Trade and Industry Ministry in Japan plans to establish a network of dozens of domestic firms and organizations to share information about attacks on their online computer systems, with the aim of improving Cyber security.
Fox News Politics Twitter account @foxnewspolitics was hacked. The account's icon had been changed from the Fox News Politics logo and featured the following new description: "H4CK3D BY TH3 5CR1PT K1DD3S."
Hacker's Personal account was @TheScriptKiddie on twitter, but After hack, Twitter has suspended his account. Then hacker made another announcement via Fox News Politics Twitter account that "twitter has suspended TheScriptKiddie please follow @ScriptKiddi3 for future releases. we have confirmed Fox News is aware of the attack."
"The Script Kiddies" Group on IRC replied :
After 14 Hacks, Finally Sony open job recruitment for "Sr Application Security Analyst". Sony Estimates 171 Million Dollar Loss due to PSN Hack. Also Sony CEO sorry for PSN hack, offers data theft insurance.
Social network Facebook has hired a computer hacker who was recently sued by Sony for hacking the online game system PlayStation 3. Facebook did not reveal what 21-year-old George Hotz will do for the firm.
SoSasta.com offers its services in 11 cities - Kolkata, Hyderabad, Pune, Ahmedabad, Delhi/NCR, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Nagpur, Mumbai, Chennai and Bengaluru - and has mailed customers stating that they were made aware of a security breach.
Hackers attacked the website of the World Wildlife Fund's Philippine,They replacing the home page with a YouTube video as shown. Visitors to the WWF Philippines site (http://www.wwf.org.ph/) saw a video and a message that suggested a connection with an attack on the Bureau of Customs website.
Message Posted by Hacker "This country is run by mahou shoujo... Powered by: Contract; Puella Magi Madoka Magica Squad".
The "mahou shoujo" was the same anime referred to in the page of a hacker who defaced the Bureau of Customs website earlier this month.
A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II" from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation “Phish Phry” in 2009.
The two year long Operation Phish Phry saw US Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Electronic Crimes Task Force and the US Attorney’s Office working in unison with the Egyptian law enforcement agencies.
The US District Court for the Central District of Los Angeles had sentenced Lucas to 11 years in prison late last week.
Sedulity Solutions & Technologies and N.C. College of Engineering, Israna Panipat jointly organized a “HCL B-Serve BPO Division” campus on 16/5/2011 for the B-Tech (IT, CSE, & ECE) & MCA branches. The process was started in the morning at 11:00 A.M. with the presentation where the H.R. Mr. Manish from HCL clarified various queries of the students so that they could understand their job profile. The interview started with the Initial Group Discussion rounds in two different phrases and followed by the 2nd round i.e. H.R.
A workshop on “Personality Development” has been recently organized by “Seth Jai Prakash Polytechnic, Damla” between 3/5/11 to 5/5/11, for its Computer Engineering Students in collaboration with Sedulity Solutions and Technologies, New Delhi. The workshop intends to make the students more self-assured, so that they could be employed by any good Company.
After the great success of 32 bit edition of Sedulity Operating System, Sedulity Solutions & Technologies has announced the official Launch of “Sedulity Operating System with 64 bit”. Sedulity originally announced the operating system back in January, eventually making a beta version available for testing, and will release it free for all users from 24th March’ 2011 for demo.
Dear Readers, in this edition I am trying to throw some light on Database Forensics and please try to implement few important things that has been given in this article and I am sure that it will help you all in your relative fields. Database Forensics is a computer science term referring to the forensic study of databases. It means the Gathering and analyzing data in a manner as free from distortion or bias as possible to reconstruct data or what has happened in the past on a system.