PHPCart Input Validation Vulnerability

No description provided by source. source: http://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...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Shipping Charges Notification Email Messages on May 20, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 34305 First Published: 2014 May 20 16:05 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a shipping charges notification from UPS for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the...

18-Year-Old Student Arrested for Hacking School Computers to Change Grades

An 18-year old Miami University student is facing charges for allegedly breaching the school's computer system to change grades for himself and four other students. Jose Bautista appeared before a judge Friday after he was arrested Thursday by the Miami School Board Police after the principal of...

Amazon Web Services Combing Third Parties for Credentials

Amazon Web Services is actively searching a number of sources, including code repositories and application stores, looking for exposed credentials that could put users’ accounts and services at risk. A week ago, a security consultant in Australia said that as many as 10,000 secret Amazon Web...

Microsoft charges FBI for your Information; Syrian Electronic Army leaks Invoices

Till now we all were aware about the truth that tech companies gave legal access to user data on the government's request, but we were unaware that well known tech companies also charge the government for providing data. Syrian Electronic Army SEA, the pro-hacker group, who had compromised...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Bank Charges Notification Email Messages on March 11, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 33273 First Published: 2014 March 11 16:59 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to Italian-language spam email messages that claim to contain a change in bank charges from the Bank of Italy for the recipient. The text in the email messag...

Experian Sells Data to Identity theives

The credit bureau Experian appears to have sold an unknown amount of highly sensitive personal information to a Vietnamese national who maintained an online identity theft service, according to a long-running investigative report published by Krebs on Security reporter Brian Krebs. Experian, whic...

Hacking Ring Steals $300 Million, 160 Million Card Numbers

The U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of New Jersey is expected to further discuss charges today against five hackers who allegedly stole at least 160 million credit and debit card numbers and netted more than $300 million over the course of seven years in what could be the largest cybercrim...

Edward Snowden files has blueprint of NSA surveillance programs

Edward Snowden has enough information to cause more damage to the US government in a minute alone than anyone else has ever had in the history of the United States, but he has insisted that they not be made public, including the blueprints of NSA surveillance program. Glenn Greenwald, the Guardia...

British spy agency has secret access to Global Internet and telephones

The Britain's spy agency GCHQ is running an online eavesdropping operation that has gained secret access to more than 200 optical fiber cables carrying global Internet traffic and telephone calls. The existence of the program has been disclosed in documents shown to the Guardian by the NSA...

Privacy of Millions of HTC devices at risk

More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install softwa...

Privacy of Millions of HTC devices at risk

More than 18 million smartphones and other mobile devices made by HTC are at risk vulnerable to many security and privacy issue. The Federal Trade Commission charged HTC with customizing the software on its Android- and Windows based phones in ways that let third-party applications install softwa...

Dutch Hacker Sentenced for selling 100,000 credit cards

A Dutch hacker was sentenced to 12 years in a US prison on Friday for trafficking over 100,000 credit card numbers stolen in a computer hacking conspiracy. David Benjamin Schrooten, 22, known as "Fortezza" in the hacker world, pleaded guilty in November to criminal charges related to hacking, ban...

Mobile Malware Dubbed 'Bill Shocker' Targets Chinese Android Users

A new bit of malware is targeting popular apps on Android mobile devices to spew costly spam. Beijing- and Dallas-based NQ Mobile said at least 600,000 Chinese users have been hit with the malicious code named “Bill Shocker” a.expense.Extension.a because it runs up the bills of infected users whi...

Lulzsec hacker Jeffrey could face Life Imprisonment

Lulzsec Hacker , Jeffrey Hammond faces a potential prison sentence of more than 30 years if found guilty of all charges filed against him. U.S. District Court chief judge Loretta Preska, who presided over a bail hearing for Hammond want last week. Hammond was also charged with using some of the...

Romanian POS Hackers Plead Guilty, Net $10 M from Scam

Two Romanian men pled guilty this week to charges they hacked into the point of sale systems of more than 200 restaurants, compromising the payment cards of 146,000 customers and amassing more than $10 million over the last few years. Included in those 200 stores were more than 150 Subway sandwic...

Indian Navy Computers hacked by Chinese Hackers

Chinese hackers allegedly plant bug via flash drives on India navy's computers, which relayed sensitive data to China IP addresses. The sniffing tool was found in the naval computers exactly as INS Arihant, India's first nuclear missile submarine, was in trials at the targeted facility in...

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach

LulzSec hacker pleads guilty in Sony breach Accused LulzSec hacker Cody Kretsinger pleaded guilty today in a federal court in Los Angeles, California, to felony charges associated with the breach of Sony Pictures Entertainment that occurred in mid-2011. The hacker had previously pleaded not...

Fortune Favors the Bold? Man Steals Microsoft Founder's Identity, Credit Card

When one Pennsylvanian man couldn’t foot his bills, he opted to steal the identity of someone that could – one of the world’s richest men, Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen. An AWOL solider from Pittsburgh swiped Allen’s Citibank credit card account information earlier this year to...

Report: FEDS Arrest Top LulzSec Members

The FBI has arrested three suspected members of the hacker group LulzSec, according to published reports. Fox News broke the story of the arrests on Tuesday, citing unnamed FBI officials saying that law enforcement agents closed in on top members of the group LulzSec Tuesday morning using...