Global Payments Inc. Acknowledges Breach

Following previous announcements from Visa and Mastercard, electronic credit card processor Global Payments Inc. acknowledged late Friday that its system was breached earlier this year. Global Payments announced via press release that a portion of its processing system had been compromised in ear...

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor

50K Cards Compromised using Credit Card Processor Some 50,000 credit and debit cardholders may have their information exposed following a security breach at Global Payments. The breach occurred sometime between between Jan. 21, 2012 and Feb. 25, 2012. Both Visa and MasterCard have confirmed they...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

ISPs Signal Support For Anti-Bot Code Of Conduct

The U.S.’s leading Internet Service Providers signed on to a new Federal Communications Commission code of conduct to limit the impact of major cyber security threats including botnets, attacks on the Domain Name System DNS and Internet routing attacks. AT&T, CenturyLink, Comcast, Cox, Sprint, Ti...

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011

Hacktivism Breached 174 Million Records in 2011 According to the Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report released on Thursday, Hacktivists stole more data from large corporations than cybercriminals in 2011, according to a study of significant security incidents. The report surveyed 855 da...

Video: College Professor, Students Crack Zeus Trojan Mystery

A segment from last night’s Rock Center, Brian Williams’ TV news magazine, gives the inside scoop on how a college professor and his students helped law enforcement crack one of the largest and most profitable banking Trojan operations around. Reporter Richard Engel sat down with Gary Warner, a...

The Genetic Log-in

DNA has been in use as a biometric identifier for some time. But as the O.J. trial proved, DNA analysis takes time, costs a lot of money and requires a lab to process – often creating the opening for challenges as to the accuracy of the test results. That’s the reason that, despite its utility, D...

Twitter releases data to Law Enforcements for criminal inquiry

Twitter releases data to Law Enforcements for criminal inquiry Twitter handed over subscriber information yesterday for one Twitter account indirectly tied to the Occupy Boston protest, ending a court battle fought behind closed doors as Boston law enforcement investigated hacking attacks on the...

UPDATE: Interpol Operation Leads to Arrest of 25 Suspected Anons

Interpol announced yesterday that they had taken part in an international operation that led to the arrests of 25 alleged members of the Anonymous hacker collective. The not-arrested members of Anonymous reportedly lashed back with a stinging DDoS attack on Interpol’s website. The so-called...

Hackers leak objectionable Photos from LA cops inbox

Hackers leak objectionable Photos from LA cops inbox CabinCrew group of Hackers, that claims to have found, and reported, objectionable photos of children in an officer's private e-mail account, anonymously posted hacked police data to a website. More than 100 local law enforcement officers had...

Variant of Zeusbot/Spyeye Botnet uses p2p network model

Variant of Zeusbot/Spyeye Botnet uses p2p network model Cybercriminals are using a modified version of the Zeusbot/Spyeye, which is using a peer-to-peer P2P network architecture, rather than a simple bot to command-and-control C&C server system, making the botnet much harder to take down, Symante...

Anonymous Targets U.S. Makers of Crowd Control Tools

The Anonymous hacker collective lashed out against two companies it accuses of selling crowd control technologies to repressive regimes and to law enforcement, the Associated Press reports. Web sites belonging to Combined Systems Inc. CSI and Sur-Tec Inc. were both down on Friday. The...

UPDATED: Anonymous Hacks FTC Consumer Protection Website To Protest ACTA

The anarchic hacking collective Anonymous took credit for a successful attack on Web sites belonging to the FTC. The attack, on Friday, was in protest for the U.S. Government’s support of ACTA, the Anti Counterfeiting Trade Agreement. Story updated to include comment from the FTC. A number of FTC...

CVE-2012-1056

CVE-2012-1056 concerns the Drupal Forward module (6.x-1.x before 6.x-1.21 and 7.x-1.x before 7.x-1.3). The issue is improper permission checks for the Recent forwards, Most forwarded, and Dynamic blocks, enabling remote attackers to obtain node titles via unspecified vectors. The related Drupal S...

Panel Discussion on Law Enforcement and Cybercriminals

Investigators from Interpol, the Dutch High Tech Crime Unit NHTCU, Germany’s Bundeskriminalamt BKA, and the General Directorate for the Romanian Intelligence and Internal Protection GDIIP participated in a panel moderated by Threatpost editor Paul Roberts on the first day of the conference. The...

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code

YamaTough Hacker Demanded $50,000 for not releasing Stolen Symantec Source Code According to email transcripts posted to Pastebin yesterday, and confirmed by the company, a group of hackers attempted to extort $50,000 from Symantec in exchange for not releasing its stolen PCAnywhere and Norton...

Anonymous Leaks FBI, Scotland Yard Phone Call Detailing Hacking Investigations

Hacktivists with the online collective Anonymous have released a recording of a sensitive phone call between officials with the FBI, Scotland Yard and other foreign police agencies related to ongoing investigations into hacking. The conference call, which occurred Jan. 17, focused on the continue...

Cyber Cops Wrestle With Legal Hurdles, Public Perception

CANCUN, MEXICO — A panel of top law enforcement officers in charge of cyber criminal investigations reveals that the guys with the white hats face an uphill climb if they want to take down cyber criminal kingpins, with outdated laws and processes on the one hand, and an increasingly skeptical and...

Report Warns of Woeful Readiness For Cyber Attacks Globally

A new report finds that the ‘bad guys’ are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks. The report, by Security & Defence Agenda SDA, was commissioned by the security firm McAfee. It concluded that friendly nations around the globe are losing out in an arms race wi...

FBI Looking for App to Monitor Twitter and Facebook For Threat Data

The FBI is in the early stages of developing an application that would monitor sites such as Twitter and Facebook, as well as various news feeds, in order to find information on emerging threats and new events happening at the moment. The tool would give specialists the ability to pull the data...