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Tips for Make Mobile Banking Safe And Secure !
As we all know that wireless applications have numbers of vulnerabilities higher then the wired applications and the devices. In India there are not lots of people who do banking through mobile but outside India there are high profile countries in which many people do banking through mobile only....
Anthony Scott Harrison suspended jail for capturing baking details from 2000 computers !
An Adelaide computer hacker has received a suspended jail term after infecting more than 2000 computers worldwide with a program to capture banking details. Anthony Scott Harrison, 21, used the internet to teach himself the necessary hacking and programming skills to launch his attack in 2009, bu...
Attackers Broke Malware Records In 2010 !
Last year saw a record-setting number of new threats appear online. In particular, criminals managed to create one-third of all viruses ever seen, 34% of all malware in existence, and 40% of all known fake AV. Those findings come from a study released Wednesday by PandaLabs, the malware research...
Survey Finds Banks Struggling As Fraud Grows
A survey conducted by Information Security Media found that new fraud methods, including phishing and Internet enabled account takeovers are an increasing problem for banks, but that many organizations are ill equipped to combat the new threats. Online bank fraud is a growing problem in the U.S...
Geinimi Trojan targets Android devices !
A data-stealing Trojan affecting Android devices has emerged in China. The Geinimi Trojan sends location co-ordinates, unique device identifiers, and a list of installed apps on the infected device to a remote server. Additionally, it can independently download applications and prompts the user t...
India to Increase Phone Banking Security Starting Next Month !
Starting with January 1st, 2011, Indian banks will require an additional security code in order to authorise phone banking transactions, according to regulatory guidelines issued by the Reserve Bank of India RBI. Known as one-time passwords OTP, these codes are part of what is known as two-factor...
Engineering student arrested in Bhopal for hacking bank accounts !
An engineering student has been arrested in Bhopal for hacking third party bank accounts to book railway and air tickets, police said. Sunny Kumar 20, a student of private engineering college, was arrested by Cyber Cell police on Tuesday for hacking third party accounts for transferring cash to...
Hacker Infects 2,300 Computers; Court Hears Case of Youthful Curiosity
A hacker who infected over 2,300 computers with a virus capable of stealing banking details did not have serious criminal intentions, a court has heard. Today, lawyers for Anthony Scott Harrison argued that his "youthful curiosity" led him to hack into other people's computers to steal money...
Adelaide Hacker Infects 2,370 Computers in Global Cyber Attack
An Adelaide hacker infected over 2,000 computers in Australia and overseas with a program designed to capture banking details, a court has heard. Anthony Scott Harrison, 20, learned hacking and programming skills online and launched his attack in 2009. He was caught when suspicious web activity w...
5) Duh. Patch.
Much as we like to blame cybercriminals or unscrupulous merchants, much of the responsibility for security is in our hands. In particular: we’re responsible for the security of our computers and mobile devices. That’s especially true when we’re planning to use those systems to go shopping online,...
Image of the Day: Mapping E-banking Fraud
We spend our days combing the ‘Net for interesting security happenings and also noting the great work that other reporters and researchers are doing on the security front. Usually that means traditional reporting work: pulling together information from a bunch of different sources, digging for...
CVE-2010-4212
The USAA application 3.0 for Android stores a mirror image of each visited web page, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive banking information by reading application data...
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The USAA application 3.0 for Android stores a mirror image of each visited web page, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive banking information by reading application data...
CVE-2010-4212
The USAA application 3.0 for Android stores a mirror image of each visited web page, which might allow physically proximate attackers to obtain sensitive banking information by reading application data...
Wells Fargo, BoA Cited For Lax Mobile App Security
Days after publishing a report on serious security lapses in the PayPal mobile payments application for the iPhone, a Chicago firm has released an analysis that finds similar problems in a mobile banking applications by Bank of America and Wells Fargo. The report, published on Thursday by...
iPhone Jailbreak Tool Sets Stage for Mobile Malware
SAN DIEGO–The success of a group of hackers in compromising the security of Apple’s iPhone may set the stage for more malware for the popular handset, including rootkit-style remote monitoring tools and data stealing malware. In a presentation at the ToorCon Hacking Conference here on Saturday,...
Week in Review: Stuxnet Redux and The Wire's D.C. Edition
Stuxnet Redux and The Wire: United States Governments, the Internet and security were the theme as Internet wiretapping, trans national cyber laws and the further proliferation of Stuxnet – a computer virus believed to have state backing – topped this week’s news. After more than a week of intens...
More Than 60 Charged in N.Y. in Zeus Scam
The Manhattan district attorney on Thursday announced charges against 36 people in connection with the operation of the Zeus malware campaign. It’s the second major bust of suspects in the Zeus investigation this week, following the arrest of 20 people in the U.K. on Tuesday. The U.S. Attorney in...
Stolen Digital Certificates Becoming Standard Malware Components
In the 15 years or so of serious malware production before 2010, there had been perhaps a handful of examples of malicious programs using digitally signed binaries to bypass antimalware systems. The emergence of Stuxnet earlier this year brought this tactic into the center of the spotlight, and n...
Zeus Botnet Raids Result in 19 UK Arrests
UK police have arrested 19 cybercrime suspects who allegedly used the ZeuS crimeware toolkit to capture online banking credentials before looting victims’ bank accounts. Read the full article. The Register...