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The Hacker News Hacking Awards : Best of Year 2011 2011 has been labeled the " Year of the Hack " or " Epic #Fail 2011 ". Hacking has become much easier over the years, which is why 2011 had a lot of hacking for good and for bad. Hackers are coming up with tools as well as finding new methods for hacking faster then companies can increase their security.  Every year there are always forward advancements in the tools and programs that can be used by the hackers. At the end of year 2011 we decided to give " The Hacker News Awards 2011 ". The Hacker News Awards will be an annual awards ceremony celebrating the achievements and failures of security researchers and the Hacking community. The THN Award is judged by a panel of respected security researchers and Editors at The Hacker News. Year 2011 came to an end following Operation Payback and Antisec, which targeted companies refusing to accept payments to WikiLeak's, such as, Visa and Amazon. Those attacks were carrie

Environmental activism site Care2 hacked Yesterday Care2, one of the biggest Environmental activism website issue a alert email to all there customers that Care2.com's website was hacked revealing usernames and passwords for the sites nearly 18 million users. Care2 said " To protect Care2 members we are resetting access to all Care2 accounts. The next time you login to Care2, you will be automatically emailed a new password, which will enable you to access your Care2 account as usual. To secure your privacy, we highly recommend you immediately change your password for any accounts that share the password you previously used on Care2. " According to a FAQ posted by Care2, What can I do to recover my password? Visit here Enter your user name or email address in the green box titled " Forgot your password or log-in name? " Your password will be emailed to you. Yet its unknown that who was the hackers,but Care2 have IP Address that used in the attack was from Russia

Print of one malicious document can expose your whole LAN This year at Chaos Communications Congress (28C3) Ang Cui presents Print Me If You Dare , in which he explained how he reverse-engineered the firmware-update process for HPs hundreds of millions of printers and In Andrei Costin's presentation " Hacking MFPs " he covered the history of printer and copier hacks from the 1960s to today. Cui discovered that he could load arbitrary software into any printer by embedding it in a malicious document or by connecting to the printer online. As part of his presentation, he performed two demonstrations: in the first, he sent a document to a printer that contained a malicious version of the OS that caused it to copy the documents it printed and post them to an IP address on the Internet; in the second, he took over a remote printer with a malicious document, caused that printer to scan the LAN for vulnerable PCs, compromise a PC, and turn it into a proxy that gave him access through

There's a natural human desire to avoid threatening scenarios. The irony, of course, is if you hope to attain any semblance of security, you've got to remain prepared to confront those very same threats. As a decision-maker for your organization, you know this well. But no matter how many experts or trusted cybersecurity tools your organization has a standing guard, you're only as secure as your weakest link. There's still one group that can inadvertently open the gates to unwanted threat actors—your own people. Security must be second nature for your first line of defense For your organization to thrive, you need capable employees. After all, they're your source for great ideas, innovation, and ingenuity. However, they're also human. And humans are fallible. Hackers understand no one is perfect, and that's precisely what they seek to exploit. This is why your people must become your first line of defense against cyber threats. But to do so, they need to learn how to defend thems

Anonymous Hackers post spy firms email addresses Company that was attacked earlier this week  by Anonymous Hackers, again yesterday by leaking 75,000 names, credit cards, addresses and passwords of every customer of STRATFOR 's and about 860,000 usernames, emails and passwords for anyone that has ever registered on STRATFOR's website. The pastebin containing the leaks, also stated that there will be noise demonstrations in front of jails and prisons on New Year's Eve in support of ' Project Mayhem '. It hints to there being some attacks on multiple law enforcement agencies on this date. The document was titled " antisec teaser " AntiSec is a joint effort between Anonymous and the now-defunct LulzSec that targets governments with which they disagree.Anonymous said 50,000 of the email addresses were .mil and .gov. Anonymous said the attack was in retaliation for the government's prosecution of Bradley Manning, who is accused of leaking confidential government document

World 1st Hacker exploit communication technology for lulz in  1903 New Scientist publish about the first hacker revealing security holes in wireless communication technology in 1903. Nevil Maskelyne was first in a long line of hackers who have exposed and exploited security flaws in communication technology from Morse code to the Internet. The crowd was somewhat amused as the physicist John Ambrose Fleming was adjusting arcane apparatus as he prepared to demonstrate the long-range wireless communication system developed by his boss, the Italian radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi was 300 miles away in Cornwall trying to send the message. Before the demonstration could begin, the apparatus in the lecture theatre began to tap out a message.It was a poem which accused Marconi of "diddling the public". Arthur Blok, Fleming's assistant, worked out that beaming powerful wireless pulses into the theatre were going to be strong enough to interfere with the projector