Again, the Japanese parliament gets cyber attacks. Apparently the origin of this attack is an email server that is connected with China and has been attacked several MPs computer.Japanese government spokesman said there was a dangerous email that spreads on computers in the upper chamber of parliament of Japan."The upper house has confirmed seven suspicious e-mail similar to the email sent to the lower house," said Deputy Chief Cabinet Secretary, Isao Saito as reported in Yahoo News, Thursday (03/11/2011).A report last week saying that the computers in the basement had been attacked by a virus that takes passwords and other information in it.Saito said the email server on the upper floor has not succumbed to the virus attacks and they have tightened security on the equipment used lawmakers there.A local media also reported on the computer last month the politicians and the lower house has been contaminated by the virus "Trojan" which makes a Chinese server can retrieve passwords and other information.
Still not clear who was behind the attack. The report adds that there is a possibility that China server is controlled from a third country.Japan also has been investigating a series of new attacks on computer systems in defense contractor Mitsubishi Heavy, which reportedly can lead to theft of information on military aircraft and nuclear power plants.Japan Local media said that computer hackers have also been targeted in several Japanese overseas diplomatic missions.
Anonymous groups are not only directing his attack to the world of the Internet, now they have started to lead to financial institutions that have strong security.
Anonymous Analytics, an extension of the group Anonymous, which was formed to attack the corporate and financial institutions around the world. Similarly, as quoted by ZDNet, Saturday (01/10/2011).
"The mission of Analytics Anonymous is for companies to attack the corrupt and fraudulent practices in a large scale," wrote the Anonymous on the official website.
Anonymous party also stated that the analysts, accountants, statisticians, computer experts and lawyers in their organization will investigate in advance of a target company prior to the attack.
The first target Anonymous Analytics is a firm listed in Hong Kong stock exchange, which is now in the investigation of Hong Kong.
Earlier on September 17 last, the hacker group Anonymous invite their followers on Twitter to be a stimulant hijack the world economic centers. The movement known as the 'occupy Wall Street'. (techno.okezone.com)
Twitter account from one of the biggest news network in the United States (U.S.), NBC News, has been hijacked by a hacker groupcalled Script Kiddies.
As quoted from Neowin, Saturday (10/09/2011), a Twitter accountfrom the NBC News has been hijacked by a group of hackersScript Kiddies.
"Breaking News! Ground Zero had been attacked. Flight 5736 had crashed into the site, allegedly an act of piracy. Follow the newslater," the hacker wrote tweet via Twitter account on NBC News.
Script Kiddies group also posted two more fake tweet in Twitter account NBC News, before finally turn off the Twitter account.
After the NBC incident through another account says that theofficial Twitter account has been hacked them.
"NBC's official Twitter account has been hacked and the hackerspreading false news. We are currently working with the Twitter tosolve this problem. We apologize for this problem. We appreciateyour trust," writes the NBC News.
Surely hijack a Twitter account and spread false news about theterrorist attacks to the U.S. that will commemorate the tragedy of 9 / 11, is a heinous act, and will get the punishment severe.
Who does not know the initials Anonymous hackers. In the world ofunderground hackers hacker group name is already known for itsfootball terjangnya. Expanded, the group has recently launched twoWeb sites whistleblower (whistle blower) WikiLeaks similar. The goal is to reveal sensitive information from government and corporations.
Both sites are each LocalLeaks.tk designed for information relating to corruption and errors at the local level. While the site isHackerLeaks.tk to other data that was stolen.
HackerLeaks site, which was launched since June 25, 2011 has revealed the first information in the form of a list of personal details of officers Orlando, Florida. This list contains the revenue officials,home values, and other data.
"Hacker helps the hackers to divulge the material interesting," CallHackerLeaks site.
LocalLeaks sites, which have been launched since January 2011and then, offer ways for people to send anonymous informationrelating to police brutality, corruption, government mistakes, orharassment in the workplace. (kompas.com)
Be careful that you are using Internet Explorer, because Microsoft's browser that could actually be a gateway for hackers (hackers) to access or hijack your Facebook and Twitter accounts.
A computer security researcher from Italy, Rosario Valotta, found that the collection of cookies that are stored when you use IE, can be stolen hackers who could then be used to access the web that you have ever visited.
"A little website. A little cookie (which means access to many websites, a lot of cookies). The limit is only your imagination," said Rosario Valotta that an independent Internet security researcher told Reuters.
Hackers can exploit this weakness to access data files stored in the browser, known as "cookies", including in it could be a login name and password for web account.
Once hackers have the cookie, he can use it to access the same site, said Valotta.
This technique he called "cookiejacking".
