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On April 1st, Google issued an update on their blog stating they will no longer trust any root certificates issued by CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center, the administrative agency responsible for Internet affairs under the Ministry of Information Industry of the People’s Republic of China). This will take effect in next Google Chrome update. […]

V.P.PRABHAKARAN Info.Sec Consultant CEH | ECSA | CHFI | OPST | OPSA | GWAPT Encoding is often confused with encryption and hashing. They are not the same. But before I go into the differences, I’ll first mention how they relate: All three transform data into another format. Both encoding and encryption are reversible, and hashing

Automating the search for loopholes in software “SET a thief to catch a thief.” Security-conscious companies, from banks to newspapers, often hire, if not thieves, then the analogues of thieves, to test their computer systems for weaknesses. These professional hackers, called penetration testers, poke and prod at their clients’ systems. If they find a way

​President Obama ​issued a broad and far-reaching cyber security executive order Wednesday that allows the executive branch to unilaterally financially target foreign-based hackers, regardless of any laws or extradition treaties the United States has with the country the hacker or hacker group lives in. The order empowers the State Department and Treasury Department to freeze the bank

Loziok trojan used to siphon confidential data out of infected computers. Researchers have uncovered an ongoing espionage campaign that uses custom-developed malware to siphon confidential data out of energy companies around the world. Trojan.Laziok, as the malware has been dubbed, acts as a reconnaissance tool that scours infected computers for data including machine name, installed

It’s only rock and roll but hackers like it The Eurovision Song Contest has been targeted by obsessed hackers who stuffed the voting ballots during the final qualifier song performance. Votes flooded into the Melodifestivalen app during the final performance by Jon Henrik Fjällgren, forcing the contest organisers to nix the votes. Head mananger Christel

The website of Air France’s national mutual society has been hacked by a group claiming to be the Mujahideen in Algeria. The website, the Air France’s National Personal Mutual (MNPAF), was briefly attacked on Sunday, said an airline spokesperson. The homepage of the site was momentarily replaced by a red and black screen promising to avenge the

GitHub is still in the throes of a massive DDoS attack which has blighted the site since Thursday. While the origins of and reasons for the attack is not yet fully known, the fact that two projects relating to Chinese anti-censorship have been targeted speaks volumes. Now into its fifth day, the attack turned into