Spanish Police Arrest Alleged Nintendo Hacker !

Spanish police say they've arrested a hacker who threatened to go public with personal information he found in a Nintendo database on about 4,000 of the company's users. Nintendo's Spanish division, Nintendo Ibérica, was approached by the hacker, who was seeking to blackmail the company, Spain's...

Still Smarting, Anonymous Releases 20,000 More HBGary Emails

More e-mail messages believed to belong to HBGary Federal Chief Operating Officer Greg Hoglund were posted online Sunday, fulfilling a promise by online mischief making group Anonymous to further embarrass the Washington D.C. security firm, whose CEO aroused the ire of the hacktivists last week. ...

Making JPEG Images Copy-Evident

A group of academic researchers at the University of Cambridge has developed a new technique for making JPEG images copy-evident, so that users can tell whether an image has been recompressed and copied. The technique, presented in a paper by Andrew B. Lewis and Markus G. Kuhn, relies on a comple...

Facebook Awarded More Than $ 360 Million In Damages Against Spammer

Facebook's security team have reason to celebrate as they have claimed another scalp in the ongoing fight against spammers on the social network. A post on Facebook's Security page announced that this week a federal court has awarded the firm a whopping $360,500,000 in statutory damages and issue...

ZDNet Security Blogger Goes Missing in Bulgaria

A prominent blogger and security researcher, Dancho Danchev, has gone missing and security publications, including Threatpost.com, are asking for help in locating him. Danchev, who contributed regular posts to ZDNet’s Zero Day blog, part of CBS Interactive, has been missing since late October...

Obama wants Internet ID for Every American !!

Everyone in the UK will already be familiar with this story with the New Labour's plan for biometric identity cards. That plan, which costs billions of pounds and was later shelved by the new coalition government, will now probably never happen in the UK. Now US President Barak Obama wants to...

UConn Co-op website hacked !

Storrs : A computer hacker accessed the customer database of HuskyDirect.com, a website that sells sports paraphernalia from the UConn Co-op, prompting the store to order the vendor that manages the site to take it down. The Co-op announced Tuesday that it has notified law enforcement of the...

Kerala Computer Emergency Response Team launches operations !

The Kerala Government has announced the launch of the Computer Emergency Response Team, Kerala CERT-K as the nodal agency for monitoring various cyber security related incidents in the State. Chief Minister Shri V S Achuthanandan formally announced the launch of operations today. The agency will...

Kenya police site hacked, hacker thought about Mark Zuckerberg !

This kind of thing tends to happen from time to time, though this time it seems that Mark Zuckerberg's name has been dragged into it. A hacker out there managed to hack into Kenya's law enforcement body's website and post some graffiti there, which is some kind of tribute to Facebook's co-founder...

FBI Audit Finds Minor Security Gaps in Belfast Police Department

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI recently identified minor security gaps in the Internet security procedures of the Belfast Police Department during a fall audit. Local officials acknowledged the need to address these issues over the next few years. The department was chosen randomly for t...

Data Breach Could Test Massachusetts Law

UPDATE: The Massachusetts Attorney General has been notified that financial data on 1,800 residents were exposed in a database breach linked to CitySights NY, a sightseeing firm. The case could set the stage for enforcement of the State’s nine month-old data privacy law.Financial data on 1,850...

Law Enforcement Officers Witness Cyber Theft Demonstration at UNLV Conference

Nearly 100 law enforcement officers recently witnessed how easily an identity thief can steal electronic information. During a UNLV conference, a cybercrime expert used a $30 device to intercept data from their smartphones. Welcome to the dark side of the 21st century. As technology advances, so ...

DSA-2134-1 upcoming changes in advisory format

Traditionally Debian Security Advisories have included MD5 check sums of the updated packages. This was introduced at a time when apt didn't exist yet and BIND was at version 4. Since apt cryptographically enforces the integrity of the archive for quite some time now, we've decided to finally dro...

Hackers Steal Customer Data from McDonald's Partner Database

McDonald's is collaborating with law enforcement after malicious hackers infiltrated another company's database and stole information about an unknown number of the fast-food chain's customers. McDonald's has alerted potentially affected customers via email and through a message on its website. "...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

Vigilant Hacker-Activist Allegedly Searched and Seized

It is being reported that the internet hacker-activist calling himself the Jester who claimed responsibility for the DDoS attacks on Wikileaks Sunday has been the subject of a search and seizure by local law enforcement officials. The raid reportedly took place Monday according to a blog posted...

EU, U.S., and NATO Approve New Plans to Combat Cybercrime

Over the past three days, the European Union, the U.S., and NATO have approved new plans to combat cybercrime. On Monday, the European Commission announced its proposals to develop three systems aimed at enhancing cybersecurity for citizens and businesses. First, the E.U. plans to establish a...

Report Alleges Bredolab-Spamit Connections

Law enforcement crackdowns in recent weeks have targeted two major contributors to worldwide spam: Spamit.com and the Bredolab botnet. Now a new report suggests that the two cases may be related. A report on Krebsonsecurity.com claims that the recent arrest of a 27 year-old man, identified as Geo...

Canada Aims to Strengthen Cyber Defense with $90 Million Security Plan

Canada released its Cybersecurity Strategy this month, emphasizing the immense challenge of protecting government and corporate computer systems. “There is no simple way to detect, identify, and recover from attackers who cannot be seen or heard, who leave no physical evidence behind them, and wh...

Feds Raid Home of Former Raytheon Employee

Federal agents on Monday raided the Melrose, Massachusetts home of a missile systems expert who formerly worked at U.S. defense contractor Raytheon. Several boxes of items were taken by FBI and Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the home, which is owned by Richard M. Lloyd. According...