Students arrested in Nye County Computer Hacking Case !

A dozen students were arrested by the Nye County Sheriff's Department for allegedly changing their grades in the school computer system. Police say Tyler Coyner is suspected of stealing the password to the grade system at Pahrump Valley High School and then selling the password to others. The...

FTC Charges Scareware Operators to Pay $8 Million Settlement

The FTC doled out $8 million in fines to the operators of an online scareware scheme. The scam involves tricking consumers into thinking their computers are infected with malware and then selling them software to remedy problems that doesn’t exist in the first place. A district court order in...

FBI to press criminal charges over AT&T iPad user data hack !

Remember last summer when iPad users on the AT&T network in the US were subject to a hack that allegedly saw around 120,000 customers personal details compromised? The FBI certainly remembers and today it is set to reveal details criminal charges relating to the case, according to Reuters. As we...

Rapper Lil Wayne's Twitter account hacked !!

Rapper Lil Wayne has become the latest victim of web hackers when his Twitter account was compromised by an internet prankster. The 28-year-old hip hop star has suspended his Twitter account after the hacker sent a number of objectionable messages to his fans and followers, reported Contactmusic...

Husband Faces Prison for Accessing Wife's Private Emails

A Michigan man faces prison time for accessing a laptop at his home and reading his wife's email. Leon Walker, 33, was charged with a felony after accessing his wife Clara Walker's email account and discovering she was having an affair, reported the Detroit Free Press. Upon discovering that his...

Fee Scam By Fraudsters Went Unnoticed

According to the FTC, the fraudsters charged 1.35 million credit cards a total of $9.5 million, but only 78,724 of these fake charges were ever noticed. Typically they floated just one charge per card number, billing on behalf of made-up business names such as Adele Services or Bartelca LLC. Read...

Goatse Hacker Member Arrested on Drug Charges

A hacker in the Goatse Security group that discovered the AT&T iPad-related flaw was arrested following the execution of an FBI search warrant of his home in Arkansas. Read the full article. CNet...

Feds Indict 5 in Carson, CA Crimes

Five people were indicted this week on wire fraud and other criminal charges stemming from a 2007 cybertheft in which nearly $450,000 was stolen from the bank accounts of the city of Carson, California using credential-stealing spyware. Read the full article. Computerworld...

Qchex's Fraud-Enabling Biz Gets FTC Smackdown

The Federal Trade Commission has charged those behind the shady online check service Qchex with contempt, and wants daily fines imposed on them until they give up the ghost. The group has launched a new site—a Qchex clone—with the same questionable policies that made Qchex a “dinner bell for...

CVE-2009-2038

Unspecified vulnerability in the Finnish Bank Payment module 2.2 for osCommerce has unknown impact and attack vectors related to bank charges...

CVE-2009-2038

Technical details for CVE-2009-2038 are not publicly provided in the supplied documents. The available sources confirm an unspecified vulnerability in the Finnish Bank Payment module for osCommerce but do not disclose affected versions, impact, or remediation.

CVE-2009-2038

Unspecified vulnerability in the Finnish Bank Payment module 2.2 for osCommerce has unknown impact and attack vectors related to bank charges...

PHPCart - Input Validation

PHPCart - Input Validation source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13406/info PHPCart is prone to a remote input validation vulnerability. The issue exists because the software fails to sufficiently sanitize URI parameter data that is employed when computing product charges. A remote attacker m...

PHPCart - Input Validation

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/13406/info PHPCart is prone to a remote input validation vulnerability. The issue exists because the software fails to sufficiently sanitize URI parameter data that is employed when computing product charges. A remote attacker may exploit this issue to...