MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail

MegaUpload founder Kim Dotcom released on bail Kim Dotcom, the millionaire founder of the file-sharing website Megaupload, was released on bail Wednesday after a judge said he didn't appear to have enough money to flee. Authorities in the U.S. allege founder Kim Dotcom facilitated millions of...

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market

Fake Angry Birds Game spreading Malware from Android Market From last week premium rate SMS Trojans surfaced in the Android Market. Google has pulled 22 apps that are masquerading as legitimate versions of popular games like Angry Birds and Cut the Rope. Security researchers have discovered a way...

Android mobile internet tethering become undetectable by carriers

Android mobile internet tethering become undetectable by carriers When the idea that your smartphone's data connection would be able to be shared by your laptop with no additional charge, everyone seemed to be on board over the past year, carriers have started up extra costs for this and have...

Reports Point to Credit Card Processor Breach in Europe

The Romanian Banks Association has issued a warning to credit card users in that country to be on the lookout for suspicious charges, after the Agency received notice of a possible breach at European credit card processor.PDF The warning followed a similar notice from CEC Bank on Wednesday that i...

Personal Information of 3.5 Million Poker Players Spilled Online

Customers of the online poker Website Ultimate Bet UB are the victims of a data breach that spilled the private information of up to 3.5 million of its customers online over the weekend. Ultimate Bet, a property of the Cereus Poker Network, saw a slew of customer information posted online includi...

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases

UK Police Charge another alleged Anonymous member in Hacking Cases A student has been charged with involvement in cyber attacks by the hacking group Anonymous against companies that withdrew online payment services from WikiLeaks. Peter David Gibson, from Hartlepool, will appear before magistrate...

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan

Citigroup hacked again - 92,000 customers info exposed from Japan For the second time this year, Citigroup has suffered a major breach of its credit customers' personal information; this time the breach involved 92,400 customers at its Japanese unit. Citigroup's Japanese credit card unit said...

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges

Harvard researcher arrested on hacking charges A Harvard researcher Aaron Swartz has been arrested in Boston for broke into the computer networks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to gain access to JSTOR, a non-profit online service for distributing scholarly articles, and downloaded 4...

Home of Outed Alleged LulzSec Member Raided in Ohio

News reports say the FBI has raided a home in Hamilton, Ohio as part of an investigation of LulzSec, the group responsible for a string of attacks on prominent targets in recent months. Local media reports said the home, located on Jackson Road in Hamilton, Ohio, was the residence of a teenager w...

Facebook hacker posts stolen pics on porn site !

Facebook hacker posts stolen pics on porn site ! A 26-year-old man faces 13 felony charges after being accused of hacking into Facebook accounts, stealing photos of young women and posting them on porn sites, reports the Kansas City Star. Along with content belonging to the 13 young women ages 17...

Game Maker: 40 Percent of iTunes App Purchases Are Fraud

A Hong Kong based developer of games for mobile devices says that its online, multi player games are being besieged by users making fraudulent purchases from compromised iTunes accounts and says that iPhone maker Apple has turned a deaf ear to its efforts cut off the bogus activity. In an e-mail...

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...