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Microsoft yesterday accused a former manager of taking hundreds of megabytes of confidential company material when he left the firm for a new position at CRM rival Salesforce.com. In a motion filed with a Washington State Superior Court Thursday, Microsoft alleged that Matt Miszewski, formerly a market development manager in the company's government group, lied about retaining "a large trove of materials -- 600 megabytes of information comprising over 900 separate files (estimated at 25,000 pages)" of proprietary Microsoft information on his personal computer. Late last month, Microsoft sued Miszewski for violating non-compete and confidentiality agreements when he accepted a job as a senior vice president with customer-relationship management (CRM) vendor Salesforce.com. The state court then issued a temporary restraining order that blocked Miszewski from working at Salesforce.com, engaging in any competitive activities or providing services to any of his former cust...

It is no secret that in recent days,  Anonymous Operatives  have released a cache of HBGary Federal internal emails to the public.  Crowdleaks  has discovered that within these communications,  Aaron Barr  received a copy of Stuxnet  (a computer worm that targets the types of industrial control systems (ICS) that are commonly used in infrastructure supporting facilities)  from  McAfee  on July 28, 2010. In an effort to confirm this was in fact Stuxnet,  Crowdleaks  has decompiled some of the source code, which can be found. Throughout the following emails it is revealed that  HBGary Federal  may have been planning to use Stuxnet  for their own purposes. In a message sent to all email account holders at HBGary.com,  Charles Copeland  (Lead Support Engineer at HBGary, Inc.)   writes: from: Charles Copeland to: all@hbgary.com date: Sat, Sep 25, 2010 at 9:54 PM subject: Stuxnet Worm Mail...

A Chinese technician quoted by U.S. Internet security firm McAfee Inc. as informing that hackers from China had attacked a number of US oil and gas companies over the past years has denied claims attributed to him in the 19-page report released on Thursday. In a telephone interview to the Wall Street Journal, Song Zhiyue, a technician for website hosting company Science & Technology Internet in northeastern Shandong province who has been named in the McAfree report, said, "What? You sure it's my company?" He also reportedly added, he has "no idea at all about hacking attacks on U.S. oil companies." Although McAfee did not name him as one of the hackers, the security firm, which saw Zhiyue as a conduit to the hacking, suspected that he "is aware or has information that can help identify at least some of the individuals." According to the McAfee report, Zhiyue claimed that he had heard of Chinese hackers targeting U.S. oil companies. He also sai...

A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites—known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)—to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries. These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public figures, central banks, or financial brands, all claiming to back new ways to earn passive income. The goal? Build trust quickly and steer readers toward professional-looking scam platforms like Trap10, Solara Vynex, or Eclipse Earn. Scammers use sponsored ads on Google, Meta, and blog networks to push traffic to these sites. Ads often carry clickbait headlines—"You won't believe what a prominent public figure just revealed"—paired with official photos or national flags to make them feel legit. Clicking the ad directs users to a fake article, which then redirects them to a fraudulent trading platform. Many of these scams follow a...

Consumers are urged to be aware of fake online profiles, which may be used to gain the trust of online users looking love to scam them out of money. Using singles and dating websites, scam artists are pretending to be people looking for relationships. They often steal photos from social networking websites and claim to share similar interests with their victims. With social networking becoming ever prevalent in today's society, scammers have a large number of people to prey on. "Every year, scam artists use romance schemes to generate millions of dollars from unsuspecting victims, which makes it vital for consumers to exert caution when using online dating services." said Toby Barfield, President and CEO of Better Business Bureau. "Scam artists are constantly coming up with new ways to trick victims, and are even going as far as creating phony dating websites." Users of online dating sites have been urged to look out for the following warning signs when looking for romance this Valen...

Anonymous launches Anonleaks.ru to expose HBGary 50000 Emails , data available soon ! Anonymous plans to release 27,000 emails from the server of Greg Hoglund, chief executive of the software security firm HBGary. It has posted 50,000 emails of Aaron Barr from the CEO of its sister organization, HP Gary Federal. They obtained the emails by hacking into Hoglund's email. The Anonymous members are working on a web viewer so the public can read the emails. The new front for this group is being called AnonLeaks . Link :   https://anonleaks.ru Team of Anonleaks :   https://anonleaks.ru/theteam.html

When the Egyptian government decided to flip the switch on its country's Internet on Jan. 27, news of the unprecedented shut down spread rapidly. Rumors that the same thing has happened today in Algeria are unfounded, even though the country has been on the radar for a possible "domino effect" of events in Tunisia and Egypt. Internet intelligence authority Renesys, which confirmed the Egypt outage weeks ago, says in a new blog post that it has no evidence that Algeria's Internet has been shut down. Algeria typically has about 135 routed network prefixes in the global routing table, and our data show that they are all still routed and relatively stable. Traceroutes inbound confirm that sites hosted in these prefixes are still alive, and spot checks of websites hosted in Algeria show that most are up and functioning normally.  It's possible, that there are some Internet blocks not visible to outside the country, similar to Iranian-style throttling, but that ca...

Data released as part of a hacking attack by the Anonymous group has shown what appears to be a corporate plan to destroy WikiLeaks. Last week Aaron Barr, head of security services firm HBGary Federal, claimed to have infiltrated the Anonymous hacking group leadership and was able to identify key players. Less than 24 hours later the group attacked HBGary Federal's servers and posted their contents on file sharing sites. An analysis of the contents revealed what appears to be a proposal, written for leading US legal firm Hunton & Williams by HBGary Federal, on how to bring down WikiLeaks through a combination of hacking and disinformation. It was prepared in conjunction with data analysis firms Palantir Technologies and consultants Berico Technologies The document suggests a campaign of misinformation involving feeding false documents into WikiLeaks and then exposing them to discredit the site's output. Hacking attacks against the central WikiLeaks document server i...

Anonymous Hackers said : We can Delete the Censorship from The World ! In Italian : La censura di internet stà invadendo il mondo. Gli stati non censurati stanno scomparendo. Dobbiamo rovesciare questa situazione! We Are Anonymus. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Contribuisci alle operazioni del gruppo Anonymous e aiuterai a rendere libero il mondo. In English : Censorship of the Internet is invading the world. The states which is uncensored are disappearing. We must reverse this situation! We Are Anonymus. We are legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us. Contribute to the operations of the group Anonymous and help in freeing the world. In Spanish : La censura de Internet está invadiendo el mundo. Los estados estándesapareciendo sin censura. Tenemos que revertir esta situación! Somos Anonymus. Somos legión. Nosotros no perdonamos. No nos olvidamos.Esperan de nosotros. Contribuir a las operaciones del grupo anónimo y a...