Iran's Tor-M1 aerial defense codes are compromised



Iran’s Tor-M1 aerial defense codes were apparently compromised in the context of a secret deal between Russia and Israel. 



US formulates secret charges against WikiLeaks

Federal prosectors in the United States have reportedly formulated secret charges that could eventually be pressed against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

Anonymous is Occupying the vote


Anonymous and the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement are teaming up for an election year campaign to "hold politicians accountable to the people."

Google promises Chrome hackers $1m in rewards

Google's offering $1 million in bounty payments to hackers managing to come up with a fully-functional exploit of Chrome.

Anonymous gets analyzed

Security outfit Imperva has published a report that purportedly reveals 
a number of strategic details behind an Anonymous attack against the Vatican during a 25-day period in 2011.



Wikileaks publishes emails from 'shadow CIA'

Wikileaks has today started publishing more than five million emails from intelligence company Stratfor, which was hacked late last year by Anonymous.

WikiLeaks suspect charged with aiding the enemy

Pfc. Bradley Manning has been formally charged with aiding the enemy as he stands accused of leaking thousands of classified documents that ultimately ended up on WikiLeaks.



Anonymous pwns InfraGard yet again

Hackers linked to Anonymous and AntiSec have compromised InfraGard's servers yet again.

Obama publishes new online privacy plan

The White House has unveiled a new framework for online privacy, tightening up the protection of personal data.

YouPorn passwords extracted and posted

YouPorn appears to have been compromised after hackers publicly posted the passwords, emails, and dates of birth of over a million users.



Anonymous says power grid is not a target

Cyber activists linked to Anonymous have rebuffed allegations that the collective could potentially threaten the power grid by staging a coordinated cyber attack.

Facebook censorship rulebook leaked

A disgruntled agency worker has revealed Facebook's rules for blocking offensive content - and while 'crushed heads' are fine, female nipples aren't.

Shipping at risk from GPS jamming

GPS jammers are threatening shipping, a conference in the UK has been warned.

NSA: Anonymous could target power grid

The director of the National Security Agency (NSA) has expressed concern that hackers aligned with Anonymous could cause a "limited power outage" via a coordinated cyber attack.

Google tricks IE privacy settings too, says Microsoft

Following last week's revelation that Google was bypassing privacy settings in Apple's Safari browser, Microsoft's accused it of doing the same thing with Internet Explorer.

British Facebook hacker sentenced to eight months in prison

We all know crime doesn't pay, but sometimes hacking does pay.

Anonymous-AntiSec in FTC takedown

Hackers linked to Anonymous and AntiSec jacked two websites belonging to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Friday morning.  



Google accused of illicit iPhone tracking

Google's been accused of 'tricking' Safari to bypass security settings and track iPhone and iPad users' locations through cookies.

GSM networks leak users' location

Security researchers have discovered it's possible to track a cellphone's location by listening to unencrypted broadcast messages from cell phone towers.

Apple responds to pressure over address book privacy

Apple's promising to close the loophole that allows apps to harvest the content of users' address books without specific permission.