Despite Intrusions, Chances Of U.S.-China Cyber War Are Small

SAN FRANCISCO – A panel of security and policy experts said that, despite dire warnings about the information warfare capabilities of China and other developing nations, the risk of an all-out cyber war is remote, and that the U.S. still holds many of the cards. Despite widespread portrayals of...

xArrow Multiple Vulnerabilities

Overview This advisory is a follow-up to ICS-ALERT-12-065-01 xArrow Vulnerabilities that was published March 05, 2012. Independent security researcher Luigi Auriemma identified and released four security vulnerabilities, along with proof-of-concept code, in the xArrow software application without...

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data

Zero-day Smartphone Vulnerability exposes location and User Data Smartphones are increasingly becoming the preferred device for both personal and professional computing, which has also attracted hackers to increase their focus on creating malware and other security vulnerabilities for these...

Sunway ForceControl SNMP NetDBServer Data Chunk Copy Buffer Overflow

Added: 02/22/2012 BID: 49747 OSVDB: 75798 Background Sunway ForceControl is a Chinese SCADA/HMI software application widely used in China to help run weapons systems, utilities and chemical plants. It is also used to a lesser extent in other countries, including the US. SNMP NetDBServer is one of...

Did A Decade-Long Hack Trigger Nortel's Demise?

A day after it was announced that Canadian telecommunications firm Nortel had been hacked for nearly 10 years, a prominent expert on sophisticated cyber attacks says the lengthy breach may have contributed to the company’s eventual collapse. The loss of intellectual property, coupled with sharper...

Weibo.com Cross Site Scripting

Information --------------------------------- Name : XSS Vulnerability in WEIBO.COM Vendor Homepage : http://corp.sina.com.cn/eng/sinaindexeng.htm Vulnerability Type : Cross-Site Scripting Severity : High Researcher : Yuping Li at ADLab of Beijing Leadsec Technology Co., Ltd Description...

Researchers Discover Android Mobile Botnet 100k Strong

A newly discovered malicious application circulating on third party Android markets in China has created a botnet that contains more than 100,000 compromised devices, researchers report. Researchers from North Carolina State University and Symantec say the malware, dubbed RootStrap NC State...

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome

"Cyber China", from Operation Aurora to China Cyber Attacks Syndrome Security Expert, from Security Affairs - Pierluigi Paganini takes us on a visit to China via The Hacker News January Edition Magazine Article and makes us wonder just how influential China's hacking is on world internet security...

Panasonic China website hacked and Redirected

Panasonic China website hacked and Redirected Latest notification by DarkDevilz Crew to THN , They hack Panasonic's China websites and Redirect users to a Black color Deface Page as shown. "3spi0n" named Hacker from team take responsibility to perform this Hack. Hacker compromise the URL : , and...

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market From last week premium rate SMS Trojans surfaced in the Android Market. Google has pulled 22 apps that are masquerading as legitimate versions of popular games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Security researchers have discovered a way...

US become victim of Indian spy unit, Apple & RIM deny their role !

US become victim of Indian spy unit, Apple & RIM deny their role ! A recently leaked memo reveals that American and Canadian based company's Apple, Research in Motion and Nokia may have helped the government of India spy on U.S. agencies in order to receive larger shares of the overall Indian cel...

How the Great Firewall of China Blocks Tor

Governments in some countries have not been shy about trying to block their citizens from using the Tor network to access censored or sensitive Web content. The Chinese government has become quite proficient at this, and a recent analysis of the methods the country is using to accomplish this sho...

Report: Hacks Of China Sites May Have Exposed Information On 100 Million

A string of attacks on prominent Chinese language websites and social networks may have leaked some 100 million username-password combinations online and revealed shoddy security practices at the sites, including Twitter competitor Sina Weibo. According to a report from the Beijing based Caixin...

Tianya, China's biggest online forum 40 million users data leaked

Tianya, China's biggest online forum 40 million users data leaked Tianya.cn, China's biggest online forum confirmed on Sunday that private information for 40 million users had been leaked, three days after the country's largest programmers' website CSDN reported a similar leak. Tianya is one of t...

Hackers from China Target, Hit U.S. Chamber of Commerce

A band of hackers from China was able to gain access to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and retrieve information on the organization’s employees for over a year before they were discovered in May 2010, according to a report in the Wall Street Journal today. The hackers infiltrated Chamber of Commerc...

China Software Developer Network (CSDN) 6 Million user data Leaked

China Software Developer Network CSDN 6 Million user data Leaked The "Chinese Software Developer Network" CSDN, operated by Bailian Midami Digital Technology Co., Ltd., is one of the biggest networks of software developers in China. A text file with 6 Million CSDN user info including user name,...

Report Claims U.S. Cyber Analysts Trace Most Serious Attacks To Just 12 Hacking Groups in China

Cyber security analysts at private sector firms in the U.S. say they have linked a string of devastating hacks of military networks and defense contractors to a small cadre of hacking groups within China, and are pushing the U.S. government for the green light to strike back. The report Monday in...

Feds Take Down 131 Counterfeiting Sites

It’s going to be considerably harder to get that sweet, knock-off Louis Vuitton bag you’ve been eyeing, and you can thank the US Immigrations and Customs Enforcement Agency ICE for that. The agency reportedly seized control of some 130 websites last week in advance of Black Friday and Cyber Monda...

APEC Host Committee Spear-Phished by China

An Analysis published earlier this month by Kahu Security raises the possibility that the hack of systems used by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation host committee was the result of a spear phishing attack with links back to the Chinese mainland. As Threatpost reported yesterday, computers...

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps

China is the birth place for most of malicious Android apps Mobile malware is rising, and there have been explosions in the world of viruses and Trojans. Virus makers are now targeting mobile platforms- thanks to their growing popularity. If we take the statistics from last 6 months, the chances ...