Skype Illegally handed over data of alleged Anonymous Paypal Hacker

Dutch media report Skype has Illegally without court order distributed a 16 years old user's personal information including user name, real name, email addresses and the home address used for payment to a private company consistently a police investigation into Anonymous-sanctioned cyber attacks ...

More VMware ESX Source Code Posted Online

For the third time this year, VMware ESX source code has been posted online. A hacker known as Stun claiming to be affiliated with Anonymous tweeted a link to a torrent site hosting the stolen VMkernel source code. VMware director of platform security Iain Mulholland acknowledged the breach on...

Bank Fraud Suspects Net $1M in Citibank Casino Scheme

Fourteen individuals were charged late last week after the Federal Bureau of Investigation, along with the Los Angeles Police Department and the Glendale, Calif. Police Department found they were behind a scheme that extracted more than $1 million from Citibank cash-advance kiosks in Southern...

FBI Moves to Identify More Hackers

The FBI says it is now making a push to not just stop cybercrime but to identify the attackers behind the phishing, credit card fraud and other campaigns that cost consumers and enterprises billions of dollars each year. The bureau is the lead agency charged with addressing cybercrime in the U.S...

Malware making bomb and death threats detected

Japanese police had arrested three people, accused them of making death threats via email and discussion forums. However, later Researchers at Symantec have determined that a piece of malware was making death and bomb threats online on behalf of its victims infected. Symantec confirmed that the...

Virus threat hit Israeli Foreign Ministry computers

A number of Israel's government offices have fallen victim to a cyber attack over the past week, one apparently aimed at slipping a "Trojan horse" into the computer servers at these ministries. Israeli police immediately pulled the national computer network from the civilian Internet after this...

Nitol Infections Fall, But Malware Still Popping Up

When Microsoft went after the Nitol botnet in September, one of the key details in the investigation was the fact that much of the botnet was built by pre-loading malware onto laptops during the manufacturing process in China. This was the clearest case yet of the phenomenon of certified pre-owne...

Point-of-Sale Terminals Compromised at 63 Barnes & Noble Locations

UPDATE – America’s largest book retailer, Barnes & Noble, announced this morning it has detected evidence of tampering in 63 PIN-pad devices used in as many stores by criminals trying to steal payment card information. Barnes & Noble claims to have disconnected all the affected devices from servi...

Hackers stole Credit Card details from 63 'Barnes & Noble' stores

Over 60 Barnes & Noble stores have been used by hackers to gain the credit card data, including the PINs, of customers. The New York company is warning customers to check for unauthorized transactions and to change their personal identification numbers or PINs. It hasn't said how many accounts ma...

Hackers steal more than $450,000 from Burlington city bank

The city of Burlington is warning its employees to check their bank accounts after finding out funds have been stolen. The Skagit Valley Herald reports the money was electronically transferred to various personal and business accounts throughout the United States during a two-day period this week...

Google Ireland and Yahoo Domains Hijacked

Irish websites Google.ie and Yahoo.ie went offline on Tuesday afternoon after their DNS servers were apparently hijacked to point to those of a third party, resulting in visitors being redirected to an 'allegedly fraudulent' address - farahatz.net. That site has now been taken offline, but it is...

Looking to Bolster Security, Dropbox Adds Two-Factor Authentication

Several weeks after announcing that some of its users’ log-ins and passwords had been stolen, file storage company Dropbox announced it has added a two-step authentication process over the weekend to help reinforce the security of its users’ accounts. The added layer of security is currently...

Saudi Aramco Oil Producer's 30,000 workstations victim of Cyber Attack

Saudi Aramco, the world's biggest oil producer, has resumed operating its main internal computer networks after a virus infected about 30,000 of its workstations in mid-August. Immediately after the Aug. 15 attack, the company announced it had cut off its electronic systems from outside access to...

AMD Blog Hacked, Database leaked on Internet

A team of Hackers called, "r00tBeer Security Team" today hack into official blog of Advanced Micro Devices AMD which is a American multinational semiconductor company. AMD is the second-largest global supplier of microprocessors based on the x86 architecture and also one of the largest suppliers ...

Information of Nearly 4,000 Beth Israel Patients at Risk in Stolen Laptop Incident

The information of nearly 4,000 patients at Boston’s Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center BIDMC may have been leaked according to a report from the Boston Globe over the weekend. A laptop was stolen from the Harvard-associated teaching hospital on May 22 that could yield the incomplete medical...

Anonymous Hackers not responsible for attack on Dahabshiil

There was an incident that a group claiming to be the cyber hacker or hacktivist group Anonymous has threatened Dahabshiil an international funds transfer company and the leading bank in Somalia, but the international funds transfer company based in the Middle East, says Anonymous was not...

Dropbox Users Cry "Spam!" Company Investigates

Support forums frequented by users of the online storage service Dropbox were alive with reports of spam e-mail messages sent to supposedly secret, Dropbox-affiliated addresses. The reports have raised the dark spectre of a data leak at the cloud based personal storage firm. Hundreds of Dropbox...

App Store bypassed by Russian hacker without jailbreaking

Apple is investigating yet another security breach in its iTunes app store . A Russian hacker worked out a way that allows people to bypass payment in the App Store and download products for free. The hacker, dubbed ZonD80, posted a video of the crack on YouTube Deleted by Youtube now and claims...

Yahoo Looking Into Password Breach

If it’s a day ending in Y, then there must be another password leak. And today it’s Yahoo’s turn in the spotlight, as the company is investigating claims that more than 400,000 plaintext passwords were stolen from the company and posted online. Security researchers who have looked at the data say...

Millions of Passwords leaked from Social Site Formspring

Formspring, a social Q&A website popular with teenagers,this week disabled its users' passwords after discovering a security breach. Formspring founder and CEO Ade Olonoh apologized to users for the inconvenience, and advised them to change their passwords when they log back into Formspring. A bl...