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25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook
25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...
25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook
25 Year old UK Student hacker penetrated Facebook A 25 year old Brit allegedly used "considerable technical expertise" to hack into Facebook's servers. The student, from York, faces five charges, including that he "made, adapted, supplied or offered to supply" a computer program to hack into a...
Report: Q2 Threat Evolution, the Year of the Hacktivist?
Scareware and Rogue AV are back with a vengeance in 2011, after receding in 2010 according to Kaspersky Lab’s latest threat evolution report. According to the report, the rogue AV resurgence is significant not only in scope, which was substantial, with the Kaspersky Security Network KSN detecting...
Harnig Botnet Returns, But Without Rustock
The takedown of the Rustock botnet earlier this year has had ripple effects throughout the malware and spam ecosystems, with some large reductions in spam levels and attacks. However, some of the components of the malware machine driven by Rustock are beginning to come back online now. Researcher...
Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free
Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free Mikko Hypponen is an expert on cybercrime and chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki, Finland. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it distributes on its website. In the real world,...
Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free
Mikko Hypponen : Fight cybercrime, but keep the net free Mikko Hypponen is an expert on cybercrime and chief research officer at F-Secure Corporation in Helsinki, Finland. TED is a nonprofit organization dedicated to "Ideas worth spreading," which it distributes on its website. In the real world,...
Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail
Accused LulzSec hacker Topiary released on bail Jake Davis, an 18-year-old from the Shetland Islands, was released on bail after being charged with five offences relating to computer attacks and break-ins by the LulzSec and Anonymous hacking groups. Davis was granted bail to stay with his mother ...
U.S. Says Cybercrime a Major National Security Threat
A new report from the National Security Council warns that international cybercrime has reached the upper echelon of threats of to the security of the United States and is responsible for as much as $1 billion in losses in just one year in the U.S. The report, which focuses on a number of broad...
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day, dodgy...
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet
Microsoft offers $250,000 reward for information of Rustock Botnet Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for providing information of Rustock botnet. The Rustock botnet is responsible for a great deal of cyber crime, spam the botnet has capacity for 30 billion spam mails every day, dodgy...
Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center
Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center Indonesian and Australian police officially launched a joint project called the Cyber Crime Investigation Center. The center was officiated by Indonesian National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo and Australian Federal Poli...
Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center
Indonesian and Australian police launched Cyber Crime Investigation Center Indonesian and Australian police officially launched a joint project called the Cyber Crime Investigation Center. The center was officiated by Indonesian National Police chief Gen. Timur Pradopo and Australian Federal Poli...
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,...
UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind
UK police arrest Suspected LulzSec 19 years old Mastermind British police say they have made a significant arrest in their investigation into hacking attacks on international business and intelligence agencies. Officers from the Metropolitan Police Central e-Crime Unit PCeU have arrested a...
UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack
UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after ddos attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service...
UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack
UK Serious Organised Crime agency website down after LulzSec Ddos attack The UK Serious Organised Crime agency has taken its website offline after ddos attack by hacking group Lulz Security. Soca said it had taken its website offline to limit the impact attack on clients hosted by its service...
ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack
ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack Some Unknown hackers attempted a phishing attack in May on Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani's email ID. The hacking case is now being investigated by the cyber crime cell of Mumbai police after ADAG officials...
ADAG Group Chairman Anil Ambani's email under phishing attack
ADAG Group ChairmanAnil Ambani 's email under phishing attack Some Unknown hackers attempted a phishing attack in May on Anil Dhirubhai Ambani Group ADAG Chairman Anil Ambani's email ID. The hacking case is now being investigated by the cyber crime cell of Mumbai police after ADAG officials...
Financial Services Industry Report Urges Rethink on Malware
BITS, a financial services industry trade group has published a guide to malicious software and cyber crime that finds many industry attempts to fight the problem haven’t worked. The report calls on financial services firms to cooperate more in fighting malware. The Malware Risks and Mitigation...
Sonu Nigam's email hacked !
Sonu Nigam's email hacked ! Singer Sonu Nigam pressed the panic button when all his friends started receiving random emails, supposedly from him at a time when he was shooting for a TV show. Nigam didn't want to specify the content of the abusive mails but dismissed them saying that they were...