FBI Arrests Two Hackers Who Hacked US Spy Chief, FBI and CIA Director

US authorities have arrested two North Carolina men on charges that they were part of the notorious hacking group "Crackas With Attitude." Crackas with Attitude is the group of hackers who allegedly was behind a series of audacious and embarrassing hacks that targeted personal email accounts of...

Threat Outbreak Alert RuleID24353: Email Messages Distributing Malicious Software on August 18, 2016

Medium Alert ID: 48517 First Published: 2016 August 18 14:25 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages distributing malicious software. Email messages that are related to this threat RuleID24353 may contain the following files: Name |...

STOP Rule 41 — FBI should not get Legal Power to Hack Computers Worldwide

We have been hearing a lot about Rule 41 after the US Department of Justice has pushed an update to the rule. The change to the Rule 41 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure grants the FBI much greater powers to hack legally into any computer across the country, and perhaps anywhere in the...

Meaningful Surveillance Reform Risks Defeat Over US House Rules Change

Civil liberties groups are anxiously waiting to see if an anti-surveillance amendment will be added to a Department of Defense spending bill Tuesday. The so-called Massie-Lofgren amendment would rein in U.S. domestic mass surveillance by the NSA and protect U.S. encryption standards. The amendmen...

University Pays Hackers $20,000 to get back its Ransomware Infected Files

What's the worst that could happen when a Ransomware malware hits University? Last month, the IT department of the University from where I have done my graduation called me for helping them get rid of a Ransomware infection that locked down all its student's results just a day before the...

SQL Injection Vulnerability in the Comprehensive Information Portal System of Nanjing Normal University Finance Department

Nanjing Normal University Finance Department comprehensive information portal system is a set of financial management platform. SQL injection vulnerability exists in Nanjing Normal University Finance Department Comprehensive Information Portal System, which can be exploited by attackers to obtain...

Privacy Watchdogs Vow to Fight 'Dystopian' Rule 41

The Supreme Court is moving to expand the FBI’s hacking authority with Criminal Rule 41, an amendment to federal criminal procedures that makes it easier for the FBI to access computers remotely when their locations are unknown. Privacy watchdogs are blasting the proposed change saying it would...

Katie Moussouris on Free ISO 29147

Threatpost Op-Ed is a regular feature where experts contribute essays and commentary on what’s happening in security and privacy. Today’s contributor is Katie Moussouris @k8em0. Today marks an exciting development in the often monotonous rehashing of vulnerability disclosure. The ISO standard tha...

Ransomware attacks on Hospitals put Patients at Risk

Just last week, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI issued an urgent "Flash" message to the businesses and organisations about the threat of Samsam Ransomware, but the ransomware has already wreaked havoc on some critical infrastructure. MedStar, a non-profit group that runs 10 hospitals in t...

Hack The Pentagon Bug Bounty Opens April 18

The Department of Defense announced today that registration for its Hack the Pentagon bug bounty trial program is open, and that the program will be run on the HackerOne platform. The trial of the government’s first bug bounty program will run April 18 to May 12. The DoD said only certain...

Apple, Google Faced All Writs Act Orders

The American Civil Liberties Union has dug up more proof that from the get-go the FBI’s attempt to crack open an iPhone used by the San Bernardino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook was not just about the one phone. The ACLU found court documents and on Wednesday published an interactive map visualizing...

FBI Breaks into Terrorist's Encrypted iPhone

A six-week public standoff between Apple and the FBI ended today when the Department of Justice said it had accessed encrypted data stored on the San Bernardino terrorist’s iPhone. The DOJ said in its motion that it no longer needed Apple’s help as mandated in a Feb. 16 court order and asked that...

6 Charged for Hacking Lottery Terminals to Produce More Winning Tickets

Police have arrested and charged six people with crimes linked to hacking Connecticut state lottery terminals in order to produce more winning tickets than usual. Prosecutors say all the six suspects are either owners or employees of retail stores that produced a much higher number of winning...

125neyshabur.ir XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://125neyshabur.ir/department.php?keyword='"/alert/xssposed/...

Clarke: Precedent-Seeking FBI Won't Ask NSA to Unlock Phone

The National Security Agency’s silence in the Apple-FBI story is probably not so surprising. But that hasn’t stopped people from dragging the NSA’s name into the conversation. The latest to do so is Richard Clarke, former counterterrorism chair under presidents George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton...

DOJ Calls Apple's Rhetoric 'Corrosive' and 'False'

The Justice Department took off the gloves in its latest volley against Apple and its refusal to comply with a court order to unlock a terrorist’s iPhone. “Apple deliberately raised technological barriers that now stand between a lawful warrant and an iPhone containing evidence related to the...

xavier.edu XSS vulnerability

Vulnerable URL: http://www.xavier.edu/occupational-therapy-department/alumnipicnic/gallery/viewer.swf?xmlDataPath=http://45.55.162.179/vuln.xml Details: Description| Value ---|--- Patched:| No Latest check for patch:| 30.07.2017 Vulnerability type:| XSS Vulnerability status:| Publicly disclosed...

White House Wants Wassenaar Renegotiation

The White House, lawmakers said yesterday, wants to renegotiate the divisive U.S. implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement rules as they relate to intrusion software. A draft of the rules was pulled off the table in July by the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry and Security BIS followin...

Judge Confirms CMU Paid to Break Tor

A U.S. district court judge has confirmed what has probably been the worst-kept secret in security, that Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute was indeed contracted by the Department of Defense to study how to break Tor anonymity. A motion to compel discovery filed by Brian...

Judge Confirms Government Paid CMU Scientists to Hack Tor Users for FBI

Everything is now crystal clear: The security researchers from Carnegie Mellon University CMU were hired by the federal officials to discover a technique that could help the FBI Unmask Tor users and Reveal their IP addresses as part of a criminal investigation. Yes, a federal judge in Washington...