Most of the Samsung Android phones with TouchWIZ UI can be factory reset by simply opening a link.

Anonymous has made a Pastebin dump of email exchanges between a Symantec representative called Sam Thomas and Yamatough, the spokesperson of the hacker group Lords of Dharmaraja.

The hacker group is accusing Symantec of ‘bribing’ them in order to prevent the release of the pcAnywhere source code. Looking at the email exchange however, it seems that the hacker group was in fact trying to extort money from Symantec.

Amnesty International’s UK website was hacked recently, to incorporate an iframe that served a Trojan.
The iframe loads a CVE-2011-3544 based java exploit code, fetched from a Brazilian automobile site which itself was hacked. Security Analyst, Brian Krebs reports that the retrieved executable file is a trjoan classified as Trojan Spy-XR. This Trojan, which relies on a patched Java vulnerability, tracks and steals the affected user’s keystrokes.

The PS Vita, the newest handheld console from Sony has been hacked to run custom code. This latest development comes from PS Vita developer mamosuke who used a PSP emulation trick to run the Hello World code. Read more about the PS Vita hack in this post!

BSNL site defaced as retribution for Indian sites being hacked. Databases copied and deleted from server.

EA’s BioWare division was hacked, with personal information of users being taken, including names, phone numbers, and addresses.

Lulzsec leaks Sony Developer Network source code.