Hacking News & Cyber Updates: 20th Sept 7 PM

Cybercrime on the rise in Bangladesh Khabar South Asia In February of this year, a cyber war broke out between hackers in Bangladesh and India, resulting in the temporary disruption of some important websites in both countries including the prime minister's office in Bangladesh. The logo of the Bangladesh ... See all stories on this topic » Computer programmer charged with hacking Toyota website, causing crash of ... The Republic A computer programmer from central Kentucky who once did contract work for Toyota has been charged with hacking into and damaging computers used by the automobile maker. The FBI filed a federal criminal complaint against Ibrahimshah Shahulhameed ... See all stories on this topic » POS Hacking Exposes Security Holes NACS Online PRINCETON, NJ – Details revealed in court following the apprehension of two hackers who hit point-of-sale devices at 100 shops and retailers expose POS security vulnerabilities, Bank Info Security reports. The attacks compromised Internet-connected POS ... See all stories on this topic » Beware: Tony Baez's e-mail hacked Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (blog) But he's in Puerto Rico and his e mail was hacked, said Aldira Aldape, his executive assistant. She said he's sending out messages to ignore the bogus e mail. In the fake e mail the writer claims "we were attacked by four armed robbers on our way back ... See all stories on this topic » Japanese government sites allegedly hacked by the Chinese The Next Web The Chinese-Japanese islands clash has taken a new turn; an online war may have just erupted. Japan appears to be the  victim, but that's just assuming the country's Internet elite doesn't decide to hit back. At least 19 Japanese websites, including ... See all stories on this topic » Windows Secrets Newsletter website hacked Ghacks Technology News It recently became known that the Windows Secrets Newsletter website got hacked. The attacker managed to brute force an administrator account to gain access to the site. Using the account, the hacker planted malicious code on the site to get access to... See all stories on this topic » Hackers leak passwords from popular private torrent \tracker Afterdawn.com "RevTT is hacked by Afghanistan Hackers!!!" The torrent tracker  was founded 6 years ago and is one of the larger private trackers. Private trackers require registration for access, usually via invites from other established users. Site staff as less ... See all stories on this topic » We need 400000 skilled people to address cyber security: Gulshan Rai Business Standard We track sites that are hacked and try to get in touch with all the parties that report to us. According to our mandate we try to  help them, study the logs, look into the vulnerabilities that have been exploited and consider what needs to be done. We ... See all stories on this topic »Android Hacked via NFC on the Samsung Galaxy S 3 By Emil Protalinski Security researchers participating in the Mobile Pwn2Own contest at the EuSecWest Conference in Amsterdam today demonstrated how to hack Android through Near Field Communication (NFC). The 0day exploit was developed by four ... The Next Web iPhone 4S hacked to gain unauthorized access to photos and ... By Jake Smith Two clever minds during a Pwn2Own contest were able to hack a fully patched iPhone 4S to gain a slew of information from the device, reported ZdNet. The hackers, Joost Pol and Daan Keuper,  were able to find vulnerability in WebKit that ... 9to5Mac iPhone 4S hacked at Pwn2Own thanks to Safari flaw – Cell Phones ... By Ryan Whitwam Even the iPhone is not invulnerable to security flaws. Geek.com 2NE1′s CL hacked Dara's Twitter? By elliefilet Fans and netizens commented, “I was shocked because I thought Dara's Twitter was hacked only two days after she made it”, “I was worried you were really hacked”, “It's so cute that Park Bom looked at all the mentions”, and “It's funny ... allkpop