Apple Sets May 1 End Date for Apps that Want UDIDs

Apple has implemented a deadline for when it will reject apps that access devices’ unique device identifier numbers, or UDIDs. Apple has been phasing out the 40-character string of letters and numbers over the last year, yet according to a post on Apple’s Developers site yesterday, this appears t...

Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

Massive cyber attack on South Korean banks and TV broadcasters

Computer networks at major South Korean banks and top TV broadcasters crashed simultaneously Wednesday, during a Massive cyber attack. South Korean police investigating reports from several major broadcasters and banks. least three broadcasters KBS, MBC and YTN and the Shinhan and Nonghyu banks...

Google to Pay $7M Settlement Over Street View Data Collection

Google has agreed to pay a $7 million settlement to several dozen U.S. states as part of an agreement of charges that the company was collecting private user data from WiFi hotspots while its Street View cars were driving around taking photos in various locations. The controversy over Google’s...

Redline: Answering Your Questions

Those of you who attended the "Tools of Engagement: Redline™ - We've Got the Tool, If You've Got the Time" webinar last month by David Ross and myself will recall that we ran short on time while answering all of your questions. The webinar covered the latest updates to Redline, Mandiant's free to...

[OSForensics V2.0] Digital investigation Tool

OSForensics updated to version 2.0. OSForensics allows you to identify suspicious files and activity with hash matching, drive signature comparisons, e-mails, memory and binary data. It lets you extract forensic evidence from computers quickly with advanced file searching and indexing and enables...

ABC hacked after anti-Islam politician Interview

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC is investigating data breach after Lateline interviewed Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A hacker going by the handle "Phr0zenMyst" has claimed to have hacked a web site associated with the ABC television program Making Australia Happy, leakin...

ABC hacked after anti-Islam politician Interview

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation ABC is investigating data breach after Lateline interviewed Dutch anti-Islam politician Geert Wilders. A hacker going by the handle "Phr0zenMyst" has claimed to have hacked a web site associated with the ABC television program Making Australia Happy, leakin...

cPanel Support Server Compromised

Website hosting provider cPanel is calling on some users to change their passwords after it informed them on Friday that hackers compromised one of its technical support department’s servers. The hosting provider does not know for certain the extent of the hack or what, if any, information was...

Microsoft becomes latest victim of Cyber attack

Microsoft has become the latest victim of to Cyber attack and confirm that small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware. Microsoft added, malicious software used in a cyber attack is very similar to those experienced by Facebook and...

Microsoft becomes latest victim of Cyber attack

Microsoft has become the latest victim of to Cyber attack and confirm that small number of its computers, including some in its Mac software business unit, were infected with malware. Microsoft added, malicious software used in a cyber attack is very similar to those experienced by Facebook and...

Oracle Java JRE Unsupported Version Detection (Unix)

According to its self-reported version number, at least one installation of Oracle formerly Sun Java JRE on the remote host is no longer supported. The underlying detection plugins enumerates Java installations via binary, path and document inspection to ascertain confidence levels. As Java can b...

Hacker Exposes former US President Bush Family Photos and Emails

The hacker, known as Guccifer, targeted several e-mail accounts and exposed personal photos and sensitive correspondence from members of the former US President Bush family, including both former U.S. presidents. Hacked Emails includes the AOL account of his daughter Dorothy Bush Koch; family...

Department of Energy Compromised in Sophisticated Attack

Hackers targeted and compromised computer networks at United States Department of Energy headquarters in Washington DC two weeks ago, according to a report published by the Washington Free Beacon earlier this morning. DoE officials confirmed the attack and are currently investigating the incident...

Energy Department networks hit by major Cyber Attack

The Computer networks of Energy Department were attacked by unknown hackers in a major cyber attack two weeks ago and personal information on several hundred employees was compromised. The Washington Free Beacon reports that, FBI agents are investigating the attacks and 14 computer servers and 20...

Netherlands, Canada Say WhatsApp Still Violates Privacy Laws

Dutch and Canadian officials say the popular mobile text messaging app WhatsApp violates their countries’ privacy laws because it rifles through users’ contacts to find other devices hooked up to the service. The announcement Monday follows a joint investigation launched a year ago into whether...

Court: Government Need Not Justify Warrantless Data Requests

A Virginia appeals court on Friday denied a right-to-access order filed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of Icelandic parliamentarian Birgitta Jonsdottir and computer security researchers Jacob Appelbaum and Rop Gonggrijp. The denial confirms ...

Twitter Complied with 69% of US Government Requests for Account Data

Government requests for user account information made to Twitter pale in comparison to the number made to Google, but nonetheless, the number is on the rise according to Twitter’s Transparency Report, released today. Twitter’s report said government requests are generally made in conjunction with...

Russian Hackers Behind Gozi Malware charged for Infecting Millions users

The mastermind Russian Hackers who coded and distributed the Gozi malware, Nikita Vladimirovich Kuzmin, 25 was charged along with Deniss Calovskis, 27, and Mihai Ionut Paunescu, 28 for infecting more than a million computers worldwide in order to steal banking and other credentials from tens of...

PayPal Addresses Months-Old SQL Injection Vulnerability, Frozen Accounts

Researchers with Vulnerability Lab today announced mega payment processor PayPal has fixed a flaw on its site that allowed a remote user or a local user with low privileges to compromise a Web application using a blind SQL injection. The vulnerability was first reported to PayPal back in August,...