Russian Mafia Organizes to Double Cybercrime Profits in 2011

The dollar-value of online criminal activity conducted by the Russian mafia and other criminal organizations doubled in 2011, according to a new report from the Russian security firm Group-IB. The global cyber crime market was worth $12.5 billion in 2011, the report claims. Russian-speaking...

Critics Continue Pushing for Bigger Probe into Google Street View Practices

Privacy advocates continue urging for a wider federal investigation into Google Street View practices following Google’s $25,000 fine for stonewalling federal officials during an earlier probe of Wi-Fi snooping allegations. The Federal Communications Commission late last week gave the Internet...

NYT Profiles LulzSec's Sabu As Talented Hacker With Star-Crossed Life

Hector Xavier Monsegur or “Sabu,” de facto ringleader of the notorious Anonymous Internet Collective, was not merely a talented hacker. He was also something of a Robin Hood of the East Side projects and a hard-partying nuisance to his neighbors, a report by the New Yok Times claims. A report fin...

#AntiSec hackers deface Panda Security site to protest LulzSec arrests

AntiSec hackers deface Panda Security site to protest LulzSec arrests Hackers aligned with Anonymous took credit on Wednesday for an attack on Panda Security's website shortly after charges were announced against five of the hacking collective's alleged members. Over 25 websites related to Panda...

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...

Philips, Police Looking Into Breach, 200K Email Addresses Leaked

Add electronics giant Philips to the list of companies that have suffered data breaches over the last year. The company had a server containing a variety of information, including 200,000 e-mail addresses, compromised earlier this month, according to a report from the UK’s V3. The report cites a...

Cyber Cops Wrestle With Legal Hurdles, Public Perception

CANCUN, MEXICO — A panel of top law enforcement officers in charge of cyber criminal investigations reveals that the guys with the white hats face an uphill climb if they want to take down cyber criminal kingpins, with outdated laws and processes on the one hand, and an increasingly skeptical and...

Report Warns of Woeful Readiness For Cyber Attacks Globally

A new report finds that the ‘bad guys’ are winning, and that most nations are ill-prepared for crippling cyber attacks. The report, by Security & Defence Agenda SDA, was commissioned by the security firm McAfee. It concluded that friendly nations around the globe are losing out in an arms race wi...

At FBI's Cyber Crime Conference: Chest Thumping And Head Scratching In Equal Measure

Long content to talk about the “what” behind cyber crime, the nation’s top computer security cops descended on New York City this week for the FBI’s International Conference on Cyber Crime ready to talk about “who.” But while discussions of tools and techniques for identifying criminal actors...

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Released

Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner 8 BETA Released The next stage in the evolution of Acunetix Web Vulnerability Scanner has arrived — WVS 8 BETA! Many of you have been biting their nails in anticipation of this Beta, so sit tight and read on for the next most important stage in the evolution of...

First Ever Joint EU-US Cyber War Game Starts

Despite extreme upheaval and rampant infighting caused by the European debt crisis, the EU and U.S. are banding together today in Brussels and shifting its focus toward cyber security. The European Network and Information Security Agency ENISA and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security will be...

Inside the Takedown of the M00p Malware Crew

BARCELONA–As online crime continues to grow in volume and expand in scope, encompassing a massive number of scams and operations around the world, security researchers, lawmakers and others are pushing for better cooperation among law enforcement agencies and the security community in taking down...

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison

Lulzsec Hacker tracked by Proxy logs, can face 15 years prison The FBI believes that the homeless man they arrested on Thursday was "Commander X", a member of the People's Liberation Front PLF associated with Anonymous hacktivism. The logs maintained by HideMyAss.com, in addition to other evidenc...

NATO Looks to Team With India To Fight Cybercrime

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO is looking to enlist the help of India when it comes to contending with cyber threats from China, according to a recent report. According to a piece in the Economic Times, NATO hopes to strengthen its ties with the Southeast Asia republic, citing its...

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots

BlackBerry blog site hacked by TriCk – TeaMp0isoN against London riots Hacking crew team TriCk – TeaMp0isoN today hack and deface the blog website of BlackBerry against London riots, One of the leading Mobile Company. They post a message also on homepage, as given below . Also There were calls on...

An Interview With Telex's J. Alex Halderman

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan and the University of Waterloo have developed a proxy system called Telex that provides a method for users to circumvent state-level censorship of the Web. It uses an architecture that includes a proxy at the ISP level and uses connections to...

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments

Anonymous leaks Nimbuzz data for collusion with pro-censorship governments Anonymous Hackers leaks Nimbuzz data via the twitter account of AnonymousIRC which included a link to their latest leak from Nimbuzz . About thirty minutes later, that twitter account posted a link for download named...

Scareware Takedown By FBI, Int'l Authorities Results in Two Arrests

The FBI has made a major dent in the huge scareware and rogue antivirus problem that has been plaguing Internet users for years now, arresting two people and seizing dozens of computers, servers and bank accounts as part of a large-scale coordinated operation in twelve countries. The operation,...

Obama Cybersecurity Chief: Other Nations Key To Securing Cyberspace

This is the first part of a two-part Threatpost interview with Howard Schmidt, White House cybersecurity coordinator, about the challenges of international cooperation, the proliferation of cybercrime and what can be done to address those issues. Look for part two tomorrow. The Obama administrati...

Report: U.S. Needs Cyber Monroe Doctrine

A New Report from a Washington D.C. think tank with ties to the Obama Administration says the U.S. needs to overhaul its cyber security planning and issue a kind of Monroe Doctrine for cyber space to discourage attacks against U.S. interests. The report, “America’s Cyber Future: Security and...