IC3 Issues Internet Crime Report for 2014

The Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released its Internet Crime Report for 2014, indicating that scams relating to social media—including doxing, click-jacking, and pharming—have increased substantially over the past five years. US-CERT encourages users to review the IC3 Alert for details...

The Triumphant Finale of CSI: Cyber

It’s been a couple of months since we left our heroes on CSI: Cyber, and boy, have they been busy. They have apparently solved many crimes using cyber-sleuthing, acquired some decidedly non-cyber firearms skills, and, in the case of our man Krumitz, taken up running. We wanted to check in and see...

New Utility Decrypts Files Lost to TeslaCrypt Ransomware

Crypto-ransomware variants have enterprises on edge because of the threat of irreversibly damaged files. Some organizations, including most recently the Tewksbury, Ma., police department have gone as far as to pay hundreds of dollars in ransom for the recovery key. Some technology companies are...

CSI: Cyber: We Watched So You Didn't Have To

From the time the first commercials aired during the American pro football championship game last month, CSI: Cyber has been one of the more talked-about and least-anticipated shows in recent memory. At least in tech circles. For normal viewers, it’s one of those shows that you wake up in the...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

Missing Two-Factor Authentication Led to JPMorgan Breach

The biggest U.S. banking breach of all time came down to the smallest of details. The New York Times, citing sources close to the ongoing investigation of the JPMorgan data breach, said hackers found a server unprotected by two-factor authentication to break in using a stolen user name and passwo...

EC3 Head Paints Bleak Cybercrime Picture

WASHINGTON D.C. – Everyone has the right to privacy, said Troels Oerting, head of the Europol’s European Cybercrime Center EC3, at Georgetown Law’s Cybercrime2020 conference yesterday. However, he went on, if you break your contract with society, that right can be taken away. Oerting noted that i...

Fedora 20 : Pound-2.6-8.fc20 (2014-13777)

Backport various security fixes. Note they usually are extra options that need to be enabled manually so that we won't break functionality : - CVE-2011-3389: Make it possible to deny use of 'BEAST' vulnerable ciphers - CVE-2012-4929: Disable compression to be safe from 'CRIME' - CVE-2005-2090:...

Fedora 19 : Pound-2.6-8.fc19 (2014-13764)

Backport various security fixes. Note they usually are extra options that need to be enabled manually so that we won't break functionality : - CVE-2011-3389: Make it possible to deny use of 'BEAST' vulnerable ciphers - CVE-2012-4929: Disable compression to be safe from 'CRIME' - CVE-2005-2090:...

New POODLE SSL 3.0 Attack Exploits Protocol Fallback Issue

A new attack on the SSLv3 protocol, disclosed Tuesday, takes advantage of an issue with the protocol that enables a network attacker to recover the plaintext communications of a victim. The attack is considered easier to exploit than similar previous attacks against SSL/TLS, such as BEAST and...

F5 Networks BIG-IP : CRIME vulnerability via TLS 1.2 protocol (K14054)

The TLS protocol 1.2 and earlier, as used in Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, and other products, can encrypt compressed data without properly obfuscating the length of the unencrypted data. This allows man-in-the-middle attackers to obtain plain text HTTP headers by observing length differences...

Israeli Think Tank Compromised to Serve Sweet Orange Exploit Kit

The official website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA, has been compromised and abused by attackers to distribute malware. The Israeli think tank website JCPA – an independent research institute focusing on...

openSUSE Security Update : apache2 (openSUSE-SU-2014:1045-1)

This apache2 update fixes the following security issues : - CRIME types of attack, based on size and timing analysis of compressed content, are now mitigated by the new SSLCompression directive, set to 'no' in /etc/apache2/ssl-global.conf - ssl-global.conf: SSLHonorCipherOrder set to on -...

FBI — Botnets Infecting 18 Computers per Second. But How Many of Them NSA Holds?

Botnets - a secretly compromised networks of ordinary home and office computers with rogue software or "malware" that are controlled by an individual criminal or a group - has dramatically increased over the past several years and are considered to pose the biggest threat to the Internet. Cyber...

Tinba Banker Trojan Source Code Posted

The source code for Tinba, known as the smallest banker Trojan in circulation, has been posted on an underground forum. Researchers say that the files turned out to be the source code for version one of Tinba, which was identified in 2012, and is the original, privately sold version of the...

How do cyber insurer's assess cyber risk?

Last week I presented on risk transfer as a viable risk management option to compliance and security professionals at the Financial Crime Compliance Professionals Conference in London. As mentioned in one of Ricks earlier blog entries analyzing the Target kill chain, the communication between...

openSUSE Security Update : libqt4 (openSUSE-SU-2012:1420-1)

This update of libqt4 disabled compression to mitigate the CRIME attack. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were extracted from openSUSE Security Update openSUSE-2012-751. The text description of this plugin is C SUSE LLC...

openSUSE Security Update : openssl (openSUSE-SU-2013:1630-1)

This update disables compression in openssl by default, as the varying sizes resulting from compression can be used to retrieve plaintext in various cases. CRIME attack CVE-2012-4929. This update introduces a environment variable OPENSSLNODEFAULTZLIB which can be set to 'no' to reenable compressi...

X (Formerly Twitter): uclfinal.twitter.com and euro2012.twitter.com are vulnerable to CRIME attack

hi, i hope this one is not dup : https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=uclfinal.twitter.com&hideResults=on https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=euro2012.twitter.com&hideResults=on mohameds-iMac:Downloads mohaab007$ java -jar TestSSLServer.jar uclfinal.twitter.com Supported...

To Tackle Cyber Crime, FBI Could Hire Hackers Who Smoke Weed

Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has been authorized by U.S Congress to hire 2,000 new employees this year, and many of those will be young hackers and Programmers in order to built-up its cyber crime division, but FBI’s Director ‘James B. Comey’ is facing some difficulties. Apparently, FBI’s...