I’m as sick of writing about it as you are sick of reading about it. But because Facebook has become a societal juggernaut: a massive inexorable force that seems to crush everything in its way, we need to discuss it because it’s messing with lots of functions of society.

The ability to access the code of open-source applications may give attackers an edge in developing exploits for the software, according to a paper analyzing two years' worth of attack data.

Local police here have arrested a seven-member gang in Hyderabad for allegedly hacking the website of the Regional Passport Office.

Social engineering has evidently earned a new level of respect from hacker community: For the first time, this year's Defcon gathering in Las Vegas will feature a contest in which participants will compete to gather nuggets of information from unsuspecting target companies -- over the telephone instead of the Internet.

The internet as we know it is reaching its limits.

The Consumers’ Foundation yesterday said a number of social gaming companies do not provide adequate protection of consumers’ rights, as they have no standard procedures to prevent hackers from illegally accessing players’ accounts.

"Malware embedded into legitimate-looking games designed for Windows Mobile has appeared, automatically dialing up foreign telephone services to rig up hundreds of dollars in illicit charges for users behind their backs," Prince McLean reports for AppleInsider.

The Israeli radio reported today that hackers hacked 1000 Israeli websites since the Israeli attack of Freedom Flotilla on last Monday.

Recent reports have detailed Google's actions to phase out the internal use of Microsoft's operating system for security reasons following targeted attacks that the company has experienced. The targeted espionage attacks took place in January of this year and were carried out with the aim of gaining access to the Gmail accounts of Chinese human right activists.

Adobe has announced that an exploitable flaw in Adobe Reader 9.x, Acrobat 9.x, and Flash 9.x and 10.x has been discovered and is being actively exploited. Windows, Mac OS X, and Linux versions are all affected. The flaw allows arbitrary code execution by attackers, and hence it is deemed "critical."

Легальный взлом. Можно ли заниматься любимым делом и прокачивать свои навыки в пентесте, не нарушая закон? Где можно проводить инъекции и экспериментировать со сплоитами, не думая о том, включен VPN или нет? Как опробовать полученные знания, пробравшись от бага в скрипте до самого рута в системе? Способ есть!