Three LulzSec hackers pleads guilty To NHS, Sony Attacks

Three members of the high profile internet hacktivist group LulzSec have admitted to their parts in a series of cyber attacks against the NHS, Sony and News International. Ryan Ackroyd, Jake Davis and Mustafa Al-Bassam, pleaded guilty to one charge of carrying out an unauthorized act to impair th...

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks

17 year old Teenager arrested over TeamPoison hacking attacks A teenage boy has been arrested on suspicion of being a member of "TeamPoison", a computer hacking group that has claimed responsibility for 1,400 offences including an attack on the phone system of Scotland Yard's counter-terrorism un...

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia

Carberp Banking Trojan Scam - 8 Arrested in Russia 8 Men suspected of being involved in the Carberp phishing scam have been arrested in Russia. The men were arrested after a joint investigation by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD and Federal Security Service FSB. According to the MVD,...

Anonymous Changes DDoS Tactics in Megaupload Retaliation

Anonymous’ army of hacktivists have changed tactics in what some are calling an attempt to trick people into participating in distributed denial-of-service DDoS attacks. A round of DDoS attacks Thursday were launched in retaliation for the federal crackdown on Megaupload, a popular file-sharing...

Cyber Attacks Hit Nearly 40 South Korean websites !

According to a new report, 40 South Korean websites came under a cyber crime attack by a computer virus, including the presidential Blue House, South Korea's biggest bank , a major online auction house, the Foreign Ministry, the two largest search engines in the country and Korean military websit...

Dutch Police Arrest 16-Year-Old for Pro-WikiLeaks Cyber Attacks

Dutch authorities announced the arrest of a 16-year-old hacker involved in the pro-WikiLeaks attacks on the websites of MasterCard and PayPal. The Dutch National Prosecutors Office reported that the teen, whose name was not disclosed, was arrested by a high-tech crime team last night. The arrest...

Winny node information processing vulnerability

Overview Winny contains a vulnerability in the processing of node information. Winny is a P2P file sharing software. Winny contains a vulnerability in the processing of node information, which can be used to launch Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks. Fuyumasa Takatsu of University of...

Microsoft MSDTC TIP Distributed Denial Of Service Vulnerability

Description The Microsoft MSDTC Microsoft Distribution Transaction Coordinator service is prone to a vulnerability that may permit denial of service attacks against the service or facilitate distributed denial of service attacks against other computers. The vulnerability exists in the TIP...

IRC Bot Detection

This host seems to be running an ident server, but before any request is sent, the server gives an answer about a connection to port 6667. It is very likely this system has been compromised by an IRC bot and is now a 'zombie' that can participate in 'distributed denial of service' DDoS attacks...

Postfix 1.1.x - Denial of Service (1)

Postfix 1.1.x - Denial of Service 1 // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/8333/info Debian has reported two vulnerabilities in the Postfix mail transfer agent. The first vulnerability, CAN-2003-0468, can allow for an adversary to "bounce-scan" a private network. It has also been reported...

Multiple Remote Windows XP/ME/98 Vulnerabilities

Multiple Remote Windows XP/ME/98 Vulnerabilities Release Date: 12/20/01 Severity: High Systems Affected: Microsoft Windows XP All default systems Microsoft Windows 98 Certain configurations Microsoft Windows 98SE Certain configurations Microsoft Windows ME Certain configurations Description:...

Trinity v3 Trojan Detection

The remote host appears to be running Trinity v3, a Trojan Horse that can be used to control your system or make it attack another network this is actually called a Distributed Denial Of Service attack tool. It is very likely that this host has been compromised C Tenable Network Security, Inc...