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Salma Hayek email account was hacked by some unknown hackers. Hackers successfully reset her password after answering the security questions correctly. Hayek’s MobileMe account was compromised as the hacker was able to answer simple question like her birthday and her favorite character Frida Kahlo. Then access the actress’s personal information, including her e-mail, calendar, and [...]

A massive network of 2 million computers which were infected with malware, was tracked to a cyber criminal gang of six people based in the Ukraine. The infected machine includes sensitive machines inside UK and US government department and another 114,000 machines in UK. This is what is found so far Total infected machines = [...]

After months of silence and after skipping the much awaited April 1st activation date, Conflicker has sent an encrypted data message to infected machines. Security experts at Trend Micro said the purpose of the mysterious update was not immediately clear. The Conficker/Downad P2P communications is now running in full swing!. The P2P communications of the [...]

Security researchers have discovered a flaw in the Conficker worm that makes it much easier for users to detect infected PCs. Researchers has published a paper and has released proof of concept scanner. Because Conficker patched its victims, enterprises had trouble detecting which machines on their networks had been compromised by running standard vulnerability scanners. [...]

Deloitte & Touche, the United States The embassies of India in Belgium, Serbia, Germany, Italy, Kuwait and the United States Embassy of Pakistan in Bahrain International Campaign for Tibet, the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Iran NATO, the Netherlands Office of Dalai Lama, India Associated Press, United Kingdom Department of Science and Technology, Philippines Prime [...]

Yet another Chinese cyber espionage project exposed. Ghost Net, the cyber spy network that operates from China is allegedly hacked into numerous government and private organizations around the world. University of Toronto research shows that at least 1,295 computers in 103 countries have been hacked. It’s also reported that close to 30 per cent of [...]

Owen Thor Walker, computer hacker well known by the nick AKILL, leader of the hacker group A-Team, got a job at New Zealand’s TelstraClear communications company. He was busted by FBI in 2007 during the operation ‘Bot Roast’. Mr. Walker home schooled and learned computer skills on his own; controlled the botnet of 1.3 million [...]

At the 3rd annual Pwn2Own contest hackers broke into fully patched browsers using four Zero-Day Exploits. Hackers were able to compromise Safari (twice), IE8, and Firefox. Safari on Mac OS X was hacked with in two minutes. Charlie Miller quickly hacked into the Mac using a bug which he found while preparing for the contest. [...]

Indian prime minister’s office was under virus attack for almost 3 months due to virus attack. From February, 2008 to April, 2008 the office didn’t receive emails addressed to it because of the virus. The problem was fixed back in April 2008 by replacing the proprietary MS Outlook with Squirrel Mail. It’s not sure about [...]

W.32Downadup.C, the third variant of the Conficker virus is more aggressive and trying to be stealth by disabling the security software installed on the machine. The new variant is focusing more on how to hide itself than on spreading to more computers. It uses and improved algorithm which generates more than 500,000 random domains per [...]