Fifty day hacking spree come to an end with a note from its member dissolving LulzSec.

So, at last it seem that the hack-flick come to an end with announcement of dismantling. With the announcement comes their the last release, a data dump internal AOL Inc and AT&T documents.

LulzSec, a rouge hacker group attend fame and as well as wrath from fellow hacker groups and as well as from big private and public organisation like Sony Corp, the CIA and a British police unit among other targets, said in a statement that it had accomplished its mission to disrupt corporate and government bodies for entertainment.

Fifty day hacking spree come to an end with a note from its member dissolving LulzSec.

China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

According to secret diplomatic cables made available to Reuters by third party, China had increased its hand in cyber-espionage and said to have gained accessed to sensitive user names and passwords and terabytes of classified documents.

And at the moment, many experts believe China may have gained the upper hand.

According to US investigators, China has stolen terabytes of sensitive data - from usernames and passwords for State Department computers to designs for multi-billion dollar weapons systems. And Chinese hackers show no signs of letting up. "The attacks coming out of China are not only continuing, they are accelerating," says Alan Paller, director of research at information-security training group SANS Institute in Washington, DC.

China steal terabytes of sensitive data from US computers.

Major sites like Google, Yahoo!!!, twitter,Linked In..... resets passwords after Gawker accounts got exposed.

For our easiness, we have habit of using same user name and password for multiple sites which may include some of the important and critical sites.

After 1.4 million accounts of Gawker's got exposed and is out for public, several unrelated companies had to freeze their accounts and force users to reset passwords.

Major sites like Google, Yahoo!!!, twitter,Linked In..... resets passwords after Gawker accounts got exposed.

Spammers feeding on Gawker exposed twitter accounts.

A Group of hackers which cracked into Gawker's Media database published the 1.3 million account passwords via file sharing site Bittorrent.

This attack is said to be carried out by a group "Gnosis", allied to 4chan.

Spammers feeding on Gawker exposed twitter accounts.

Group of hackers (Anonymous) describes Julian Assange as a 'free-speech martyr', hacks the sites which turned against Wikileaks.

Julian Assange has become a good role model as hacker(ethical), despite pressure and fear of life from one of the powerful nation in the world, regardless fear, published the secret talks the US talks with its non-allies as well as with it close allies, not sparing any one.

Hackers, a group from less then 50 grew to strong 4,000 member cyber army and strongly growing, in support of Julian Assange, founder of Wikileaks.

Group of hackers (Anonymous) describes Julian Assange as a 'free-speech martyr', hacks the sites which turned against Wikileaks.

Hackers hacks the website of lawyer representing the so called victim of Assange bad behavior.

Seem like Wikileaks is not alone in opening the Govts. After surrendering to UK police, Assange application for the bail was rejected by London Court, due to strong opposition.

Looks like one of Assange fan got frustrated and hacked the Internet site and email service of the lawyer representing two Swedish women at the centre of rape and sexual assault allegations against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Hackers hacks the website of lawyer representing the so called victim of Assange bad behavior.

European nation under goes cyber war drill to test their defenses

Main and essential web services in European countries have come under simulated attack as they test their cyber defence wall.

This is the first-ever cross-European simulation. It was planned to see how can overcome such situations as the attacks slow connections.

The exercise drill also tested how nations work together to avoid a complete shut-down of international links.

European nation under goes cyber war drill to test their defenses

Shocking: Hacking experts can take on Airplane onboard system and can crash at their will

According to the security document released by Britain Ministry, sophisticated hackers now has the capability of breaking into a plane's sophisticated on-board computer systems and forcing it to crash.

They could also target critical infrastructure such as nuclear power stations and electricity supplies, reports the Daily Mail.

These hackers can be engaged by terror cells and foreign states to cause maximum damage, British Prime Minister David Cameron's long-awaited National Security Strategy report said.

This cyber threat makes it possible for a potential hijacker to carry out his attack without boarding the plane.

Shocking: Hacking experts can take on Airplane onboard system and can crash at their will

Delhi Common Wealth Games official Website was allegedly attacked repeatedly traced to China

After the Happy ending of 2010 Delhi CWG, post-mortem of the games begins. Before the games started it was surrounded by many controversies of irregularities.

During the ongoing games there was a complaint of inefficient working of the official Delhi Commonwealth Games Website due to which the people couldn't access the Games Time table and schedule and ticket availability.

Investigation revealed that the Official website was attacked repeatedly until the the end of the games which route was traced to China.

Sources tell CNN-IBN that within two hours of the Games opening ceremony, the website faced massive cyber attacks, possibly from China. India's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERTIN) had to set up a special cyber control room at the games village. But the cyber attacks continued till the end of Games.

Delhi Common Wealth Games official Website was allegedly attacked repeatedly traced to China

Microsoft reveals report on number of computers infected with Botnets, Top Infections include US, S Korea, Brazil

Report complied by Microsoft shows the how botnets are prevalent in Windows PCs.

In the US alone more than 2.2 million PCs were found to be part of botnets, networks of hijacked home computers, in the first six months of 2010.

While Brazil had the second highest level of infections at 550,000 and highest number of infection in South Korea where 14.6 out of every 1000 machines were found to be enrolled in botnets.

The research was undertaken to alert people to the growing danger from the malicious networks.

Microsoft reveals report on number of computers infected with Botnets, Top Infections include US, S Korea, Brazil

Pirate Bay Hacked by Argentina Hacker.

An Argentinian hacker named Ch Russo claims that he and two associates have found several SQL injection vulnerabilities in The Pirate Bay’s database, which granted him access to all user information, including usernames and e-mails.

According to KrebsOnSecurity, who spoke with Ch Russo on the phone, the hackers did not modify the user data or give it away to a third party. They did, as they say, consider how much this info would be worth to various anti-piracy outfits such as the RIAA.

“Probably these groups would be very interested in this information, but we are not to sell it. Instead we wanted to tell people that their information may not be so well protected,” Ch Russo said.

Pirate Bay Hacked by Argentina Hacker.

Thuat Nguyen is behind the iTunes hack, as earlier suggested.

Apple finally commented on the iTunes account fiasco, revealing that it had been caused by Thuat Nguyen himself, the developer whose works were being illegally purchased.

It is also said that that the hack was limited to only about 400 iTunes accounts but some big figure which many were suspecting. New security measures will also be instated, to avoid credit card misuse.

This is Apple’s official statement about the issue:

Thuat Nguyen is behind the iTunes hack, as earlier suggested.

Google fixes the Youtube flaw which lets the Hacker exploit it.

YouTube has fixed a flaw allowing hackers to bombard users with fake pop-up messages and redirect them to adult sites.

Hackers placed code in the comments section, under targeted videos, that would run when people watched the clip.

In some cases, a pop-up screen appeared reporting that the Canadian singer, Justin Bieber, had died in a car crash.

Google, which owns YouTube, said that it had fixed the problem "about two hours" after it was discovered.

Google fixes the Youtube flaw which lets the Hacker exploit it.

YouTube gets hacked.

Members of the Internet communities 4chan and others hacked YouTube using a vulnerability in the site’s comment system. Hack was used on a variety of videos, striking music videos featuring teen pop idol Justin Bieber was the most popular activity.

Twitter was flooded with complaints about the problem, Google support got some concerned posts on its forum, and we received tips in our inbox. The event caused quite a Sunday-morning stir.

The bug allowed users to inject HTML (the code that most websites are built with) that could be executed on the site, whereas HTML within comments is supposed to be restricted. The hackers did everything from force pop-up messages to appear over the site declaring that it had been hacked to redirecting Bieber video pages to sites hosting pornography and malware.

YouTube gets hacked.

iTunes Accounts Hacked

An unknown number of Apple IDs have apparently been hacked this week, and are being used to buy apps worth hundreds of dollars in the App Store.

An initial report by blogger Alex Brie highlighted the fact that 40 of the top 50 iPhone apps in the Books category were created by Vietnamese developer “Thuat Nguyen”. A hack of the App Store rankings by a single developer was suspected.

Src: [Alex Brie]

iTunes Accounts Hacked

ATM security flaws could be a jackpot for hackers.

Barnaby Jack, head of research at Seattle-based, security firm IOActive Labs, will demonstrate methods for "jackpotting" ATMs at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas that starts on July 28.

"ATMs are not as secure as we would like them to be," Jeff Moss, founder of the Black Hat conference and a member of President Obama's Homeland Security Advisory Council said. "Barnaby has a number of different attacks that make all the money come out."

Jack declined to discuss his techniques before the conference. The world's biggest ATM manufacturers include Diebold Inc and NCR Corp. Officials with those companies could not be reached for comment.

Banks may cringe when he speaks, fearing would-be crooks will adopt his methods. But Moss said that going public will raise awareness of the problem among ATM operators and prompt them to tighten security.

ATM security flaws could be a jackpot for hackers.

Now Hackers are Targetting Apple due to increase of its product sales.

My Take :)

According to me till now why did hackers were attacking only Windows not apple ??? Because it had good market share, Which make to fish out large number of prey.

But now with the increase in apple products, hackers had shown increasing interest in apple not like they don't know how to hack it. According to saying "There is nothing Impossible, the word itself says impossible"

Now Hackers are Targetting Apple due to increase of its product sales.

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

A series of recent reports by Internet security companies found India has become the top spam-producing nation.

After tracking over 3 million spam messages for the week ending June 13, ICSA Labs found the maximum number, 424,224 — or 14 per cent — originated from India. The second biggest source was Russia with 11.5 per cent. While analysts have questioned the fact that China does not figure in that Top 10 list, there is consensus that India is, at the very least, among the top three nations spewing spam.

Similarly, according to the statistics featured by Project Honey Pot, the top country where spam servers are located is India, accounting for 16.9 per cent, with Brazil a distant second at 8.7 per cent. The share of countries where spam has traditionally been known to originate from, like China, has dropped, though that country still remains at Number One in Project Honey Pot’s all time list.

ICSA Labs is a US-based security firm with an anti-computer virus and spam product testing and certification facility. Project Honey Pot is a network that works with US law enforcement agencies, identifying spammers and spambots.

Beating China, India turns world’s top spam source.

Rogue Facebook App on the spamming spree.

Over 190,000 people have so far clicked on a link sent by a rogue Facebook application, which tempts users into giving the application access to their Facebook profile in exchange for seeing a "shocking video" of what is alleged to be a teacher physically assaulting a boy.

Clicking on the bit.ly link redirects Facebook users to a page promoting a Facebook application called "Teacher nearly kills a 13 year old boy. SHOCKING!", which offers what appears to be a video thumbnail of the attack and the encouragement to "Click here, then ALLOW, to see the shocking video".

However, if you are tempted to follow the on-screen instructions to view the video you will also be allowing the third-party application to gain access to your profile, and to repost the spam message to your own wall.

Rogue Facebook App on the spamming spree.

FIFA fever kicks up cyber malware attacks.

A fake website, sourced from Symantec.

Symantec, a leading internet security firm, warns that this time around, spammers are also optimising their fake websites. Hapless net users mistake these sites for original FIFA websites and end up paying for content or stuff that does not exist. Malicious activity on the web is known to be significantly high in countries, where new internet bandwidth is made available. South Africa's new tech infrastructure, and the huge interest that the FIFA events generate, creates a “perfect storm” for cyber criminals, says Shantanu Ghosh, Vice President, India Product Operations, Symantec.

So, if you click on a colourful file attached to a cleverly-worded email from the “Canada Lottery — Soccer World Cup 2010 Promotional Draw,” for instance, be prepared to get sucked into an elaborate scam, involving your financial details, accounts and your computer. The Symantec also warns against falling for “promotional offers” from hotels in South Africa, that even throw in a free ticket for one of the matches.

FIFA fever kicks up cyber malware attacks.