Rogue Antivirus Scams Making Moola

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center said rogue antivirus writers have raked in $150 million from users. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Ex-United Way IT Employee Sentenced to 18 Months

Former United Way employee based in Miami, Luis Robert Altamirano, was sentenced to 18 months in jail and fined $50,000 for accessing his former employers’ network and deleting “numerous files from UWMD’s servers” and disabling “UWMD’s telephone voice mail system and prevented UWMD employees from...

Nebraska's Worker Comp Database Hacked

A hacker has broken into the Nebraska Worker’s Compensation database, prompting an FBI investigation and an effort to contact those who may be affected. Several thousand people could be affected by the breach, which was discovered last week when the state’s chief information officer noticed an...

FBI Reports Malware on Rise in Electronic Funds Fraud

The FBI reports it has seen a rise of malware over the past few months targeting small and medium businesses and municipal government entities and school districts. Once a malicious attachment or link is opened, keylogging tactics obtain bank account info where criminals then initiate wire...

FBI: SMBs Lost $40M in Bank Trojan Attacks

Hackers using a sophisticated network of banking Trojans money mules have stolen about $40 million from small and medium-sized businesses in the U.S., according to the latest installment in a series by Washington Post writer Brian Krebs. Krebs quotes an FBI official as saying the criminals involv...

Analysis: Phishing Arrests Highlight Massive Problem

The massive phishing scam broken up by federal authorities this week is only a hint at what many say is an insidious and growing problem on the Internet. The bust, dubbed Operation Phish Phry, was described by the FBI as the largest ever cyber-crime investigation and they held it up as a shining...

Operation Phish Phry Nets 100 Cyber Criminals

The largest number of defendants ever charged in a cyber-crime case have been indicted in a multinational investigation conducted in the United States and Egypt that uncovered a sophisticated “phishing” operation that fraudulently collected personal information from thousands of victims that was...

Citing Cybercrime, FBI Director Doesn't Bank Online

The head of the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has stopped banking online after nearly falling for a phishing attempt. FBI Director Robert Mueller said he recently came “just a few clicks away from falling into a classic Internet phishing scam” after receiving an e-mail that appeared to be...

School Boards Hit With Cash-Stealing Trojan

The IDG News Service is reporting on a new FBI investigation computerworld.com of a rash of online hacking attacks and bank robberies against school districts in Illinois. FBI investigators are working on a computer intrusion case at the Crystal Lake School District in Crystal Lake, Illinois, sai...

FBI, US Marshals hit by mystery malware

From the Associated Press Law enforcement computers were struck by a Mystery computer virus Thursday, forcing the FBI and the U.S. Marshals to shut down part of their networks as a precaution. The U.S. Marshals confirmed it disconnected from the Justice Department’s computers as a protective...

Secret documents reveal FBI spyware campaign against hackers

The FBI has been using an in-house spyware program for several years to monitor the activities of suspected online criminals and hackers, according to recently released documents. The documents, obtained by Wired.com, show that the FBI was able to plant the program on target machines by encouragi...

Online crime complaints hit record high in 2008

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 says complaints of online crime hit a record high in 2008, driven mostly by non-delivery of goods and service and those pesky 419 Nigerian e-mail scams. Accordign to a new report PDF from ic3.gov, the center received a a total of 275,284 complaints, a...

FBI.gov Cross SIte Scripting

by : Matrix S.B Ok it is not the first time, but they had fixed them all. It will probably be the third or fourth time they try to address this damn cgi! Here is the XSS that Matrix submitted to Securityfocus works only in Internet Explorer:...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1068-1 (fbi)

The remote host is missing an update to fbi announced via advisory DSA 1068-1. Jan Braun discovered that the fbgs script of fbi, an image viewer for the framebuffer environment, creates an directory in a predictable manner, which allows denial of service through symlink attacks. For the old stabl...

Debian Security Advisory DSA 1124-1 (fbi)

The remote host is missing an update to fbi announced via advisory DSA 1124-1. Toth Andras discovered that the fbgs framebuffer postscript/PDF viewer contains a typo, which prevents the intended filter against malicious postscript commands from working correctly. This might lead to the deletion o...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1068-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

Debian: Security Advisory (DSA-1124)

The remote host is missing an update for the Debian SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2008 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...

openSUSE 10 Security Update : fbi (fbi-1915)

The fbgs program did not activate security options in the postscript interpreter due to a typo CVE-2006-3119. fbgs also used a temporary directory with predictable name CVE-2006-1695. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in this plugin were...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at fbi.com.ua

Security researcher st@rext, has submitted on 22/08/2007 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting fbi.com.ua, which at the time of submission ranked 7774192 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 23/08/2007. It is currently...

Debian DSA-1068-1 : fbi - insecure temporary file

Jan Braun discovered that the fbgs script of fbi, an image viewer for the framebuffer environment, creates an directory in a predictable manner, which allows denial of service through symlink attacks. %NASLMINLEVEL 70300 C Tenable Network Security, Inc. The descriptive text and package checks in...