66 year old British Rock Guitarist jailed for taking part in 2010 Anonymous DDoS attack

The ELO guitarist admitted to his involvement in the Anonymous operation at the hearing before the sentence was pronounced. He also promised the Judge never to return to the United States after his release. Operation Payback The Anonymous campaign calledOperation Paybackwas a coordinated attack against the opponents of Internet piracy. Anonymous started the Operation Payback started as retaliation to DDoS attacks on torrent sites by anti piracy lobby. The Anonymous then allegedly took down many anti-piracy websites all over the world through coordinated DDoS attacks....

December 9, 2014 · 1 min · 123 words · Deborah Chung

As promised, Lizard Squad downs PlayStation Network today

Lizard Squad downs PlayStation connection, Again!!! They had promised yesterday whenthey took down the Microsofts Xbox Live servers, they DDoSed PlayStation connection today. Its the internets fault. and yo check your data pipe connection and PSN status. PSN users took to Twitter to vent their fury against Lizard Squad who seemed to enjoying the lulz. source: www.techworm.net

December 9, 2014 · 1 min · 57 words · Alan Molina

Epic Snake ‘Turla’ APT version targeting Linux machines

This was revealed by Kaspersky researcher, Kurt Baumgartner in ablogpost. At that time Turla was found to have infected more than 500 victim IP addresses in 45 countries. However at that time only Windows machines were found infected. Now Kaspersky has found a new sample of Turla APT which they say is upgraded version to include Linux. This newly found Turla component supports Linux for broader system support at victim sites....

December 9, 2014 · 1 min · 92 words · John Hoffman

Poodle vulnerability rises again, this time in TLS

But today security research labQualysrevealed that the Poodle vulnerability was far from over. The earlier Poodle targeted SSLv3 which is obsolete while the newer Poodle vulnerability exploits TLS 1.2. It wouldnt check the padding bytes but that wouldnt cause any problems in normal operation. Thankfully, TLS 1.2 support is about to hit 50% at the time of writing. Qualys notes that, if you want to be sure for yourself, you should take the following steps....

December 9, 2014 · 1 min · 86 words · Kelsey Arroyo

Anonymous shuts down Oakland Police Department website after cops tear gas protesters

The Anonymous in a counter offensive against the Oakland Police Department downed their website. However the nationwide protests against the recent police killings of two black men have been far from non violent. Someone smashed a window of a local Radio Shack store, which escalated the situation. The #ICantBreathe campaign has been trending on Twitter since yesterday as more and more people join the protests. source: www.techworm.net

December 8, 2014 · 1 min · 67 words · Juan Gonzales

Google removes Pirate Bay Apps from Google Play Store

An email sent to developers claims that the apps violate intellectual property provisions of Googles content policy. Googles more comes a week after British ISPs started blocking torrents including privates ones in United Kingdom. Most of the Apps are nothing but mobile and torrent seek engine optimized web browsers for The Pirate Bay. This decision is final and we will not be responding to any additional emails regarding this removal....

December 8, 2014 · 1 min · 91 words · Jason Hayes

LG’s G3 gets NIAP certification for classified use from NSA

It also expressly says that only NIAP approved devices can handle classified documents. you could check up the NIAP website for the various approvals validations approved for LGs G3 smartphonehere. source: www.techworm.net

December 8, 2014 · 1 min · 32 words · Keith Atkins

New ‘Fakedebuggerd’ vulnerability in Android 4.x OS lets hackers root access

As such the hacker may inject any malicious App without users notice. The Towelroot exploit is based on the futex() syscall vulnerability (CVE-2014-3153). Additionally it will install unnecessary Apps like Flashlight and Calender without the users permission. The Fakedbuggerd is quite aggressive in its intent and uses extreme measures to keep them installed. source: www.techworm.net

December 8, 2014 · 1 min · 55 words · Renee Gamble

‘The Interview’ star James Franco jokes about Sony Hack Attack on SNL

The Interview star James Franco jokes about Sony Hack Attack on Saturday Night Live. North Korea has raised dispute over this film with Sony Pictures since July. Im James Franco, actor, poet, artist, dude, he said during his opening monologue. Something pretty crazy happened this week, Franco continued. I have this movie called The Interview coming out with Seth Rogen, its Sony. And this week Sony studios got all their computers hacked....

December 8, 2014 · 1 min · 183 words · Dennis Johnson

Anonymous releases Chicago police radio transmissions revealing warrantless wiretapping

The videos released by the Anonymous merely confirm The Intercept report which can be readhere. source: www.techworm.net

December 7, 2014 · 1 min · 17 words · Raymond Montgomery

American Express Subdomain Hacked and Defaced by AnonGhost

for many years,we have witnessed your unjust laws. After all,were aware ! you are the real terrorists ! as you continue to push for full domination and control of our lifes. we will fight back ! And there are many of us out there, more than you think. People who refuse to stop believing. People who refuse to be governed by a bunch of organized criminals. We are AnonGhost We are Everywhere you shouldve Expected Us !...

December 6, 2014 · 1 min · 79 words · Jeremy Ramos

German Supreme Court Blocks FBI’s Most Wanted #2 Hacker Extradition to US

Table Of Contents German Supreme Court Block extradition of Worlds No.2 most wanted hacker to United States. Ercan appeared in the FBIs most wanted cyber criminals list at number two. The Bundesverfassungsgericht acting on his plea, ruled that Ercan should not be extradited to United States. Ercan and his team of cyber criminals managed to doctor the prepaid debit cards and remove the withdrawal limits. Ercans gang members who include low level carders and cashers have been brought to justice....

December 6, 2014 · 1 min · 82 words · Paul Carroll

Lizard Squad at it again, Xbox Live DDoSed leaves Xbox 360 Gamers fretting

Gamers planning to watch the Game Awards on Xbox 360 were utterly disappointed to find their connections breaking intermittently. Further a look at the Xbox Live Status Page confirmed that Xbox Live for Xbox 360 is currently struggling. Are you having issues staying connected to Xbox Live? Were working hard to find a fix as soon as we possibly can, Microsoft writes. Apparently those services are down too. or staying on xbox live?...

December 6, 2014 · 1 min · 75 words · Anita Garcia