White House Lays Out Plans To Tackle Botnets

The White House revealed today a set of initiatives it plans to use as part of its public-private partnership to combat increasingly disruptive networks of infected computers known as botnets. In one of his last acts as White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, Howard Schmidt on Wednesday unveiled t...

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft

14 Years in Jail for mass credit card theft A 21 year old man received a 14 year prison sentenced on Friday for running an online business that sold counterfeit credit cards encoded with stolen account information with losses estimated at more than $3 million. Tony Perez III, of Hammond, Indiana,...

Senate Considers Using Mob Law To Go After Cybercriminals

Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee listened as one of the nation’s top cyber cops asked for expanded powers to go after cybercriminal groups, including the use of statutes written to combat the mafia. But confronted with the prospect of a major face lift for the U.S.’s preeminent cyber...

U.S. Says Cybercrime a Major National Security Threat

A new report from the National Security Council warns that international cybercrime has reached the upper echelon of threats of to the security of the United States and is responsible for as much as $1 billion in losses in just one year in the U.S. The report, which focuses on a number of broad...

U.S. Secret Service Investigating Fox News Hack after Obama Messages

HED: U.S. Secret Service investigating Fox News Hack after Obama assassination messages posted DEK: The U.S. Secret Service said it is investigating the July 4 account hijack of a twitter account belonging to Fox News after messages reporting the assassination of U.S. President Barack Obama were...

Hacker Pleads Guilty To Theft of 600K Credit Cards, Could Get 10 Years

A 26 year-old Georgia man pleaded guilty in federal court in Virginia to the theft of hundreds of thousands of credit cards and a years-long fraud scheme that netted him more than $100,000 in illicit profits – money he used to buy himself a BMW and luxury clothing. Rogelio Hackett of Lithonia,...

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking !

Former Cisco Engineer Arrested for Hacking ! A former Cisco engineer was arrested last year on charges of hacking into his former employer's network and is currently awaiting extradition in Canada. The charges against Peter Alfred-Adekeye, a British national who worked for Cisco before leaving to...

Weird Science: Verizon Finds Stunning Drop in Data Theft

If there’s one thing that scientists and statisticians both hate, its weird data. And that’s what the folks at Verizon were dealing with when they tallied the results of their 2011 Data Breach Report which found a stunning 97% drop in the number of lost records, even as the number of reported...

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released !

Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report Released ! Data loss through cyber attacks decreased sharply in 2010, but the total number of breaches was higher than ever, according to the " Verizon 2011 Data Breach Investigations Report ." These findings continue to demonstrate that businesses a...

TJX Hacker Claims Uncle Sam Knew

Jailed hacker and data theft mastermind Albert Gonzalez is reportedly seeking to appeal his guilty plea, arguing that he committed his crimes at the behest of the Secret Service, according to a report by Wired. Gonzalez pleaded guilty to charges last year that he and his accomplices had hacked in...

Alex Hutton on the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report

Dennis Fisher talks with Alex Hutton of the Verizon Business RISK team about the new Data Breach Investigations Report, the involvement of the Secret Service in this year’s report and the need for more and better data on attacks and successful defenses. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscrib...

Hackers Increasingly Look For Configuration Errors

Hackers appear to be increasingly counting on configuration problems and programming errors rather than software vulnerabilities in order to steal information from computer systems, according to a new study based on U.S. Secret Service investigations. Read the full article. IDG News Service...

Verizon Partners With U.S. Secret Service on Data Breach Report

Verizon’s invaluable Data Breach Investigations Report will now include data from hundreds of computer crime cases investigated by the U.S. Secret Service, the company announced this week. The report, which is among the best at tracking data loss incidents, is based on a framework called VERIS .p...

sriweb-xss.txt

XSS found by fl0 fl0w in sri.ro Description: The Romanian Secret Service web site suffers from cross site scripting vulnerability. Author: fl0 fl0w Homepage: http://popesculescu.lx.ro File Size: 5,13 KB site 'search' variable XSS Cross Site Scripting in URI Desciption : This XSS variant usually...