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Bypass SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) DNS Blocking with DeSopa 1.1 A developer who calls himself T Rizk doesn't have much faith in Congress making the right decision on anti-piracy legislation, so he's built a work around for the impending censorship measures being considered  DeSOPA . The Firefox add-on is stunningly simple as the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) would block specific domain names (e.g. www.thepiratebay.com ) of allegedly infringing sites. Firefox, which already boasts an outspoken stance against SOPA, and has already shown they are willing to stand by add-on developers who create circumvention extensions designed to go around measures currently employed by Homeland Security, has welcomed a new add-on, one that is designed to circumvent whatever SOPA website blacklists that are created, provided the bills become law. A new anti-SOPA add-on for Firefox, titled " DeSopa " is such a counter measure.When installed, users can click a single button to resolve a blo...

Apple Crash Reports Help Hackers to create a jailbreak exploit iPhone " jailbreaking " has been a hot topic since Apple released its smartphone more than two years ago. According to the Latest report posted by BBC  that Thousands of iPhone owners have joined forces with a team of hackers to help them find new ways to jailbreak Apple's phone software & Jailbreakers use Apple crash reports to unlock iPhones. You may be wondering and hearing alot on " What Is Jailbreaking an Iphone? How do you do that? " Jailbreaking is basically modifying the iPhone's firmware so that you can get access to the internals of its operating system and install a whole slew of third-party applications on your iPhone that are not otherwise available through official channels.Jailbreaking your iPhone in and of itself doesn't normally make much difference in your operation of it, but it does allow you to install other third-party applications that are not blessed by Apple. A collective of ...

An Iranian engineer working on the captured US drone has said that Iran exploited a weakness in the craft's navigation system to hijack it. The aircraft was downed through a relatively unsophisticated cyber-attack that tricked its global positioning systems (GPS). The technique, known as " GPS spoofing " has been around for several years, and the Iranians began studying it in 2007, the engineer reportedly said. The U.S. Department of Energy notes that GPS is widely used, but insecure, although few users have taken note. GPS signals for the U.S. military are similarly insecure, and drones often rely on signals from multiple satellites. It's possible to spoof unencrypted civilian GPS systems. But military GPS receivers, such as the one likely installed on the missing drone, use the encrypted P(Y)-code to communicate with satellites. " With spoofing, an adversary provides fake GPS signals. This convinces the GPS receiver that it is located in the wrong place and/or ...

1.8 Million Accounts Hacked from Square Enix Japanese Game Company Square Enix stated yesterday that somebody " may have gained unauthorized access to a particular Square Enix server " and took its members service offline in both Japan and the U.S. Today, the company clarified that 1.8 million customer's accounts had been affected. The company said it noticed that unknown parties had accessed the server for its free " Square Enix Members " site on Tuesday afternoon, and decided to shut down the service the same day. Users register on the server with their email addresses and sometimes their names, addresses and phone numbers, but the server holds no credit card information, a spokesman said. The intruder breached an unknown number of servers that could hold data for the service's one million members in Japan and 800,000 members in North America, but left untouched the servers with its 300,000 European members. In May, Square Enix said it suffered hackin...

Key infrastructure systems of 3 US cities Under Attack By Hackers BBC News Reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) announced recently that key infrastructure systems of three US cities had been accessed by hackers. Such systems commonly known as Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) are increasingly being targeted by hackers. At a recent cybersecurity conference, Michael Welch, deputy assistant director of the FBI's cyber division, said " hackers had accessed crucial water and power services.The hackers could theoretically have dumped sewage into a lake or shut off the power to a shopping mall ." " We just had a circumstance where we had three cities, one of them a major city within the US, where you had several hackers that had made their way into SCADA systems within the city ," Welch told delegates at the Flemings Cyber Security conference." Essentially it was an ego trip for the hacker because he had control of that city's system and h...