Facebook Launches Global Hacker Cup Programming Contest

Hacking is a core aspect of Facebook's culture. Whether we are developing the next big product at one of our hackathons or creating a smarter search algorithm, we constantly hack to find better solutions. We are launching the Hacker Cup to unite engineers worldwide in a multi-round programming...

Hacker blackmailed women into making porn movie !!

A CALIFORNIA man has been charged after he allegedly hacked into more than 100 computers to look for sexually explicit photos that he then used to blackmail his victims into handing over homemade sex tapes. Luis Mijangos, 31, was charged with extortion after he allegedly infected more than 100...

ToorCon

San Diego, California, U.S. Southern California’s premiere hacking event, ToorCon is in its 12th year, after being launched by San Diego area 2600 user group members David Hulton aka h1kari and Ben Greenberg in 1999. No industry event, ToorCon is for serious security practitioners, offering...

California Man Gets 6 Years for Laundering

A Long Beach, California man who helped funnel stolen cash to a global network of hackers and carders was sentenced Thursday to 6 years in prison for conspiracy to launder money. Cesar Carranza, 38, sold MSR-206’s to carders to encode stolen bank card data onto blank cards, and he served as a...

California Bill Ups the Ante on Breach Notifications

The new bill requires that the company include the type of personal information exposed in the breach; the date or estimated date of the breach; a general description of the incident itself; and toll-free numbers and addresses for credit reporting agencies if the breach included social security...

Escrow Firm Loses Nearly $500K from Online Thieves

A California escrow firm has been forced to take out a pricey loan to pay back $465,000 that was stolen when hackers hijacked the company’s online bank account earlier this year. Read the full article. KrebsonSecurity...

A Closer Look At Security Insurance

An inside look at a California-based engineering company defrauded by an online banking Trojan, automated clearing house transfers, East-coast based money mules, yet the company was holding a cybersecurity insurance policy and looks to recover all of its stolen funds. Read the full article...

Feds Indict 5 in Carson, CA Crimes

Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, California using credential-stealing spyware. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Former Hacker Lamo Treated for Asperger's

Last month Adrian Lamo, a man once hunted by the FBI, did something contrary to his nature. He picked up a payphone outside a Northern California supermarket and called the cops. Read the full article. Wired...

ISP 3FN.net Shut Down By Feds

A federal judge has permanently pulled the plug on a California web hosting provider accused of harboring a “witches’ brew” of pernicious content on behalf of child pornographers, spammers, and malware purveyors. Read the full article. The Register...

Intel Admits It Was Hacked in January

Intel is the latest U.S. corporation to acknowledge that it was hacked in January in a sophisticated attack that occurred at the same time that Google, Adobe and others were targeted. The giant California-based chip maker was rumored to have been among some 34 companies that were targeted, but sa...

Southern California Man Gets 11 Years in Slammer for ID Theft Ring

Martin Quoc Pham, 28, of Garden Grove was sentenced by a judge to 11 years in Federal prison for spearheading an identity theft ring targeting home equity lines. The compromised accounts of JP Morgan Chase customers were fraudulently accessed and lines of credit were stolen including nearly $1...

Amazon Moves to Mitigate Threats to Cloud Service

Amazon said today that it has taken steps to mitigate a security issue in its cloud computing infrastructure that was identified recently by researchers from MIT and the University of California at San Diego. The report described how attackers could search for, locate and attack specific targets ...

What Was the Effect of Shutting Down McColo?

From Light Blue Touchpaper Richard Clayton On 11 November 2008 McColo, a Californian server hosting company, was disconnected from the Internet. This took the controllers for 6 major botnets offline. It has been widely reported that email spam volumes were markedly reduced for some time thereafte...

Botnet hijack: Researchers dissect Torpig malware operation

Security researchers at University of California, Santa Barbara have broken into the nerve center of the Torpig botnet also called Sinowal or Mebroot to find a ten-day stash of 10,000 bank accounts and credit card numbers worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. During the botnet hijack .pdf, the...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.californiafitness.com

Security researcher DerickTham, has submitted on 30/12/2008 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.californiafitness.com, which at the time of submission ranked 308638 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 25/12/2011. ...

boinc-xss.txt

HSC Boinc Forum Cross Site Scripting Vulrnability This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. Attackers may exploit this issue via a web client. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code execute in the browser of an...

Boinc Forum Cross Site Scripting Vulrnability

HSC Boinc Forum Cross Site Scripting Vulrnability This issue is due to a failure in the application to properly sanitize user-supplied input. Attackers may exploit this issue via a web client. An attacker may leverage this issue to have arbitrary script code execute in the browser of an...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.californiafitness.com

Security researcher DerickTham, has submitted on 08/12/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.californiafitness.com, which at the time of submission ranked 70901 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 10/12/2007. I...

Directory Traversal Vulnerability in Goop Gallery 2.0.2

Armorize Technologies Security Advisory Advisory No: Armorize-ADV-2006-0004 Status: Partial Date: 2006/10/04 Bugtraq No.: N/A Summary: Armorize-ADV-2006-0004 discloses a special case of directory traversal vulnerability found in Goop Gallery, which is is a directory based photo gallery and does n...