Iranian cyber warfare commander shot dead in suspected assassination: Mojtaba Ahmadi, who served as commander of the Cyber War Headquarters, was found dead in a wooded area near the town of Karaj, north-west of the capital, Tehran. Five Iranian nuclear scientists and the head of the country’s ballistic missile programme have been killed since 2007. […]

NSA Director: We Don’t Spy on Americans’ Social Networks: NSA director Gen. Keith Alexander denied that his agency spies on Americans’ social networks or that it compiles graphs of citizens’ online social connections, contrary to recent media reports. “Is the NSA compiling profiles or dossiers of American people to the use of its intelligence authorities?” […]

Three New APTs Spotted Piling On IE Zero Day: Attackers are continuing to pile on a critical Internet Explorer zero day that remains unpatched two weeks after it was reported. During the last two weeks, it appears that at least three separate targeted attack campaigns have been using the same bug previously used by Operation […]

DetecTor.io: DetecTor is an open source project to implement client side SSL/TLS MITM detection, compromised CA detection and server impersonation detection, by making use of the Tor network.

John McAfee’s plan to build a million tiny darknets, foil the NSA, give everyone free music: From the mind of eccentric playboy John McAfee — founder of McAfee Antivirus — comes a “new and revolutionary technology” that will reclaim our lost privacy, he says, and restore the ability of college students to get all the […]

Syrian Electronic Army warns of Further ‘Surprises’: The Syrian Electronic Army has continuously made news news in recent times for hacking the website of many of the popular media house in US as well as UK. The New York Times and Twitter are the latest addition to their list of victims. But it appears that […]

Microsoft Announces General Availability Of Two-Factor Authentication For Windows Azure: Microsoft has announced the general availability of Windows Azure multi-factor authentication for IT pros and users. The new security capability is available for most any application used on the cloud infrastructure. The security means that a person signs in with their usual user name and […]

Iranian Hackers infiltrated US Navy computers: The Wall Street Journal reported that Iranian hackers have successfully penetrated unclassified US Navy computers, the allegations were made by US officials that consider the attacks a serious intrusion within the Government network. “The U.S. Officials said the attacks were carried out by hackers working for Iran’s government or […]

Symantec researchers sinkhole Bitcoin mining Zero Access botnet horde: Symantec have successfully sinkholed a significant proportion of the infamous Zero Access botnet, rescuing hundreds of thousands of the 1.9 million victims from the scam’s zombie masters. Symantec reported details of the operation after discovering a way to sinkhole an early version of the Zero Access […]

Another iPhone lockscreen bypass vulnerability found in iOS 7.02: Earlier this week, Apple released iOS 7.0.2 just to fix some Lockscreen bugs in iOS 7 and but a researcher has found a new Lockscreen bug in new iOS 7.0.2. This new Lockscreen bug is found by Dany Lisiansky, and he uploaded a proof of concept […]