Thousands of Hacked Uber Accounts Selling on Dark Web for $1

$US1 may be a very little amount, but it is enough to buy you a stolen Uber account and free car rides around the city. Two separate vendors on AlphaBay, a relatively new Dark Web marketplace launched in late 2014, are selling active Uber accounts with usernames and passwords for $1 each,...

Slack Discloses Breach of its User Profile Database

Enterprise and small business collaboration provider Slack today disclosed that a database storing user profile information has been compromised. The company said in a notice posted on its site that the unauthorized access has been blocked, and that it has implemented two-factor authentication...

FBI Pleads For Crypto Subversion in Congressional Budget Hearing

In a House Appropriations subcommittee hearing this morning on the FBI budget for the upcoming fiscal year, FBI Director James Comey was again critical of new encryption features from Apple and Google that he claims would make it impossible for law enforcement to access the contents of mobile...

Twitter Changes Abuse Reporting Process to Address Doxing

Twitter has revised and simplified its rules and process for reporting abusive behavior on the service, and users now have the ability to report people who are posting their personal information. The change essentially gives Twitter users a method to combat doxing, which is the process of dumping...

Ramnit Botnet Shut Down

The Ramnit botnet, a favorite among thieves dabbling in financial fraud for its frequent updates, has been shut down in a joint effort spearheaded by Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre EC3. In a statement today, EC3 said investigators from across Europe, along with Microsoft, AnubisNetworks and...

$1.75 Million in Bitcoin Stolen from Chinese BTER Bitcoin Exchange

The most popular Chinese Bitcoin exchange BTER announced that it has been hacked on Valentine’s Day and lost more than £1.1 Million-worth $1.75 Million; one BTC is about $270 of the digital currency. The Bitcoin Exchange hasn't revealed more details about suspects behind the breach or how the col...

Rig Exploit Kit Source Code Leaked

A spitting match between developers of the Rig Exploit Kit and one of its resellers resulted in a partial leak of the kit’s source code in a hacker forum. Rig is less than a year old and is spread primarily in malvertising campaigns, pushing Flash, Java and Microsoft Silverlight exploits; some...

Researcher Tries to Get Ahead of CFAA Changes, Dumps 10M Sanitized Passwords

The Obama administration’s proposed changes to Computer Fraud and Abuse Act CFAA have security researchers on edge. The amendments, spurred on by 2014’s seemingly never-ending stream of data breaches, contain vagaries in their language that threaten legitimate research done in the name of improvi...

FCC Warns Businesses WiFi Blocking is Illegal

In the wake of a recent enforcement action against Marriott for blocking guests’ WiFi hotspots in their hotels, the FCC is warning other hotel operators and business owners that such blocking is illegal and the commission’s Enforcement Bureau is taking note. Marriott last year paid a fine of...

Police Using High-Tech Device to See Through Walls Warrantlessly

We are all aware of the mass surveillance conducted by the government agencies on us. From our phone calls, emails to web activities, chats and social network activities, everything has been interrupted by the law enforcements. And now they have crossed every limits by using a new way to spy on...

Ubuntu: Security Advisory (USN-2451-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

Teen Arrested in UK for Xbox, PlayStation Attacks

Police in the UK, working in cooperation with the FBI, arrested an 18-year-old man Friday in connection with recent DDoS attacks on the PlayStation Network and Xbox Live services. The authorities arrested the unnamed man in Southport, and he is being held on suspicion of computer crime and...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

CVE-2014-1425: Undefined Security Weakness

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

Morgan Stanley Insider Theft Wealth Management Client Data

The financial services giant Morgan Stanley announced yesterday that that an employee had stolen sensitive information pertaining to more than 900 of the firm’s wealth-management clients. According to a company press release, the wealth management employee in question “has been terminated.”...

CVE-2014-1425

cmanager 0.32 does not properly enforce nesting when modifying cgroup properties, which allows local users to set cgroup values for all cgroups via unspecified vectors...

Tor Project Warns of Possible Upcoming Attack on Network

The Tor Project is warning that an unnamed attacker is planning to try to cripple the network by seizing directory authorities, the servers that help Tor clients find Tor relays in the network. Tor officials said that the network right now is still safe to use, and also emphasized that they are...

DOJ Launches Cyber Unit, Claims Privacy is Mission Critical

WASHINGTON D.C. – Leslie Caldwell, assistant attorney general in the criminal division of the Department of Justice announced on Thursday the creation of a new team within its Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section CCIPS during a talk at a Georgetown Law conference titled, “Cybercrime...

Unreleased Sony Pictures Movies Leaked Online After Sony Hack Attack

Following the last week's massive hack attack on Sony Pictures' network by a group calling themselves "GOP," or Guardians of Peace, high-quality versions of several of the studio's newest films have hit piracy websites. It seems like matters for Sony Pictures is getting worse with time. Sony...