Anonymous Release Press Release for Operation Tarmageddon

Anonymous Release Press Release for Operation Tarmageddon Early in July, Anonymous said it planned to attack oil firms and banks supporting the controversial extraction of oil from sand in Alberta, Canada. Exxon Mobil, ConocoPhillips, Canadian Oil Sands, Imperial Oil, and the Royal Bank of Scotla...

Anonymous Shifts Attention to Big Oil, Monsanto

Just days after infiltrating military contractor Booz Allen Hamilton, hacktivist group Anonymous has confirmed they’ve set their next target: Big oil. In a post on the AnonNews website, the group has announced their intent to shift their ongoing Operation Green Rights initiative to “protest...

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights Anonymous hackers Starts Project Tarmeggedon , Presents by Operation Green Rights. Hackers calling everyone to Protest. Press Release By Anonymous Hackers : Free-thinking citizens of the world: Anonymous' Operation Green Rights calls...

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights

Project Tarmeggedon by Anonymous Hackers Operation Green Rights Anonymous hackers Starts Project Tarmeggedon , Presents by Operation Green Rights. Hackers calling everyone to Protest. Press Release By Anonymous Hackers : Free-thinking citizens of the world: Anonymous' Operation Green Rights calls...

Serious SCADA Security Flaw Affects Critical Infrastructure Firms

The U.S.’s Computer Emergency Response Team CERT issued a warning to critical infrastructure firms on Wednesday about a serious security hole in products from Massachusetts firm Iconics that could leave critical systems vulnerable to remote attacks. U.S. companies in the electricity, oil and gas,...

Hackers use Chinese firm's servers !

Beijing - A Chinese man cited by a US security firm as being linked to cyberspying on Western oil companies said on Friday his company rents server space to hundreds of hackers. The disclosure highlighted the pervasiveness of both professional and amateur hacking in China, a leading source of...

Chinese man flip-flops on hacking claims in McAfee Report !

A Chinese technician quoted by U.S. Internet security firm McAfee Inc. as informing that hackers from China had attacked a number of US oil and gas companies over the past years has denied claims attributed to him in the 19-page report released on Thursday. In a telephone interview to the Wall...

Anti-computer hacking bill coming in U.S. Congress !

Strengthening cybersecurity is the goal of legislation being introduced in the U.S. Congress after reports of hack attacks on computer networks at Nasdaq OMX Group NDAQ.O and at oil and gas companies. "Cyber-threats are not on the horizon, they are upon us," Democratic Senator Robert Menendez, wh...

Of Night Dragons and Silver Bullets

Reading the headlines today one could not help but notice the latest installment of “scary Chinese hacker press” making the headlines. And who can blame the news media for latching on to this story as it has all the right ingredients: foreign governments targeting U.S. interests, catchy nicknames...

Chinese hackers penetrate multinational oil giants !

Hackers in China are causing havoc among computer systems of five multinational oil and gas companies, according to a new report by McAfee. Security outfits have warned that this type of attack could get lot worse as multinationals continue to prod the Chinese government. McAfee said in its Night...

WikiLeaks and Corporate Security: Lessons from Recent Data Leaks

WikiLeaks' release of secret government communications should serve as a warning to the nation's biggest companies: You're next. Computer experts have warned for years about the threat posed by disgruntled insiders and poorly crafted security policies that give too much access to confidential dat...

The Difficulty of Surveillance Crowdsourcing

Internet Eyes is a U.K. startup designed to crowdsource digital surveillance. People pay a small fee to become a “Viewer.” Once they do, they can log onto the site and view live anonymous feeds from surveillance cameras at retail stores. If they notice someone shoplifting, they can alert the stor...

The Effect of Snake Oil Security

I’ve talked about this a few times over the years during various presentations but I wanted to document it here as well. It’s a concept that I’ve been wrestling with for 7+ years and I don’t think I’ve made any headway in convincing anyone, beyond a few head nods. Bad security isn’t just bad...

Unfixed XSS vulnerability at www.oil-testimonials.com

Security researcher thejanky, has submitted on 21/07/2010 a cross-site-scripting XSS vulnerability affecting www.oil-testimonials.com, which at the time of submission ranked 543683 on the web according to Alexa. We manually validated and published a mirror of this vulnerability on 17/10/2010. It ...

AVCON 4.6.8.7 Buffer Overflow

!/usr/bin/perl Exploit Title: AVCON Buffer Overflow Date: 5/7/10 Author: Dillon Beresford URL: http://www.avcon.com.cn/ Version: 4.6.8.7 Tested on: XP SP2 and SP3 CVE : NONE Code : exploit.pl Twitter: http://twitter.com/D1N Dork: site:gov.cn "AVCON" There are other bugs... This is just for fun ;-...

AVCON Buffer Overflow

Exploit for windows platform in category local exploits ===================== AVCON Buffer Overflow ===================== !/usr/bin/perl Exploit Title: AVCON Buffer Overflow Date: 5/7/10 Author: Dillon Beresford URL: http://www.avcon.com.cn/ Version: 4.6.8.7 Tested on: XP SP2 and SP3 CVE : NONE...

The Big Oil APT and Botnet Business

The recent Google Advanced Persistent Threat APT dialogue has been hogging the press for a week now, and each day reveals new and often conflicting insight. As I mentioned on Thursdays blog – “Preemptive Protection” Isn’t – If You’re Battling APT’s – this particular attack doesn’t represent some...

ExxonMobil, Others Attacked Via Email

At least three US oil companies were victims of highly targeted, email-borne attacks designed to siphon valuable data from their corporate networks and send it abroad, according to a published report citing unnamed people and government documents. Read the full article. The Register...