Nowadays coffee shops such as Dunkin’ Donuts and Starbucks offer free wireless Internet to all of its customers. And that includes hackers who lurk in these establishments, waiting for windfall, or more specifically, loot.
Mobile devices have changed our routine and culture. And as consumers we feel safe checking our accounts in social networks, emails, online shopping, photo-sharing services, mobile banking, and more.
People who often visit coffee shops already know the dangers of using …

The hacking collective known popularly around the world as Anonymous got one of their accounts breached by another hacking group.
Hacking group Rustle League – who went by the now-suspended Twitter account @RustleLeague – announced earlier this week that they have taken control of the Anonymous-linked @Anon_CentralNF Twitter account.
In a popularly retweeted post on Twitter, @RustleLeague through the hacked account announced “@Anon_CentralNF this account has been hacked by …

Facebook, the world’s largest social networking site, has more than one billion users, so it’s hardly a surprise that cybercriminals will continually try to break into its security system – for users’ personal data is a gold mine to hackers.
Major Internet services usually try their best to resolve security issues without announcing it to the public.
On Friday afternoon, however, Facebook openly admitted that hackers had breached security and infiltrated some of its employees’ …

Facebook, the internet giant which famously commemorates what it calls the “Hacker Way” approach, has been hacked.
In a post by the company’s Facebook Security group, the world’s largest social network admitted on Friday to discovering a breach of its systems but assured people that data for its more than 1 billion users was not compromised.
“Foremost, we have found no evidence that Facebook user data was compromised,” stressed the social network which has its headquarters at 1 …

A researcher has found that an SMS flaw exposes Twitter users to hijackers who get a hold of their mobile numbers. With just a mobile number, these hijackers can change profile data and post messages using a victim’s Twitter account, according to Jonathan Rudenberg, a security

An online hacking attack targeting Pakistan affected close to 300 websites, including Yahoo, eBay, Apple and Google. Sites containing the domain name of Pakistan are targeted.
Hackers manipulated a noticeable weakness that is innate in domain name systems. Visitors of these popular .pk websites, instead of getting into the sites, are redirected to a page containing the slogan “Pakistan Downed,” along with a picture of two penguins crossing a bridge.

Google Pakistan website is hacked. …

Some employees of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) face disciplinary action after they brought computers with unprotected data to the Black Hat conference.
According to a report from Reuters, the SEC has already “initiated disciplinary actions against the people involved”.
Citing unnamed sources familiar with the matter, Reuters says that several employees of the SEC’s Trading and Markets Division brought their work-issued computers with hard drives containing …

Authorities in France have arrested a 20-year-old hacker who was defrauding smartphone users via malicious apps.
According to the BBC, the hacker who has been described as “extremely smart”, used fake apps purporting to be popular apps to amass about 500,000 Euros since last year.
Authorities say that the hacker did not study computer science.
The hacker whose name has not been revealed reportedly worked from his parent’s home in Northern France and developed apps which he offered free to …

A man from Oregon has been sentenced to three years in prison for selling tools for hacking cable modems, the U.S. Department of Justice has revealed.
Ryan Harris, 29, or Redmond, Oregon, was sentenced by Chief U.S. District Judge Mark L. Wolf in the District of Massachusetts on March 1, 2012 on seven counts of wire fraud for his participation in a scheme to help thousands steal internet service, the agency said in a post on its website.
Furthermore, the man will also have to pay a fine of …

Hackers from the hacker collective Anonymous have released a considerable-sized trove of data it claims is hacked from the United States Department of Justice.
In an announcement on AnonNews .Org – a site which bills itself as “an independent and uncensored (but moderated) news platform for Anonymous” – the hackers said: “Today we are releaseing 1.7GB of data that used to belong to the United States Bureau of Justice, until now. Within the booty you may find lots of shiny things such …