According to Daniel Krebs an independent security researcher, hackers have started contending among themselves openly by providing DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) services that can help in causing websites to collapse. Signalnews reported this on August 2, 2011. Apparently, several secret forums exist on which subscribers canvass their skills for carrying out devastating DDoS assaults in return […]
Continue Reading“The more Facebook seems to dominate the world, the closer it seems to be to its end”. Anonymous, the shady-yet-principled hacktivist group that has previously hacked into Iran’s government emails, the Pentagon, possibly the IMF, News Corp, Anders Breivik’s Twitter account, and much more, has a new target in its crosshairs: Facebook. The hackers have […]
Continue ReadingThe Anonymous hacking group has added the website of the Syrian Ministry of Defense to its ever-lengthening list of victims, defacing it with a message in support of the anti-Government insurrection. Overnight, visitors to the website were greeted with the logo of the Anonymous collective plus links to videos showing protests, with a message in […]
Continue ReadingA week after 70 law enforcement agencies were defaced and attacked in what was known as Fuck FBI Friday, Anonymous and LulzSec have released another massive amount of confidential data, this time targeted at US police officers in what they’re now calling Shooting Sherrifs Saturday. Over 10GBs of information has been leaked including hundreds of […]
Continue ReadingOn the 4th of august at the world’s largest technical security conference – BlackHat USA 2011, which will take place in Las Vegas, SAP security expert and CTO of ERPScan Alexander Polyakov will show how any malicious attacker can get access to the systems running on SAP via Internet using new critical vulnerability. SAP systems […]
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