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Manufacturers racing to create HDTVs that can connect to the Web may have rushed over an important step in trying to rush them to market: keeping them safe from hackers. According to the  New York Times , security firm Mocana was able to hack an Internet-connected set “with unsettling ease.” The hack allowed them to obtain the owner’s credit card numbers and to monitor the data being sent from the TV to various Web sites. Mocana refused to divulge the brand of HDTV into which it easily hacked, though it did say that it was one of the five most popular Web-connected sets. Especially concerning was Mocana’s conclusion about how the Internet features were implemented for this particular TV: The things we found were mistakes that an inexperienced device designer would make when connecting something to the Internet for the first time. Security companies are still figuring out the best ways to prevent breaches in new devices that connect to the Internet, including using fingerprint scan...

Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Education has restored its website, weeks after it was taken offline in the latest of a series of hacking attempts on some of the kingdom’s most prominent sites. “The website was hacked a few weeks back, but has now been fully restored, and is safe and functional,” Mohammed Al Dukhainy, a spokesman for the ministry, told Arab News. The official said that it was a matter of concern that cyber crimes were now becoming more common. The Ministry of Education has been targeted a number of times in the past year. The hackers, who have referred to themselves as the True Promise Organisation, posted a picture of Lebanon’s Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah. Other official bodies to have suffered cyber attacks include the website of King Saud University and the Al Watan online news site. Earlier last year, the homepage of Riyad Bank, one of Saudi Arabia’s largest financial institutions, was also hacked. However, the bank later said that none of its customer accounts ha...

A U.S. Department of Homeland Security investigation dubbed "Operation eMule" has led federal agents to a pair of 22-year-old foreign-exchange students in Winona who are suspected to be part of a sophisticated cyber crime ring based in Vietnam that has been misusing the identities of countless Americans to bilk online retailers out of millions of dollars. "It's a big one," said Jason Calhoun, a fraud investigator with the Rosetta Stone language software company who has been working on the case with federal agents. Numerous major companies have been stung in the scam, including eBay, PayPal, Amazon, Apple, Dell and Verizon Wireless, according to federal court documents and Calhoun. Authorities say the operation is built around stolen identities that are used to open accounts with eBay, PayPal and U.S. banks. Through those accounts, the fraudsters sell popular, expensive merchandise at discounted prices. The sellers fill the orders by purchasing the goods from oth...

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System administrators would surely want to forget the year 2010, which saw a sharp increase in the number of cyber attacks on Indian websites. According to Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In), the defacement of websites with India specific domain ‘.in’ tripled in 2010. Around 8,864 websites with domain name ‘.in’ were defaced in 2010 (January to November period) as compared to around 3,000 in the same period in 2009 , CERT-In claims. In 2007, just 1,693 websites with ‘.in’ domain were defaced. According to analysts, the rise in these incidents is because of poor security mechanisms adopted by individuals and small traders, who have been hosting their websites by themselves. Apart from the defacing websites, cyber attacks are now emerging as a new threat to the national security. In December, the website of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) was hacked by Pakistani hackers. In 2010, former National Security Adviser (NSA), Mr M.K. Narayanan, had said that Chinese hacke...

Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC)   website hacked By PakBugs ! The official website of the Kerala Pradesh Congress Committee (KPCC) was found hacked this evening with pro-Pakistan slogans appearing on it. According to Congress sources here, the hackers entered the website www.kpcc.org.in and put on it slogans denouncing the party and the father of the nation Mahatma Gandhi.    The content entered into the website by the hackers included a picture of Pakistan's founder leader MA Jinnah, KPCC sources said.   The KPCC would be lodging a complaint to the cyber cell of the police on the matter, sources said. Zone-h mirror :  http://www.zone-h.org/mirror/id/12838216

Popular Indian news portal www.indiablooms.com, the online version of the national news agency India Blooms News Service (IBNS), was hacked by the Pakistani hackers on Sunday afternoon. " Pakistani Hackers- Your site has been Hacked " said the redirected page of the site which was hacked around Indian time 330 pm. Later the site administrators restored the original index page, but the threat of another attempt looms large. The visitors of India Blooms were directed to the page of a menacing looking woman with a blue eye with some sentences at the bottom in green claiming the site has been hacked. " There was no security on your site, relax admin, nothing was deleted, is this what you call a security? " read the site, hosted by Servage, a hosting company based in Germany. Servage currently hosts 189837 websites. " Of later we face a regular attack from hackers, especially after the popularity of the site soared ," said S Dhar, one of the partners ...

U.S. intelligence agencies, the FBI, has asked all countries work together to jointly support track hackers who managed to paralyze the site Wikileaks ‘enemy’ Wikileaks. Reported by Yahoo News from the Smoking Gun website on Saturday (01.01.2011), FBI showed detailed written statement about the operation pro-Wikileaks tracking hackers. This operation will involve U.S. federal investigators in Europe, Canada and the U.S. alone. Along with the discovery of the evidence, the pro-Wikileaks hackers launched its action through the servers in those countries. Cyber attacks were launched from this month, along with the start of the launch of the CableGate documents on the site Wikileaks. This attack is only targeting sites that break with Wikileaks like PayPal, Visa and Mastercard. Mid-December, the FBI track the IP address of the hacker who is in Canada, and later the FBI also found a virtual server in Callifornia. At the same time, a separate investigation by German police show if attacks ...

Decoys have been present in each and every culture, to capture the unknown as well as the known defaulters. The honey, which was used in turning the heads of bears that we used to find in jungles, well the same honey, but in a revisited version is being implemented and used here and has already proven worthy of its existence. This type of honey lures in a different kind of bears. The bears those are present in the cyber jungle. Yes, we are talking of the black hat hackers which are hell bent on intruding your file systems and scratching out info. Read Complete Tutorial and Guide on Honeypots : Honeypot / Honeynet - Tracking the Hackers ! (Video Tutorial for setup & Usage) : Indian Cyber Army So, we are now going to discuss this very new and amazing feature, which only a few of the countries in world stand to have, including ours. Explaining with examples is always easy. Recently, a very famous Turkish hacker was busted using these techniques of Honeypot. The hacker was...