FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack

FBI charge Anonymous for stealing CC worth $700000 in Stratfor attack The FBI has revealed that there were $700,000 worth of fraudulent credit card charges after hacktivist group Anonymous stole nearly 200 gigabytes of data, including credit card numbers, from security firm Stratfor. Anonymous...

Hacker exposes 40,000 Credit Cards from Digital Playground

Hacker exposes 40,000 Credit Cards from Digital Playground A new hacking group called The Consortium has hit the scene and their first take down is the porn site Digital Playground deface it and Mirror is available here. Everything, including credit card information, was stored in plain text. "Th...

Adult Site DigitalPlayground.com Hacked: Credit Card Info on 40K Exposed

The adult Web site DigitalPlayground.com was hacked. A group calling itself TheConsortium has claimed credit for the attack, saying it stole credit card information on 40,000 paying customers and even listened in on a company conference call. The compromise occurred on March 4, according to a...

PCI Compliance No Real Obstacle to Compromises

SAN FRANCISCO–The PCI DSS standard has taken a beating from critics, security experts and CSOs virtually since the day it appeared in its earliest form in 2004. It’s evolved quite a bit in the intervening years, but it hasn’t shaken any of that criticism, and security folks say there’s a good...

Fabio Assolini

At one point during his talk on the conference’s second day, Kaspersky Lab researcher Fabio Assolini shows video of criminals affixing card skimming devices in broad daylight, in the presence of other bank customers. Assolini’s talk was on this so-called “Chupacabra malware,” and how the skimmers...

QEMU buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in network card emulation...

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker #OpWeeksPayment

Citigroup sites hit by Brazilian Anonymous hacker Citigroup has confirmed its consumer banking sites were temporarily offline Friday because of what a bank spokesman referred to as temporary outages. Hackers with Anonymous have claimed to be behind the attacks. The operation behind the attacks...

HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS

Document Title: =============== HITB2011KUL - Chip & PIN - Protocol Analysis EMV POS References: =========== Download: http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/resources/videos/399.wmv View: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zFlqMFWYhc Release Date: ============= 2012-01-25 Vulnerability Laboratory ID VL-I...

kmod, kvm security update

CentOS Errata and Security Advisory CESA-2012:0051 Updated kvm packages that fix two security issues are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5. The Red Hat Security Response Team has rated this update as having important security impact. Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base scores...

Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation EtherNet/IP CIP Commands

The EtherNet/IP CIP protocol allows a number of unauthenticated commands to a PLC which implements the protocol. This module implements the CPU STOP command, as well as the ability to crash the Ethernet card in an affected device. This module is based on the original 'ethernetip-multi.rb' Basecam...

Alleged Russian Cybercriminal Extradited to U.S.

Vladimir Zdorovenin, an alleged prolific Russian cybercriminal, has arrived in New York City following his arrest and subsequent extradition by Swiss authorities. The FBI had been working to find and extradite Zdorovenin for several years. Originally indicted under seal in May 2007, the 54-year-o...

Offensive Research Continuing to Advance

MIAMI BEACH–It’s the accepted wisdom these days that many of the traditional security defenses organizations depend on just aren’t effective at deterring attackers. But this glosses over the fact that the last few years have included some major advances in defensive technologies, including the...

Update: Zappos Says 24 Million Customers Affected By Data Breach

UPDATE: Online retailer Zappos said that its network has been compromised and attackers were able to access personal information belonging to more than 24 million of its customers. Zappos said that its database that contains customers’ credit card numbers was not compromised, however. “We were...

Saudi hacker target Israeli stock exchange and National air carrier

Saudi hacker target Israeli stock exchange and National air carrier Saudi cyber Hacker OxOmar struck again on Monday. This time disrupted the websites of Israel's stock exchange and National air carrier. Last week he had leaked private information about more than 400,000 Israelis. Credit card...

Facebook Security Phishing Attack In The Wild

At the time of writing there is a new Facebook phishing attack going on. It will not just try to steal your Facebook credentials; it will also try to steal credit card information and other important information such as security questions. This Facebook phishing attack is pretty interesting becau...

Researchers Find Sykipot Trojan Variant For Hijacking DoD Smart Cards

A report from Alien Vault says that variants of the Sykipot Trojan have been found that can steal DOD smartcard credentials. The research, published in a blog post Thursday, is the latest by Alien Vault to look at Sykipot, a Trojan horse program known to be used in targeted attacks against defens...

Stratfor Website Back Online After Hack, CEO Apologizes

The website of Texas-based security and intelligence think tank, Stratfor, is back online with a newly designed site today after being hacked by the Anonymous Internet collective on December 25. Stratfor suspended access to the company’s site, servers, and emails after acknowledging the attack. I...

Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hackers

Stratfor Back Online After Hack with message for Anonymous Hacker Security analysis firm Stratfor has relaunched its website after Anonymous hackers brought down its servers and stole thousands of credit card numbers and other personal information belonging to its clients. Hacking collective...

Cisco IOS OSM Line Card Header Corruption

The Optical Service Module OSM Line Cards installed in Catalyst 6500 or Cisco 7600 chassis are vulnerable a denial of service attack upon receiving a specifically constructed or corrupted packet from the local network. C Tenable Network Security, Inc. include"compat.inc"; if description...

Israeli Official Compares Cyber Attack to Terrorist Operation

Israeli authorities are investigating a cyber attack Deputy Foreign Minister Danny Ayalon described as being akin to a “terrorist operation.” The declaration by Ayalon comes after a hacker named “0xOmar” leaked the details of thousands of credit card numbers belonging to Israelis onto the Interne...