USPS Breach Hits Customers, Employees

The United States Postal Service is continuing its investigation around a cyber attack at the agency that managed to compromise the information of both employees and customers earlier this year. The USPS announced in a statement on Monday that it recently fell victim to a “cyber intrusion inciden...

PayPal MultiOrder Shipping Cross Site Scripting

Document Title: =============== PayPal Inc BugBounty 107 MultiOrder Shipping API - Persistent History Vulnerability References Source: ==================== http://www.vulnerability-lab.com/getcontent.php?id=1048 PayPal Security UID: dq115aYq Release Date: ============= 2014-10-27 Vulnerability...

Infighting, Politics Hampering Cybersecurity Progress in Washington

WASHINGTON–The United States government and private sector are unprepared for a major cyber attack on the country’s critical infrastructure, a former Congressman said, thanks to a divided, risk-averse Congress and an inability for agencies and other organizations to share information effectively...

76M Households, 7M Businesses Impacted in JPMorgan Chase Breach

A securities filing on Thursday revealed that up to 76 million households and seven million small businesses, far more than initially thought, were implicated in the cyber attack that hit JPMorgan Chase over the summer, making it one of the largest data breaches in U.S. history. The New York-base...

Dyre Trojan Targeting More than Salesforce.com Credentials

The criminals who unleashed a variant of the Dyre banking Trojan recently may have more up their sleeve than harvesting Salesforce.com credentials. Analysis of a sample conducted by SaaS security company Adallom determined that the new strain of Dyre is targeting large enterprises in addition to...

Israeli Think-Tank Site Serves Sweet Orange Exploit

Attackers have compromised the website of a prominent Israel-based, Middle East foreign policy-focused think tank, the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs JCPA. On Friday, researchers from Cyphort reported that the site was serving the Sweet Orange exploit kit via drive-by download. At the time o...

Chinese Government Accused of Intercepting Traffic Between Google and CERNET

So far, we all are well aware of the fact that Chinese have had a past filled with cases of Cyber Crime. China is the world’s largest exporter of IT goods, but it has been criticized by many countries due to suspected backdoors in its products, including United States which has banned its several...

Is the “Day of Reckoning” getting closer for a large scale cyber-attack?

The "Phony War" is how commentators described the seven-month period of eerie quiet that prevailed in Western Europe between Germanys 1939 invasion of Poland and its later move into the Benelux countries, when erstwhile allies Britain and France avoided offensive operations and simply waited for...

Millions of WordPress and Drupal Websites Vulnerable to DoS Attack

Users running the website on a self-hosted WordPress or on Drupal are strongly recommended to update their websites to the latest version immediately. A moderately critical vulnerability was discovered in the way Drupal and WordPress implement XMLRPC, which can lead an attacker to disable your...

Godzilla Hacker Takes Down Several Pakistani Government Websites

While the rest of the world was engaged in cyber security and privacy, an Indian patriotic hacker targeted 43 major Pakistani Government official websites, including ‘President of Pakistan’, ‘Government of Pakistan’, 'Ministry of Defence’, and whole Ministry of Pakistan. Indian hacker Godzilla...

Canada NRC Hit by Apparent Chinese Cyber Attack

One of Canada’s premier research and technology organizations was hit with a cyber-attack recently that forced the cooperative offline; the attack – which appears to be Chinese in origin – was so serious the organization is being forced to rebuild its entire system. The National Research Council ...

Chinese Hackers Stole Blueprints of Israel's Iron Dome Missile Defense System

Chinese hackers infiltrated the databases of three Israeli defense contractors and stole plans for Israel's Iron Dome missile defense system, according to an investigation by a Maryland-based cyber security firm ‘Cyber Engineering Services Inc. CyberESI’. Not just this, the hackers were also able...

Microsoft Says 'Technical Error' Led to Legitimate No-IP Customers Losing Service

In the course of its actions to take down a major malware operation, Microsoft seized more than 20 domains from No-IP.com, a hosting provider in Nevada. Microsoft now admits that the company made a technical mistake as part of that takedown, an errors that resulted in legitimate No-IP.com custome...

MicroWorld eScan Antivirus < 3.x Remote Root Command Execution

No description provided by source. !/usr/bin/env python import sys from socket import auther: Mohammed almutairi [email protected] MicroWorld eScan Antivirus 3.x Remote Root Command Execution Package MWADMIN package vulnerabilities linux The Base Packages MWADMIN and MWAV must be installed...

Solaris 2.5.1/2.6/7/8 rlogin /bin/login - Buffer Overflow Exploit (SPARC)

No description provided by source. / $Id: raptorrlogin.c,v 1.1 2004/12/04 14:44:38 raptor Exp $ raptorrlogin.c - rlogin, Solaris/SPARC 2.5.1/2.6/7/8 Copyright c 2004 Marco Ivaldi [email protected] Buffer overflow in login in various System V based operating systems allows remote attackers to...

Largest DDoS Attack Hit Hong Kong Democracy Voting Website

Hackers and cyber attacks are getting evil and worst nightmare for companies day-by-day. Just last week a group of hackers ruined the code-hosting and software collaboration platform, ‘Code Spaces’ by destroying their Amazon cloud server, complete data and its backup files too. Recently, the...

Cyber Attack On 'Code Spaces' Puts Hosting Service Out of Business

Code Spaces, a code-hosting and software collaboration platform used by different organizations for project management and development needs, was forced to shut down operations after an attacker compromised its internal system and deleted its customer’s data and backups as well. This is really a...

eBay Hacked, Change your Account Password Now

If you have an eBay Account then you should change your password immediately, because the World's biggest E-commerce company with 128 million active users announced today in a press release that it had been Hacked. eBay revealed that attackers compromised customers' database including emails,...

Iranian Ajax Security Team targets US Defense Industry

The Iranian hacking group, which calls itself the “Ajax Security Team”, was quite famous from last few years for websites defacement attacks, and then suddenly they went into dark since past few months. But that doesn't mean that the group was inactive, rather defacing the websites, the group was...

Air Traffic Control System Failure Caused by Memory Shortage - A Cyber Attack?

A shortage of computer memory in the $2.4 billion Air Traffic Control System caused a Computer crash that resulted in the System collapse, according to an insider close to the incident. The problems began on 30 April, when a U-2 spy plane flew over southwestern US caused the air traffic control...