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...

Pony Botnet steals $220,000 from multiple Digital Wallets

Are you the one of the Digital Currency Holder? PONY is after You. A Group of cyber criminals has used hundreds of thousands of infected computers of the digital currency holders to filch approximately $220,000 worth of Bitcoins and other virtual currencies. The researchers at the security firm,...

Java-Bot, a Cross-platform malware launching DDoS attacks from infected computers

These days botnets are all over the news. In simple terms, a botnet is a group of computers networked together, running a piece of malicious software that allows them to be controlled by a remote attacker. A major target for most of the malware is still Windows, but the growing market of Mac OS X...

[Firefox Password Remover v1.5] Firefox Website Login Password Removal Tool

Firefox Password Remover is the free tool to quickly remove the stored website login passwords from Firefox. You can either remove selected ones or all of the stored passwords from the Firefox sign-on database. One of the unique feature of this tool is that it allows you to remove the website...

[MAC Address Scanner v1.5] Desktop Tool to Find MAC address of Remote Computers on Local Network

MAC Address Scanner is the free desktop tool to remotely scan and find MAC Address of all systems on your local network. It allows you to scan either a single host or range of hosts at a time. During the scan, it displays the current status for each host. After the completion, you can generate...

Acoustical Mesh Network Used to Infect Air-Gapped Computers

The soundest security advice managers of critical computing systems have been given is to air gap those machines. Don’t network them and don’t expose them to the Internet, and there’s no way hackers reach them from the Web and no way a direct infection replicates. Recently, there’s been reason fo...

Gaming Company Settles on Bitcoin Mining Allegations

The ESEA League, an online competitive gaming community, has decided to settle with the state of New Jersey after the acting attorney general there alleged that the gaming community operator infected user-machines with malware designed to mine Bitcoins. The league is owned and managed by E-Sports...

[Firefox Password Remover] Firefox Website Login Password Removal Tool

Firefox Password Remover is the free tool to quickly remove the stored website login passwords from Firefox. You can either remove selected ones or all of the stored passwords from the Firefox sign-on database. One of the unique feature of this tool is that it allows you to remove the website...

South Korea hit by Android Trojan, Malware in Gaming apps and DDoS attack

Last Tuesday, The National Police Agency of South Korea warned the people that many Malware infected video games being offered in the South Korean markets with the purpose of launching Cyber attacks on the Country. That Malware is collecting location data and IP addresses of infected users and...

Malware infected International Atomic Energy Agency Computers

Hackers and malware are everywhere, waiting for you around every corner of the Internet. The International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA, which holds highly sensitive information and plays a key role in global efforts to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons, said on Tuesday that some of its computer...

Malware infected International Atomic Energy Agency Computers

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13 Anonymous Members indicted and accused of participating in 'Operation Payback'

A U.S. Grand jury indicted and accused 13 members of the hacking group Anonymous for allegedly participating in the cyber attacks against a number of websites as an anti-copyright campaign called "Operation Payback" Hackers took down the sites by inflicting a denial of service, or DDoS, attack,...

Multiple DNS NO SUCH NAME Error Responses (CVE-2012-0006)

The Domain Name System DNS is an hierarchical distributed naming system for computers, services, or any resource connected to the Internet or a private network. When a DNS client needs to look up a name used in a program, it queries DNS servers to resolve the name. If the query names are...

Vulnerability in USB Internet Modems allows hacker to access Millions of Computers remotely

A USB Internet Modems or Data card, is a type of modem that allows your computer to receive Internet access using USB Port and connect to a GSM/CDMA network there by creating a PPPoE Point to Point protocol over Ethernet interface to your computer. Indian Security Researcher 'Rahul Sasi' found a...

Microsoft Windows Kernel CVE-2013-3197 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

Description Microsoft Windows is prone to a local privilege-escalation vulnerability. A local attacker can exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code with kernel-level privileges. Successful exploits will result in the complete compromise of affected computers. Failed exploit attempts may cause...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: konquest-4.10.5-1.fc18

Konquest is the KDE version of Gnu-Lactic. Players conquer other planets by sending ships to them. The goal is to build an interstellar empire and ultimately conqueror all other player's planets. Konquest can be played against other people or a computer...

Israeli Scientists develop advanced biological computer

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology in Haifa have created an advanced biological computer using only bio molecules such as DNA and enzymes. There's no traditional CPU or hard drive powering the bio-computer, no hardware or software, nor is there any tangible interface to th...

Novell ZENworks Control Center file upload vulnerability

Added: 05/03/2013 CVE: CVE-2013-1080 BID: 58668 OSVDB: 91627 Background Novell ZENworks Configuration Management is an IT desktop computer management suite that provides the ability to install, configure and administer desktop computers from a centralized location. The product is based on a...

Chris Hoff Discusses His Early Days of Hacking and Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Chris Hoff of Juniper Networks about his childhood scaring sheep on a farm in New Zealand, his early days hacking on the first wave of personal computers, his misadventures in a college computer lab and how he ended up as an itinerant security guy. Download: 05chrishoff.m...

'Magic' Espionage Malware Targets UK Computers

Thousands of U.K. business computers have been infected by espionage malware using a custom protocol to communicate with its command and control servers. Researchers at Israeli security company Seculert added that the malware is still percolating with a number of capabilities yet to be deployed...