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Sony Hires Ex- Homeland Security Official after PlayStation Hack Sony has hired a former official at the US Department of Homeland Security for the new post of chief information security officer, months after a massive hacking attack leaked information on 100 million user accounts on its games networks. Philip Reitinger, formerly the director of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center, will join Sony in the newly created position of chief information security officer and a senior vice president. The new hire signals a heightened seriousness by Sony in the aftermath of an intrusion into its online videogame service earlier this year. The breach compromised the personal information of more than 100 million accounts from its online networks, including the possible loss of some credit card information. Sony said there have been no reports of any credit card data theft. Sony shut down the PlayStation Network and Qriocity streaming video and music network on April 20...

12 Pakistan Government departments websites & Benazir Bhutto  Hacked by Mr52 An Indian Hacker " Mr52 " strike back to Pakistan Government departments. He hack and deface about 12 Government departments websites including Pakistan Navy, Maritime Security Agency, NATIONAL EDUCATION ASSESSMENT SYSTEM, Benazir Bhutto, Ministry of Foreign Affairs websites are hacked. List of defaced sites are : https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/securite/default.html https://www.paknavy.gov.pk/default.html https://www.msa.org.pk/default.html https://www.neas.gov.pk/default.html https://www.nfdc.gov.pk/default.html https://www.niopk.gov.pk/default.html https://www.szab.pk/default.html https://www.benazir.pk/default.html https://www.mopw.gov.pk/default.html https://www.dfp.gov.pk/default.html https://www.erapixels.com/default.html https://www.mofa.gov.pk/default.html

Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE) - Forensics tool to expose all your online activity Researchers " Elie Bursztein " from Stanford University in California have managed to bypass the encryption on a PC's hard drive to find out what websites a user has visited and whether they have any data stored in the cloud. " Commercial forensic software concentrates on extracting files from a disc, but that's not super-helpful in understanding online activity ," says Elie Bursztein, whose team developed the software. " We've built a tool that can reconstruct where the user has been online, and what identity they used. " The open-source software, Offline Windows Analysis and Data Extraction (OWADE), was launched at the Black Hat 2011 security conference and works with PCs running on the Windows operating system. OWADE is in alpha version and is only available by checking out the code directly as we update it very frequently. Note th...

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Court grants bail to Anonymous and LulzSec suspects Four alleged UK hackers suspected of being linked to attacks by hacking groups Anonymous and Lulz Security (LulzSec) have been released on bail after a hearing at Westminster magistrates court on the condition that they did not use specific online nicknames on the internet or IRC. 20-year-old Christopher Jan Weatherhead, from Northampton, cannot use the internet nickname ' Nerdo ', Ashley Rhodes, 26, from London, is banned from calling himself ' NikonElite ' online. Two other men, aged 24 and 20, have been released on bail following their arrest last week as part of the Metropolitan police investigation into Anonymous and LulzSec. They are due to return to a London police station in November.The two men were arrested separately in South Yorkshire and Wiltshire . They are charged with conspiring to commit offences under the Computer Misuse Act 1990.

Cyberwar between Israel  and Turkish  Hacker Turkish hacker " TurkGuvenligi " hijacked some 350 Israeli websites on Sunday evening, launching a Domain Name System (DNS) attack on at least seven high-profile websites including The Telegraph, Acer, National Geographic, UPS and Vodafone as well. Visitors to some of the sites were diverted to a page declaring it was " World Hackers Day. " Hackers calling themselves the " TurkGuvenligi group " calimd the cyber-attack. "TurkGuvenligi translates as " Turkish security. " " The hack represents a 10%-15% spike compared to the average number of daily hacks of Israeli websites ," Shai Blitzblau, head of Maglan-Computer Warfare and Network Intelligence Labs, explained. Israel's military and security establishment has invested significantly in cyber-warfare programs in recent years and is considered one of the most advanced cyber-warfare forces in the world, both in attack and defense modes.T...

Malcon 2011 - Call for Papers Malcon is the worlds first platform bringing together Malware and Information Security Researchers from across the globe to share key research insights into building and containment of the next generation malwares . Call for Papers: Malcon 2011 are looking for new techniques, tool releases,unique research and about anything that's breath-taking, related to Malwares. The papers and research work could be under any of the broad categories mentioned below : Hacking Tools: Phishing Kits, code that aids any malware or malicious activity is welcome. Malwares: Rootkit, Trojan, Botnet, Bootkit, Virus, Keylogger, Virtual Machine based Malware, Mobile OS Based Malware (Android, Symbian, IPhone etc.) Malware creation tools: Toolkits to create any kind of malware Web based malwares: Web-Shells, Browser Runtime Malwares (Javascript, Flash) Malware Infection and propagation methodologies: Emerging Infection techniques, Intelligent target enumeration te...

Ghana Red cross website defaced By Ahmdosa Hacker Tunisian Hacker Ahmdosa hack the official website of Ghana Redcross and deface it.Mirror of hack also submitted to Zone-H .