Popular note taking service, Evernote has announced that they suffered a data breach recently. But thankfully, according to a blog post made at the Evernote blog, the hackers were not able to break into and access stored notes of individual users.

Twitter has released information regarding a hacking attempt which has led to partial breach of around 250,000 accounts.

The hackers are extremely confident about their mission and have been able to cause temporary interruption of services in BoA and Citibank.

Russian hackers have discovered a new vulnerability in Skype that could allow anyone to practically reset any Skype account if the email associated is known.

A hacker going by the Twitter handle @Ur0b0r0x has breached LG Smart World and leaked email address and password hashes of 11,316 users.

The hacker group has a timetable for this week’s attack, with Wells Fargo, the US Bank and the PNC websites scheduled for Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday respectively.

Al-Rashedon, a Syrian hacker group has hacked a slew of Al-Jaeera websites for their reporting of the unrest in Syria. The hack affected Al-Jazeera’s English and Arabic websites, and left them defaced with this image on Tuesday. The group posted a message to Al-Jazeera as seen in the image, saying, In response to your stand against Syria (Government [...]

The typical phishing attack included creating a fake login page, storing them in a server and emailing the victim with the fake login page link. A new research paper from InfoSec student, Henning Klevjer shows how a hacker can create phishing attacks without the need for storing the fake login page.

A look at issues of our current security infrastructure.

Dropbox users are complaining about a possible spam wave targeted at emails used to login to Dropbox.

Reports are coming in that hackers have managed to hack into a Yahoo service and steal sensitive data of more than 453000 of its customers. According to a security firm, Trustedsec, who first reported the incident, the service that was compromised was Yahoo Voice.

Social Q&A site Formspring has been hacked, and a dump of user passwords has appeared online. As a precautionary measure, Formspring is forcing every user to reset his password.

Glenn Mangham, who is only a year younger than Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, was jailed for 8 months by the British court today. The self-described “ethical hacker” said that he wanted a mini project to point out vulnerabilities on a major web site.

Valve’s Gabe Newell issued a statement on the digital distribution giant’s news portal regarding the hacker intrusion of its systems last year. Newell, the CEO of the gaming company, stated that amongst other harmless data the intruders may have stolen logs that contain credit card numbers and other such things – encrypted mind – and data of all the transactions done between 2004-2008. He further advises everyone to monitor their credit card statements carefully and change the Steam passwords.

Anonymous has retaliated against Oakland officials for the police crackdown on Occupy Oakland protests by revealing personal information of city officials on the web.