A Romanian man serving a five-year jail sentence in Romania for his involvement in an ATM skimming scheme, has developed a device designed to protect ATMs from such attacks. 33-year-old Valentin Boanta who is being detained in a prison from Vaslui, Romania, after he was convicted on charges of bank card fraud in 2009, developed what he calls the SRS (Secure Revolving System) which changes the way
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Hacker jailed for ATM skimming invented ATM security scheme
The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple’s iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks, along with the Samsung Galaxy S4 and BlackBerry 10 devices, the agency said in a statement Friday. The entire DOD is much, much larger, of course, and mobile devices are increasing in importance for the military just as much as they are for we civilians. The report notes that out of more than
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US Military approved iPhones and iPads for military networks
22 million Yahoo! Japan’s user IDs may have been stolen during an unauthorised attempt to access the administrative system of its Japan portal. “We don’t know if the file of 22 million user IDs was leaked or not, but we can’t deny the possibility given the volume of traffic between our server and external terminals”, Yahoo said. The information did not include passwords and the
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22 million Yahoo IDs stolen from their Japanese Server
Earlier this week, new Mac spyware was discovered on a computer at the Oslo Freedom Forum, which is an annual human rights conference. Dubbed as OSX/KitM.A, discovered by computer security researcher Jacob Appelbaum. This Mac malware that has been used to spy on activists, targeted via spear phishing attack and had received emails that duped them into installing the malware. The
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Apple certified Mac Malware Captures and Uploads Screenshots without Permission
New issue of English-language al-Qaeda magazine posted on the terror group’s website earlier this week linked to the Boston terrorist attacks has possibly been hacked by Western intelligence agencies and its content beyond its cover page was scrambled. The magazine, produced by al Qaeda’s Yemeni affiliate, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which regularly includes how-to instructions for
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Latest Al-Qaeda Magazine content hacked by Western intelligence agencies
The Financial Times has become the latest news outlet to be hacked by supporters of the Syrian president Bashar al-Assad, following a phishing attack on the company’s email accounts. The posh broadsheet’s Tech Blog – at http://blogs.FT.com/beyond-brics was compromised to run stories headlined “Syrian Electronic Army Was Here” and “Hacked by the Syrian Electronic Army”.
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Financial Times hacked by Syrian Electronic Army
Peter Sunde, the former spokesman for The Pirate Bay has announced he will run in the European Parliament elections next year. Sunde, will participate for the Finnish branch of the Pirate Party. The Pirate Party was founded in Sweden in 2006, and in 2009 Christian Engström was the first member of the Pirate Party elected to European Parliament. Sunde, along with partners
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The Pirate Bay co-founder wants to stand in European elections
There are many unpatched loopholes or flaws in Facebook website, that allow hackers to inject external links or images to a wall, hijacking any facebook account or bypassing your social privacy. Today we are going to report about another unfixed facebook app vulnerability that allow a hacker to spoof the content of any Facebook app easily. Nir Goldshlager from Break Security today exposed
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Facebook Hacking, technique to Spoof the content of any Facebook App
In the recent months I had the opportunity to conduct an interesting study on the use of Social Media in the Military Sector, large diffusion of media platforms makes them very attractive for governments and intelligence agencies. Social media platforms reveal enormous potentiality that could be exploited also in critical sectors such as military and defense. Modern social media networks
Four men accused of launching online attacks under the banner of LulzSec appeared in a London courtroom Wednesday for sentencing. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis, Mustafa al-Bassam and Ryan Cleary have all pleaded guilty to hacking offences. The name Lulzsec is a combination of ‘lulz’ or ‘lols’, “LAUGHING AT YOUR SECURITY” meaning ‘laugh out loud’ and security, and was a direct descent of notorious
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Lulzsec hackers to be sentenced for cyber attacks on the CIA and Pentagon