HBGary Federal One Year Later !

HBGary Federal One Year Later ! Doug Vitale sharing and interesting read with our Readers from his Blog About HBGary Federal. In February 2011, the loosely knit collective of hacktivists known as Anonymous successfully compromised the corporate network of HBGary Federal HBG Fed, a company that...

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application

FBI will Monitor Social Media using Crawl Application The Federal Bureau of Investigation is looking for a better way to spy on Facebook and Twitter users. The Bureau is asking companies to build software that can effectively scan social media online for significant words, phrases and behavior so...

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...

US Supreme Court Ends Warrantless GPS Tracking

In a decision that was closeley watched by civil liberties group and the technology industry, the Supreme Court has ruled unanimously that GPS tracking devices constitute a “search” and that authorities must obtain a warrant before placing one on a suspect’s vehicle. In a rare 9-0 vote, the Court...

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for #OpMegaupload

Tit for Tat - Anonymous Hackers Brings Down FBI website for OpMegaupload Megaupload.com, one of the world's most popular sources of online piracy, has been shut down by a federal indictment issued Thursday, which seized and charged seven people connected with it with running an international...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

New Zeus Variant Could Mean 'Gameover' for Unsuspecting Users

The FBI issued a warning late last week about ‘Gameover,’ a variant of the Zeus malware that can steal usernames and passwords. The malware is being propagated through spam e-mails purporting to come from the National Automated Clearing House Association NACHA, the Federal Reserve Bank and the...

International Conference on Cyber Security (ICCS) 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World

International Conference on Cyber Security ICCS 2012 : Protecting the Cyber World The FBI is teaming up with Fordham University for the International Conference on Cyber Security. It's an effort to identify emerging cyber threats and develop ways to mitigate those threats. The ZeuS Trojan has...

Environmental activism site Care2 hacked

Environmental activism site Care2 hacked Yesterday Care2, one of the biggest Environmental activism website issue a alert email to all there customers that Care2.com's website was hacked revealing usernames and passwords for the sites nearly 18 million users. Care2 said "To protect Care2 members ...

Sprint Disables Carrier IQ Software On Its Devices

Sprint has decided to stop using Carrier IQ’s diagnostic software in light of the ongoing controversy about user privacy, according to reports. A Sprint spokesperson told the Website MobileBurn that the carrier has “weighed customer concerns and…disabled use of the tool so that diagnostic...

Key infrastructure systems of 3 US cities Under Attack By Hackers

Key infrastructure systems of 3 US cities Under Attack By Hackers BBC News Reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI announced recently that key infrastructure systems of three US cities had been accessed by hackers. Such systems commonly known as Supervisory Control and Data...

FBI Likely to Get More Cybercrime Agents

The FBI is one of a handful of U.S. agencies tasked with investigating computer crimes and one of the many roadblocks that has stood in the way of more successful cases and prosecutions is a lack of resources, mostly in the form of trained agents. It looks like the bureau will be getting the mone...

FTC Gives Refunds to Rogue Antivirus Victims

The Federal Trade Commission FTC is sending reimbursement checks to more than 300,000 people victimized by a rogue antivirus scam. According to the FTC, the checks are the result of the settlement between the agency and several defendants named in a complaint the FTC filed in 2008. As part of the...

Two Million Requests from Infected Systems In Week After Ghost Click Takedown

The FBI says that more than 2.5 million systems infected with the DNSChanger malware connected to DNS servers set up by the authorities in the week following a crackdown on a global criminal network dubbed Ghost Click. The data, which was provided to the FBI by ISC, is the best indication yet of...

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Manila AT &T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Police in the Philippines working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested four people over a premium-line phone scam that targeted customers of the American telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based...

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack

Manila AT&T hackers linked to 26/11 Mumbai terror attack Police in the Philippines working with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation have arrested four people over a premium-line phone scam that targeted customers of the American telecommunications giant AT&T to funnel money to a Saudi-based...

Four Hacking Suspects Tied to Terrorist Group Arrested

Authorities in the Philippines teamed up with the FBI to arrest four reputed hackers they believe were working for a terrorist organization. The four suspects were arrested in the Philippines Nov. 23. Law enforcement officials believe the suspects were employed by the terrorist group Jemaah...

APEC Host Committee Spear-Phished by China

An Analysis published earlier this month by Kahu Security raises the possibility that the hack of systems used by the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation host committee was the result of a spear phishing attack with links back to the Chinese mainland. As Threatpost reported yesterday, computers...

With 4 Million Ghost Click Victims, FBI Hoping A Few Step Forward

The news last month was of the bust up of the biggest cyber crime ring in history, with 4 million victims and $14 million in losses. Now the FBI is hoping a few of those victims step forward to help with the prosecution. In a post on the FBI Web site, the agency said it is “seeking information fr...