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Anonymous Hackers Release Data for 4000 US Bank Officials
Jeb Boone Global Post Anonymous hackers released user and personal information belonging to 4,000 US community bank executives, in an escalation in their online battle against the US Department of Justice. Anonymous released the security credentials for over 4,000 US bank executives on Monday, posting their user account information, passwords and personal information online [...]
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SNOPA Bill Reintroduced To Protect Your Privacy Online [VIDEO]
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer You may soon have legal recourse in the fight to protect your privacy online. If a new bill finds its way into law, social networking users might soon be able to make a federal case out of employers asking to snoop through their online accounts. Members of Congress, Rep. Jan Schakowsky [...]
3 Ways Facebook Hackers Target Your Account
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer Facebook accounts are an often overlooked gateway into an individual’s personal life. We, as social networking users, have few reservations about posting our photos, location, plans to travel, private outbursts, and information regarding friends, family and work. We include names, phone numbers, email addresses, GPS coordinates and [...]
Al-Qaeda Linked to New York Phone Hacking Scams
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Hackers with ties to Al-Qaeda terrorist cells in Somalia and the Philippines are targeting New York small businesses using international phone hacking scams. The scams are costing the companies hundreds of thousands of dollars in phone charges each month. Senator Charles Schumer (D-NY) said that the hacker group has a [...]
Hacked Phones Could Be Listening To Everything You Say
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Most people believe their phone conversations are private. Well, they may not be as private as you think if your office or home is filled with hacked phones. Researchers at Columbia University have discovered a flaw in telephones that allows a hacker to turn a phone’s microphone into [...]
Millionaire Manhunt: John McAfee Person of Interest in Belize Homicide
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Caribbean officials in Belize have questioned 3 people with regard to the murder of Gregory Viant Faull, an American citizen living in a town north of San Pedro, on the island of Ambergris Caye. Belize authorities say John McAfee, the 67 year old founder of the antivirus software giant McAfee, [...]
NICT Daedalus Gives Startling Function and Beauty to Cyber Security
Meg Jones VirtualThreat Guest Writer NICT Daedalus. It’s an unfortunate fact that many people fail to realize, but advancements in technology also lead to advancements in criminal activity. Yes, even the technologies that are intended for our safekeeping, security, and protection. In short, the bad guys can nearly always find a way to break [...]
Hacked Pacemaker Used For Anonymous Assassination
Jeremy Kirk ComputerWorld IDG News Service – A hacked pacemaker or implantable cardioverter-defibrillator could be manipulated for an anonymous assassination. Pacemakers from several manufacturers can be commanded to deliver a deadly, 830-volt shock from someone on a laptop up to 50 feet away, the result of poor software programming by medical device companies. The [...]
Hacked Iranian Nuclear Plants Play Heavy Metal Music by AC/DC
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Hacked Iranian Nuclear Plants Play Heavy Metal Music by AC/DC. It seems the Iranian government has been busy retaliating after a barrage of recent cyber attacks targeting the computers within the country’s nuclear program. First there was Stuxnet, a malicious piece of malware that targeted the actual control systems [...]
Estonian Government Threatened With Anonymous Cyber Attack
Mohit Kumar The Hacker News Anonymous Hackers AnonSwedenOp posted a video on YouTube on October 8 where it threatened the Estonian government with a possible Anonymous cyber attack. “Estonian government had sacrificed its own people instead of helping its own people, Estonian government has channelled money to helping Greece that is much better off.” “Estonia says [...]
Chinese Hack White House Military Network Holding Nuclear Codes
Chris Dougherty VirtualThreat Contributing Writer Sources within the White House and U.S. military partially confirmed that Chinese attackers hacked the White House Military network. The White House Military Office (WHMO), is in charge of the network that holds the commands for the President’s nuclear “Football”. A White House national security official stated the security breach [...]
Anonymous #OpVendetta Starts November 5th in London
Infosecurity Magazine Anonymous #OpVendetta Starts November 5th in London - This weekend saw a leaflet paperstorm in London, with masked anons handing out flyers proclaiming #OpVendetta slated for 5th November in London. Led by Anonymous UK and Ireland, it is, we are told, “the biggest Anonymous protest in the UK” yet seen. The name [...]
Anonymous Hactivists Spokesman Barrett Brown – Letter From Prison
Barrett Brown iNewp Anonymous Hactivists Spokesman Barrett Brown – Letter From Prison It is hard for me to express how much I appreciate your letter, which is the first I have received here, along with the support I’ve reportedly gotten from others so far. Before I forget, let me request that you also send a tweet [...]
Meet A Cyber Spec Ops Warrior: th3j35t3r
Laura Walker SOFREP The Jester is a lone-wolf patriot hacker who has been successfully waging a campaign of asymmetrical offensive cyber warfare in support of the United States for two and a half years. Among his known targeted attacks are numerous takedowns of jihadi recruiting websites, Wikileaks, the Westboro Baptist Church, (dragging 20 sites of theirs down [...]
UGNazi Hacktivists Attack 4chan, CloudFlare, Wounded Warrior Project
Ms. Smith NetworkWorld After the FBI arrested Cosmo, the alleged leader of the UGNazi hacking group, the hackers attacked CloudFlare via a flaw in Google’s two-factor authentication system. The CloudFlare hack allowed UGNazi to change the DNS for 4chan, so visitors to the site were redirected to a UGNazis Twitter account. The attack on [...]
The VirtualThreat “I Got My Ports Probed” Contest
Enter The VirtualThreat “I Got My Ports Probed” Contest Today! All you have to do is upload a video to YouTube for a chance to win a $50 Amazon gift card. In the video you will need to say the following: —————————– ***** “Hi, My name is <YOUR NAME> and I just got my ports [...]
NSA Utah Data Center Largest Spy Compound Ever – Part 2
James Bamford Wired.com (Threat Level) Continued from: NSA Utah Data Center Largest Spy Compound Ever – Part 1 For the first time, a former NSA official has gone on the record to describe the program, codenamed Stellar Wind, in detail. William Binney was a senior NSA crypto-mathematician largely responsible for automating the agency’s worldwide eavesdropping [...]
NYTimes.com Site Vulnerability Allows Attacker to Post Fake Story
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer In this day and age we all depend heavily on the Internet and social networking to stay informed about important happenings around the world and in our own communities. What many people may not realize is the fact that there is a cyber war occurring beneath the covers [...]
US Government Used Stuxnet Worm To Target Iranian Nuclear Systems
Chris Dougherty Virtual Threat Contributing Writer Stuxnet worm was discovered in June 2010. It initially spreads via Microsoft Windows, and targets Siemens industrial software and equipment. While it is not the first time that hackers have targeted industrial systems, it is the first discovered malware that spies on and subverts industrial systems, and the [...]
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CISPA: A Vaguely-Defined Bill Against an Imaginary Threat [VIDEO]
RT The House of Representative has passed CISPA, a bill seeking to increase the government’s power to monitor private data online. Political commentator Luke Samuel says the law is directed against a nebulously-defined and imaginary threat. Luke Samuel, who writes for Spiked magazine, sat down with RT to talk about the reasons why there’s [...]
![Anonymous – Hackers World [HD VIDEO]](http://www.virtualthreat.com/wp-content/themes/clear/scripts/timthumb.php?src=http://www.virtualthreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/hackers_world_anonymous-150x150.png&w=150&h=150&zc=1 "Anonymous – Hackers World [HD VIDEO]")
Operation Defense Phase II Response To CISPA
Zach Walton WebProNews I told a friend last night that it wouldn’t be long before Anonymous reacted to the news of CISPA passing the House. I was right with Anonymous uploading a new video today that announces Operation Defense Phase II. If you weren’t around for the first phase of Operation Defense, it was a [...]
Anti – Android Network Toolkit and 7″ Tablet make a $99 Pentesting Platform
D. Dieterle Cyber Arms Every once in a while you run into a product that just makes you sit back and say – “Wow!” I just picked up a 7″ Polaroid tablet for $99 and was stunned at how good it works. The screen quality, how smooth it ran and how responsive it was. [...]
Anonymous Takes Out Boeing Website
Matt Liebowitz MSNBC TechnoBlog Anonymous is taking responsibility for launching a coordinated cyberattack on Boeing’s website, a high-profile takedown that’s part of the hacking collective’s campaign against what it believes is a stifling piece of federal legislation. Anonymous announced “Tango Down boeing.com by #Anonymous for #OpDefense” on its YourAnonNews Twitter feed at about 3:45 p.m. EDT [...]
Anonymous Promises to Take Down the Internet
Kurt Nimmo Infowars.com They’re back. The FBI’s Lulzsec promises hijinks on April Fool’s Day. On Saturday, the supposed hacktivist group infiltrated – and we can presume created – by the U.S. government released a YouTube video promising more mayhem. “Lulzsec will start targeting governments, corporations, agencies, and quite possibly the people watching this video. We are [...]
