Information Technology Security News
Syrian Electronic Army stole docs from Microsoft. After compromising Microsoft’s official blog and Twitter account last month, the Syrian Electronic Army (SEA) sifted through employees emails to acquire documents related to law enforcement inquiries. The company is investigating the information breach, but does not plan to release any of the documents and details, according to […]
Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability in Kaspersky website has found by security expert Ebrahim Hegazy, Cyber Security Analyst Consultant at Q-CERT. According to Ebrahim blog post, the “Unvalidated Redirection Vulnerability” in the website of the well known Antivirus and Internet Security software developer Kaspersky could be used by attackers to trick Kaspersky.com users into visitng Malicious web-sites! After the researcher reported the […]
Cyber Security Expert and Penetration tester, Ebrahim Hegazy has found a serious vulnerability in Yahoo’s website that allows an attacker to remotely execute any commands on the server i.e. Remote Command Execution vulnerability. According to Ebrahim blog post, the vulnerability resides in a Chinese subdomin of Yahoo website. Last week, He reported the flaw to Yahoo Security Team and […]
For the first time in history, Indian Law Enforcement Agency ‘Central Bureau of Investigation’ (CBI) has arrested a Cyber criminal behind Hire a Hacker service after getting a tip-off from the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). 33-Year-old Amit Vikram Tiwari, son of an Indian Army colonel and an engineering dropout, who allegedly ran two websites […]
A number of CNN’s social media accounts and blogs, including CNN’s Twitter, Facebook and website hacked by Syrian Electronic Army. The affected accounts included CNN’s main Facebook account, CNN Politics’ Facebook account and the Twitter pages for CNN and CNN’s Security Clearance. Blogs for Political Ticker, The Lead, Security Clearance, The Situation Room and Crossfire were also hacked. […]