FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous

FBI arrests AT&T employee for leaking information to Anonymous The Tech Herald reported on information given to us by Ryan Cleary shortly before his arrest. AT&T insider who handed sensitive information and a bootable USB disk over to Anonymous. On Tuesday, the FBI arrested an AT&T employee...

FBI Raids New York Homes of Suspected Anonymous Members

Agents of the FBI raided three homes in New York on Tuesday and seized computers believed to be involved in recent attacks by the Anonymous hacking group. FBI Agents raided three homes in Brooklyn, Baldwin and Merrick, New York at 6:00 AM, armed with search warrants seeking computers and related...

Microsoft Offers $250k Reward for Rustock Information

Microsoft is now offering a $250,000 reward to help track down the people behind the notorious Rustock botnet. The company, which helped take down the botnet several months ago, said that it already has some good information on the crew behind the network and is now looking for information to bri...

NetworkManager: Did not honour PolicyKit auth_admin action element by creation of Ad-Hoc wireless networks

GNOME NetworkManager before 0.8.6 does not properly enforce the authadmin element in PolicyKit, which allows local users to bypass intended wireless network sharing restrictions via unspecified vectors...

AntiSec Crew Attacks FBI Contractor IRC Federal

Members of the loosely organized group conducting the AntiSec hacking campaign have compromised a company called IRC Federal, which does contracting for the FBI and other federal agencies, posting a large trove of information online in retaliation for what the group says is IRC Federal’s record o...

Washington Post Hacked, 1.27M IDs and E-mail Addresses Stolen

Over a million user IDs and e-mail addresses of job applicants were taken from the Washington Post’s Web site after being hacked late last week, according to a statement posted on the Post’s Web site. The jobs section of the newspaper’s site was hit by two separate “brief” attacks by “an...

Official Website of Amy Winehouse - Songer/Songwriter Defaced

Official Website of Amy Winehouse - Songer/Songwriter Defaced Amy Jade Winehouse official website https://www.amywinehouse.com/ defaced by Anonymous hackers for Antisec . Amy Jade Winehouse born 14 September 1983 is an English singer-songwriter, known for her powerful contralto vocals and her...

Meggit - US Military and Law Enforcement equipment supplier hacked for #Antisec

Meggit Database Hacked - US Military and Law Enforcement equipment supplier for Antisec Database of www.meggitttrainingsystems.com a US Military and Law Enforcement equipment supplier has been hacked and exposed by Anonymous The Bash Crew . Hackers said "People of the USA your government puts the...

Design/Logic Flaw

Mozilla Firefox before 5.0 does not properly enforce the whitelist for the xpinstall functionality, which allows remote attackers to trigger an installation dialog for a 1 add-on or 2 theme via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2011-2370

Mozilla Firefox before 5.0 does not properly enforce the whitelist for the xpinstall functionality, which allows remote attackers to trigger an installation dialog for a 1 add-on or 2 theme via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2011-2370

CVE-2011-2370 is associated with Mozilla Firefox prior to 5.0, where the xpinstall whitelist is not properly enforced. This can allow a remote attacker to trigger an installation dialog for an add-on or a theme via unspecified vectors. The connected documents confirm the vulnerability reference b...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II" from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The two...

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack

13 Years Jail for Phishing Attack A 27 year old man "Kenneth Joseph Lucas II " from Los Angeles has been sentenced to 13 years in prison for allegedly playing an active role in a phishing attack, aimed at stealing money from consumer bank accounts during the operation "Phish Phry" in 2009. The tw...

Barr Unbowed Part II: Setting the Record Straight on HBGary Federal

This is the second in a two-part interview with Aaron Barr, the former CEO of HBGary Federal In the second half of his exclusive interview with Threatpost, former HBGary CEO Aaron Barr – speaking before the arrest of alleged Lulzsec member Ryan Cleary in the UK – talked about the likely law...

Lulzsec Outs "Snitches" After UK Arrest

The age-old adage that there’s “no honor among thieves” appears to be playing out in the world of hacking, as well, as members of the online hacking group Lulzsec published information identifying two associates they accuse of informing on them to authorities. The outing followed the arrest on...

Three Alleged Anonymous Leaders Arrested in Spain

The New York Times is reporting that Spanish Law enforcement officials have arrested three individuals in connection with cyberattacks on Sony’s PlayStation Network as well as other corporations and governments around the world. The individuals are alleged to be leading members of the internet...

CVE-2011-1921

The moddavsvn module for the Apache HTTP Server, as distributed in Apache Subversion 1.5.x and 1.6.x before 1.6.17, when the SVNPathAuthz shortcircuit option is disabled, does not properly enforce permissions for files that had been publicly readable in the past, which allows remote attackers to...

Nmap NSE net: smb-brute

Attempts to guess username/password combinations over SMB, storing discovered combinations for use in other scripts. SYNTAX: userdb: The filename of an alternate username database. brutelimit: Limits the number of usernames checked in the script. In some domains, it's possible to end up with...

Company Offers Tool To Break iPhone Encryption

ElcomSoft, a Russian security firm, claims that a new encryption cracking tool can decode data encrypted on mobile devices running Apple’s iOS operating system. Elcomsoft says it has developed the first ever commercially available password and encryption cracking tool. The company has made a phon...

They Changed What? HIPAA & HITECH

In 1996, the Healthcare Insurance Portability and Accountability Act HIPAA opened the door to increased exchanges of healthcare information in an effort to improve care and reduce costs. The Act included new provisions for protected health information PHI. Since there are only a few limited revie...