 Release 1 maybe you will find nothing on official Backtrack 5 website http://www.backtrack-linux.org/downloads/. According to their website, the Backtrack team delayed the release of Backtrack...
Millions of Web Pages are Hacker Landmines
Millions of Web Pages are Hacker Landmines
Some 8 million Web pages, published mostly by smaller merchants and professional firms, have been hijacked this summer and set up to usurp control of the PCs of unsuspecting site visitors. That's the latest development in a new style of hacking sweeping across the Internet, according to research...
Hack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Disrupts Trading
Hack on Hong Kong Stock Exchange Disrupts Trading
HONG KONG — The Hong Kong stock exchange said Wednesday its website had been hit by "malicious hacking", forcing trading in at least seven companies that issued price-sensitive information to be suspended. Firms that were suspended from trade include blue-chips banking giant HSBC and...
Hackers Crack Crypto for GPRS Mobile Networks
Hackers Crack Crypto for GPRS Mobile Networks
A cryptographer has devised a way to monitor cellphone conversations by exploiting security weaknesses in the technology that forms the backbone used by most mobile operators. Karsten Nohl, chief scientist of Berlin-based Security Research Labs, said the attack works because virtually all of the world's...
Hacker Launches Volunteer Program for Security Professionals
Hacker Launches Volunteer Program for Security Professionals
LAS VEGAS–Johnny Long used to be known for Google hacking–finding vulnerable servers on the Internet using specific search terms. Now he's helping humanitarian groups, street kids, and police in Uganda learn how to use computers and keep malicious hackers out of their systems, as well...
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