Google Disputes Claim of Android Botnet

Google is disputing statements from researchers at Microsoft and Sophos who this week warned that Android devices were sending spam through compromised Yahoo Mail accounts. In response, both now say they are further investigating their earlier claims. The idea of an international Android botnet...

Microsoft Names Two Alleged Zeus Botnet Operators

Three months after initially disrupting the Zeus botnet, Microsoft officials have named two of the people who they think are behind the malware network, a pair of Ukrainians who already are sitting in jail in the UK. From the beginning of the anti-Zeus operation, which became public in March,...

Three Baltic Men Jailed After Using SpyEye Malware

Two men found using the SpyEye Trojan to swindle users out of their banking information were jailed last week after violating the United Kingdom’s Computer Misuse Act. Pavel Cyganok, 28, a Lithuanian, along with Ilja Zakrevski, 26, an Estonian, were jailed for four years while a third man, Latvia...

Texas Cancer Center Alerts Patients to Personal Data Theft — Almost Two Months Later

A University of Texas cancer center today began notifying almost 30,000 patients that their personal data was stolen after someone swiped an unencypted laptop from a physician’s home almost two months ago. The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center issued a news release saying it waited to...

Active Inbound Connection From Host Listed in Known Bot Database

This plugin has been temporarily disabled. According to the output from netstat, the remote host has an inbound connection from one or more hosts that are listed in a public database as part of a botnet. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. @DEPRECATED@ Disabled on 2018/08/14. Disabling threat feed...

Global Payments Hack May Have Exposed Information On Individuals, Also

Payment processor Global Payments acknowledged Tuesday that a breach at the company announced in early March may have affected individual consumers, as well as merchants. In an update to its 2012infosecurityupdate.com site, the Atlanta-based company wrote that an ongoing investigation “revealed...

Attorney General Holder Announces Probe Into Cyberwar Leaks

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder has issued an assignment to the U.S. District Attorneys to start an investigation into possible leaks of classified information, presumably by individuals within the Obama administration who recently spoke anonymously about the administration’s ties to the...

Hacker Claims Access to Romney's Personal Hotmail Account

An unnamed tipster claims he has hacked a Web-based e-mail and online storage accounts belonging to GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney. The anonymous hacker reached out to Gawker yesterday afternoon and supplied them with what are purported to be pilfered login credentials. In an e-mail, the...

Anonymous Again Crusading Against Child Pornography

Members of the hacktivist collective Anonymous resurfaced this week with a new campaign to expose suspected pedophiles on Twitter and get the site and its users to help root out other accounts linked to child pornography. In a Pastebin post, someone using the hashtag Anonymous posted the Twitter...

Student Suspected in University Hack That Leaked Info of 654K Cornhuskers

Officials at the University of Nebraska suspect a current undergraduate student is behind a hack earlier this month that appears to have spilled the sensitive information of tens of thousands of past and present students. According to a report from the Omaha World-Herald today, Police Chief Owen...

NASA SSL Digital Certificate hacked by Iranian Hackers

NASA SSL Digital Certificate hacked by Iranian Hackers Iranian hackers 'Cyber Warriors Team' announced in an online post that it compromised an SSL certificate belonging to NASA and subsequently accessed information on thousands of NASA researchers. A space agency representative revealed that...

April 2012 – Xbox Credit Card Hack

Microsoft, makers of the ubiquitous Xbox gaming console are still looking into an issue with the device’s hard drive that could allow attackers to collect sensitive information about prior users. The investigation started after a group of students from Dakota State University allegedly recovered...

UNC-Charlotte Data Breaches Expose 350,000 Social Security Numbers and Much More

Confidential data, including bank account and Social Security numbers for some 350,000 University of North Carolina-Charlotte students, staff and faculty, were accidentally exposed — some for almost 15 years — due to a system misconfiguration and incorrect access settings that made electronic dat...

Fake Google Iranian domain defaced by Algerian Script Kiddies

Google got Pwned ? NO Few Algerian Script Kiddies try to spread fake rumours that they Hack and Deface the Giant Search engine "Google Iranian" domain . As the above screenshot shown a Algerian flag on it and Page Titles : "H4Ck3D By vaga-hacker dz and DR.KIM". As mentioned by hacker, the team...

Report Says Engineer Designed Google Street View with Payload Data Gathering in Mind

Google says it released the full FCC report on Street View consumer privacy allegations to hopefully put the matter to rest. But revelations that the code might have been created with surreptitious data gathering in mind is likely to keep the issue very much alive. An article in today’s Los Angel...

FBI Investigating Election Tampering Following Arrest of CSUSM Student

The FBI is investigating whether federal law violations took place following allegations a candidate for student body president at California State University San Marcos stole some 700 student identities in an attempt to alter election results. Third-year business student Mark Weaver was arrested...

Critics Continue Pushing for Bigger Probe into Google Street View Practices

Privacy advocates continue urging for a wider federal investigation into Google Street View practices following Google’s $25,000 fine for stonewalling federal officials during an earlier probe of Wi-Fi snooping allegations. The Federal Communications Commission late last week gave the Internet...

UK Teen, TeaMp0isoN Member, Arrested For 'Phone Bomb' Attack

A British teenager believed to be the hacker TriCk, a founding member of TeaMp0isoN has reportedly been arrested after launching a denial of service attack against an anti-terrorism hotline in the UK. The 17 year-old, a resident of Birmingham in the UK, was arrested on April 12 in connection with...

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs

FBI track Anonymous hacker using his girlfriend's boobs The FBI swooped on Higinio O Ochoa III after he posted the snap, which included a gloating message to his online victims.He took the picture on his iPhone and posted it on Twitter without realising it contained GPS data pointing directly to...

Utah Medicaid Hack Now Affecting Half a Million, 280K SSNs Stolen

The number of victims involved in the recent Utah Department of Health hack has climbed once again with the state health agency announcing yesterday that the breach has affected approximately 500,000 Utah residents, while an additional 280,000 residents had their Social Security numbers stolen. T...