Nintendo cracks after month-long, 15.5 million-strong hacker bombardment: Hackers bombarded Nintendo for a month with 15.46 million bogus login attempts, out of which 23,926 struck the jackpot, exposing names, addresses, phone numbers and other personal details of corresponding Club Nintendo customers. The blitzkrieg lasted from 9 June to 4 July, Nintendo said in a press release […]

Agreements with private companies protect U.S. access to cables’ data for surveillance: The U.S. government had a problem: Spying in the digital age required access to the fiber-optic cables traversing the world’s oceans, carrying torrents of data at the speed of light. And one of the biggest operators of those cables was being sold to an […]

Microsoft offloads heap of critical fixes in ‘ugly’ Patch Tuesday: Microsoft is planning a high-impact edition of Patch Tuesday with seven bulletins this month – six of which cover critical flaws. The less-than-magnificent seven cover all supported versions of Windows and every version of MS Office, as well as updates for Lync, Silverlight, Visual Studio and […]

State Health Department Falls Victim To Hackers: The Michigan Department of Community Health has fallen victim to hackers. The state has sent out letters warning residents that computers hosting the Michigan Cancer Consortium website were accessed by hackers, breaching the files of nearly 50,000 people — including the files of WWJ Newsradio 950′s Stephanie Davis.

Club Nintendo hacked: Nintendo has announced that their Club Nintendo service where players can collect points for the hardware and the games they buy, and then to win a variety of prizes and gifts, got hacked or that unknown hackers broke into the database of members, and retrieve their data. According to their claims so far […]

Rise of the Java Remote Access Tools: The phishing email contains two legitimate non-malicious PDF documents and one Java file that mimics the name of a legitimate document. If a user is tricked into clicking this fake document, the Java applet will be run (providing that Java is installed on the user’s computer). This applet is […]

Venezuelan Presidential Website Disrupted by Hacker for Offering Asylum to Snowden: A few hours ago, Venezuela and Nicaragua offered asylum to Edward Snowden, the NSA whistleblower. As soon as the news broke, patriot hacker The Jester (th3j35t3r) launched an attack against the website of the Venezuelan Presidency (presidencia.gob.ve). The attack started around five hours ago, and […]

Website of Former “Apprentice” Contestant Katie Hopkins Hacked: The official website of Katie Hopkins – social commentator and journalist, best known for her appearance on the UK series of “The Apprentice” – has been hacked. The hack attack came shortly after she made an appearance on ITV’s This Morning in which she claimed that she didn’t […]

Twitter Account of Filipina Actress Kathryn Bernardo Hacked: Another celebrity’s Twitter account has been hacked. This time, the victim is 17-year-old Kathryn Bernardo, a famous Filipina actress best known for starring in a Filipino drama called “Mara Clara.” The Twitter accounts of celebrities are often compromised, either because they utilize easy-to-guess passwords or because they fall […]

Iran to hold nationwide cyber maneuver: Brigadier General Gholam Reza Jalali made the announcement at a conference held on the occasion of Iran’s Cyber Defense month in Tehran on Saturday. “The cyber maneuvers bylaw has been prepared and will be circulated among relevant organizations” in a bid to enhance the country’s passive defensive objectives in cyberspace, […]