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Anonymous Hackers for AntiSec operation, an international group campaigning against security agencies and governments, had on July 26 put online a set of documents allegedly hacked from the Italian cyber police server, which include the letters between the Indian embassy’s air wing and a local company supplying spares for military aircraft.the Izvestia daily said.

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SEOUL, July 28 (Yonhap) — SK Communications Co., the operator of South Korea’s third most-visited Internet portal, said Thursday that its popular Web sites were hacked, compromising the private information of 35 million users.

The malicious code apparently stemmed from an Internet Protocol address located in China, Koo said, but the company could not identify when the information was hacked and who was responsible for the online attack. It asked police to investigate the incident.

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If  Iphone or Ipad devices aren’t patched (version 4.34) , attackers can easily intercept and decrypt secure traffic — the kind guarded by SSL, which is used by banks, e-tailers and other sites — at a public Wi-Fi hotspot.

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The attacker in this case sent two different phishing emails over a two-day period. The two emails were sent to two small groups of employees; you wouldn’t consider these users particularly high profile or high value targets. The email subject line read “2011 Recruitment Plan.”

The email was crafted well enough to trick one of the employees to retrieve it from their Junk mail folder, and open the attached excel file. It was a spreadsheet titled “2011 Recruitment plan.xls.

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AntiSec hackers Anonymous and LulzSec have mounted a fresh three-stage campaign against PayPal, promising a subsequent follow up attack on eBay. The new three stage campaign was first announced last night via one of Anonymous’ Twitter accounts.

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The so-called “cyberspace deterrence” proposed by senior U.S. officers is similar to the “nuclear deterrent” of the past in principle. It means, while fully maintaining its attack strength, the United States must also possess the capability to carry out retaliation and destruction that the opposite side cannot afford to endure. Since nuclear weapons are too hard to proliferate, a “balance of nuclear terror” usually exists between two nuclear countries. But the situation of networks is obviously more complex.

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The Australian Federal Police says it’s uncovered a worrying hacking attack on a company which wholesales access to the National Broadband Network. Unemployed truckdriver David Cecil, known online as ‘Evil’, has been arrested and faces more than 40 charges related to the alleged attack.

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The batteries’ chips are shipped with default passwords, such that anyone who discovers that password and learns to control the chips’ firmware can potentially hijack them to do anything the hacker wants. That includes permanently ruining batteries at will, and may enable nastier tricks like implanting them with hidden malware that infects the computer no matter how many times software is reinstalled or even potentially causing the batteries to heat up, catch fire or explode. “These batteries just aren’t designed with the idea that people will mess with them,” Miller says. “What I’m showing is that it’s possible to use them to do something really bad.”

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According to the alleged member, who uses the name “Commander X,” the “hacktivist” group still has access to NATO servers and is currently “downloading databases.” What’s more, the person said that the group plans to release all the documents it has collected, even though a Twitter account related to the organization says such a release would be “irresponsible.”

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