Hackers of an Anonymous-affiliated group called Team Defiant are threatening the government of Namibia after it allowed the US-based Dallas Safari Club to auction the chance to kill a black rhino from the country’s Mangetti National Park. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_9yM37qkH8 The organization says the money raised through the auction will go to a fund for the […]
• NSA and GCHQ unlock encryption used to protect emails, banking and medical records • $250m-a-year US program works covertly with tech companies to insert weaknesses into products • Security experts say programs ‘undermine the fabric of the internet’ This story has been reported in partnership between the New York Times, the Guardian and […]
Earlier this week, security researcher Khalil Shreateh discovered a Facebook bug that allowed a hacker to post on anyone’s wall — even if they weren’t that person’s friend. While he was able to prove to Facebook that his bug was legit (despite an initial response that it wasn’t a bug at all), Facebook wasn’t too happy with […]
A Turkish security research, Ibrahim Balic, claims that he was behind the “hack” but insisted that his intention was to demonstrate that Apple’s system was leaking user information. He posted a video on Youtube which appears to show that the site was vulnerable to an attack, but adding “I have reported all the bugs I […]
While data from the Forums has been compromised they stress that other services, such as Ubuntu One and Launchpad, ‘are not affected by the breach’. current home screen of http://ubuntuforums.org/ Ubuntu Forums is down for maintenance There has been a security breach on the Ubuntu Forums. The Canonical IS team is working hard as we speak to restore […]
very interesting Article from BBC Even so, others are still trying, offering different features or even trying to rethink the principles of the underlying technology. These are some of the alternative search tools. Bing Microsoft’s Bing service is the leading search rival to Google when looking at the world as a whole – although it […]
I have got this report from My UK Service provider and it was hard , This seems to be like a Cyber War and it is not affecting a geographical area , it affects a portion of people on all parts of the world. On Thursday 11th April we noticed an abnormal amount of bot traffic […]
there has been a widespread DDOS campaign targetting the popular CMS script WordPress, inparticular the file used to log into the admin area of the script; wp-login.php. Large numbers of IP addresses from across the world have been attacking any files they can find, resulting in massive issues for web hosts and the stability of […]
Wikileaks says it has created the world’s largest searchable collection of US diplomatic documents Wikileaks has published more than 1.7 million US diplomatic and intelligence reports from the 1970s. They include allegations that former Indian PM Rajiv Gandhi was a middleman in an arms deal and the first impressions of eventual British PM Margaret Thatcher. […]
The last month has seen probably the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack ever. A massive 300Gbps was thrown against Internet blacklist maintainer Spamhaus’ website but the anti-spam organisation , CloudFlare was able to recover from the attack and get its core services back up and running. Spamhaus, a group based in both London and Geneva, is […]
