Reports from users across the web that hotmail.com and outlook.com are down. Currently the services have been offline for around 15 minutes. This doesn’t bode well for large cloud installation, when one of the biggest, and up til now most respected services on the web goes down. Critical infrastructure failure, such as power or phone lines would normally have a regional impact, but huge cloud providers like Microsoft now impact millions of customers. The major browsers are saying you should not trust the hotmail site, as the DNS entry is... 

An interesting screen capture turned up on Reddit. Twitter user Max (@Irqendeiner) asked David Vonderhaar (@DavidVonderhaar), game director of Black Ops II, “There are so many guys who glitched/hacked to master prestige on PS3. Any chance that they are getting reset?” David “Vahn” Vonderhaar, answer was short but sweet “100% Chance”. The Prestige users that hacked their way to the top are typically easy to spot, first of all they are not as good as their title suggests, secondly if you check their combat record, and you see... 

A sophisticated cyberattack designed to access the US natural gas pipelines appears to have been under way for a number of months, the Department of Homeland Security has warned, elevating concerns about the that vital infrastructure could be vulnerable to computer attacks. The department’s Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) said recently that it had identified a single campaign behind multiple attempted intrusions into several unique pipeline companies since December last year. ICS-CERT has issued warnings and... 

Imperva have released a whitepaper on the supposed effectiveness of Anti-Virus products. The conclusion? Anti-Virus products are less effective against malware it has not seen previously. Really? You are telling me a signature based product is less effective when it does not have a signature? Wow, revolutionary. Having previously worked for a virus vendor I am well aware of the Anti-Virus solution limitations. The products essentially work by creating a unique hash of any file that has been identified as malicious. The identification of files as... 

Yesterday we reported on the alleged rape of a 16yr old girl from Steubenville High School. KnightSec an offshoot of the hacktivist group Anonymous have declared war on the alleged rapists. Today a VERY disturbing video has come to light on the Local Leaks website, shared on Vimeo, where students are discussing the alleged rape. Michael Colin Nodianos essentially admits to the Rape. WARNING! The content is VERY disturbing and our heart can only go out to the young victim, and we ask again today, WHY HAVE MORE PEOPLE NOT BEEN CHARGED?  Read More »

The hacker collective KnightSec initiated an attack, dubbed Operation Roll Red Roll (#OpRollRedRoll), on an Ohio High School Football Team’s fan website after the alleged gang rape of a 16-year-old girl by the team’s players. Last weekend, the Steubenville High School’s website was taken down and replaced with a modified webpage and a video of KnightSec’s formal demand for a public apology on behalf of the 16-year-old victim. KnightSec, a faction of the Internet activists group Anonymous, threaten to release the personal... 

Nerdo, known in the real world as Christopher Weatherhead, a 22 year old male, studying at Nottingham University, was busted earlier this year for allegedly taking part in the Denial of Service (DDOS) attack on PayPal that he allegedly conducted as part of the Anonymous Op, “Operation Payback”. A operation launched by the hacktivists in support of WikiLeaks when the PayPal site stop taking payments. Nerdo was convicted on one count of “conspiracy to impair the operation of computers” after been found guilty by a jury last... 

Video Games have had a great year! The top games have out sold every movie released this year solidifying their domination of the entertainment market. Games are no longer for the nerds of the world, but now have mass appeal. The “free to play” games have been killing it as have the social games, anchored by Facebook. But the online multiplayer games have crushed all that have come before them. So who were the winners of 2012? Below are the top twenty one! #21 – Nights in to Dreams Sega is back! Nightopia is a surreal world that you, as either,... 

Reports out of the US election, voters using electronic voting booths with touch screens that tried to vote for the incumbent President Obama are forced to vote for Romney! See the video below: The user taking the video reports, via Reddit, that he is a software developer by trade, so when he saw the problem immediately went in to troubleshooting mode. He attempted to select Obama, the computer selected Romney, he selected Romney, the computer selected Romney. He thought it might be a calibration error so decided to select the candidate below Obama,... 

Yesterday was a fail day for mainstream media and the blogosphere. It was widely reported that Anonymous had hacked thousands of account details from PayPal, instantly slamming the organisation with a reputational hit. Who wants to send money through an organisation that can’t keep your details secure? Supposedly the details were leaked as part of the Anonymous “Operation November 5th” that was being reported on Twitter under the hash tag #OpNov5. The security blogs picked up the reports and ran with it, as has now become normal...