Underground Nazis take-down UFC website.

UFC.com president Dana White tells that their website was a victim of cyber attack, on twitter. The site was alleged taken-down by hackers claiming as “Underground Nazi H4ck3rGrOup”.

A criminal investigation is underway after the site got compromised on Sunday. The site might be victim because, it was supporting SOPA. Users who wished to visit UFC.com were redirected to UGNazi.com, which welcome the users with bizarre music and cartoon drawing of Adolf Hitler.

MegaUpload shut down angers Anonymous, hits out at DOJ, MPAA, FBI and other Entertainment sites.

It is claimed to be biggest attack in Cyber history. Anonymous, a group of “Hacktivist”, gone wild by taking down several prominent sites related to Govt., Institutions and Entertainment Industry.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) ordered FBI to shut down popular file-sharing site, MegaUpload, charging it for violating various copyright laws. After a little while, DOJ’s website was attacked by Anonymous protesting its move.

Cyber stealer adds $ 6.7 million to their piggy bank.

Look like some hackers were very busy this New Year, while other were enjoying it. The officials were shocked to know that a welled planned cyber heist was carried out in their Postbank, South African Postbank.

The hackers were successful at transferring money to their account and flee with it, costing the postbank with loss of $ 6.7 million (42 million Rands). According to the Sunday Times, the cyber gang behind the heist was obviously very well informed about the post office's IT systems, and began preparing the ground for its execution a few months before by opening accounts in post offices across the country and compromising an employee computer in the Rustenburg Post Office.

“El Al”, get hacked by pro-Palestinian hacker group, “Nightmare”.

After taking down Israeli’s Fire-Fighting service website, the pro-Palestinian hacker group,” Nightmare” has taken down “El Al”, Israel’s stock exchange and national carrier.

This attack comes a day after Islamist Hamas called upon to intensify cyber war against Jewish, Israel state.

Zappos starts notifying its customers about the Security Breach, resets passwords.

Zappos, an online, web based retailer, Subsidiary of Amazon.com, specializing in shoes and other day to day accessories, claims that it was the victim of cyber attack. The company claims that the hacker gained access to the company’s internal network through the company’s servers in Ketucky.

The company claims that customer’s payment and credit card data remained un-accessed by hackers. As a preventive measure, Zappos, started notifying its 24+ million customers and reset, and expired their existing passwords.

Anonymous gives keys to play with Israeli Power Stations.

When you go through the tweets of @FuryOfAnon, infact, his first tweet, you will find a Pastebin link with some IP addresses and logins. Those logins and IP addresses aren’t normal, those sensitive (no longer) logins information belongs to Israeli supervisionay control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.

Gaza geeks hacks Israeli Fire Service department website.

Group of hackers from Gaza strip has succeeded in taking down Israeli Fire and Rescue Services official website on Thursday night. The website home was de-faced with black color, with a message from hackers taunting Israeli govt., saying "We hack into your websites, and will continue to do so until you suffer."

Israeli authority confirmed the same issuing a statement, "An hour ago the State of Israel's Fire Services website was hacked into and altered. As we speak, the site is under attack by various hackers." Jerusalem Fire Services Spokesman, Lahav Assaf Avres, said necessary steps are being taken to bring the site back online.

USCC Memo gate was a PR stunt?

Looks like India did not had any real interest in spying on US and China relations. A storm was raised after a self-claimed India hacker group called “Lord of Dharmaraja”, posted documents showing that India Govt., took help of mobile companies like RIM, Nokia, Apple for back door access to spy on US-China relations, in return for permission to operate in Indian market.

After the memo (fake) was made public, triggering a US investigation into a possible cyber attack by Indian Military spy agency. The investigating community found that memo was fake, but they found out that serious security breaches did take place.

Military and cyber-security experts in India say the hackers may have created the purported military intelligence memo simply to draw attention to their work, or to taint relations between close allies India and the United States.

Hacker publishes exploit for the ASP.NET vulnerability on GitHub.

Recently patched denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerability, identified as CVE-2011-3414, which was disclosed in December at the Chaos Communication Congress, gets exploited again. This time, the attack code is shared on GitHub, a platform that hosts open source development projects.

Spammers targets Facebook, twitter with new wave of viruses.

If you like Social networking via Internet, take a look at this story very closely. SNS (Social Networking Sites) like Facebook and Twitter are sweating out day and night to prevent hackers from exploiting their sites from new form of virus, dubbed as Social Media virus or Social Spam.

According to Imperium, a company devoted to fight social spam, according to their Social Spam Index, as much as 40% of public profiles across social networks are now fraudulent. Roughly 400 million Facebook users, for example, are victimized by social spam each day.

Hacktivist, Anonymous targets CIAPC, an anti-piracy centre, for blocking File-Sharing site.

Looks like Anonymous group has geared up to attack those who are supporting censorship of web. Lately, an online anti-piracy group in Finland has been attacked by Anonymous after access was blocked to The Pirate Bay, world most resilient File-Sharing site.

They (Anonymous) encouraged it’s followers to target the Copyright Information and Anti-Piracy Centre (CIAPC) after it persuaded the Helsinki District Court to force ISP Elisa to block access to the file-sharing site.

Quick response: Israeli patriot does a Tit for Tat (Credit Card fiasco)

Look like an impatient patriot Israeli took revenge by publicly posting more than 400 credit card numbers belonging to Saudi Arabian citizens.

The sensitive data was publicly posted on pastebin by some unknown, self claimed Israeli called Omer Cohen, on Tuesday. The data includes credit card numbers and expiration dates and some entries even contained cardholder’s names.

More devastation from cyber attacks is yet to come, warn Israeli security experts.

Cyber Security experts warn that worst from cyber attacks is yet to come.  Experts say, Cyber warriors are gaining the knowledge to do more than virtual vandalism. This warning comes after a hacker name OxOmar exposed large number of Israeli’s credit card.

Individual hackers have gradually gained the knowledge and experience once the preserve of intelligence agencies and armies. Instead of defacing websites or shutting them down by flooding them with e-mails, growing numbers of hackers have the ability to disrupt electricity, water, medical and other critical services, they say.

Has Indian Govt secretly made an agreement with Cell phone vendor for backdoor access?

Looks like a group of hackers, calls themselves as “Lords of Dharmaraja” from India got hands on Norton Antivirus source code.  Apart from the Symantec (makers of Norton Antivirus) hack, another interested info about the India govt., was revealed.

The group claims that it had obtained sensitive info from the Indian Military Intelligence server and claims that they had discovered secret agreements between dozen of software companies and Indian Govt.

Post Credit Card hacking, Cyber threat equals to Terror threat in Israel?

After 6,000 valid credit cards got compromised and got published online, Israel’s Govt., said that it will respond to cyber-attacks in the same way it responds to violent "terrorist". Such cyber-attacks are "a breach of sovereignty comparable to a terrorist operation, and must be treated as such", Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon has said.

A hacker named OxOmar claiming to be Saudi said on Thursday he had leaked the private information. Reports say OxOmar may be a 19-year-old living in Mexico.

India Telecom Department plans to setup pan-India secure network.

The Govt., of India plans to upgrade its telecom infrastructure, in an effort to provide secure Internet environment in the country. With an estimated cost of Rs. 450 crores ($ 85 millon), DoT(Department of Telecommunication) is planning to set-up a pan-India secure, providing a fool-proof infrastructure for telecom and internet communication exclusively for government use. 

"To develop and deploy a pan-India secure network and network-based services such as e-mail, voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP), mobile communication through a survivable and available network architecture for secured communication for government use with a government funding of Rs 450 crore," says the latest report of the Department of Telecom (DoT).