July 2013 Adobe Security Bulletins, Patches Released

Adobe today released its monthly round of security updates with patches available for Flash Player, Shockwave and ColdFusion. None of the vulnerabilities are being exploited in the wild, according to Adobe. The flaws in Flash Player and Shockwave could allow hackers to remotely install and run...

California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation

The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on Forbe...

California issued cease and desist order against Bitcoin Foundation

The Bitcoin Foundation has received a cease-and-desist letter from the California Department of Financial Institutions, which oversees banks, credit unions, and other financial organizations operating in the state. Jon Matonis, who is a board member at the Foundation, revealed the letter on Forbe...

Popular WordPress Themes, Plug-Ins Vulnerable to Attack

Since late March, no fewer than a half-dozen high profile attacks have involved a compromised website built on the WordPress platform. Attackers abuse vulnerabilities in the content management system’s customizable plug-ins and themes to pull off anything from drive-by downloads to watering hole...

65 Sites Compromised in ZeroAccess Trojan Attacks

As many as 65 websites have been compromised in an attack that has snared another Washington, D.C.-area media website as well as a number of travel and leisure sites. While the sites aren’t topically related, they’re all hosting advertisements injected with malicious code hosted on...

Free Beacon Article Redirects to ZeroAccess Rootkit, Fake AV

Update: Aaron Harison, president of the Center for American Freedom, told Threatpost this morning that the issue has been resolved and the site is no longer serving malware. Hackers have latched on to the NSA surveillance story—literally. A news story on the outing of whistleblower Edward Snowden...

Adobe Patches ColdFusion Flaws Exploited in Wild

Exploits for vulnerabilities in Adobe’s ColdFusion application server have been at the heart of a number of incidents this year, including a compromise of servers belonging to the Washington State Court system. This level of action has prompted Adobe to release five security updates for the...

Washington Court Data Breach Exposes 160K SSNs

Attackers using a vulnerability in Adobe’s ColdFusion app server were able to compromise servers belonging to the Washington State court system sometime in the last few months and walked off with data belonging to as many as a million residents of the state. The attackers had access to 160,000...

Hacked Media Sites Serving Fake AV Malware

Websites belonging to a number of Washington, D.C.-area media outlets have been compromised in a series of opportunistic attacks with criminals using a watering-hole tactic to spread scareware, or phony antivirus software. Popular D.C. radio station WTOP, sister station Federal News Radio, and th...

Air Force Classifies Some Cybersecurity Tools as Weapons

The United States government for years has been developing and deploying offensive cyber capabilities, most of it done without much in the way of public notice. That’s been changing of late, as government and military officials have become more open in discussing these capabilities and under what...

Council on Foreign Relations Website Hit by Watering Hole Attack, IE Zero-Day Exploit

UPDATE – Another high profile watering hole attack has been discovered, this one targeting visitors to the Council on Foreign Relations website. The CFR is a Washington, D.C.-based think tank that provides foreign policy and foreign affairs resources to government officials, journalists, and...

Team Ghostshell Allegedly Dumps 1.6 M Aerospace, Nanotechnology Records

Hacktivist collective Team Ghostshell is claiming this morning to have spilled 1.6 million accounts from a handful of companies in the aerospace, nanotechnology, banking, law, education and government realm, a hack the group deems Project White Fox. The group claims White Fox is its “final stand”...

Large-Scale Water Holing Attack Campaigns Hitting Key Targets

A new APT-style espionage campaign launched this summer targeting organizations tied to financial services, government agencies and the defense industry used a technique dubbed water holing to entice victims and silently redirect them to sites hosting zero-day exploits. Researchers at RSA Securit...

Washington State to Register Voters via Facebook

Residents of Washington State will soon be able to access voter registration forms on the secretary of state’s official Facebook page, according to an Associated Press report. Voters will not be registering directly through Facebook, but rather using the social network to access voter registratio...

Pressure Mounts For Cybersecurity Bill As Negotiations Stall

A joint letter from some of Washington D.C.’s leading minds in the areas of defense and diplomacy is urging Congress to pass a cyber security bill in some form this year, saying that the U.S. is urgently in need of a new policy and ill-prepared for cyber attacks. The letter, dated June 6, was...

U.S. Cyber Command Using Classified Intel To Scare CEOs To Action

The U.S.’s Cyber Command is using special, classified briefings with private sector CEOs to scare them into greater vigilance about the threat of cyber attacks, according to an NPR report. The report, quoting unnamed participants in the classified, 2010 briefings said that government officials...

CERT Warns Of Cyber Threats To Gas Pipelines

The Department of Homeland Security said it is investigating a string of cyber intrusions targeting companies that operate national gas pipelines in the U.S. The DHS’s Industrial Control System Computer Emergency Readiness Team ICS-CERT disclosed in its April, 2012 newsletter that it is...

University of Washington Vulnerable and Database Leaked by Hacker

University of Washington Vulnerable and Database Leaked by Hacker A few days back, a Team INTRA member hacked into the University of Washington database and released much data. Today, N0B0DY and N0LIFE hacked into it again, releasing the most recent passwords on Pastebin. The root MySQL password...

Facebook, Washington Accuse Marketing Firm of Clickjacking

Facebook and the state of Washington are suing an ad network they accuse of encouraging people to spread spam through clickjacking schemes and other tactics. The company at the center of the allegations, Adscend Media, denies the charges and said it will fight them vigorously. According to the...

Researchers Warn of Prison Hacks, Opening Cell Doors

In news that seems like it could be lifted from an old 24 or Prison Break plotline, authorities are concerned by new research that claims hackers could remotely open the cell doors of federal prisons. In addition to staging a jailbreak, hackers could sabotage a prison’s intercom system and...