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University of Regina 's website up and running after apparent hacking ! The University of Regina's website was down for much of Monday. Dale Johnson, spokesperson for the University, says it appears the website was hacked. Some of the essential web services including Web Mail and UR Courses were made available through a temporary website for faculty, staff and students to use. According to a release from the University, it is believed the database that includes student and financial records was not affected.

ANC Youth League 's website hacked ! The ANC Youth League's website has been hacked, with the attackers leaving a message in the name of league president Julius Malema. The fake post said Malema was stepping down as ANCYL leader, iafrica news reported In response to questions about the alleged hacking of the website, youth league spokeswoman Magdelene Moonsamy said: "There is nothing that we are aware of at this point and there is nothing on our website. "We do not have time for things like this." The hoax message gave a number of reasons for Malema's resignation. "I promote Nationalisation even though I have no concept (sic) of how it works or its blacklash (sic) to the economy," one reason read. "I have disrespected my elders and have made a fool out of myself," read another. The message ended with: "It is with great hope that I step down and welcome a new era in the ANCYL, one where thought and vision inspire our coun...

Two more Comodo registration authority accounts compromised ! Certification company's humiliation drags on as hacker scalps two more Comodo registration authority accounts The Iranian hacker that managed to trick Comodo into issuing nine fraudulent certificates appears to have compromised two more registration authority accounts, raising questions of what exactly is going on at the certificate authority. "Two further RA accounts have since been compromised," wrote Robin Alden, CTO of Comodo Security, on the mozilla-dev-security-policy mailing list. The partners have had their registration authority privileges withdrawn, Alden said. Comodo Retrofitting Broken Padlocks Alden made the announcement in an email addressing questions posed by the members of the mailing list. "No further mis-issued certificates have resulted from these compromises," Alden said. The self-identified Comodo hacker (writing under the name Janam Fadaye Rahbar) claimed in a follow-up message on Pastebin to...

The National Security Agency has been called in to help investigate recent hack attacks against the company that runs the Nasdaq stock market, according to a news report. The agency's precise role in the investigation hasn't been disclosed, but its involvement suggests the October 2010 attacks may have been more severe than Nasdaq OMX Group has admitted, or it could have involved a nation-state, according to sources that spoke with Businessweek. "By bringing in the NSA, that means they think they're either dealing with a state-sponsored attack or it's an extraordinarily capable criminal organization," Joel Brenner, former head of U.S. counterintelligence in the Bush and Obama administrations, told the publication. He added that the agency rarely gets involved in investigations of company breaches. Last year, the NSA was called in by Google to help the company secure its network after it was targeted in a sophisticated attack. Regarding the Nasdaq breach, in addition to the Secr...

Facebook users be warned: If you see a second search box at the top of your personal page, don't use it. " We are not testing the placement of a separate Web search field and have no plans to do so ," a Facebook representative told the blog Search Engine Land. An image of a Facebook page with two search boxes has been making its way around the Internet for the past few days. In the image, the standard box that lets you search Facebook is visible at the top of the page, but just to the right of it is another search box reading "Search the Web." Some tech news sites and blogs speculated that Facebook was testing out its own search engine, perhaps to challenge Google or to partner with a Google competitor such as Blekko or Microsoft's Bing. The Facebook representative, however, said it's likely a hack. "We believe the second search field or ' Search the We b' box appeared on people's accounts as the result of unknown actions by a third party targeting the browser (potentially a ...