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Apple Supplier Foxconn 's Servers Hacked, Exposing Vendor Usernames and Passwords Apple supplier Foxconn has reportedly been hacked, exposing the usernames and passwords of the company's clients and employees. Hacker group SwaggSec just released a dump of Foxconn internal information, including a mail server login/password dump and logins to various online procurement sites and Intranets. " We encourage media, security experts, and other interested individuals to explore our leaks. Foxconn did have an appropriate firewall, but fortunately to our intent, we were able to bypass it almost flawlessly. Of course with funding ourselves we did have our limitations. But with several hacking techniques employed, and a couple of days in time, we were able to dump most of everything of significance. " Hacker said. The group made a 6.04MB file available earlier this evening first on Demonoid, and then on The Pirate Bay   which purported to contain login and password information for F...

" Cyber China ", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from  Security Affairs  -  Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security. Read and decide for yourself : When we think of China in relation to cyber warfare, we imagine an army of hackers hired by the government in a computer room ready to successfully attack any potential target. China is perceived as a cyber power and ready to march against any insurmountable obstacle using any means. In this connection we read everything and its opposite, and we are ready to blame all sorts of cyber threat to the Country of the Rising Sun. The truth, however, is quite different, at least in my opinion, and understands that the Chinese people before others have understood the importance of a strategic hegemony in cyber space. However, many doubts are ...

Arab Countries websites urged to Increase Security Against Israeli Hackers Recent hacking attacks online have gotten the attention of the world's media outlets in a big way. What has been reported as beginning as a youth led hacker attack against an Israeli website quickly escalated when six Israeli hackers decided to strike back. The initial attack was against a sports themed web site based in Israel and exposed the credit card and personal information of a number of nationals in that country.  The response, exposed the credit card and personal details of more than 50,000 people in Arab countries such as Saudi Arabia. While this current episode is rather tame in comparison to the Stuxnet virus which hit Iran in June of 2010, which ended up destroying several centrifuges inside an Iranian nuclear facility. Experts say that the web application security of Arab web sites must be increased if they are to be prepared for the potential cyber warfare that Israeli hackers could one day...

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Cryptographers : Satellite phones vulnerable to eavesdropping Researchers at a German university claim to have cracked the algorithm that secures satellite phone transmissions. They have broken the encryption of the two main standards used to protect calls from satellite phones, giving them the ability to intercept conversations that are meant to be private. The attacks on the GMR-1 and GMR-2 standards are thought to be the first such work against the satellite phone ciphers. After reverse engineering phones that use the GMR-1 and GMR-2 standards, the team discovered serious cryptographic weaknesses that allow attackers using a modest PC running open-source software to recover protected communications in less than an hour. The Ministry of Defence has said a satellite phone crack of the A5-GMR-1 and A5-GMR-2 encryption algorithms crack by researchers will not affect UK military use of satellite phones. " All military users of mobile satellite communication systems are ...

Anonymous Hack Syrian President's Emails with Password " 12345 " Hundreds of emails from Syrian President Bashar Assad's office were leaked on Monday after an attack by the hacker group Anonymous. The target was the mail server of the Syrian Ministry of Presidential Affairs and about 78 inboxes of Assad's aides and advisers were hacked and the password that some used was "12345", according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz. Click here to read the leaked documents,  part one Click here to read the leaked documents,  part two The interview took place amid Syria's increasingly harsh crackdown against civilian protesters. Assad's TV interview with Walters was memorable for his repeated denials that Syrian citizens were being killed. " We don't kill our people ... no government in the world kills its people, unless it's led by a crazy person ," Assad told Walters. [ Source ]